ETF comparison
BLV vs PYLD
Both US Aggregate Bond.
Vanguard Long-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares · PIMCO ETF Trust - PIMCO Multisector Bond Active Exchange-Traded Fund
Holdings overlap
18 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BLV and PYLD would leave roughly 1.2% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Unmatched is the part of a fund's weight the other fund doesn't match: names only it holds, plus any extra weight it puts in names both funds hold.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
BLV is 61 bps cheaper than PYLD. On a $100,000 position that's about $610/yr more in fees for PYLD.
Fee figure is the annual expense charged on $100,000. To see how the gap compounds over a multi-decade holding period, open the cost calculator pre-filled with BLV vs PYLD.
Top shared holdings
18 shared in total| # | Holding | In BLV | In PYLD | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.53% | 0.60% | 0.53% |
| 2 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.44% | 1.20% | 0.44% |
| 3 | Baker Hughes Holdings LLC / Baker Hughes Co-Obligor Inc | 0.03% | 0.07% | 0.03% |
| 4 | HCA Inc | 0.04% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 5 | Panama Government International Bond | 0.02% | 0.03% | 0.02% |
| 6 | Time Warner Cable LLC | 0.02% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 7 | Boeing Co/The | 0.04% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 8 | FirstEnergy Corp | 0.02% | 0.05% | 0.02% |
| 9 | United Airlines 2024-1 Class AA Pass Through Trust | 0.01% | 0.05% | 0.01% |
| 10 | Mexico Government International Bond | 0.05% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| 11 | GLP Capital LP / GLP Financing II Inc | 0.01% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| 12 | American Airlines 2026-1 Class A Pass Through Trust | 0.01% | 0.08% | 0.01% |
Only in BLV
2,965 total- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.17%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.15%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.14%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.13%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.13%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.10%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.08%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.08%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.06%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.97%
Only in PYLD
1,739 total- UMBS, TBA 7.01%
- UMBS, TBA 6.55%
- UMBS, TBA 4.83%
- Fannie Mae 2.97%
- UMBS, TBA 1.78%
- UMBS, TBA 1.42%
- Freddie Mac 1.06%
- REPUBLIC OF PERU 0.89%
- RD MICHIGAN PROP OWNER I 0.84%
- REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA 0.79%
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Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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Holdings overlap is the sum of min(weight_a, weight_b) over positions
matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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