ETF comparison
BND vs PYLD
Both US Aggregate Bond.
Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares · PIMCO ETF Trust - PIMCO Multisector Bond Active Exchange-Traded Fund
Holdings overlap
236 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BND and PYLD would leave roughly 1.3% 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
BND 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 BND vs PYLD.
Top shared holdings
236 shared in total| # | Holding | In BND | In PYLD | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.12% | 0.60% | 0.12% |
| 2 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.10% | 1.20% | 0.10% |
| 3 | T-Mobile USA Inc | 0.04% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 4 | Boeing Co/The | 0.03% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 5 | Bank of America Corp | 0.03% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 6 | Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac | 0.02% | 6.55% | 0.02% |
| 7 | Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The | 0.02% | 0.05% | 0.02% |
| 8 | Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac | 0.02% | 1.78% | 0.02% |
| 9 | Bank of America Corp | 0.02% | 0.06% | 0.02% |
| 10 | Ginnie Mae II Pool | 0.02% | 0.09% | 0.02% |
| 11 | Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac | 0.02% | 7.01% | 0.02% |
| 12 | Wells Fargo & Co | 0.02% | 0.03% | 0.02% |
Only in BND
17,160 total- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.47%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.41%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.41%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.41%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.41%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.41%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.41%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.40%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.39%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.39%
Only in PYLD
1,521 total- Fannie Mae 2.97%
- Freddie Mac 1.06%
- REPUBLIC OF PERU 0.89%
- REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA 0.79%
- United States Treasury 0.70%
- United States Treasury 0.69%
- Freddie Mac 0.59%
- LETRA TESOURO NACIONAL 0.55%
- BEIGNET INVESTOR LLC 0.54%
- Diameter Capital CLO 0.52%
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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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