ETF comparison
BOND vs TLT
US Aggregate Bond vs US Treasury (Long).
PIMCO Active Bond Exchange-Traded Fund · iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
4 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BOND and TLT would leave roughly 0.5% 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
TLT is 39 bps cheaper than BOND. On a $100,000 position that's about $390/yr more in fees for BOND.
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 BOND vs TLT.
Top shared holdings
4 shared in total| # | Holding | In BOND | In TLT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States Treasury | 0.38% | 4.46% | 0.38% |
| 2 | United States Treasury | 0.09% | 3.95% | 0.09% |
| 3 | United States Treasury | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% |
| 4 | United States Treasury | 1.94% | 0.00% | 0.00% |
Only in BOND
1,515 total- UMBS, TBA 5.56%
- PIMCO Mortgage-Backed Securities Active Exchange-Traded Fund 4.07%
- UMBS, TBA 3.46%
- United States Treasury 3.39%
- UMBS, TBA 2.73%
- United States Treasury 2.57%
- UMBS, TBA 2.54%
- UMBS, TBA 2.27%
- United States Treasury 1.93%
- Freddie Mac 1.88%
Only in TLT
42 total- United States of America 4.58%
- United States of America 4.50%
- United States of America 4.40%
- United States of America 4.15%
- United States of America 4.04%
- United States of America 4.03%
- United States of America 3.94%
- United States of America 3.86%
- United States of America 3.80%
- United States of America 3.62%
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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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