ETF comparison
BOND vs VUSB
Both US Aggregate Bond.
PIMCO Active Bond Exchange-Traded Fund · Vanguard Ultra-Short Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
18 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BOND and VUSB would leave roughly 0.7% 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
VUSB is 44 bps cheaper than BOND. On a $100,000 position that's about $440/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 VUSB.
Top shared holdings
18 shared in total| # | Holding | In BOND | In VUSB | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BANK OF AMERICA CORP | 0.10% | 0.37% | 0.10% |
| 2 | AERCAP IRELAND CAP/GLOBA | 0.09% | 0.14% | 0.09% |
| 3 | SALESFORCE INC | 0.08% | 0.19% | 0.08% |
| 4 | Nelnet Student Loan Trust | 0.07% | 0.11% | 0.07% |
| 5 | BANK OF AMERICA CORP | 0.05% | 0.08% | 0.05% |
| 6 | SUMISHO AIR LEASE CORP | 0.05% | 0.14% | 0.05% |
| 7 | LLOYDS BANKING GROUP PLC | 0.04% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 8 | Capital Street Master Trust | 0.04% | 0.07% | 0.04% |
| 9 | NOMURA HOLDINGS INC | 0.04% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 10 | MORGAN STANLEY | 0.24% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 11 | MORGAN STANLEY | 0.02% | 0.10% | 0.02% |
| 12 | OMEGA HLTHCARE INVESTORS | 0.02% | 0.05% | 0.02% |
Only in BOND
1,501 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 1.94%
- United States Treasury 1.93%
Only in VUSB
1,263 total- United States Treasury Bill 4.19%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.67%
- PNC Financial Services Group Inc/The 0.58%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.52%
- Regions Bank/Birmingham AL 0.51%
- US Bancorp 0.50%
- Charles Schwab Corp/The 0.49%
- Truist Bank 0.44%
- Westlake Flooring Master Trust 0.44%
- DLLAD 2024-1 LLC 0.43%
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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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