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ETF comparison

BSV vs PULS

Both US Aggregate Bond.

Vanguard Short-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares · PGIM Ultra Short Bond ETF

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.9 %

84 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BSV and PULS would leave roughly 0.9% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

BSV unmatched 97.7% Shared 0.9% PULS unmatched 99.3%

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.

In BSV only
3,101 positions
Shared
84 positions
In PULS only
596 positions

Side by side

BSV

Vanguard Short-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares

Vanguard · US Aggregate Bond

89 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.030%
Net assets
$69.54B
whole fund, 5 share classes
TTM yield
4.10%
Top-10 conc.
8.4%
PULS

PGIM Ultra Short Bond ETF

PGIM · US Aggregate Bond

84 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.15%
Net assets
$19.40B
TTM yield
4.37%
Top-10 conc.
7.3%

Sub-score comparison

97
Cost
85
52
Tax efficiency
52
100
Liquidity
100
100
Concentration
100
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Tracking quality
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BSV sub-score PULS

Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.

Cost difference

BSV is 12 bps cheaper than PULS. On a $100,000 position that's about $120/yr more in fees for PULS.

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 BSV vs PULS.

Top shared holdings

84 shared in total
# Holding In BSV In PULS Overlap
1 United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.53% 0.19% 0.19%
2 Salesforce Inc 0.03% 0.32% 0.03%
3 ONEOK Inc 0.03% 0.32% 0.03%
4 Amazon.com Inc 0.02% 0.18% 0.02%
5 Pfizer Investment Enterprises Pte Ltd 0.05% 0.02% 0.02%
6 GlaxoSmithKline Capital Inc 0.02% 0.07% 0.02%
7 AbbVie Inc 0.02% 0.31% 0.02%
8 Broadcom Inc 0.02% 0.43% 0.02%
9 Diageo Capital PLC 0.02% 0.10% 0.02%
10 Amazon.com Inc 0.02% 0.24% 0.02%
11 Eaton Corp 0.02% 0.13% 0.02%
12 Lowe's Cos Inc 0.01% 0.23% 0.01%

Only in BSV

3,101 total
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.12%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.89%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.88%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.81%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.80%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.79%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.78%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.77%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.77%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.75%

Only in PULS

596 total
  • PGIM ETF Trust 1.81%
  • Phillips 66 0.83%
  • GLENCORE FUNDING LLC 0.74%
  • Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. 0.66%
  • INTESA SANPAOLO SPA NEW YORK BRANCH 0.63%
  • ABN AMRO BANK NV 0.57%
  • Healthpeak Properties Inc 0.52%
  • BX TRUST 2022-LBA6 0.51%
  • FEDERATION DES CAISSES DESJARDINS DU QUEBEC 0.51%
  • Servicenow Inc 0.50%

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/.

Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.