ETF comparison
BSV vs PYLD
Both US Aggregate Bond.
Vanguard Short-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares · PIMCO ETF Trust - PIMCO Multisector Bond Active Exchange-Traded Fund
Holdings overlap
102 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BSV and PYLD would leave roughly 1.0% 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
BSV 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 BSV vs PYLD.
Top shared holdings
102 shared in total| # | Holding | In BSV | In PYLD | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The | 0.08% | 0.12% | 0.08% |
| 2 | Wells Fargo & Co | 0.04% | 0.05% | 0.04% |
| 3 | T-Mobile USA Inc | 0.05% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 4 | Goldman Sachs Bank USA/New York NY | 0.03% | 0.12% | 0.03% |
| 5 | Morgan Stanley | 0.03% | 0.09% | 0.03% |
| 6 | Boeing Co/The | 0.04% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 7 | Pacific Gas and Electric Co | 0.03% | 0.04% | 0.03% |
| 8 | Bank of America Corp | 0.06% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 9 | Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The | 0.02% | 0.05% | 0.02% |
| 10 | Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The | 0.02% | 0.10% | 0.02% |
| 11 | Morgan Stanley | 0.02% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 12 | DTE Energy Co | 0.02% | 0.04% | 0.02% |
Only in BSV
3,083 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 PYLD
1,655 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%
- United States Treasury 1.20%
- Freddie Mac 1.06%
- REPUBLIC OF PERU 0.89%
- RD MICHIGAN PROP OWNER I 0.84%
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- PYLD vs JPST · JPMorgan Ultra-Short Income ETF 0.7%
- PYLD vs TLT · iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF 0.6%
- PYLD vs DFCF · Dimensional Core Fixed Income ETF 0.6%
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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