ETF comparison
GOVT vs PYLD
US Treasury (Intermediate) vs US Aggregate Bond.
iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF · PIMCO ETF Trust - PIMCO Multisector Bond Active Exchange-Traded Fund
Holdings overlap
1 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of GOVT and PYLD would leave roughly 0.0% 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
Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.
Cost difference
GOVT is 59 bps cheaper than PYLD. On a $100,000 position that's about $590/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 GOVT vs PYLD.
Top shared holdings
1 shared in total| # | Holding | In GOVT | In PYLD | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States of America | 0.04% | 1.20% | 0.04% |
Only in GOVT
213 total- United States of America 5.28%
- United States of America 2.95%
- United States of America 2.63%
- United States of America 2.08%
- United States of America 1.62%
- United States of America 1.48%
- United States of America 1.46%
- United States of America 1.46%
- United States of America 1.38%
- United States of America 1.37%
Only in PYLD
1,756 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%
- Freddie Mac 1.06%
- REPUBLIC OF PERU 0.89%
- RD MICHIGAN PROP OWNER I 0.84%
- REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA 0.79%
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- PYLD vs BOND · PIMCO Active Bond Exchange-Traded Fund 12.6%
- PYLD vs VCRB · Vanguard Core Bond ETF 5.0%
- PYLD vs BINC · iShares Flexible Income Active ETF 4.8%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
Open GOVT or PYLD at a brokerage
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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.