ETF comparison
NEAR vs PULS
Both US Aggregate Bond.
iShares Short Duration Bond Active ETF · PGIM Ultra Short Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
25 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of NEAR and PULS would leave roughly 1.9% 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
PULS is 10 bps cheaper than NEAR. On a $100,000 position that's about $100/yr more in fees for NEAR.
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 NEAR vs PULS.
Top shared holdings
25 shared in total| # | Holding | In NEAR | In PULS | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AMAZON.COM INC | 0.33% | 0.24% | 0.24% |
| 2 | ALPHABET INC | 0.20% | 0.19% | 0.19% |
| 3 | FIDELITY NATL INFO SERV | 0.25% | 0.19% | 0.19% |
| 4 | GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC | 0.17% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
| 5 | NEXTERA ENERGY CAPITAL | 0.11% | 0.12% | 0.11% |
| 6 | JPMORGAN CHASE & CO | 0.10% | 0.31% | 0.10% |
| 7 | WELLS FARGO & COMPANY | 0.10% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 8 | Verus Securitization Trust | 0.08% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 9 | Barclays Commercial Mortgage Securities LLC | 0.15% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 10 | GLENCORE FUNDING LLC | 0.09% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 11 | T-MOBILE USA INC | 0.07% | 0.31% | 0.07% |
| 12 | Battalion CLO LTD | 0.06% | 0.30% | 0.06% |
Only in NEAR
1,555 total- United States Treasury 14.14%
- United States Treasury 4.25%
- United States Treasury 3.73%
- United States Treasury 3.20%
- United States Treasury 1.60%
- United States Treasury 1.47%
- United States Treasury 1.04%
- United States Treasury 0.78%
- CITIGROUP INC 0.48%
- APPLOVIN CORP 0.47%
Only in PULS
655 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%
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More comparisons with PULS
- PULS vs PYLD · PIMCO ETF Trust - PIMCO Multisector Bond Active Exchange-Traded Fund 1.9%
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- PULS vs GVI · iShares Intermediate Government/Credit Bond ETF 0.7%
- PULS vs AGGY · WisdomTree Yield Enhanced U.S. Aggregate Bond Fund 0.6%
- PULS vs AGG · iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 0.5%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
Open NEAR or PULS 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.