ETF comparison
PAAA vs TLT
US Aggregate Bond vs US Treasury (Long).
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of PAAA and TLT 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
TLT is 4 bps cheaper than PAAA. On a $100,000 position that's about $40/yr more in fees for PAAA.
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 PAAA vs TLT.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in PAAA
329 total- CBAMR LTD 1.92%
- Regatta XXVII Funding Ltd / Regatta XXVII Funding LLC 1.58%
- ELEVATION CLO 2021-12 LTD 1.13%
- OCTAGON INVESTMENT PARTNERS 31 LTD 1.04%
- Cbam 2020-13 Ltd. 0.99%
- ELMWOOD CLO 25 LTD 0.99%
- NEUBERGER BERMAN LOAN ADVISERS CLO 33 LTD 0.96%
- RR 27 LTD 0.93%
- AGL CLO I LTD 0.87%
- RAD CLO 25 LTD 0.80%
Only in TLT
46 total- United States of America 4.58%
- United States of America 4.50%
- United States of America 4.46%
- United States of America 4.40%
- United States of America 4.15%
- United States of America 4.04%
- United States of America 4.03%
- United States of America 3.95%
- United States of America 3.94%
- United States of America 3.86%
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- PAAA vs VTIP · Vanguard Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- PAAA vs PULS · PGIM Ultra Short Bond ETF 9.2%
- PAAA vs JAAA · Janus Henderson AAA CLO ETF 9.2%
More comparisons with TLT
- TLT vs PCY · Invesco Emerging Markets Sovereign Debt ETF 0.0%
- TLT vs PULS · PGIM Ultra Short Bond ETF 0.0%
- TLT vs PZA · Invesco National AMT-Free Municipal Bond ETF 0.0%
- TLT vs SCHI · Schwab 5-10 Year Corporate Bond ETF 0.0%
- TLT vs SCHO · Schwab Short-Term U.S. Treasury ETF 0.0%
- TLT vs SCHP · Schwab U.S. TIPS ETF 0.0%
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.