ETF comparison
PFF vs PFXF
Both Preferred Securities.
iShares Preferred and Income Securities ETF · VanEck Preferred Securities ex Financials ETF
Holdings overlap
113 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of PFF and PFXF would leave roughly 38.2% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
PFXF is 5 bps cheaper than PFF. On a $100,000 position that's about $50/yr more in fees for PFF.
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 PFF vs PFXF.
Top shared holdings
113 shared in total| # | Holding | In PFF | In PFXF | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Boeing Co. | 3.98% | 9.11% | 3.98% |
| 2 | Oracle Corp. | 2.40% | 6.28% | 2.40% |
| 3 | Albemarle Corp | 1.76% | 4.62% | 1.76% |
| 4 | Strategy Inc. | 1.49% | 3.92% | 1.49% |
| 5 | NextEra Energy Inc | 1.19% | 3.13% | 1.19% |
| 6 | Southern Co. | 1.10% | 2.87% | 1.10% |
| 7 | Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. | 1.03% | 2.70% | 1.03% |
| 8 | Microchip Technology Incorporated | 0.90% | 2.36% | 0.90% |
| 9 | NextEra Energy Inc | 0.84% | 2.20% | 0.84% |
| 10 | PG&E Corporation | 0.74% | 1.93% | 0.74% |
| 11 | AT&T Inc | 0.69% | 1.80% | 0.69% |
| 12 | Strategy Inc. | 0.64% | 1.66% | 0.64% |
Only in PFF
342 total- Wells Fargo & Co. 2.29%
- Citigroup Capital XIII 1.41%
- Bank of America Corp. 1.35%
- KKR & Co Inc. 1.11%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co. 0.98%
- Apollo Global Management Inc 0.90%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co. 0.88%
- Wells Fargo & Co. 0.76%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co. 0.75%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co. 0.75%
Only in PFXF
1 total- State Street Global Advisors 2.87%
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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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