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PFF vs PGX

Both Preferred Securities.

iShares Preferred and Income Securities ETF · Invesco Preferred ETF

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
50.7 %

264 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of PFF and PGX would leave roughly 50.7% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

PFF unmatched 48.0% Shared 50.7% PGX unmatched 49.1%

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.

In PFF only
191 positions
Shared
264 positions
In PGX only
2 positions

Side by side

PFF

iShares Preferred and Income Securities ETF

iShares · Preferred Securities

72 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.45%
Net assets
$12.32B
TTM yield
5.67%
Top-10 conc.
19.6%
PGX

Invesco Preferred ETF

Invesco · Preferred Securities

66 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.50%
Net assets
$3.61B
TTM yield
6.90%
Top-10 conc.
13.1%

Sub-score comparison

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Cost
50
62
Tax efficiency
59
100
Liquidity
81
86
Concentration
96
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Tracking quality
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PFF sub-score PGX

Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.

Cost difference

PFF is 5 bps cheaper than PGX. On a $100,000 position that's about $50/yr more in fees for PGX.

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 PGX.

Top shared holdings

264 shared in total
# Holding In PFF In PGX Overlap
1 JP MORGAN CHASE & COMPANY 0.95% 1.77% 0.95%
2 JP MORGAN CHASE & COMPANY 0.83% 1.54% 0.83%
3 WELLS FARGO & COMPANY 0.76% 1.42% 0.76%
4 JP MORGAN CHASE & COMPANY 0.70% 1.31% 0.70%
5 JP MORGAN CHASE & COMPANY 0.70% 1.31% 0.70%
6 AT&T INC 0.63% 1.22% 0.63%
7 JP MORGAN CHASE & COMPANY 0.56% 1.05% 0.56%
8 CAPITAL ONE FINANCIAL CORP 0.56% 1.04% 0.56%
9 AT&T INC 0.55% 1.05% 0.55%
10 MORGAN STANLEY 0.51% 0.97% 0.51%
11 MORGAN STANLEY 0.51% 0.95% 0.51%
12 MORGAN STANLEY 0.51% 0.95% 0.51%

Only in PFF

191 total
  • BOEING COMPANY (THE) 3.93%
  • STRATEGY INC 2.95%
  • WELLS FARGO & COMPANY 2.33%
  • ORACLE CORP 2.28%
  • HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE COMPANY 1.76%
  • BANK OF AMERICA CORP 1.45%
  • CITIGROUP CAPITAL XIII 1.31%
  • ALBEMARLE CORP 1.29%
  • MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY INC 1.16%
  • NEXTERA ENERGY INC 1.12%

Only in PGX

2 total
  • Qwest Corp. 0.73%
  • Qwest Corp. 0.50%

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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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