ETF comparison
PGX vs VRP
Both Preferred Securities.
Holdings overlap
25 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of PGX and VRP would leave roughly 4.3% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.
Cost difference
Expense ratios are effectively identical (0.50% vs 0.50%).
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 PGX vs VRP.
Top shared holdings
25 shared in total| # | Holding | In PGX | In VRP | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bank of America Corp. | 1.00% | 0.40% | 0.40% |
| 2 | Athene Holding Ltd. | 0.78% | 0.31% | 0.31% |
| 3 | Reinsurance Group of America, Inc. | 0.66% | 0.26% | 0.26% |
| 4 | Apollo Global Management, Inc. | 0.57% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
| 5 | KeyCorp | 0.56% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
| 6 | Athene Holding Ltd. | 0.53% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
| 7 | Jackson Financial Inc. | 0.52% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
| 8 | Synchrony Financial | 0.48% | 0.19% | 0.19% |
| 9 | Banc of California, Inc. | 0.48% | 0.19% | 0.19% |
| 10 | Regions Financial Corp. | 0.47% | 0.19% | 0.19% |
| 11 | Bank of New York Mellon Corp. (The) | 0.47% | 0.19% | 0.19% |
| 12 | Athene Holding Ltd. | 0.47% | 0.19% | 0.19% |
Only in PGX
240 total- JPMorgan Chase & Co. 1.72%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co. 1.57%
- Wells Fargo & Co. 1.47%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co. 1.37%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co. 1.36%
- AT&T Inc. 1.26%
- Bank of America Corp. 1.26%
- Bank of America Corp. 1.16%
- AT&T Inc. 1.11%
- Capital One Financial Corp. 1.08%
Only in VRP
306 total- Wells Fargo & Co. 1.30%
- Bank of America Corp. 1.16%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co. 1.16%
- Citigroup Inc. 1.02%
- Citigroup Capital XIII 0.99%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co. 0.98%
- Citigroup Inc. 0.96%
- Bank of America Corp. 0.95%
- BP Capital Markets PLC 0.93%
- Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (The) 0.89%
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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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