ETF comparison
PULS vs VMBS
Both US Aggregate Bond.
PGIM Ultra Short Bond ETF · Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Securities Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of PULS and VMBS 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
VMBS is 12 bps cheaper than PULS. On a $100,000 position that's about $120/yr more in fees for PULS.
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 PULS vs VMBS.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in PULS
680 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%
Only in VMBS
5,112 total- Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac 0.52%
- Ginnie Mae II Pool 0.36%
- Ginnie Mae II Pool 0.32%
- Ginnie Mae II Pool 0.31%
- Fannie Mae Pool 0.29%
- Ginnie Mae II Pool 0.29%
- Ginnie Mae II Pool 0.29%
- Ginnie Mae II Pool 0.28%
- Freddie Mac Pool 0.27%
- Freddie Mac Pool 0.27%
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- PULS vs FLOT · iShares Floating Rate Bond ETF 6.1%
- PULS vs VUSB · Vanguard Ultra-Short Bond ETF 5.4%
More comparisons with VMBS
- VMBS vs SCHP · Schwab U.S. TIPS ETF 0.0%
- VMBS vs SHY · iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF 0.0%
- VMBS vs TIP · iShares TIPS Bond ETF 0.0%
- VMBS vs TLT · iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF 0.0%
- VMBS vs VGLT · Vanguard Long-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- VMBS vs VGSH · Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 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/.
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