ETF comparison
PYLD vs VCRB
Both US Aggregate Bond.
PIMCO ETF Trust - PIMCO Multisector Bond Active Exchange-Traded Fund · Vanguard Core Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
167 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of PYLD and VCRB would leave roughly 5.0% 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
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Cost difference
VCRB is 54 bps cheaper than PYLD. On a $100,000 position that's about $540/yr more in fees for PYLD.
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 PYLD vs VCRB.
Top shared holdings
167 shared in total| # | Holding | In PYLD | In VCRB | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | UMBS, TBA | 6.55% | 2.33% | 2.33% |
| 2 | UMBS, TBA | 1.78% | 0.68% | 0.68% |
| 3 | UMBS, TBA | 7.01% | 0.54% | 0.54% |
| 4 | SUMISHO AIR LEASE CORP | 0.11% | 0.12% | 0.11% |
| 5 | United States Treasury | 0.60% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 6 | BOEING CO/THE | 0.09% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 7 | BOEING CO | 0.08% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 8 | RD MICHIGAN PROP OWNER I | 0.84% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 9 | ENBRIDGE INC | 0.29% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 10 | QATAR ENERGY | 0.05% | 0.18% | 0.05% |
| 11 | SUMISHO AIR LEASE CORP | 0.05% | 0.17% | 0.05% |
| 12 | GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC | 0.12% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
Only in PYLD
1,590 total- UMBS, TBA 4.83%
- Fannie Mae 2.97%
- UMBS, TBA 1.42%
- United States Treasury 1.20%
- Freddie Mac 1.06%
- REPUBLIC OF PERU 0.89%
- REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA 0.79%
- United States Treasury 0.70%
- United States Treasury 0.69%
- Freddie Mac 0.59%
Only in VCRB
3,247 total- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.02%
- NVIDIA Corp 0.97%
- NVIDIA Corp 0.75%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.65%
- Kreditanstalt fuer Wiederaufbau 0.60%
- Fannie Mae REMICS 0.59%
- OBX 2026-INV2 Trust 0.57%
- Ginnie Mae II Pool 0.56%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.55%
- Finland Government International Bond 0.54%
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- PYLD vs FBND · Fidelity Total Bond ETF 2.7%
- PYLD vs SPMB · State Street SPDR Portfolio Mortgage Backed Bond ETF 2.4%
- PYLD vs NEAR · iShares Short Duration Bond Active ETF 2.4%
- PYLD vs JCPB · JPMorgan Core Plus Bond ETF 2.3%
More comparisons with VCRB
- VCRB vs SPMB · State Street SPDR Portfolio Mortgage Backed Bond ETF 4.9%
- VCRB vs VMBS · Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Securities Index Fund ETF Shares 4.6%
- VCRB vs TLT · iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF 4.0%
- VCRB vs VUSB · Vanguard Ultra-Short Bond ETF 3.9%
- VCRB vs DFCF · Dimensional Core Fixed Income ETF 3.4%
- VCRB vs MBB · iShares MBS ETF 3.2%
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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