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PYLD vs VGLT

US Aggregate Bond vs US Treasury (Long).

PIMCO ETF Trust - PIMCO Multisector Bond Active Exchange-Traded Fund · Vanguard Long-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
1.8 %

2 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of PYLD and VGLT would leave roughly 1.8% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

PYLD unmatched 108.7% Shared 1.8% VGLT unmatched 96.5%

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 PYLD only
1,755 positions
Shared
2 positions
In VGLT only
95 positions

Side by side

PYLD

PIMCO ETF Trust - PIMCO Multisector Bond Active Exchange-Traded Fund

PIMCO · US Aggregate Bond

58 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.64%
Net assets
$15.87B
TTM yield
6.57%
Top-10 conc.
36.1%
VGLT

Vanguard Long-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares

Vanguard · US Treasury (Long)

88 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.030%
Net assets
$14.84B
whole fund, 3 share classes
TTM yield
4.84%
Top-10 conc.
21.5%

Sub-score comparison

36
Cost
97
47
Tax efficiency
56
100
Liquidity
100
63
Concentration
N/A
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Tracking quality
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PYLD sub-score VGLT

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

Cost difference

VGLT is 61 bps cheaper than PYLD. On a $100,000 position that's about $610/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 VGLT.

Top shared holdings

2 shared in total
# Holding In PYLD In VGLT Overlap
1 United States Treasury 1.20% 1.33% 1.20%
2 United States Treasury 0.60% 0.97% 0.60%

Only in PYLD

1,755 total
  • UMBS, TBA 7.01%
  • UMBS, TBA 6.55%
  • UMBS, TBA 4.83%
  • Fannie Mae 2.97%
  • UMBS, TBA 1.78%
  • UMBS, TBA 1.42%
  • Freddie Mac 1.06%
  • REPUBLIC OF PERU 0.89%
  • RD MICHIGAN PROP OWNER I 0.84%
  • REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA 0.79%

Only in VGLT

95 total
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.22%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.21%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.21%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.17%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.17%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.17%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.14%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.13%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.04%
  • United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.04%

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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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