ETF comparison
PYLD vs VGSH
US Aggregate Bond vs US Treasury (Short).
PIMCO ETF Trust - PIMCO Multisector Bond Active Exchange-Traded Fund · Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of PYLD and VGSH 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
VGSH 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 VGSH.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in PYLD
1,757 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%
- United States Treasury 1.20%
- Freddie Mac 1.06%
- REPUBLIC OF PERU 0.89%
- RD MICHIGAN PROP OWNER I 0.84%
Only in VGSH
91 total- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.24%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.40%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.35%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.31%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.30%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.29%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.26%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.26%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.25%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.25%
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- PYLD vs CGCP · Capital Group Core Plus Income ETF 4.4%
- PYLD vs FBND · Fidelity Total Bond ETF 2.7%
- PYLD vs SPMB · State Street SPDR Portfolio Mortgage Backed Bond ETF 2.4%
More comparisons with VGSH
- VGSH vs PZA · Invesco National AMT-Free Municipal Bond ETF 0.0%
- VGSH vs SCHI · Schwab 5-10 Year Corporate Bond ETF 0.0%
- VGSH vs SCHP · Schwab U.S. TIPS ETF 0.0%
- VGSH vs SCHR · Schwab Intermediate-Term U.S. Treasury ETF 0.0%
- VGSH vs SCMB · Schwab Municipal Bond ETF 0.0%
- VGSH vs SCYB · Schwab High Yield Bond ETF 0.0%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
Open PYLD or VGSH at a brokerage
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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/.
Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.