Putnam Core Bond Fund
The fund invests mainly in a diversified portfolio of investment-grade fixed-income securities. It invests mainly in bonds of governments and private companies that are investment-grade in quality with intermediate- to long-term maturities (three years or longer). The fund may invest in below-investment-grade investments. However, the fund will not invest in securities that are rated lower than B or its equivalent by each rating agency rating the investment, or are unrated securities that Putnam Management believes are of comparable quality.
| Name | Cumulative Return | Ann. Return | Ann. Vol | Sharpe | Max DD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Putnam Core Bond Fund | -2.5% | -2.5% | 3.9% | -1.63 | -5.1% |
ETF performance based on market prices. Drag on chart to select period. Sharpe Ratio uses the one-month T-bill as the risk-free rate. From 10/7/2025 to 10/7/2026.
Name | YTD | 1D | 5D | 1M | 3M | 6M | 1Y | 2Y | 3Y | 5Y | MAX |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Putnam Core Bond Fund | -3.2% | 0.0% | 0.0% | -2.7% | -3.2% | -3.4% | -2.5% | 0.9% | 4.4% | 1.4% | 2.0% |
ETF performance based on market prices. Returns for periods greater than one year are annualized. As of 10/7/2026.
Name | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | YTD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Putnam Core Bond Fund | 7.9% | 2.9% | -4.5% | 5.4% | 4.1% | 1.3% | -2.1% | 1.9% | 5.0% | 0.4% | 8.8% | 0.5% | -4.1% | -0.8% | 4.3% | 1.7% | 6.9% | -3.2% |
ETF performance based on market prices. As of 10/7/2026.
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Name | Ann. α | β MKT | β SMB | β HML | β RMW | β CMA | β UMD | β iHML | R² | Obs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
PTRBXUS Putnam Core Bond Fund | -3.5% | 0.10** | 0.05 | -0.09** | 0.00 | 0.11** | -0.02 | -0.03 | 0.22 | 226 |
ETF performance based on market prices. US factor set. Daily OLS of excess return (fund − T-bill) on factor spread returns over the selected date range, intersected with each series' history. Bold with * |t| ≥ 1.96, ** |t| ≥ 2.58. Cell shading tracks each loading's t-stat. Betas are returns-based — compare with the holdings-based factor scores below. Factor returns are long-short spread returns (© Ken French, Dartmouth). From 10/7/2025 to 8/31/2026.
The fund invests mainly in a diversified portfolio of investment-grade fixed-income securities. It invests mainly in bonds of governments and private companies that are investment-grade in quality with intermediate- to long-term maturities (three years or longer). The fund may invest in below-investment-grade investments. However, the fund will not invest in securities that are rated lower than B or its equivalent by each rating agency rating the investment, or are unrated securities that Putnam Management believes are of comparable quality.
MethodologyExpense ratio and its components from market data (10/6/2026). Yield as of 10/6/2026, AUM 9/30/2026. Holdings, asset class, style, peer group and exposures as of 7/31/2026. Summary may be from an older prospectus.
None of the selected metrics are scored for PTRBX — switch the picker to All, or add metrics under Metrics (top right).
Hover or click for factor definitions. Weighted average of underlying company-level values with weights equal to position size. Solid blue dots mark the fund's position within the clean equity fund universe (5th–95th percentile scale); the shaded band spans the fund's broad class (Fixed Income Funds) 25th–75th percentile, notched at the median. Holdings as of 7/31/2026. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026. Expense ratio, yield, and turnover as of 10/6/2026. AUM as of 9/30/2026.
Shares are percentages of the holdings that carry a country, not portfolio weights. Based on N-PORT domicile; ADRs list under their exchange. Holdings as of 7/31/2026. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026.
977 positions (top 10 shown, create for full holdings) · 2% in funds
| # | Name | Ticker | Weight % | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States of America | - | 6.86 | USA |
| 2 | United States of America | - | 4.32 | USA |
| 3 | United States of America | - | 4.08 | USA |
| 4 | United States of America | - | 3.34 | USA |
| 5 | United States of America | - | 3.29 | USA |
| 6 | United States of America | - | 3.23 | USA |
| 7 | FNMA or FHLMC | - | 2.72 | USA |
| 8 | FNMA or FHLMC | - | 2.50 | USA |
| 9 | FNMA or FHLMC | - | 2.23 | USA |
| 10 | Franklin Ultra Short Bond ETF | FLUD | 2.00 | USA |
Sector, country and factor detail need a security match; the share of weight that matched is a member figure, so the rows without one appear here with those columns blank. "In funds" adds up the rows tagged Fund — holdings that are themselves funds this app covers, which is what look-through can expand; a held vehicle that files no holdings of its own (a commodity or currency trust, a money-market fund) is not counted and stays a single line. Holdings as of 7/31/2026. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026.
Hover or click for definitions. Solid blue dots mark the fund: percentage rows on a 0–100% scale, holdings counts log-scaled across the clean-universe 5th–95th percentile range. The shaded band spans the fund's broad class (Fixed Income Funds) 25th–75th percentile, notched at the median. Holdings as of 7/31/2026.
One sub-card per benchmark: the market primary, then the style secondary — the gap between them is the style sleeve itself. Both anchors are Sparkline-inferred (market from asset class and region, style from the holdings size-and-style map), not the fund's official prospectus benchmark. Solid blue dot marks the fund; the shaded band spans the reference set's 25th–75th percentile, notched at the median (band follows the Peer Universe selector). Active Share compares the fund's book with the benchmark's, share for share; Tracking Error is the annualized daily deviation over the trailing two years (ruler runs to just past the universe's 95th percentile, or past the fund's own figure where that is larger); Benchmark Correlation is the plain daily correlation over the trailing year. Hover the labels for full definitions.
Metric | PTRBX Putnam Core Bond Fund | Peer Group 657 funds | Peer Asset Class 2,838 funds |
|---|---|---|---|
YTD Return | -3.17% | -2.78%36 | -2.33%36 |
1Y Return | -2.48% | -1.96%31 | -1.51%33 |
3Y Return (Ann.) | 4.39% | 4.91%29 | 4.80%40 |
5Y Return (Ann.) | 1.38% | -0.25%75 | 0.27%62 |
Expense Ratiohigher = cheaper | 0.84% | 0.55%27 | 0.52%23 |
Sparkline's own holdings-based peer taxonomy (1,557 share classes across 657 funds). One share class shown per fund — the exchange-listed class where the SEC series has one, else its longest-history class; percentile ranks and medians are computed against the same deduped set. Quartile chips fill the layer the fund's rank falls in (top layer = best quartile). Funds without a full return history rank only on the horizons they cover.
Nearest funds across the whole universe, by holdings and behavior — the peer taxonomy is ignored, so matches can come from any category.
| Fund | Peer Group | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PINCX Putnam Income Fund Fixed Income - Core | Fixed Income - Core | 77 | - | - |
| 2 | VVBIX Venerable Strategic Bond Fund Fixed Income - Core | Fixed Income - Core | 75 | - | - |
| 3 | FBDAX Franklin Total Return Fund Fixed Income - Core | Fixed Income - Core | 68 | - | - |
| 4 | FLCB Franklin U.S. Core Bond ETF Fixed Income - Core | Fixed Income - Core | 61 | - | - |
| 5 | FRSTX Franklin Core Plus Bond Fund Fixed Income - Core Plus | Fixed Income - Core Plus | 60 | - | - |
| 6 | PARPX Putnam Short Duration Bond Fund Fixed Income - Short-Term | Fixed Income - Short-Term | 57 | - | - |
| 7 | ACGYX AB Income Fund Fixed Income - Core | Fixed Income - Core | 50 | - | - |
| 8 | MXSDX Empower Short Duration Bond Fund Fixed Income - Short-Term | Fixed Income - Short-Term | 50 | - | - |
| 9 | GTOC Invesco Core Fixed Income ETF Fixed Income - Core | Fixed Income - Core | 44 | - | - |
| 10 | MBBA iShares Mortgage-Backed Securities Active ETF Fixed Income - Securitized/MBS | Fixed Income - Securitized/MBS | 44 | - | - |
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MethodologyRows are the consensus top matches (a fund must place in at least two methods' top 250 to qualify, and matches missing more than one of this fund's own methods are not ranked — a row scored on fewer methods is a noisier estimate, not a better match). Click a method column to see that method's own top matches across the whole universe instead. Gray (N) beside each method's metric is that fund's rank in the whole universe on that method. Similarity is a percentile among match-grade fund pairs, 0–100 — 87 means the pair is closer than 87% of the strongest matches in the universe, averaged across the methods — so it compares across funds: index clones tie at the top with thousands of other clone pairs, so scores top out in the high 80s to 90s, while a one-of-a-kind fund's best match can score in the 30s. Rows are ordered by the Consensus Rank — the geometric mean of those universe ranks, shown in each cell's tooltip — and the score is held down the list to the level of the closest match above it, so equal scores mean equally close and the number reads as a floor. A dash means that method has no figure for the pair at all (one of them lacks the holdings or return history it needs). Hover a column header for each method's definition. The “Top…” strips above compare against every fund's own top match across the whole universe (they deliberately don't follow the Peer Universe selector); Top Similarity is simply the best match's score, with no reference band; the Holdings and Active Tilt strips carry no reference band because computing every fund's best book overlap would require a full holdings scan per fund — the dot stands alone on its natural 0–100% scale. One share class shown per fund, and a fund's own sister share classes are excluded from its Top-match strips. Holdings as of 7/31/2026. Consensus Rank is the geometric mean of the match's universe-wide rank across the methods (#1.0 = top match on every one). Holdings Overlap = common-holdings weight (sum of the minimum weight across shared positions, long only). Active Tilt Overlap = the same statistic on active weights (holdings minus the fund's own default benchmark, floored at 0), which strips the benchmark ballast that dominates raw overlap.