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PULS

PGIM Ultra Short Bond ETF

Expense Ratio
0.15%
AUM
$19.4B
Inception
4/11/2018
1Y Return
+4.1%83rd %ilevs 157 asset-class peers
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The fund invests at least 80% of its investable assets in investment grade, U.S. dollar denominated short-term fixed, variable, and floating rate debt instruments. It maintains a weighted average portfolio duration of one year or less and a weighted average maturity of three years or less, while investing in bonds issued by the U.S. Government, its agencies, and corporations, as well as municipal bonds. The fund employs a combination of top-down economic analysis and bottom-up research for asset management, utilizing derivatives for duration management and hedging.

Time Series
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Performance

NameCumulative ReturnAnn. ReturnAnn. VolSharpeMax DD
PULS
PGIM Ultra Short Bond ETF
4.1%4.1%0.4%0.74-0.1%
ⓘ Methodology

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.

Trailing Returns

Name
YTD1D5D1M3M6M1Y2Y3Y5YMAX
PULS
PGIM Ultra Short Bond ETF
3.0%0.0%0.1%0.2%0.9%2.0%4.1%4.7%5.3%4.4%3.4%
ⓘ Methodology

ETF performance based on market prices. Returns for periods greater than one year are annualized. As of 10/7/2026.

Annual Returns

Name
20182019202020212022202320242025YTD
PULS
PGIM Ultra Short Bond ETF
1.6%*3.2%1.5%0.4%1.6%6.3%6.1%5.0%3.0%
ⓘ Methodology

* partial year — the series ran for only part of it (its first year, or the year it closed); the figure is the return over the part it did run. ETF performance based on market prices. As of 10/7/2026.

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Factor Regression

Name
Ann. αβ MKTβ SMBβ HMLβ RMWβ CMAβ UMDβ iHMLR²Obs
PULSUS
PGIM Ultra Short Bond ETF
0.3%0.01**0.000.000.000.010.00-0.01*0.10226
ⓘ Methodology

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.

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Fund Profile

Fund Documents(opens the fund company’s site in a new tab)
Family
Registrant
Type
ETF
Asset Class
Peer Asset Class
Cash
Region
Peer Group Benchmark
Prospectus Benchmark
Bloomberg US Aggregate Bond Index
Peer Group
Cash & Ultra-Short (157 peers)
1Y Peer Percentile
83
3Y Peer Percentile
78
Expense Ratio
0.15%
5Y Tax Drag
1.38%/yr
AUM
$19.4B
3Y Flow
+376.3%
Yield
4.78%
Inception
4/11/2018
Holdings (Reported)
1,059
Turnover
39%
Equity
0%
Derivatives
0%
Net Equity Exposure
0%
Strategy Summary

The fund invests at least 80% of its investable assets in investment grade, U.S. dollar denominated short-term fixed, variable, and floating rate debt instruments. It maintains a weighted average portfolio duration of one year or less and a weighted average maturity of three years or less, while investing in bonds issued by the U.S. Government, its agencies, and corporations, as well as municipal bonds. The fund employs a combination of top-down economic analysis and bottom-up research for asset management, utilizing derivatives for duration management and hedging.

ⓘ Methodology

Expense ratio and its components from the fund's prospectus fee table; tax drag from its after-tax return table. Turnover from the SEC annual report (11/3/2025). Yield as of 10/6/2026, AUM 9/30/2026. Holdings, asset class, style, peer group and exposures as of 5/29/2026. Strategy summary from the fund's prospectus.

Factor DetailsRef: Cash Funds

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ⓘ Methodology

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 (Cash Funds) 25th–75th percentile, notched at the median. Holdings as of 5/29/2026. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026. Expense ratio, yield, and turnover as of 10/6/2026. AUM as of 9/30/2026.

Asset Class Exposure

Fixed Income75.6%
Cash & Short-Term24.3%
Other0.1%
Short positions of 0.1% of net assets are not shown.ⓘ Methodology

Shares of the fund's long book, from the asset category each position is filed under. Holdings that are themselves funds are looked through one level to their own mix (2% of the book). The short book is stated under the card and never netted into a slice: a pie cannot draw a negative, and folding a hedge into the class it offsets would make it look like more of that class. Other is everything we could not name as an asset class: holdings the filing itself labels as other, derivative positions at the market value the filing reports rather than at notional, and funds held inside this fund whose own holdings we could not read.

Country Exposure

Level

Based on holdings that carry a country (76% of total assets).

86.4%
68.1%
Other18.3%
13.6%
4.3%
1.8%
1.7%
1.0%
Other4.9%
ⓘ Methodology

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 5/29/2026. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026.

Holdings

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730 positions (top 10 shown, create for full holdings) · 1.8% in funds

#NameTickerWeight %SectorIndustryCountry
1PGIM ETF TrustPAAA
1.81
--USA
2Phillips 66PSX
0.83
EnergyOil MajorsUSA
3Glencore Funding-
0.74
--USA
4Alexandria Real Estate EquitiesARE
0.66
Real EstateTraditional REITsUSA
5Intesa Sanpaolo Spa New York Branch-
0.63
--USA
6Abn Amro BankABN
0.57
FinancialsMultinational BanksNLD
7Healthpeak PropertiesDOC
0.52
Real EstateTraditional REITsUSA
8BX Trust 2022-LBA6-
0.51
--USA
9Federation Des Caisses Desjardins DU Quebec-
0.51
--CAN
10ServicenowNOW
0.50
TechnologySoftwareUSA
ⓘ Methodology

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 5/29/2026. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026.

ConcentrationRef: Cash Funds

Total Holdings1,059
Effective Holdings387.5
Top 10 Weight7.3%
Max Position1.8%
Top Sector (of Net Assets)70%
Top Country (of Net Assets)73%
ⓘ Methodology

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 (Cash Funds) 25th–75th percentile, notched at the median. Holdings as of 5/29/2026.

Peer Group Rank

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Metric
PULS
PGIM Ultra Short Bond ETF
Peer Group
157 funds
Peer Asset Class
157 funds
YTD Return
3.02%2.66%792.66%79
1Y Return
4.09%3.64%833.64%83
3Y Return (Ann.)
5.27%4.93%784.93%78
5Y Return (Ann.)
4.36%3.70%933.70%93
Expense Ratiohigher = cheaper
0.15%0.25%790.25%79
ⓘ Methodology

Sparkline's own holdings-based peer taxonomy (252 share classes across 157 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.

Similar Funds

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Nearest funds across the whole universe, by holdings and behavior — the peer taxonomy is ignored, so matches can come from any category.

Top Similarity22
Top Overlap
Top Active Tilt
Top Return Corr
FundPeer Group
1JPST
JPMorgan Ultra-Short Income ETF
Cash & Ultra-Short
Cash & Ultra-Short
22---
2VCSH
VANGUARD SHORT-TERM CORPORATE BOND INDEX FUND
Fixed Income - Short-Term
Fixed Income - Short-Term
22---
3IGSB
iShares 1-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF
Fixed Income - Short-Term
Fixed Income - Short-Term
20---
4BSCS
Invesco BulletShares 2028 Corporate Bond ETF
Fixed Income - IG Corporate
Fixed Income - IG Corporate
20---
5BSCR
Invesco BulletShares 2027 Corporate Bond ETF
Fixed Income - IG Corporate
Fixed Income - IG Corporate
20---
6IBDT
iShares iBonds Dec 2028 Term Corporate ETF
Fixed Income - IG Corporate
Fixed Income - IG Corporate
20---
7SLQD
iShares 0-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF
Fixed Income - Short-Term
Fixed Income - Short-Term
20---
8IBDS
iShares iBonds Dec 2027 Term Corporate ETF
Fixed Income - IG Corporate
Fixed Income - IG Corporate
20---
9SPSB
State Street(R) SPDR(R) Portfolio Short Term Corporate Bond ETF
Fixed Income - Short-Term
Fixed Income - Short-Term
20---
10SCHJ
Schwab 1-5 Year Corporate Bond ETF
Fixed Income - Short-Term
Fixed Income - Short-Term
20---

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ⓘ Methodology

Rows 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 5/29/2026. 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. Return Correlation = correlation of market-hedged daily returns over the trailing two years (CAPM residuals), so only market-beta co-movement is removed; requires ~18 months of daily history (378 of the window's 504 trading days).