PIMCO Active Bond Exchange-Traded Fund
$88.11−0.94 (−1.05%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.56%
- Fund size
- $8.6B
- 1Y return
- +0.6%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 5.33%
- Holdings
- 1210
- Volume · 30D
- 0.6M sh
- NAV per share
- $88.97
- 52W range
The ETF.net BOND Grade
Score 56 of 100 sits in the B band. Bands: A ≥ 70, B ≥ 55, C ≥ 40, D ≥ 25, F < 25; the scale skips E.
Cost
What you pay to own it — the expense ratio plus trading frictions, ranked within its category.FScore 21Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 100Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.CScore 41Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 79Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.DScore 26Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 85Category rank
Our read on BOND
BPIMCO's answer to the index core bond sleeve: an actively run, global fixed income portfolio that treats the Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate as a yardstick, not a blueprint. Running since 2012, and you pay up for the manager.
The Fund seeks current income and long-term capital appreciation through an actively managed, diversified portfolio of fixed-income instruments. It may use derivatives and pursue strategic, bottom-up security selection.
Why people hold it
- Genuinely active: bottom-up security selection and derivatives in service of current income and long-term capital appreciation, with the Agg as a benchmark rather than a portfolio to copy.
- Trading since 2012 and now a multi-billion-dollar fund that changes hands actively, which helps keep round-trip costs modest for ordinary orders.
- Roughly 1,200 positions across global fixed income, with income paid out monthly.
- What it holds lines up with the global active bond mandate in its prospectus, and it sits in the upper half of a crowded core bond peer group.
Worth knowing
- 0.56% a year, against 0.03% at index core bond funds like BND and SPAB and a 0.36% peer median. The manager is the line item you're funding.
- Manager judgment and derivative positions drive the outcome, so results can diverge from the Agg in either direction.
- The mandate reaches globally, so the portfolio can hold exposures a plain US Aggregate tracker does not.
BOND Holdings
- Bonds
- 1,210
- 41%
- US TREASURY N/B 08/46 5.125 5.13% 08/15/2046
Sectors
- Financials100.0%
BOND Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
Returns run to the Sep 22, 2026 close, with cash distributions reinvested. Each period starts on the same date that many months or years earlier. Periods over one year show the average yearly return.
| Period | BOND |
|---|---|
| Year to date | −1.0% |
| 1 month | −1.2% |
| 3 months | −1.7% |
| 1 year | +0.6% |
| 3 years | +5.2% |
| 5 years | −0.2% |
| 10 years | +1.8% |
Calendar-year total return with cash distributions hypothetically reinvested at the ex-dividend date’s closing price. The current year shows year to date.
| Year | Return bar | BOND |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | −1.0% | |
| 2025 | +8.4% | |
| 2024 | +2.8% | |
| 2023 | +6.5% | |
| 2022 | −14.6% | |
| 2021 | −0.8% | |
| 2020 | +7.8% |
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BOND Dividends
- 5.33%
- $4.75
- $0.40 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 2026 | Sep 3, 2026 | $0.40 |
| Aug 3, 2026 | Aug 5, 2026 | $0.40 |
| Jul 1, 2026 | Jul 6, 2026 | $0.39 |
| Jun 1, 2026 | Jun 3, 2026 | $0.40 |
| May 1, 2026 | May 5, 2026 | $0.38 |
| Apr 1, 2026 | Apr 3, 2026 | $0.37 |
| Mar 2, 2026 | Mar 4, 2026 | $0.39 |
| Feb 2, 2026 | Feb 4, 2026 | $0.40 |
| Dec 31, 2025 | Jan 5, 2026 | $0.40 |
| Dec 1, 2025 | Dec 3, 2025 | $0.40 |
| Nov 3, 2025 | Nov 5, 2025 | $0.42 |
| Oct 1, 2025 | Oct 3, 2025 | $0.40 |
BOND Risk
- 5.9%
How it’s calculated: standard deviation
The sample standard deviation of monthly total returns, multiplied by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Total returns include reinvested distributions.
- 0.09
How it’s calculated: Sharpe ratio
Subtract each month’s Treasury-bill return from the fund’s monthly total return.
Divide the average of those excess returns by their sample standard deviation, then multiply by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Each month uses the Treasury yield quoted at the end of the previous month.
- −19.6%
How it’s calculated: maximum drawdown
The largest percentage decline from an earlier peak, using total returns with reinvested distributions.
Uses up to five years through the last close, with at least 12 months required.
- 1.09
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
BOND Cost
- The middle half of Global Aggregate Bond (Unhedged) funds
- Median 0.41%
21 of the 27 Global Aggregate Bond (Unhedged) funds charge less.