PIMCO Enhanced Low Duration Active Exchange-Traded Fund
$94.22−0.31 (−0.33%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.54%
- Fund size
- $1.3B
- 1Y return
- +2.5%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 4.24%
- Holdings
- 492
- Volume · 30D
- 0.1M sh
- NAV per share
- $94.48
- 52W range
The ETF.net LDUR Grade
Score 49 of 100 sits in the C 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 3Category 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 43Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.CScore 43Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 70Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 73Category rank
Our read on LDUR
CShort bonds, run by hand. LDUR is PIMCO's actively managed low-duration portfolio: US, foreign and emerging-market debt, roughly 500 positions, income paid monthly, on the tape since 2014.
The Fund seeks total return through income from investments and potential capital appreciation. It normally invests at least 80% of net assets in a diversified portfolio of fixed-income instruments with varying maturities.
Why people hold it
- Short-maturity bonds move less when rates move than long bonds do, and here a manager steers the maturity mix instead of tracking a fixed index.
- One ticket reaches US, international and emerging-market fixed income, spread across roughly 500 positions.
- Income lands monthly, and it's a multi-billion-dollar fund trading since 2014, not a thin startup with a wide spread.
Worth knowing
- Active bond management costs 0.54% a year. Index-tracking neighbors like BND and SPAB charge 0.03%, so there's a real fee gap for the manager to cover.
- No index to hold it to: results hinge on the team's calls, and the mandate pins only 80% of net assets to fixed-income instruments.
- Emerging-market and foreign bonds add credit and currency variables a US-only aggregate fund doesn't carry.
LDUR Holdings
- Bonds
- 492
- 20%
- FNMA TBA 30 YR 5 SINGLE FAMILY MORTGAGE 5.00% 10/13/2056
Geography
- United States68.49%
- Canada4.72%
- United Kingdom4.49%
- Israel3.64%
- Japan3.32%
- France2.24%
- Australia2.03%
- Saudi Arabia1.63%
- 9.42%
LDUR 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 | LDUR |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +1.2% |
| 1 month | −0.6% |
| 3 months | +0.2% |
| 1 year | +2.5% |
| 3 years | +4.9% |
| 5 years | +2.3% |
| 10 years | +2.4% |
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 | LDUR |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +1.2% | |
| 2025 | +5.8% | |
| 2024 | +5.1% | |
| 2023 | +4.8% | |
| 2022 | −4.2% | |
| 2021 | −0.5% | |
| 2020 | +4.5% |
LDUR in the news
ETF.net Research hasn’t filed on LDUR yet — coverage lands here as it’s written.
LDUR Dividends
- 4.24%
- $4.01
- $0.33 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 2026 | Sep 3, 2026 | $0.33 |
| Aug 3, 2026 | Aug 5, 2026 | $0.33 |
| Jul 1, 2026 | Jul 6, 2026 | $0.32 |
| Jun 1, 2026 | Jun 3, 2026 | $0.33 |
| May 1, 2026 | May 5, 2026 | $0.32 |
| Apr 1, 2026 | Apr 3, 2026 | $0.31 |
| Mar 2, 2026 | Mar 4, 2026 | $0.30 |
| Feb 2, 2026 | Feb 4, 2026 | $0.32 |
| Dec 31, 2025 | Jan 5, 2026 | $0.35 |
| Dec 1, 2025 | Dec 3, 2025 | $0.36 |
| Nov 3, 2025 | Nov 5, 2025 | $0.37 |
| Oct 1, 2025 | Oct 3, 2025 | $0.37 |
LDUR Risk
- 1.3%
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.
- 0.37
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.
- −6.7%
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.
- 0.20
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
LDUR Cost
- The middle half of Cash & Ultra-Short Income funds
- Median 0.19%
74 of the 77 Cash & Ultra-Short Income funds charge less.