PIMCO Multisector Bond Active Exchange-Traded Fund
$25.62−0.22 (−0.83%)
History starts Jun 22, 2023.
- Expense ratio
- 0.74%
- Fund size
- $15.7B
- 1Y return
- +2.6%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 6.49%
- Holdings
- 1118
- Volume · 30D
- 3.9M sh
- NAV per share
- $25.80
- 52W range
The ETF.net PYLD 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 14Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 94Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.BScore 65Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 78Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.CScore 40Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 72Category rank
Our read on PYLD
BPIMCO's go-anywhere credit desk, wrapped in an ETF. No benchmark to hug: the team roams global bond sectors hunting yield and pays out monthly. The fee is a real one, but so is the mandate.
The Fund seeks to maximize yield and achieve long-term capital appreciation while using prudent investment management.
Why people hold it
- Benchmark-agnostic by design: at least 80% in a multi-sector global bond portfolio spanning investment grade and high yield, run by a team that includes PIMCO's group CIO.finance.yahoo.com
- Roughly a thousand bond positions across sectors and maturities, so no single issuer sets the tone.
- The stated objective is blunt: maximize yield while seeking long-term capital appreciation. Distributions land monthly.
- A multi-billion-dollar fund that trades actively, unusual scale for an ETF that only launched in 2023.
Worth knowing
- 0.74% a year is active-manager pricing in a cohort where index Aggs like BND and SCHZ charge 0.03% and the typical fund charges 0.36%.
- Go-anywhere and derivative-friendly: results can diverge from the Agg in either direction. You are buying a manager's calls, not an index.finance.yahoo.com
- Launched in 2023, so the track record in this wrapper is still short compared with the index veterans it sits beside.
PYLD Holdings
- Bonds
- 1,118
- 38%
- REPO BANK AMERICA REPO 3.86% 09/21/2026
Sectors
- Energy100.0%
Geography
- United States68.17%
- Colombia2.87%
- Peru2.61%
- South Africa2.47%
- United Kingdom2.39%
- Ireland2.08%
- Canada2.08%
- Brazil2.08%
- 15.25%
PYLD Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
PYLD$10,259
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 | PYLD |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +0.7% |
| 1 month | −0.7% |
| 3 months | −0.5% |
| 1 year | +2.6% |
| 3 years | +7.9% |
| 5 years | — |
| 10 years | — |
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 | PYLD |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +0.7% | |
| 2025 | +9.6% | |
| 2024 | +7.2% | |
| 2023 | +5.6% |
PYLD in the news
PYLD Dividends
- 6.49%
- $1.68
- $0.14 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 2026 | Sep 3, 2026 | $0.14 |
| Aug 3, 2026 | Aug 5, 2026 | $0.14 |
| Jul 1, 2026 | Jul 6, 2026 | $0.14 |
| Jun 1, 2026 | Jun 3, 2026 | $0.13 |
| May 1, 2026 | May 5, 2026 | $0.12 |
| Apr 1, 2026 | Apr 3, 2026 | $0.12 |
| Mar 2, 2026 | Mar 4, 2026 | $0.12 |
| Feb 2, 2026 | Feb 4, 2026 | $0.12 |
| Dec 31, 2025 | Jan 5, 2026 | $0.13 |
| Dec 10, 2025 | Dec 12, 2025 | $0.11 |
| Dec 1, 2025 | Dec 3, 2025 | $0.13 |
| Nov 3, 2025 | Nov 5, 2025 | $0.14 |
PYLD Risk
- 4.9%
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.
- 0.63
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.
- −4.5%
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.
- 0.81
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
PYLD Cost
0.74%
PYLD0.74%
- The middle half of Global Aggregate Bond (Unhedged) funds
- Median 0.41%
23 of the 27 Global Aggregate Bond (Unhedged) funds charge less.