Putnam BDC Income ETF (PBDC) holdings & weights
Per-holding contribution · concentration · sector skew — a deep read
Fund overview
This is a US-listed ETF from Putnam. Key facts — expense ratio 11.77%; net assets about $271M; inception Sep 29, 2022. Its 1-year return is -7.93%.
Fund details
Fund overview
This is a US-listed ETF from Putnam. Key facts — expense ratio 11.77%; net assets about $271M; inception Sep 29, 2022. Its 1-year return is -7.93%.
24 identified stocks · net exposure / NAV 98.61%. Display weights are normalized to 100%; calculations retain original exposures without an additional leverage multiplier. Cash and unallocated contracts are excluded from stock attribution.
Weight and calculation basis
24 identified stocks · net exposure / NAV 98.61%. Display weights are normalized to 100%; calculations retain original exposures without an additional leverage multiplier. Cash and unallocated contracts are excluded from stock attribution.
Today's summary
On a constituent basis, Putnam BDC Income ETF's theoretical return is +0.06%p. Today's biggest hero is Ares Capital, contributing +0.06%p (return +0.54%). The biggest suspect dragging it down is Ares Capital, at +0.06%p.
Its top 10 holdings make up about 71.5% of the fund. The concentration index (HHI) is 653 — Low — evenly diversified, and the largest sector is Financials (82%). The higher the concentration, the more one stock or sector drives the whole ETF's return.
Structural health
A five-axis read on how this fund is built. It is not a return forecast or a recommendation, and a low score does not mean a bad fund — leveraged products score low by design. Each axis shows the figure behind it.
Concentration is below 1,500 (653), so no single holding dominates.
Financials alone is 82%. This is effectively a bet on that one industry — if the sector falls, diversification will not help.
11.77% a year is on the high side — about 117.7% over a decade, so it needs a reason to earn that.
Net assets of $271M — liquid enough to trade, and unlikely to be wound down.
A plain 1x physical fund holding the shares themselves — no structural drift from how long you hold it.
Concentration and diversification
Structural health
A five-axis read on how this fund is built. It is not a return forecast or a recommendation, and a low score does not mean a bad fund — leveraged products score low by design. Each axis shows the figure behind it.
Concentration is below 1,500 (653), so no single holding dominates.
Financials alone is 82%. This is effectively a bet on that one industry — if the sector falls, diversification will not help.
11.77% a year is on the high side — about 117.7% over a decade, so it needs a reason to earn that.
Net assets of $271M — liquid enough to trade, and unlikely to be wound down.
A plain 1x physical fund holding the shares themselves — no structural drift from how long you hold it.
Top 20 holdings
Weights are normalized to 100% of absolute exposures across analysed positions, including positions outside this top list. Cash, collateral and unverified assets are excluded. Contributions retain original signed NAV exposures; leverage is not applied twice.
Normalized to 100% of analysed positions
Weights are normalized to 100% of absolute exposures across analysed positions, including positions outside this top list. Cash, collateral and unverified assets are excluded. Contributions retain original signed NAV exposures; leverage is not applied twice.
| # | Holding | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ares CapitalARCC | 11.08% |
| 2 | Blue Owl CapitalOBDC | 10.28% |
| 3 | Blue Owl Technology FinanceOTF | 9.71% |
| 4 | Hercules CapitalHTGC | 9.05% |
| 5 | Main Street CapitalMAIN | 8.60% |
| 6 | Golub Capital BDCGBDC | 5.29% |
| 7 | Trinity CapitalTRIN | 4.73% |
| 8 | Blackstone Secured Lending FundBXSL | 4.52% |
| 9 | Sixth Street Specialty LendingTSLX | 4.37% |
| 10 | Capital SouthwestCSWC | 3.83% |
| 11 | MSC Income FundMSIF | 3.47% |
| 12 | Kayne Anderson BDCKBDC | 3.41% |
| 13 | Barings BDCBBDC | 3.21% |
| 14 | FS KKR CapitalFSK | 2.96% |
| 15 | Oaktree Specialty LendingOCSL | 2.88% |
| 16 | Bain Capital Specialty FinanceBCSF | 1.89% |
| 17 | Runway Growth FinanceRWAY | 1.68% |
| 18 | PennantPark Floating Rate CapitalPFLT | 1.50% |
| 19 | Morgan Stanley Direct Lending FundMSDL | 1.47% |
| 20 | New Mountain FinanceNMFC | 1.46% |
Holdings below 0.5% or outside the top list are folded into “Others” and omitted above.
Where the weight sits — sector mix
Listed equity weights summed by sector and normalized to 100%. Each band is one sector's share.
Industry breakdown
HHI sums the squared weights. The more it leans on a few names, the higher it goes — and the more the whole ETF moves with them.
How concentrated is it
Concentration (HHI) is low at 653, with the top 10 holdings at just 71.5% of equity weight. No single name can dominate the fund.
Good for damping single-stock risk — and equally, a big winner inside gets diluted.
HHI squares each weight and sums them: 10,000 means one stock is everything, and the more evenly spread the holdings, the closer it falls to zero.
Where the sector weight sits
By sector, Financials alone is 82% — whatever the fund is called, this is a bet on that industry.
Bad news for the sector moves the whole fund. Worth checking against anything else you hold in the same space.
Weights above sum the individually listed equities and normalize that equity total to 100%.
How much it overlaps others
Even its closest peer, BIZD, overlaps only 37% (18 shared names).
Funds filed under the same label can hold quite different companies, so pairing this one with another may genuinely spread risk.
What it is made of
The fund holds 26 positions in total; this page lists the largest 24 and folds the rest into "Others".
The expense ratio is 11.77% a year, which is not cheap. Fees come out of returns every year you hold, so it is worth checking whether the same index is available for less.
This page is not investment advice. Investment decisions and responsibility are your own.
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