Capital Group High Yield Bond ETF
$24.72−0.20 (−0.80%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.39%
- Fund size
- $133M
- 1Y return
- +2.8%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 5.52%
- Volume · 30D
- 0.1M sh
- NAV per share
- $24.90
- 52W range
The ETF.net CGHY Grade
Score 61 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.BScore 58Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 88Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.CScore 51Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.CScore 45Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.CScore 53Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.CScore 49Category rank
Our read on CGHY
BCapital Group's swing at high yield: an actively managed junk-bond fund with no index to follow, priced at 0.39% in a corner of the market where index rivals charge pennies.
The fund seeks a high level of current income, with capital appreciation as a secondary objective.
Why people hold it
- Actively managed with no benchmark to replicate, so the credit team picks which issuers to own rather than buying whatever the index says.capitalgroup.com
- 0.39% expense ratio, just under the typical high-yield ETF's 0.40%. Rare for active management to price at the category median.
- Pays monthly, which suits the current-income job it was built for.
- The portfolio lines up closely with its stated high-yield mandate, and the fund sits in the upper half of a crowded field of 90-plus junk-bond ETFs.
Worth knowing
- Index rivals are far cheaper: SCYB at 0.03% and SPHY at 0.05%. Active stock-picking in credit has to earn back that gap every year.
- Launched in 2025, so there is no long record of how these managers navigate a full credit cycle inside this wrapper.
- High yield means below-investment-grade credit, where issuer downgrades and default worries drive prices more than interest rates do.capitalgroup.com
CGHY Holdings
- Bonds
- —
- 12%
- CAPITAL GROUP CENTRAL CASH FUN CAPITAL GROUP CNTRL CSH M
Geography
- United States100.00%
CGHY 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 | CGHY |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +1.6% |
| 1 month | −0.9% |
| 3 months | −0.6% |
| 1 year | +2.8% |
| 3 years | — |
| 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 | CGHY |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +1.6% | |
| 2025 | +3.8% |
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CGHY Dividends
- 5.52%
- $1.38
- $0.11 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 31, 2026 | Sep 1, 2026 | $0.11 |
| Jul 31, 2026 | Aug 3, 2026 | $0.13 |
| Jun 29, 2026 | Jun 30, 2026 | $0.09 |
| May 29, 2026 | Jun 1, 2026 | $0.12 |
| Apr 30, 2026 | May 1, 2026 | $0.10 |
| Mar 30, 2026 | Mar 31, 2026 | $0.08 |
| Feb 27, 2026 | Mar 2, 2026 | $0.10 |
| Jan 30, 2026 | Feb 2, 2026 | $0.10 |
| Dec 24, 2025 | Dec 26, 2025 | $0.16 |
| Nov 28, 2025 | Dec 1, 2025 | $0.11 |
| Oct 31, 2025 | Nov 3, 2025 | $0.15 |
| Sep 29, 2025 | Sep 30, 2025 | $0.12 |
CGHY Risk
- 2.2%
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.
- 0.65
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.
- −2.4%
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.
- 0.14
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
CGHY Cost
- The middle half of US High Yield funds
- Median 0.43%
29 of the 84 US High Yield funds charge less.