Capital Group Ultra Short Income ETF
$25.26−0.03 (−0.12%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.18%
- Fund size
- $338M
- 1Y return
- +3.6%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 3.86%
- Holdings
- 246
- Volume · 30D
- 0.1M sh
- NAV per share
- $25.28
- 52W range
The ETF.net CGUI Grade
Score 64 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 56Category 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 49Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.DScore 32Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 78Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 58Category rank
Our read on CGUI
BCapital Group made its name on active bond and stock pickers, not index trackers. CGUI points that machinery at the dull end of the curve: investment-grade paper, duration held to a year or less, income paid monthly.
The fund seeks current income while maintaining an ultra-short duration profile and focusing on capital preservation.
Why people hold it
- The rulebook is tight: an average portfolio duration of one year or less and a dollar-weighted average effective maturity of two years or less under normal conditions.sec.gov
- At 0.18% a year it undercuts the typical cash-alternative fund and matches JPST, the category's most established name, on price.
- Actively run, not an index copy. The 3-month T-bill index is the yardstick, not the shopping list, so managers can pick their spots across short corporate and securitized paper.capitalgroup.com
- Income arrives monthly, spread across a couple hundred short-dated positions, and the fund sits in the upper half of its cash-alternative peer group.
Worth knowing
- It is a bond fund, not a money market fund. The share price moves, and on an exchange it can trade above or below the value of what it holds.capitalgroup.com
- Launched in 2024, so the live record is short next to cash funds that have already traded through several rate cycles.
- Cheaper shelf-mates exist: ICSH charges 0.08%, well under half the fee, with a different portfolio behind it.
CGUI Holdings
- Bonds
- 246
- 19%
- NET OTHER ASSETS
Geography
- United States81.09%
- Mexico5.71%
- Netherlands5.27%
- Japan2.75%
- Canada2.33%
- France0.90%
- Ireland0.62%
- Denmark0.42%
- 0.92%
CGUI 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 | CGUI |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +2.5% |
| 1 month | +0.1% |
| 3 months | +0.9% |
| 1 year | +3.6% |
| 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 | CGUI |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +2.5% | |
| 2025 | +5.0% | |
| 2024 | +3.0% |
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CGUI Dividends
- 3.86%
- $0.98
- $0.08 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 31, 2026 | Sep 1, 2026 | $0.08 |
| Jul 31, 2026 | Aug 3, 2026 | $0.10 |
| Jun 29, 2026 | Jun 30, 2026 | $0.07 |
| May 29, 2026 | Jun 1, 2026 | $0.08 |
| Apr 30, 2026 | May 1, 2026 | $0.09 |
| Mar 30, 2026 | Mar 31, 2026 | $0.07 |
| Feb 27, 2026 | Mar 2, 2026 | $0.08 |
| Jan 30, 2026 | Feb 2, 2026 | $0.07 |
| Dec 24, 2025 | Dec 26, 2025 | $0.10 |
| Nov 28, 2025 | Dec 1, 2025 | $0.05 |
| Oct 31, 2025 | Nov 3, 2025 | $0.10 |
| Sep 29, 2025 | Sep 30, 2025 | $0.08 |
CGUI Risk
- 0.4%
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.
- 1.38
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.
- −0.2%
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.
- 0.02
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
CGUI Cost
- The middle half of Cash & Ultra-Short Income funds
- Median 0.19%
33 of the 77 Cash & Ultra-Short Income funds charge less.