Alliance Bernstein - AB Corporate Bond ETF
$33.80−0.35 (−1.02%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.30%
- Fund size
- $27M
- 1Y return
- −0.9%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 5.01%
- Holdings
- 327
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $34.16
- 52W range
The ETF.net EYEG 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.CScore 48Category 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.DScore 36Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.FScore 21Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.FScore 2Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.DScore 36Category rank
Our read on EYEG
CMost big investment-grade corporate bond funds just track the index. EYEG is AllianceBernstein's active counter: a multifactor process (value, momentum, quality, low volatility) run against the Bloomberg US Corporate Bond Index.
The fund seeks to maximize total return through current income and long-term capital appreciation.
Why people hold it
- Active by design. The prospectus spells out a dynamic multifactor approach across value, momentum, quality and low volatility, rather than buying the corporate bond index in market-weight order.
- No mandate drift. The portfolio sits squarely in the investment-grade corporate bond lane it advertises, one of the cleanest mandate matches in its peer group.
- Roughly 300 bonds, with a passport: the mandate covers US, developed and emerging market corporate issuers, not just domestic names.
- Pays monthly, which suits investors who want bond income arriving on a regular cadence.
Worth knowing
- Active costs more. At 0.30%, it runs well above index giants in the same cohort such as VCIT (0.03%) and USIG (0.04%), so the manager has a fee gap to work through.
- Small and thinly traded, so bid-ask spreads can be wider and less predictable than the household-name corporate bond funds.
- Launched December 2023, so the track record is short next to peers with a decade or more of history.
EYEG Holdings
- Bonds
- 327
- 129%
- US 5YR NOTE (CBT) DEC26 XCBT 20261231
Geography
EYEG 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 | EYEG |
|---|---|
| Year to date | −1.5% |
| 1 month | −0.6% |
| 3 months | −1.9% |
| 1 year | −0.9% |
| 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 | EYEG |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | −1.5% | |
| 2025 | +7.4% | |
| 2024 | +2.9% | |
| 2023 | +1.6% |
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EYEG Dividends
- 5.01%
- $1.71
- $0.13 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 2026 | Sep 4, 2026 | $0.13 |
| Aug 3, 2026 | Aug 6, 2026 | $0.14 |
| Jul 1, 2026 | Jul 7, 2026 | $0.14 |
| Jun 1, 2026 | Jun 4, 2026 | $0.14 |
| May 1, 2026 | May 6, 2026 | $0.14 |
| Apr 1, 2026 | Apr 7, 2026 | $0.14 |
| Mar 2, 2026 | Mar 5, 2026 | $0.14 |
| Feb 2, 2026 | Feb 5, 2026 | $0.14 |
| Dec 31, 2025 | Jan 5, 2026 | $0.19 |
| Dec 1, 2025 | Dec 4, 2025 | $0.14 |
| Nov 3, 2025 | Nov 6, 2025 | $0.14 |
| Oct 1, 2025 | Oct 6, 2025 | $0.14 |
EYEG Risk
- 4.7%
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.
- −0.17
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.
- −4.7%
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.
EYEG Cost
- The middle half of Investment Grade Corporate funds
- Median 0.30%
24 of the 49 Investment Grade Corporate funds charge less.