Xtrackers Low Beta High Yield Bond ETF
$45.98−0.32 (−0.69%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.20%
- Fund size
- $62M
- 1Y return
- +3.1%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 5.54%
- Holdings
- 581
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $46.19
- 52W range
The ETF.net HYDW Grade
Score 71 of 100 sits in the A 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.AScore 87Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 83Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.BScore 63Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.DScore 33Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 73Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 55Category rank
Our read on HYDW
AHigh yield with the volatility dial turned down. HYDW tracks a Solactive index that screens the junk bond market for lower-beta issues, and charges half the fee its category typically asks.
The fund passively seeks to track the performance of a Solactive index covering U.S.-dollar high-yield corporate bonds with potentially lower beta than the broader high-yield corporate bond market.
Why people hold it
- Costs 0.20% a year against a category median of 0.40%, so the low-beta tilt does not come with a boutique price tag.
- The mandate is specific: passively track the Solactive USD High Yield Corporates Total Market Low Beta Index, built for lower beta than the broad high-yield market.
- Roughly 600 bonds and monthly distributions, so no single issuer carries the portfolio and income arrives on a regular cadence.
- Running since 2018 with a passive index rulebook, it sits in the upper half of a crowded high-yield field on our review.
Worth knowing
- Thinly traded next to high-yield heavyweights like USHY and SPHY, which can mean wider spreads at the moment you transact.
- Lower beta is not low risk. This is still below-investment-grade corporate credit, and the screen tilts the exposure rather than removing it.
- Plain broad high-yield trackers in the same cohort, including sibling HYLB, run cheaper. The low-beta screen is what the extra fee buys.
HYDW Holdings
- Bonds
- 581
- 8%
- Cash & Cash Equivalents
Geography
- United States89.11%
- Canada3.43%
- Luxembourg1.36%
- Japan1.16%
- Australia1.06%
- United Kingdom0.76%
- Ireland0.70%
- Netherlands0.56%
- 1.86%
HYDW 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 | HYDW |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +1.6% |
| 1 month | −0.7% |
| 3 months | +0.4% |
| 1 year | +3.1% |
| 3 years | +7.3% |
| 5 years | +3.3% |
| 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 | HYDW |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +1.6% | |
| 2025 | +8.5% | |
| 2024 | +5.4% | |
| 2023 | +9.8% | |
| 2022 | −7.9% | |
| 2021 | +2.8% | |
| 2020 | +5.5% |
HYDW in the news
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HYDW Dividends
- 5.54%
- $2.56
- $0.22 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 2026 | Sep 9, 2026 | $0.22 |
| Aug 3, 2026 | Aug 10, 2026 | $0.21 |
| Jul 1, 2026 | Jul 9, 2026 | $0.21 |
| Jun 1, 2026 | Jun 8, 2026 | $0.21 |
| May 1, 2026 | May 8, 2026 | $0.21 |
| Apr 1, 2026 | Apr 9, 2026 | $0.21 |
| Mar 2, 2026 | Mar 9, 2026 | $0.20 |
| Feb 2, 2026 | Feb 9, 2026 | $0.21 |
| Dec 22, 2025 | Dec 30, 2025 | $0.29 |
| Dec 1, 2025 | Dec 8, 2025 | $0.20 |
| Nov 3, 2025 | Nov 10, 2025 | $0.21 |
| Oct 1, 2025 | Oct 8, 2025 | $0.20 |
HYDW Risk
- 3.7%
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.
- 0.67
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.
- −12.7%
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.
- 0.58
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
HYDW Cost
- The middle half of US High Yield funds
- Median 0.43%
8 of the 84 US High Yield funds charge less.