PIMCO 0-5 Year High Yield Corporate Bond Index Exchange-Traded Fund
$89.96−0.30 (−0.33%)
- 0.56%
- $1.7B
- +3.1%
- 7.58%
- 0.1M sh
- $90.18
- low $89.45high $95.88
The ETF.net HYS Grade
B
Score 62 out of 100
- 37 of 85
Score 62 of 100 falls in the B band. A is 70 or higher, B 55 to under 70, C 40 to under 55, D 25 to under 40, F under 25.
Cost
The fund’s net expense ratio, ranked against its category.D25 out of 100Rank 61 of 85Mission
Whether the fund did what it promised, tested against its stated mandate.A95 out of 100Rank 29 of 74Risk
How the fund held up when markets fell: downside volatility, drawdowns and tail loss.C53 out of 100Rank 43 of 85Tradability
How easy the fund is to trade: daily volume, and how far its price strays from net asset value.A79 out of 100Rank 9 of 85Holdings
How concentrated the fund is, and how complete and current its disclosed holdings are.A76 out of 100Rank 24 of 85Durability
Whether the fund is likely to stay open, judged by its age, its assets and its issuer’s assets.A83 out of 100Rank 10 of 85
Our read on HYS
BMost junk-bond ETFs buy the whole market. HYS buys only the front end: US high-yield corporate bonds maturing inside five years, which dials down interest-rate sensitivity while keeping the credit exposure. PIMCO has run it since 2011.
The Fund seeks total return that closely tracks the ICE BofA 0-5 Year US High Yield Constrained Index before fees and expenses, using an indexing and representative-sampling approach.
Why people hold it
- Owns only bonds maturing within five years, so it carries structurally less interest-rate sensitivity than full-maturity high-yield funds.pimco.com
- Sticks close to the label: an index sleeve of roughly 900 short-maturity high-yield bonds, built by representative sampling rather than manager hunches.
- Pays monthly, and it is a billion-dollar-plus fund that has been trading since 2011, with liquidity that holds up well against its high-yield peer group.
Worth knowing
- At 0.56%, it costs well above the cheapest broad high-yield trackers (SCYB at 0.03%, SPHY at 0.05%). That gap is the price of the short-maturity design.
- Short maturities trim rate risk, not credit risk. These are below-investment-grade borrowers, and defaults reach short bonds too.pimco.com
- By design it skips the long end of the junk market, so it can move quite differently from full-maturity high-yield indexes.
HYS Holdings
- Bonds
- 884
- 7%
- Paribas Repo 3.90% 10/13/2026
Sectors
- Communication100.0%
Geography
- United States84.98%
- Canada3.83%
- United Kingdom2.25%
- Luxembourg2.19%
- Japan1.69%
- Australia0.77%
- France0.65%
- Netherlands0.60%
- 3.04%
HYS Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
HYS$10,306
Returns run to the Oct 12, 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 | HYS |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +0.4% |
| 1 month | −1.2% |
| 3 months | −1.3% |
| 1 year | +3.1% |
| 3 years | +7.9% |
| 5 years | +4.8% |
| 10 years | +4.8% |
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 | HYS |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +0.4% | |
| 2025 | +8.8% | |
| 2024 | +8.4% | |
| 2023 | +11.4% | |
| 2022 | −5.4% | |
| 2021 | +4.8% | |
| 2020 | +3.3% |
HYS in the news
HYS Dividends
- 7.58%
- $6.84
- $0.52 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
HYS Risk
- 4.0%
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.
- 0.75
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.
- −10.6%
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.
- 0.47
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
HYS Cost
0.56%
HYS0.56%
- The middle half of US High Yield funds
- Median 0.43%
64 of the 85 US High Yield funds charge less.
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- BZTOPF/m High Yield 100 ETFExpense ratio 0.39%1 year return +2.7%
- BHYFIAlliance Bernstein - AB High Yield ETFExpense ratio 0.40%1 year return +3.0%
- BEUHYiShares, Inc. - iShares Euro High Yield Corporate Bond USD Hedged ETFExpense ratio 0.35%1 year return +2.1%
- BJPHYJPMorgan Active High Yield ETFExpense ratio 0.45%1 year return +3.4%
- BYLDPrincipal Active High Yield ETFExpense ratio 0.39%1 year return +3.1%