PIMCO 0-5 Year High Yield Corporate Bond Index Exchange-Traded Fund
$91.32−0.54 (−0.59%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.56%
- Fund size
- $1.8B
- 1Y return
- +3.1%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 7.45%
- Holdings
- 882
- Volume · 30D
- 0.1M sh
- NAV per share
- $91.92
- 52W range
The ETF.net HYS Grade
Score 60 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.DScore 25Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 95Category 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.AScore 74Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 67Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 83Category rank
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
- 882
- 9%
- US DOLLAR
Sectors
- Communication100.0%
Geography
- United States84.86%
- Canada4.06%
- United Kingdom2.35%
- Luxembourg2.09%
- Japan1.46%
- Australia0.78%
- France0.65%
- Netherlands0.60%
- 3.18%
HYS 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 | HYS |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +1.6% |
| 1 month | −0.5% |
| 3 months | +0.1% |
| 1 year | +3.1% |
| 3 years | +8.1% |
| 5 years | +4.9% |
| 10 years | +4.9% |
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 | +1.6% | |
| 2025 | +8.8% | |
| 2024 | +8.4% | |
| 2023 | +11.4% | |
| 2022 | −5.4% | |
| 2021 | +4.8% | |
| 2020 | +3.3% |
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HYS Dividends
- 7.45%
- $6.84
- $0.49 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 2026 | Sep 3, 2026 | $0.49 |
| Aug 3, 2026 | Aug 5, 2026 | $0.55 |
| Jul 1, 2026 | Jul 6, 2026 | $0.57 |
| Jun 1, 2026 | Jun 3, 2026 | $0.57 |
| May 1, 2026 | May 5, 2026 | $0.56 |
| Apr 1, 2026 | Apr 3, 2026 | $0.53 |
| Mar 2, 2026 | Mar 4, 2026 | $0.59 |
| Feb 2, 2026 | Feb 4, 2026 | $0.60 |
| Dec 31, 2025 | Jan 5, 2026 | $0.62 |
| Dec 1, 2025 | Dec 3, 2025 | $0.62 |
| Nov 3, 2025 | Nov 5, 2025 | $0.62 |
| Oct 1, 2025 | Oct 3, 2025 | $0.52 |
HYS 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.
- 0.93
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
- The middle half of US High Yield funds
- Median 0.43%
63 of the 84 US High Yield funds charge less.