Xtrackers High Beta High Yield Bond ETF
$40.38−0.37 (−0.91%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.20%
- Fund size
- $47M
- 1Y return
- +2.4%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 7.53%
- Holdings
- 687
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $40.75
- 52W range
The ETF.net HYUP Grade
Score 69 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.AScore 87Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 99Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.DScore 38Category 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.AScore 73Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.CScore 54Category rank
Our read on HYUP
BMost high-yield ETFs hand you the whole junk market. HYUP goes hunting in the loud end of it: a passive index built around the higher-beta slice of USD high yield, priced at half the fee of the typical peer.
The Fund seeks to track, before fees and expenses, the performance of the Solactive USD High Yield Corporates Total Market High Beta Index through a passive indexing approach.
Why people hold it
- Not a blend, a dial. The Solactive index it follows screens for the high-beta end of USD high yield, so you hold the punchier slice of the credit market in one passive wrapper.
- Costs 0.20% a year against a 0.40% median for high-yield bond ETFs, and it has tracked its index closely since launching in 2018.
- Spread across roughly 700 bonds and pays monthly, so the risk sits with the segment rather than a handful of borrowers.
- One of the stronger builds in a crowded high-yield field: low fee, plain vanilla 1940 Act index fund, no derivative machinery under the hood.
Worth knowing
- High beta cuts both ways. Leaning into the bonds that move most means sharper swings than broad high yield when credit spreads widen.
- A small, thinly traded fund. Spreads deserve a look before you trade, unlike the giants of the category.
- Broad-market high yield comes cheaper. SCYB, SPHY and Xtrackers' own HYLB all undercut this fee for whole-market exposure without the beta tilt.
HYUP Holdings
- Bonds
- 687
- 8%
- Cash & Cash Equivalents
Geography
- United States83.66%
- Canada4.11%
- United Kingdom3.12%
- Luxembourg2.70%
- France1.39%
- Cayman Islands0.86%
- Japan0.70%
- Netherlands0.59%
- 2.87%
HYUP 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 | HYUP |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +1.5% |
| 1 month | −0.8% |
| 3 months | −0.4% |
| 1 year | +2.4% |
| 3 years | +9.2% |
| 5 years | +3.9% |
| 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 | HYUP |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +1.5% | |
| 2025 | +8.8% | |
| 2024 | +10.3% | |
| 2023 | +14.6% | |
| 2022 | −13.3% | |
| 2021 | +5.1% | |
| 2020 | +5.7% |
HYUP in the news
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HYUP Dividends
- 7.53%
- $3.07
- $0.26 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 2026 | Sep 9, 2026 | $0.26 |
| Aug 3, 2026 | Aug 10, 2026 | $0.27 |
| Jul 1, 2026 | Jul 9, 2026 | $0.25 |
| Jun 1, 2026 | Jun 8, 2026 | $0.26 |
| May 1, 2026 | May 8, 2026 | $0.27 |
| Apr 1, 2026 | Apr 9, 2026 | $0.27 |
| Mar 2, 2026 | Mar 9, 2026 | $0.19 |
| Feb 2, 2026 | Feb 9, 2026 | $0.25 |
| Dec 22, 2025 | Dec 30, 2025 | $0.28 |
| Dec 1, 2025 | Dec 8, 2025 | $0.27 |
| Nov 3, 2025 | Nov 10, 2025 | $0.22 |
| Oct 1, 2025 | Oct 8, 2025 | $0.26 |
HYUP Risk
- 5.3%
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.
- 0.86
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.
- −18.1%
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.
- 0.72
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
HYUP Cost
- The middle half of US High Yield funds
- Median 0.43%
8 of the 84 US High Yield funds charge less.