iShares ESG Advanced High Yield Corporate Bond ETF
$45.62−0.27 (−0.59%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.35%
- Fund size
- $193M
- 1Y return
- +2.4%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 6.12%
- Holdings
- 609
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $45.86
- 52W range
The ETF.net HYXF 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 70Category 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.CScore 49Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.CScore 45Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 78Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 77Category rank
Our read on HYXF
AHigh yield with a filter. HYXF tracks a Bloomberg MSCI index of U.S. dollar junk bonds that screens out specified controversial business activities, then pays the income out monthly across roughly 600 issues.
The fund seeks high-yield fixed-income exposure and income by tracking an ESG-screened index of U.S. dollar-denominated corporate bonds, with exclusions for specified controversial business activities.
Why people hold it
- Screen first, yield second: it tracks the Bloomberg MSCI US High Yield Choice ESG Screened Index, excluding specified controversial business activities, and it has hugged that index closely.
- 0.35% a year comes in under the typical high yield bond fund, so the values screen doesn't carry a boutique price tag.
- Spread across roughly 600 bonds, with income paid monthly rather than quarterly.
- Among the stronger implementations in a crowded high yield field, and the data behind that read is solid.
Worth knowing
- The screen has a price: SCYB, SPHY and HYLB deliver unscreened high yield exposure for a small fraction of 0.35%.
- A smaller fund that trades thinly next to the category heavyweights, which can mean wider spreads at the moment you trade.
- The filter changes who you lend to, not the credit risk you take: these are below-investment-grade borrowers that move with credit stress.
HYXF Holdings
- Bonds
- 609
- 8%
- BLK CSH FND TREASURY SL AGENCY
Sectors
- Communication100.0%
Geography
- United States92.91%
- Canada2.94%
- Ireland0.84%
- Japan0.81%
- Luxembourg0.78%
- Denmark0.55%
- United Kingdom0.52%
- Netherlands0.29%
- 0.35%
HYXF 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 | HYXF |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +1.1% |
| 1 month | −0.8% |
| 3 months | −0.1% |
| 1 year | +2.4% |
| 3 years | +8.4% |
| 5 years | +3.2% |
| 10 years | +4.5% |
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 | HYXF |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +1.1% | |
| 2025 | +8.9% | |
| 2024 | +8.4% | |
| 2023 | +11.9% | |
| 2022 | −11.9% | |
| 2021 | +2.6% | |
| 2020 | +6.1% |
HYXF in the news
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HYXF Dividends
- 6.12%
- $2.81
- $0.23 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 2026 | Sep 4, 2026 | $0.23 |
| Aug 3, 2026 | Aug 6, 2026 | $0.24 |
| Jul 1, 2026 | Jul 7, 2026 | $0.23 |
| Jun 1, 2026 | Jun 4, 2026 | $0.23 |
| May 1, 2026 | May 6, 2026 | $0.23 |
| Apr 1, 2026 | Apr 7, 2026 | $0.24 |
| Mar 2, 2026 | Mar 5, 2026 | $0.23 |
| Feb 2, 2026 | Feb 5, 2026 | $0.23 |
| Dec 19, 2025 | Dec 24, 2025 | $0.24 |
| Dec 1, 2025 | Dec 4, 2025 | $0.23 |
| Nov 3, 2025 | Nov 6, 2025 | $0.23 |
| Oct 1, 2025 | Oct 6, 2025 | $0.23 |
HYXF Risk
- 4.9%
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.
- 0.74
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.
- −16.0%
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.
- 0.74
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
HYXF Cost
- The middle half of US High Yield funds
- Median 0.43%
22 of the 84 US High Yield funds charge less.