iShares iBonds 2030 Term High Yield and Income ETF
$25.89−0.18 (−0.69%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.35%
- Fund size
- $182M
- 1Y return
- +3.6%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 6.71%
- Holdings
- 292
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $26.01
- 52W range
The ETF.net IBHJ Grade
Score 75 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 85Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 100Category 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.DScore 33Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 96Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 69Category rank
Our read on IBHJ
AA junk-bond fund with an end date. IBHJ holds roughly 300 high-yield corporate bonds all maturing around 2030, then winds up and pays out: the maturity-date discipline of a single bond, spread across a portfolio.
The fund seeks to track an index of high-yield and income-generating corporate bonds maturing in 2030.
Why people hold it
- Defined maturity is the whole point. The fund terminates on or about December 15 of its named year and distributes substantially all net assets to then-current holders, a bond-style end date on a high-yield sleeve.ishares.com
- About 300 bonds instead of one issuer's fate. In high yield, that spread matters: a single default is a dent in the portfolio rather than the whole position.ishares.com
- Pays monthly, and it sits in a full iBonds lineup of maturity years, so rungs can be built around it without leaving the same index family.ishares.com
Worth knowing
- At 0.35% a year, it charges more than the plain investment-grade target-maturity rungs (IBDU and BSCU run 0.10%). That gap is the price of the high-yield version.
- Thinly traded next to the larger target-maturity funds, so bid-ask spreads can be wider and bigger orders take more care to fill.
- These are non-investment-grade bonds, with greater default and price risk than higher-rated debt. Distributions vary rather than acting like a fixed coupon, and the portfolio shifts to cash in the final months.ishares.com
IBHJ Holdings
- Bonds
- 292
- 12%
- WULF COMPUTE LLC 144A 7.75% 10/15/2030
Geography
- United States85.39%
- Canada3.49%
- Luxembourg2.31%
- Ireland1.50%
- Japan1.42%
- United Kingdom1.35%
- Netherlands1.16%
- Australia0.78%
- 2.60%
IBHJ 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 | IBHJ |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +2.4% |
| 1 month | −0.6% |
| 3 months | +0.4% |
| 1 year | +3.6% |
| 3 years | +8.9% |
| 5 years | — |
| 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 | IBHJ |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +2.4% | |
| 2025 | +9.3% | |
| 2024 | +7.3% | |
| 2023 | +8.4% |
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IBHJ Dividends
- 6.71%
- $1.75
- $0.15 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 2026 | Sep 4, 2026 | $0.15 |
| Aug 3, 2026 | Aug 6, 2026 | $0.15 |
| Jul 1, 2026 | Jul 7, 2026 | $0.15 |
| Jun 1, 2026 | Jun 4, 2026 | $0.15 |
| May 1, 2026 | May 6, 2026 | $0.15 |
| Apr 1, 2026 | Apr 7, 2026 | $0.15 |
| Mar 2, 2026 | Mar 5, 2026 | $0.15 |
| Feb 2, 2026 | Feb 5, 2026 | $0.15 |
| Dec 19, 2025 | Dec 24, 2025 | $0.15 |
| Dec 1, 2025 | Dec 4, 2025 | $0.14 |
| Nov 3, 2025 | Nov 6, 2025 | $0.15 |
| Oct 1, 2025 | Oct 6, 2025 | $0.15 |
IBHJ Risk
- 5.0%
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.
- 0.79
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.
- −4.9%
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.
- 0.76
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
IBHJ Cost
- The middle half of Defined-Maturity High Yield funds
- Median 0.39%
No Defined-Maturity High Yield fund charges less.