John Hancock Investments - High Yield ETF
$25.14−0.17 (−0.67%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.52%
- Fund size
- $99M
- 1Y return
- +3.2%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 7.00%
- Holdings
- 571
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $25.24
- 52W range
The ETF.net JHHY Grade
Score 57 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 30Category 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.BScore 62Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.DScore 31Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 77Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.CScore 45Category rank
Our read on JHHY
BA 2024 arrival in high yield: roughly 600 below-investment-grade bonds, income paid monthly. The trade-off is price, with a 1.03% fee sitting well above the passive giants that own this corner.
The SEC filing describes high-yield securities as below-investment-grade or comparable unrated debt instruments and notes that they generally offer higher yields than higher-rated securities, with greater risk.
Why people hold it
- Spreads credit risk across about 600 below-investment-grade bonds, so one troubled borrower is a rounding error rather than a headline.
- Pays on a monthly cadence, the rhythm most bond-income investors budget around.
- What is inside matches what the filing describes: a genuine high-yield portfolio, with little drift toward safer, lower-paying paper.
- Comes from John Hancock Investments, a long-established fund shop, in the standard 1940 Act ETF wrapper.
Worth knowing
- At 1.03%, the fee is more than double the high-yield ETF median, and index rivals such as SCYB, SPHY and USHY charge a small fraction of it.
- Thinly traded, so bid-ask spreads can be wider than at the category's household names, an extra cost that shows up at the moment you transact.
- Launched in 2024, so the track record is short, and the filing itself flags that high-yield debt carries greater risk than higher-rated bonds.
JHHY Holdings
- Bonds
- 571
- 8%
- SSC GOVERNMENT MM GVMXX
JHHY 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 | JHHY |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +2.0% |
| 1 month | −0.5% |
| 3 months | +0.2% |
| 1 year | +3.2% |
| 3 years | — |
| 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 | JHHY |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +2.0% | |
| 2025 | +9.2% | |
| 2024 | +7.0% |
JHHY in the news
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JHHY Dividends
- 7.00%
- $1.77
- $0.14 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 2026 | Aug 31, 2026 | $0.14 |
| Jul 29, 2026 | Jul 31, 2026 | $0.16 |
| Jun 26, 2026 | Jun 30, 2026 | $0.14 |
| May 27, 2026 | May 29, 2026 | $0.12 |
| Apr 28, 2026 | Apr 30, 2026 | $0.12 |
| Mar 27, 2026 | Mar 31, 2026 | $0.15 |
| Feb 25, 2026 | Feb 27, 2026 | $0.09 |
| Jan 28, 2026 | Jan 30, 2026 | $0.10 |
| Dec 29, 2025 | Dec 31, 2025 | $0.36 |
| Nov 24, 2025 | Nov 26, 2025 | $0.13 |
| Oct 29, 2025 | Oct 31, 2025 | $0.13 |
| Sep 26, 2025 | Sep 30, 2025 | $0.13 |
JHHY Risk
- 3.3%
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.
- 1.17
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.
- −5.0%
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.
- 0.22
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
JHHY Cost
- The middle half of US High Yield funds
- Median 0.43%
57 of the 84 US High Yield funds charge less.