Nuveen ESG High Yield Corporate Bond
$20.75−0.17 (−0.84%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.30%
- Fund size
- $114M
- 1Y return
- +2.5%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 6.84%
- Holdings
- 392
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $20.90
- 52W range
The ETF.net NUHY Grade
Score 66 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 75Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 98Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.CScore 53Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.FScore 24Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 61Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.CScore 44Category rank
Our read on NUHY
BHigh yield with a conscience filter. NUHY tracks a Bloomberg MSCI index that screens junk-bond issuers on ESG data and leans toward the market's more tradable corners, at a fee below what the typical high-yield ETF charges.
The Fund seeks to track, before fees and expenses, the investment results of the Bloomberg MSCI U.S. High Yield Very Liquid ESG Select Index.
Why people hold it
- Costs 0.30% a year, under the 0.40% median for high-yield bond ETFs.
- The ESG screen is written into the mandate, not bolted on: the fund's stated job is tracking the Bloomberg MSCI U.S. High Yield Very Liquid ESG Select Index.
- Stays close to that benchmark in practice, one of the tighter implementations among high-yield ETFs.
- Spreads the credit risk across roughly 400 bonds and pays income monthly.
Worth knowing
- The shares themselves trade thinly next to the category's giants, which can mean wider spreads on the way in and out.
- Nuveen's own NHYB is built on the same declared index for 0.08%, a meaningfully cheaper route to the same exposure.
- This is below-investment-grade credit. Default risk is real, and these bonds can slide alongside stocks when markets turn.
NUHY Holdings
- Bonds
- 392
- 12%
- CLARIOS G 6.75% 02/15/30
Geography
- United States89.69%
- Canada4.16%
- United Kingdom1.54%
- Luxembourg0.99%
- Netherlands0.90%
- Japan0.79%
- Ireland0.55%
- Bermuda0.52%
- 0.86%
NUHY 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 | NUHY |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +1.3% |
| 1 month | −1.2% |
| 3 months | −0.5% |
| 1 year | +2.5% |
| 3 years | +8.3% |
| 5 years | +3.1% |
| 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 | NUHY |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +1.3% | |
| 2025 | +9.1% | |
| 2024 | +7.3% | |
| 2023 | +11.2% | |
| 2022 | −11.8% | |
| 2021 | +2.5% | |
| 2020 | +4.1% |
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NUHY Dividends
- 6.84%
- $1.43
- $0.12 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 2026 | Sep 2, 2026 | $0.12 |
| Aug 3, 2026 | Aug 4, 2026 | $0.12 |
| Jul 1, 2026 | Jul 2, 2026 | $0.12 |
| Jun 1, 2026 | Jun 2, 2026 | $0.12 |
| May 1, 2026 | May 4, 2026 | $0.12 |
| Apr 1, 2026 | Apr 2, 2026 | $0.12 |
| Mar 2, 2026 | Mar 3, 2026 | $0.11 |
| Feb 2, 2026 | Feb 3, 2026 | $0.11 |
| Dec 18, 2025 | Dec 19, 2025 | $0.13 |
| Dec 1, 2025 | Dec 2, 2025 | $0.11 |
| Nov 3, 2025 | Nov 4, 2025 | $0.12 |
| Oct 1, 2025 | Oct 2, 2025 | $0.12 |
NUHY 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.
- 0.70
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.
- −16.8%
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.
NUHY Cost
- The middle half of US High Yield funds
- Median 0.43%
19 of the 84 US High Yield funds charge less.