WisdomTree U.S. High Yield Corporate Bond Fund
$44.99−0.31 (−0.69%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.38%
- Fund size
- $244M
- 1Y return
- +3.0%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 6.30%
- Holdings
- 468
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $45.22
- 52W range
The ETF.net QHY 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.BScore 66Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 96Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.CScore 51Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.CScore 52Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 66Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 64Category rank
Our read on QHY
BMost high-yield ETFs buy the market and move on. QHY runs a rules-based index that screens U.S. junk-bond issuers on profitability and tilts toward value, holding roughly 500 bonds instead of a plain cap-weighted sweep.
The Fund seeks to track the performance of the WisdomTree U.S. High Yield Corporate Bond Index before fees and expenses.
Why people hold it
- The screen is the whole point: issuers get judged on profitability and priced-in value before they land in the portfolio, an unusual filter in a corner of the market that mostly weights by debt outstanding.
- 0.38% a year, which lands just under the median fee in the high-yield ETF crowd. Rare for a fund doing extra screening work rather than tracking the broad market.
- Roughly 500 bonds and monthly distributions, so single-issuer blowups get diluted and the income shows up on the cadence bond investors are used to.
- Live since 2016 with a track record of following its stated index closely, and it grades out in the upper half of a crowded high-yield field.
Worth knowing
- It's a small, thinly traded fund next to category heavyweights like SPHY and USHY, so bid/ask spreads and order size matter more here than with the giants.
- Plain cap-weighted rivals are far cheaper (SCYB at 0.03%, SPHY at 0.05%), so the fundamental screen is what you're paying the difference for.
- Screening doesn't remove credit risk. These are below-investment-grade U.S. corporate bonds, and they tend to move with credit spreads, not with Treasuries.
QHY Holdings
- Bonds
- 468
- 8%
- CASH-DREYFUS TRSY CASH
Geography
- United States99.43%
- United Kingdom0.31%
- Switzerland0.26%
QHY 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 | QHY |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +1.7% |
| 1 month | −0.7% |
| 3 months | +0.1% |
| 1 year | +3.0% |
| 3 years | +7.9% |
| 5 years | +2.8% |
| 10 years | +4.6% |
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 | QHY |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +1.7% | |
| 2025 | +9.6% | |
| 2024 | +5.9% | |
| 2023 | +10.1% | |
| 2022 | −11.8% | |
| 2021 | +4.1% | |
| 2020 | +6.0% |
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QHY Dividends
- 6.30%
- $2.85
- $0.24 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 2026 | Aug 28, 2026 | $0.24 |
| Jul 28, 2026 | Jul 30, 2026 | $0.25 |
| Jun 25, 2026 | Jun 29, 2026 | $0.23 |
| May 26, 2026 | May 28, 2026 | $0.25 |
| Apr 27, 2026 | Apr 29, 2026 | $0.23 |
| Mar 26, 2026 | Mar 30, 2026 | $0.27 |
| Feb 24, 2026 | Feb 26, 2026 | $0.21 |
| Jan 27, 2026 | Jan 29, 2026 | $0.23 |
| Dec 26, 2025 | Dec 30, 2025 | $0.26 |
| Nov 24, 2025 | Nov 26, 2025 | $0.25 |
| Oct 28, 2025 | Oct 30, 2025 | $0.24 |
| Sep 25, 2025 | Sep 29, 2025 | $0.23 |
QHY 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.
- 0.61
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.
- −16.2%
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.
QHY Cost
- The middle half of US High Yield funds
- Median 0.43%
27 of the 84 US High Yield funds charge less.