Schwab 1-5 Year Corporate Bond ETF
$24.15−0.12 (−0.49%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.03%
- Fund size
- $873M
- 1Y return
- +1.7%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 4.57%
- Holdings
- 3316
- Volume · 30D
- 0.3M sh
- NAV per share
- $24.25
- 52W range
The ETF.net SCHJ Grade
Score 81 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 93Category 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 42Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 73Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 82Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.CScore 54Category rank
Our read on SCHJ
AShort-dated corporate credit at index-fund pricing. SCHJ tracks the Bloomberg US 1-5 Year Corporate Bond Index for 0.03% a year, sits at the bottom of its category's fee table, and pays monthly.
The fund seeks to track, before fees and expenses, the total return of an index measuring the short-term U.S. corporate bond market.
Why people hold it
- 0.03% a year, against a 0.19% median for investment-grade corporate ETFs. No peer in the cohort charges less.
- Thousands of individual bonds in the basket, so no single issuer's trouble moves the fund much.
- The 1-5 year maturity ceiling means less price swing per move in rates than intermediate corporate funds like VCIT or IGIB, which sit further out the curve.
- Interest is passed through monthly rather than quarterly, and the fund ranks in the top quartile of its investment-grade corporate peer group overall.
Worth knowing
- This is company debt, not Treasuries. Downgrades and defaults are part of the deal, and short maturities shrink that risk without erasing it.
- A mid-size fund with moderate trading volume, so spreads can run wider than at the category's giants. Limit orders matter more here.
- Launched in 2019, so its record is shorter than rivals that traded through earlier credit cycles.
SCHJ Holdings
- Bonds
- 3,316
- 2%
- GVMXX
Sectors
- Financials100.0%
Geography
- United States85.02%
- United Kingdom4.19%
- Canada3.68%
- Japan2.62%
- Netherlands0.80%
- Ireland0.71%
- Spain0.64%
- Australia0.54%
- 1.80%
SCHJ 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 | SCHJ |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +0.5% |
| 1 month | −0.7% |
| 3 months | −0.1% |
| 1 year | +1.7% |
| 3 years | +5.3% |
| 5 years | +2.2% |
| 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 | SCHJ |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +0.5% | |
| 2025 | +6.8% | |
| 2024 | +4.6% | |
| 2023 | +6.3% | |
| 2022 | −5.7% | |
| 2021 | −0.7% | |
| 2020 | +5.3% |
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SCHJ Dividends
- 4.57%
- $1.11
- $0.09 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 2026 | Sep 8, 2026 | $0.09 |
| Aug 3, 2026 | Aug 7, 2026 | $0.10 |
| Jul 1, 2026 | Jul 8, 2026 | $0.09 |
| Jun 1, 2026 | Jun 5, 2026 | $0.09 |
| May 1, 2026 | May 7, 2026 | $0.09 |
| Apr 1, 2026 | Apr 8, 2026 | $0.09 |
| Mar 2, 2026 | Mar 6, 2026 | $0.09 |
| Feb 2, 2026 | Feb 6, 2026 | $0.10 |
| Dec 19, 2025 | Dec 26, 2025 | $0.08 |
| Dec 1, 2025 | Dec 5, 2025 | $0.09 |
| Nov 3, 2025 | Nov 7, 2025 | $0.10 |
| Oct 1, 2025 | Oct 7, 2025 | $0.09 |
SCHJ Risk
- 2.4%
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.
- 0.29
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.
- −9.3%
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.
- 0.41
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
SCHJ Cost
- The middle half of Investment Grade Corporate (0-5 Year) funds
- Median 0.15%
No Investment Grade Corporate (0-5 Year) fund charges less.