WisdomTree Yield Enhanced U.S. Short-Term Aggregate Bond Fund
$46.56−0.20 (−0.42%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.12%
- Fund size
- $65M
- 1Y return
- +1.3%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 4.26%
- Holdings
- 1361
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $46.72
- 52W range
The ETF.net SHAG Grade
Score 61 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 80Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.Not scoredRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.DScore 39Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.CScore 49Category 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.CScore 44Category rank
Our read on SHAG
BShort-duration bonds with a twist: SHAG follows an index that reshuffles the short-term investment-grade universe toward its higher-yielding corners, and charges 0.12% a year to do it.
The fund seeks to follow, before fees and expenses, the price and yield performance of the Bloomberg U.S. Short Aggregate Enhanced Yield Index.
Why people hold it
- The whole idea in one line: an index built to reweight short-term investment-grade bonds toward the higher-yielding corners of that same universe, not just mirror the market's shape.
- 0.12% a year, well under the typical fee in its bond-fund cohort.
- Roughly 1,400 bonds and monthly distributions, so the yield tilt is spread across a wide book rather than a handful of names.
- Short maturities by mandate, which means less interest-rate sensitivity than a full-maturity Agg fund carries.
Worth knowing
- A small fund that trades thinly. Spreads can widen at the edges of the session, and small funds carry more closure risk than category giants.
- Reaching for yield inside investment grade means leaning on its lower-rated, longer-dated slices, so it can behave differently from a plain short-term Agg tracker.
- Core bond staples like BND and SCHZ run at 0.03%. The extra cost here buys the yield tilt and the short maturity profile, not broader market coverage.
SHAG Holdings
- Bonds
- 1,361
- 19%
- Us Treasury N/B 3.5% 1/15/2029
SHAG 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 | SHAG |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +0.1% |
| 1 month | −0.6% |
| 3 months | −0.2% |
| 1 year | +1.3% |
| 3 years | +4.6% |
| 5 years | +1.5% |
| 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 | SHAG |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +0.1% | |
| 2025 | +6.3% | |
| 2024 | +4.3% | |
| 2023 | +4.6% | |
| 2022 | −6.4% | |
| 2021 | −0.9% | |
| 2020 | +4.3% |
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SHAG Dividends
- 4.26%
- $1.99
- $0.17 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 2026 | Aug 28, 2026 | $0.17 |
| Jul 28, 2026 | Jul 30, 2026 | $0.16 |
| Jun 25, 2026 | Jun 29, 2026 | $0.17 |
| May 26, 2026 | May 28, 2026 | $0.17 |
| Apr 27, 2026 | Apr 29, 2026 | $0.17 |
| Mar 26, 2026 | Mar 30, 2026 | $0.18 |
| Feb 24, 2026 | Feb 26, 2026 | $0.15 |
| Jan 27, 2026 | Jan 29, 2026 | $0.20 |
| Dec 26, 2025 | Dec 30, 2025 | $0.17 |
| Nov 24, 2025 | Nov 26, 2025 | $0.16 |
| Oct 28, 2025 | Oct 30, 2025 | $0.18 |
| Sep 25, 2025 | Sep 29, 2025 | $0.14 |
SHAG Risk
- 2.2%
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.
- 0.07
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.
- 0.36
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
SHAG Cost
- The middle half of Short-Term Core Bond funds
- Median 0.25%
2 of the 12 Short-Term Core Bond funds charge less.