Xtrackers Short Duration High Yield Bond ETF
$43.44−0.25 (−0.57%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.20%
- Fund size
- $267M
- 1Y return
- +2.6%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 6.91%
- Holdings
- 825
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $43.71
- 52W range
The ETF.net SHYL Grade
Score 77 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 87Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 95Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.CScore 54Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 59Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 76Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 61Category rank
Our read on SHYL
AHigh yield without the long fuse: SHYL owns only junk bonds maturing inside five years, so rate swings land lighter than on the broad high yield crowd. Costs 0.20%, pays monthly.
The fund seeks to track, before fees and expenses, the Solactive USD High Yield Corporates Total Market 0-5 Year Index. It normally invests at least 80% of net assets, plus investment borrowings, in high yield bonds.
Why people hold it
- Every bond in the index matures within five years, which mechanically trims interest rate sensitivity versus full-maturity high yield funds.
- A 0.20% fee, well under the high yield category median, which is unusual for a fund running a specialist mandate rather than the plain broad index.
- About 800 issues spread default risk thin, and the income arrives monthly rather than quarterly.
- Running since 2018 and tracking its Solactive 0-5 year index tightly, it sits in the upper tier of its high yield peer group.
Worth knowing
- Short maturities damp rate moves, not credit risk. These are still below-investment-grade borrowers, and they reprice fast when spreads widen.
- Trades thinly next to broad high yield heavyweights like SPHY and USHY, so bid-ask spreads can run wider in fast markets.
- If the five-year maturity limit isn't the point for you, broad rivals like SCYB and SPHY charge a fraction of the fee.
SHYL Holdings
- Bonds
- 825
- 7%
- Cash & Cash Equivalents
Sectors
- Corporate100.0%
Geography
- United States85.04%
- Canada4.21%
- Luxembourg2.69%
- United Kingdom1.97%
- Japan1.44%
- Ireland0.86%
- Netherlands0.75%
- France0.73%
- 2.33%
SHYL 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 | SHYL |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +1.4% |
| 1 month | −0.5% |
| 3 months | −0.0% |
| 1 year | +2.6% |
| 3 years | +7.7% |
| 5 years | +4.7% |
| 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 | SHYL |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +1.4% | |
| 2025 | +7.8% | |
| 2024 | +8.5% | |
| 2023 | +11.4% | |
| 2022 | −5.2% | |
| 2021 | +4.6% | |
| 2020 | +3.7% |
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SHYL Dividends
- 6.91%
- $3.01
- $0.21 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 2026 | Sep 9, 2026 | $0.21 |
| Aug 3, 2026 | Aug 10, 2026 | $0.25 |
| Jul 1, 2026 | Jul 9, 2026 | $0.25 |
| Jun 1, 2026 | Jun 8, 2026 | $0.26 |
| May 1, 2026 | May 8, 2026 | $0.25 |
| Apr 1, 2026 | Apr 9, 2026 | $0.27 |
| Mar 2, 2026 | Mar 9, 2026 | $0.24 |
| Feb 2, 2026 | Feb 9, 2026 | $0.25 |
| Dec 22, 2025 | Dec 30, 2025 | $0.27 |
| Dec 1, 2025 | Dec 8, 2025 | $0.26 |
| Nov 3, 2025 | Nov 10, 2025 | $0.26 |
| Oct 1, 2025 | Oct 8, 2025 | $0.25 |
SHYL Risk
- 3.6%
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.
- 0.88
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.
- −9.6%
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.
- 0.48
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
SHYL Cost
- The middle half of US High Yield funds
- Median 0.43%
8 of the 84 US High Yield funds charge less.