VictoryShares Corporate Bond ETF
$20.73−0.17 (−0.81%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.47%
- Fund size
- $147M
- 1Y return
- −0.2%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 4.22%
- Holdings
- 412
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $20.90
- 52W range
The ETF.net UCRD Grade
Score 48 of 100 sits in the C 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.FScore 17Category 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 49Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.FScore 15Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 65Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.CScore 48Category rank
Our read on UCRD
CMost corporate bond ETFs just track the index. UCRD hands roughly 400 investment-grade corporates to Victory's taxable fixed income team, which runs its own credit research instead of leaning on ratings alone. Income is paid monthly.
The Fund seeks maximum current income while limiting undue risk to principal.
Why people hold it
- Actively managed by Victory's taxable fixed income team, with independent in-house credit work behind the names it owns rather than a rules-based index screen.investor.vcm.com
- Spreads the risk across about 400 investment-grade corporate bonds, so no single issuer drives the fund, and it distributes monthly.
- What it holds lines up tightly with what its prospectus says: current income from investment-grade corporate credit, with limits on risk to principal.investor.vcm.com
Worth knowing
- At 0.47% a year it runs well above the category median, and index staples like VCIT, USIG and SPIB charge a small fraction of that. The active credit work is what the fee buys.
- Thinly traded compared with the category's giants, which can mean wider bid-ask spreads and more price impact on bigger orders.
- A 2021 launch in the smaller size tier of its peer group, so the track record is shorter than the decades-old index funds it sits beside.
UCRD Holdings
- Bonds
- 412
- 7%
- AT&T INC 3.1% 02/01/43
Geography
- United States85.02%
- United Kingdom3.59%
- Canada3.11%
- Japan1.56%
- France1.17%
- Australia0.97%
- Netherlands0.87%
- Luxembourg0.82%
- 2.89%
UCRD 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 | UCRD |
|---|---|
| Year to date | −1.0% |
| 1 month | −0.4% |
| 3 months | −1.6% |
| 1 year | −0.2% |
| 3 years | +5.6% |
| 5 years | — |
| 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 | UCRD |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | −1.0% | |
| 2025 | +7.9% | |
| 2024 | +2.7% | |
| 2023 | +9.2% | |
| 2022 | −17.1% | |
| 2021 | +0.3% |
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UCRD Dividends
- 4.22%
- $0.88
- $0.06 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 9, 2026 | Sep 10, 2026 | $0.06 |
| Aug 7, 2026 | Aug 10, 2026 | $0.07 |
| Jul 9, 2026 | Jul 10, 2026 | $0.08 |
| Jun 9, 2026 | Jun 10, 2026 | $0.07 |
| May 8, 2026 | May 11, 2026 | $0.07 |
| Apr 9, 2026 | Apr 10, 2026 | $0.08 |
| Mar 10, 2026 | Mar 11, 2026 | $0.08 |
| Feb 9, 2026 | Feb 10, 2026 | $0.07 |
| Jan 8, 2026 | Jan 9, 2026 | $0.02 |
| Dec 11, 2025 | Dec 12, 2025 | $0.13 |
| Nov 7, 2025 | Nov 10, 2025 | $0.07 |
| Oct 9, 2025 | Oct 10, 2025 | $0.08 |
UCRD Risk
- 6.4%
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.
- 0.12
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.
- −22.4%
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.
- 1.13
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
UCRD Cost
- The middle half of Investment Grade Corporate funds
- Median 0.30%
40 of the 49 Investment Grade Corporate funds charge less.