WisdomTree Voya Yield Enhanced USD Universal Bond Fund
$46.95−0.22 (−0.46%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.15%
- Fund size
- $1.3B
- 1Y return
- +0.1%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 4.91%
- Holdings
- 6993
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $47.01
- 52W range
The ETF.net UNIY Grade
Score 74 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 75Category 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 50Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 64Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 69Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 59Category rank
Our read on UNIY
AMost core bond funds copy the Agg and stop. UNIY follows a yield-enhanced version of the broader Bloomberg US Universal index, reshuffling the mix toward higher-yielding corners of the US dollar bond market, at a fraction of the typical category fee.
The fund seeks to track the price and yield performance of the Bloomberg US Universal Enhanced Yield Index before fees and expenses.
Why people hold it
- 0.15% a year, well under half the typical fee among core bond ETFs, for a rules-based yield tilt rather than a plain Agg clone.wisdomtree.com
- Roughly 7,000 bonds across the US dollar market, so no single issuer or sector steers the portfolio.wisdomtree.com
- Pays monthly, and it has stayed inside its stated mandate since the 2023 launch: US dollar bonds tracking its Bloomberg benchmark, no style drift.
- A multi-billion-dollar fund that ranks in the upper tier of its core-bond peer group on our review.
Worth knowing
- The tilt costs you: index-hugging cousins BND, SPAB and SCHZ charge 0.03%.
- Enhancing yield means leaning further into credit than a plain Agg tracker, so it can behave differently when spreads widen.
- It trades thinly next to the category giants, so spreads can run wider and larger orders need more care.
UNIY Holdings
- Bonds
- 6,993
- 18%
- Us Treasury N/B 3.5% 11/15/2028
Sectors
- Materials34.1%
- Financials33.5%
- Cons. Staples29.9%
- Technology2.4%
Geography
- United States80.51%
- United Kingdom1.70%
- Canada1.63%
- Mexico1.36%
- Japan0.86%
- France0.76%
- Netherlands0.73%
- Indonesia0.72%
- 11.73%
UNIY 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 | UNIY |
|---|---|
| Year to date | −0.8% |
| 1 month | −0.7% |
| 3 months | −1.4% |
| 1 year | +0.1% |
| 3 years | +4.7% |
| 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 | UNIY |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | −0.8% | |
| 2025 | +7.4% | |
| 2024 | +1.9% | |
| 2023 | +3.9% |
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UNIY Dividends
- 4.91%
- $2.31
- $0.19 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 2026 | Aug 28, 2026 | $0.19 |
| Jul 28, 2026 | Jul 30, 2026 | $0.20 |
| Jun 25, 2026 | Jun 29, 2026 | $0.18 |
| May 26, 2026 | May 28, 2026 | $0.19 |
| Apr 27, 2026 | Apr 29, 2026 | $0.18 |
| Mar 26, 2026 | Mar 30, 2026 | $0.21 |
| Feb 24, 2026 | Feb 26, 2026 | $0.17 |
| Jan 27, 2026 | Jan 29, 2026 | $0.19 |
| Dec 26, 2025 | Dec 30, 2025 | $0.21 |
| Nov 24, 2025 | Nov 26, 2025 | $0.22 |
| Oct 28, 2025 | Oct 30, 2025 | $0.21 |
| Sep 25, 2025 | Sep 29, 2025 | $0.19 |
UNIY Risk
- 5.4%
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.
- 0.0004
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.
- −6.3%
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.
- 0.96
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
UNIY Cost
- The middle half of US Aggregate Bond funds
- Median 0.34%
24 of the 112 US Aggregate Bond funds charge less.