iShares Broad USD High Yield Corporate Bond ETF
$36.16−0.25 (−0.69%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.08%
- Fund size
- $27.2B
- 1Y return
- +3.0%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 6.99%
- Holdings
- 1897
- Volume · 30D
- 10.7M sh
- NAV per share
- $36.38
- 52W range
The ETF.net USHY Grade
Score 87 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 94Category 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 53Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 80Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 93Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 91Category rank
Our read on USHY
AThe wide-angle lens on junk bonds: about 1,900 US dollar high yield corporate issues for 0.08% a year, a fifth of what the typical fund in its category charges. Broad, cheap, heavily traded, and it pays monthly.
The fund seeks to track an index of U.S. dollar-denominated high yield corporate bonds.
Why people hold it
- Charges 0.08% a year while the median high yield fund in its cohort runs 0.40%. Cheap rent on an expensive-to-run corner of the bond market.
- Holds about 1,900 bonds against the ICE BofA US High Yield Constrained Index: the broad market, not a curated slice of the most liquid names.ishares.com
- A multi-billion-dollar fund and one of the more actively traded in high yield, which tends to keep bid-ask spreads thin even on busy days.
- Pays monthly and has tracked its index tightly since its 2017 launch, one of the closer index matches in its peer group.
Worth knowing
- High yield means below-investment-grade borrowers. When credit gets stressed this asset class drops with stocks instead of cushioning them.
- Cheaper tickets sit on the same shelf: SCYB at 0.03% and SPHY at 0.05%.
- This is a fund, not a bond ladder. No maturity date hands your principal back; the basket rolls on indefinitely.
USHY Holdings
- Bonds
- 1,897
- 4%
- BLK CSH FND TREASURY SL AGENCY
Sectors
- Energy99.2%
- Real Estate0.8%
Geography
- United States86.46%
- Canada4.13%
- United Kingdom2.01%
- Luxembourg1.64%
- France1.02%
- Japan0.82%
- Ireland0.67%
- Netherlands0.63%
- 2.61%
USHY Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
USHY$10,301
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 | USHY |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +1.9% |
| 1 month | −0.6% |
| 3 months | +0.1% |
| 1 year | +3.0% |
| 3 years | +8.7% |
| 5 years | +3.9% |
| 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 | USHY |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +1.9% | |
| 2025 | +8.8% | |
| 2024 | +8.5% | |
| 2023 | +12.7% | |
| 2022 | −11.2% | |
| 2021 | +5.0% | |
| 2020 | +6.2% |
USHY in the news
USHY Dividends
- 6.99%
- $2.55
- $0.21 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 2026 | Sep 4, 2026 | $0.21 |
| Aug 3, 2026 | Aug 6, 2026 | $0.21 |
| Jul 1, 2026 | Jul 7, 2026 | $0.21 |
| Jun 1, 2026 | Jun 4, 2026 | $0.21 |
| May 1, 2026 | May 6, 2026 | $0.20 |
| Apr 1, 2026 | Apr 7, 2026 | $0.23 |
| Mar 2, 2026 | Mar 5, 2026 | $0.20 |
| Feb 2, 2026 | Feb 5, 2026 | $0.22 |
| Dec 19, 2025 | Dec 24, 2025 | $0.21 |
| Dec 1, 2025 | Dec 4, 2025 | $0.22 |
| Nov 3, 2025 | Nov 6, 2025 | $0.21 |
| Oct 1, 2025 | Oct 6, 2025 | $0.21 |
USHY Risk
- 4.5%
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.
- 0.85
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.
- −15.6%
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.
- 0.64
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
USHY Cost
0.08%
USHY0.08%
- The middle half of US High Yield funds
- Median 0.43%
5 of the 84 US High Yield funds charge less.