Virtus Stone Harbor Emerging Markets High Yield Bond ETF
$27.95−0.23 (−0.80%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.55%
- Fund size
- $56M
- 1Y return
- +9.9%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 8.10%
- Holdings
- 189
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $28.20
- 52W range
The ETF.net VEMY Grade
Score 44 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 18Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 78Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.CScore 48Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.CScore 40Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.DScore 37Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.CScore 50Category rank
Our read on VEMY
CIts high-yield cohort is mostly cheap US junk-bond index funds. VEMY goes the other way: an actively run book of emerging-market sovereign and corporate debt, roughly 190 bonds, paying monthly.
The Fund invests at least 80% of its assets, under normal circumstances, in high-yield bonds economically tied to emerging-market countries.
Why people hold it
- A real outlier in the high-yield aisle: at least 80% of assets in bonds tied to emerging-market countries, not the US corporate credit the top-ranked funds beside it hold.
- Stone Harbor is a dedicated emerging-market debt shop, now a Virtus affiliate. VEMY was its first ETF, launched in 2022.stockanalysis.com
- No index to hug. Managers choose the issuers across sovereign and corporate emerging-market debt, roughly 190 bonds, and cash lands monthly.stockanalysis.com
Worth knowing
- At 0.55% a year it runs above the 0.40% cohort median and several times index peers like SCYB (0.03%) and SPHY (0.05%). Specialist credit work costs more than tracking.
- Thinly traded. Spreads can widen, so limit orders matter more here than in the giant broad high-yield funds.
- Small fund, launched in 2022, so the record is short. Emerging-market credit also carries sovereign and political risk that US-only high-yield funds don't take on.
VEMY Holdings
- Bonds
- 189
- 16%
- Egypt Government International Bond 7.053% 01/15/2032
Geography
- Argentina9.03%
- Turkey7.17%
- Luxembourg7.11%
- Colombia5.79%
- Mexico5.46%
- Brazil4.96%
- Netherlands4.74%
- Egypt3.94%
- 51.80%
Developed 18% · Emerging 82%
VEMY 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 | VEMY |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +5.6% |
| 1 month | −0.5% |
| 3 months | −0.8% |
| 1 year | +9.9% |
| 3 years | +14.0% |
| 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 | VEMY |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +5.6% | |
| 2025 | +15.2% | |
| 2024 | +13.5% | |
| 2023 | +14.5% | |
| 2022 | −1.1% |
VEMY in the news
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VEMY Dividends
- 8.10%
- $2.28
- $0.16 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 21, 2026 | Pays Sep 28, 2026 | $0.16 |
| Aug 20, 2026 | Aug 27, 2026 | $0.15 |
| Jul 20, 2026 | Jul 27, 2026 | $0.12 |
| Jun 22, 2026 | Jun 29, 2026 | $0.13 |
| May 20, 2026 | May 27, 2026 | $0.13 |
| Apr 20, 2026 | Apr 27, 2026 | $0.15 |
| Mar 20, 2026 | Mar 27, 2026 | $0.16 |
| Feb 20, 2026 | Feb 27, 2026 | $0.13 |
| Jan 20, 2026 | Jan 27, 2026 | $0.12 |
| Dec 22, 2025 | Dec 29, 2025 | $0.71 |
| Nov 20, 2025 | Nov 28, 2025 | $0.17 |
| Oct 20, 2025 | Oct 27, 2025 | $0.16 |
VEMY Risk
- 6.0%
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.
- 1.51
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.
- −8.8%
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.
- 0.65
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
VEMY Cost
- The middle half of International High Yield Bond funds
- Median 0.46%
10 of the 13 International High Yield Bond funds charge less.