Virtus Newfleet Short Duration High Yield Bond ETF
$21.35−0.12 (−0.54%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.39%
- Fund size
- $31M
- 1Y return
- +4.2%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 6.25%
- Holdings
- 209
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $21.46
- 52W range
The ETF.net VSHY Grade
Score 57 of 100 sits in the B 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.BScore 58Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 73Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.BScore 61Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.DScore 29Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 61Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.CScore 47Category rank
Our read on VSHY
BJunk bonds without the long fuse. VSHY runs an active high yield portfolio with duration held to one to three years, so rate swings land lighter than on full-length index rivals.
The Fund seeks a high level of current income and, secondarily, capital appreciation.
Why people hold it
- The mandate is the point: managers target a one to three year duration, taking high yield credit risk without full-length interest rate exposure.virtus.com
- Actively run, not index-bound. Newfleet's team buys on relative value and can add floating rate bank loans instead of owning whatever an index dictates.virtus.com
- A 0.39% fee sits near the middle of the high yield ETF pack, unusual for active bond management.
- Pays monthly, spreads credit across roughly 200 positions, and has been trading since 2016.
Worth knowing
- Small fund, thin volume. The bid-ask spread can matter more to your cost here than the expense ratio does.
- Index giants cost far less: SCYB, SPHY and USHY all charge under a tenth of a percent for broad high yield.
- Short duration softens rate moves, not default risk. These are below-investment-grade bonds, and the fund may reach into emerging markets and bank loans.virtus.com
VSHY Holdings
- Other
- 209
- 12%
- Cash/Cash equivalents
Geography
- United States83.84%
- Canada4.63%
- Ireland3.29%
- Luxembourg1.93%
- Cayman Islands1.39%
- Australia1.13%
- Netherlands0.79%
- France0.78%
- 2.22%
VSHY 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 | VSHY |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +3.1% |
| 1 month | −0.2% |
| 3 months | +0.7% |
| 1 year | +4.2% |
| 3 years | +7.7% |
| 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 | VSHY |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +3.1% | |
| 2025 | +6.8% | |
| 2024 | +8.1% | |
| 2023 | +12.5% | |
| 2022 | −10.0% | |
| 2021 | +5.5% | |
| 2020 | +5.2% |
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VSHY Dividends
- 6.25%
- $1.34
- $0.12 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 21, 2026 | Pays Sep 28, 2026 | $0.12 |
| Aug 20, 2026 | Aug 27, 2026 | $0.11 |
| Jul 20, 2026 | Jul 27, 2026 | $0.10 |
| Jun 22, 2026 | Jun 29, 2026 | $0.12 |
| May 20, 2026 | May 27, 2026 | $0.11 |
| Apr 20, 2026 | Apr 27, 2026 | $0.11 |
| Mar 20, 2026 | Mar 27, 2026 | $0.10 |
| Feb 20, 2026 | Feb 27, 2026 | $0.11 |
| Jan 20, 2026 | Jan 27, 2026 | $0.06 |
| Dec 22, 2025 | Dec 29, 2025 | $0.17 |
| Nov 20, 2025 | Nov 28, 2025 | $0.12 |
| Oct 20, 2025 | Oct 27, 2025 | $0.12 |
VSHY Risk
- 4.0%
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.
- 0.77
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.
- −14.1%
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.
- 0.58
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
VSHY Cost
- The middle half of US High Yield funds
- Median 0.43%
29 of the 84 US High Yield funds charge less.