Voya Ultra Short Income ETF
$50.19+0.06 (+0.11%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.25%
- Fund size
- $135M
- 1Y return
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- Yield · Last 12 months
- Data unavailable
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $50.04
- 52W range
The ETF.net VUSI Grade
Score 53 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 23Category 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.BScore 55Category 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.AScore 75Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.DScore 35Category rank
Our read on VUSI
CVoya's late-2025 arrival in the cash-parking aisle: an actively managed ultra-short bond fund built to hunt current income while keeping principal steady. A new name in a category ruled by entrenched giants.
VUSI seeks high current income while preserving capital. It is actively managed and normally invests at least 80% of its assets in diversified income-producing bonds or economically similar derivatives.
Why people hold it
- Actively managed, not index-shackled: at least 80% of assets sit in diversified income-producing bonds or economically similar derivatives, with a stated goal of high current income while preserving capital.
- The prospectus sets a monthly income distribution schedule, which matches how most people use a cash-adjacent holding.
- The mandate isn't fenced to US paper. It can reach into international and emerging market issuers, a wider pool of short-dated bonds than a Treasury-only fund shops from.
- Ordinary 1940 Act fund plumbing. No partnership wrapper, no K-1 arriving in your mailbox in March.
Worth knowing
- Active costs more here: 0.25% a year against a category median of 0.20%, and above the aisle's scale players (VUSB at 0.10%, SHV and PULS at 0.15%).
- Launched in November 2025, so there's no long record to judge and the fund is still building scale. Newer, smaller funds tend to trade with wider bid-ask spreads than category veterans.stockanalysis.com
- Ultra-short is not the same as cash. This holds bonds, and the mandate allows derivatives and non-US credit, so the share price can move.
VUSI Holdings
- Bonds
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- 18%
- US TREASURY N/B 4.125 8/31/2028
VUSI 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 | VUSI |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +2.6% |
| 1 month | +0.0% |
| 3 months | +1.1% |
| 1 year | — |
| 3 years | — |
| 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 | VUSI |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +2.6% | |
| 2025 | +0.7% |
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VUSI Dividends
- $0.19 per share
- Monthly
Distribution data unavailable.
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 2026 | Aug 28, 2026 | $0.19 |
| Jul 30, 2026 | Jul 31, 2026 | $0.17 |
| Jun 29, 2026 | Jun 30, 2026 | $0.20 |
| May 28, 2026 | May 29, 2026 | $0.18 |
| Apr 29, 2026 | Apr 30, 2026 | $0.12 |
| Mar 30, 2026 | Mar 31, 2026 | $0.17 |
| Feb 26, 2026 | Feb 27, 2026 | $0.19 |
| Jan 29, 2026 | Jan 30, 2026 | $0.11 |
| Dec 30, 2025 | Dec 31, 2025 | $0.25 |
VUSI Risk
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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.
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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.
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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.
- 0.03
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
VUSI Cost
- The middle half of Cash & Ultra-Short Income funds
- Median 0.19%
56 of the 77 Cash & Ultra-Short Income funds charge less.