BondBloxx B Rated USD High Yield Corporate Bond ETF
$38.56−0.17 (−0.44%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.30%
- Fund size
- $82M
- 1Y return
- +4.1%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 7.00%
- Holdings
- 333
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $38.70
- 52W range
The ETF.net XB Grade
Score 68 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.AScore 75Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 93Category 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.DScore 35Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 83Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.DScore 31Category rank
Our read on XB
BHigh yield, sliced by credit grade. XB holds only the single-B tier, the fat middle of the junk market, leaving out BB near-investment-grade paper and CCC deep-distress names. One of the original ratings-specific high yield ETFs, trading since 2022.
The fund is designed to provide exposure to U.S. dollar-denominated, below-investment-grade corporate debt in the B-rated segment of the high-yield bond market.
Why people hold it
- Precision instead of a blend: the mandate targets B-rated corporate bonds only, so you dial the credit tier yourself rather than buying the whole junk market at once.prnewswire.com
- Costs 0.30% a year, below the 0.40% typical of high yield bond ETFs, and the fund sits in the stronger half of that crowded peer group.
- Index rules do real work: bonds need at least $300 million outstanding and no single issuer can exceed 2%, spread across roughly 300 positions.bondbloxxetf.com
- Interest lands monthly, and the fund has stuck tightly to its stated index mandate.
Worth knowing
- Thinly traded with a modest asset base, so spreads can be wider than the giant broad high yield funds. Limit orders are the usual answer.
- You pay up for the slice: broad high yield rivals like SCYB (0.03%) and SPHY (0.05%) cost a fraction of this.
- One rating band means no BB ballast and no CCC upside. When single-B credit wobbles, there is nothing else in the portfolio to soften it.
XB Holdings
- Bonds
- 333
- 7%
- ECHOSTAR CORP 10.75% 11/30/29
Sectors
- Financials100.0%
Geography
- United States87.88%
- United Kingdom2.56%
- Luxembourg2.48%
- Canada2.08%
- Netherlands0.94%
- Ireland0.89%
- Malta0.40%
- France0.39%
- 2.39%
XB 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 | XB |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +2.7% |
| 1 month | −0.5% |
| 3 months | +0.4% |
| 1 year | +4.1% |
| 3 years | +8.0% |
| 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 | XB |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +2.7% | |
| 2025 | +7.8% | |
| 2024 | +7.4% | |
| 2023 | +12.9% | |
| 2022 | −4.3% |
XB in the news
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XB Dividends
- 7.00%
- $2.71
- $0.22 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 2026 | Sep 4, 2026 | $0.22 |
| Aug 3, 2026 | Aug 6, 2026 | $0.22 |
| Jul 1, 2026 | Jul 7, 2026 | $0.21 |
| Jun 1, 2026 | Jun 4, 2026 | $0.22 |
| May 1, 2026 | May 6, 2026 | $0.23 |
| Apr 1, 2026 | Apr 7, 2026 | $0.23 |
| Mar 2, 2026 | Mar 5, 2026 | $0.21 |
| Feb 2, 2026 | Feb 5, 2026 | $0.23 |
| Dec 30, 2025 | Jan 5, 2026 | $0.25 |
| Dec 1, 2025 | Dec 4, 2025 | $0.22 |
| Nov 3, 2025 | Nov 6, 2025 | $0.23 |
| Oct 1, 2025 | Oct 6, 2025 | $0.23 |
XB Risk
- 4.2%
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.
- 0.78
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.
- −9.2%
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.
- 0.59
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
XB Cost
- The middle half of US High Yield funds
- Median 0.43%
19 of the 84 US High Yield funds charge less.