ETF comparison
FALN vs SHYG
Both US High Yield Bond.
iShares Fallen Angels USD Bond ETF · iShares 0-5 Year High Yield Corporate Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
54 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of FALN and SHYG would leave roughly 4.2% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Unmatched is the part of a fund's weight the other fund doesn't match: names only it holds, plus any extra weight it puts in names both funds hold.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
FALN is 5 bps cheaper than SHYG. On a $100,000 position that's about $50/yr more in fees for SHYG.
Fee figure is the annual expense charged on $100,000. To see how the gap compounds over a multi-decade holding period, open the cost calculator pre-filled with FALN vs SHYG.
Top shared holdings
54 shared in total| # | Holding | In FALN | In SHYG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NISSAN MOTOR CO | 1.04% | 0.27% | 0.27% |
| 2 | NISSAN MOTOR CO | 0.98% | 0.25% | 0.25% |
| 3 | CENTENE CORP | 0.76% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
| 4 | CENTENE CORP | 0.45% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
| 5 | CENTENE CORP | 0.43% | 0.20% | 0.20% |
| 6 | CENTENE CORP | 0.43% | 0.19% | 0.19% |
| 7 | CENTENE CORP | 0.50% | 0.17% | 0.17% |
| 8 | CELANESE US HOLDINGS LLC | 0.65% | 0.13% | 0.13% |
| 9 | GFL ENVIRONMENTAL INC | 2.14% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
| 10 | CELANESE US HOLDINGS LLC | 0.49% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 11 | HUNTSMAN INTERNATIONAL L | 1.53% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 12 | CELANESE US HOLDINGS LLC | 0.48% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
Only in FALN
104 total- VODAFONE GROUP PLC 2.98%
- RESORTS WORLD/RWLV CAP 1.89%
- PACIFICORP 1.79%
- NEWELL BRANDS INC 1.28%
- TRANSOCEAN INTERNTNL LTD 1.20%
- BOMBARDIER INC 1.18%
- NORDSTROM INC 1.11%
- APTIV SWISS HOLDINGS LTD 1.07%
- NAVIENT CORP 1.04%
- SEALED AIR CORP 0.93%
Only in SHYG
1,098 total- MERIDIAN ARC HOLDCO LLC 0.58%
- ECHOSTAR CORP 0.53%
- PR RNO PROPERTY OWNER 1 0.46%
- CLOUD SOFTWARE GRP LLC 0.43%
- CLOUD SOFTWARE GRP LLC 0.42%
- WULF COMPUTE LLC 0.37%
- HUB INTERNATIONAL LTD 0.37%
- VENTURE GLOBAL LNG INC 0.36%
- CORE SCIENTIFIC FINANCE 0.34%
- DISH DBS CORP 0.33%
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- SHYG vs BND · Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
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Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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Holdings overlap is the sum of min(weight_a, weight_b) over positions
matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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