ETF comparison
FALN vs USHY
Both US High Yield Bond.
iShares Fallen Angels USD Bond ETF · iShares Broad USD High Yield Corporate Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
128 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of FALN and USHY would leave roughly 4.8% 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
USHY is 17 bps cheaper than FALN. On a $100,000 position that's about $170/yr more in fees for FALN.
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 USHY.
Top shared holdings
128 shared in total| # | Holding | In FALN | In USHY | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CENTENE CORP | 0.76% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
| 2 | NISSAN MOTOR CO | 1.04% | 0.16% | 0.16% |
| 3 | NISSAN MOTOR CO | 0.98% | 0.16% | 0.16% |
| 4 | VODAFONE GROUP PLC | 2.98% | 0.15% | 0.15% |
| 5 | CENTENE CORP | 0.43% | 0.13% | 0.13% |
| 6 | CENTENE CORP | 0.45% | 0.13% | 0.13% |
| 7 | CENTENE CORP | 0.43% | 0.12% | 0.12% |
| 8 | PARAMOUNT GLOBAL | 0.36% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 9 | CENTENE CORP | 0.26% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 10 | CELANESE US HOLDINGS LLC | 0.65% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 11 | PARAMOUNT GLOBAL | 0.26% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| 12 | CELANESE US HOLDINGS LLC | 0.61% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
Only in FALN
30 total- RESORTS WORLD/RWLV CAP 1.89%
- WILTON RE LTD 0.79%
- CONSTELLATION INSURC INC 0.68%
- GLOBAL MARINE INC 0.52%
- GENWORTH HOLDINGS INC 0.52%
- BELO CORP 0.51%
- DISCOVERY HOLDINGS INC 0.50%
- PROVIDENT FINANCING TR I 0.44%
- CRANE NXT CO 0.42%
- BATH & BODY WORKS INC 0.42%
Only in USHY
1,764 total- 1261229 BC LTD 0.47%
- MERIDIAN ARC HOLDCO LLC 0.39%
- ECHOSTAR CORP 0.39%
- QUIKRETE HOLDINGS INC 0.29%
- PR RNO PROPERTY OWNER 1 0.28%
- ASURION LLC/ASURION CO 0.26%
- CLOUD SOFTWARE GRP LLC 0.26%
- CLOUD SOFTWARE GRP LLC 0.25%
- HUB INTERNATIONAL LTD 0.24%
- SV RNO PROPERTY OWNER 1 0.24%
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- FALN vs HYG · iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF 3.0%
- FALN vs JNK · State Street SPDR Bloomberg High Yield Bond ETF 1.2%
- FALN vs SRLN · State Street Blackstone Senior Loan ETF 0.4%
More comparisons with USHY
- USHY vs ANGL · VanEck Fallen Angel High Yield Bond ETF 4.1%
- USHY vs BKLN · Invesco Senior Loan ETF 2.5%
- USHY vs AGG · iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 0.0%
- USHY vs BND · Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- USHY vs SCHZ · Schwab U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 0.0%
- USHY vs BNDX · Vanguard Total International Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
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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