ETF comparison
HYG vs SJNK
Both US High Yield Bond.
iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF · State Street SPDR Bloomberg Short Term High Yield Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
743 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of HYG and SJNK would leave roughly 47.7% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
SJNK is 9 bps cheaper than HYG. On a $100,000 position that's about $90/yr more in fees for HYG.
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 HYG vs SJNK.
Top shared holdings
743 shared in total| # | Holding | In HYG | In SJNK | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CLOUD SOFTWARE GRP INC | 0.35% | 0.47% | 0.35% |
| 2 | CLOUD SOFTWARE GRP INC | 0.35% | 0.47% | 0.35% |
| 3 | DISH NETWORK CORP | 0.34% | 0.38% | 0.34% |
| 4 | ECHOSTAR CORP | 0.32% | 0.83% | 0.32% |
| 5 | WULF COMPUTE LLC | 0.31% | 0.42% | 0.31% |
| 6 | HUB INTERNATIONAL LTD | 0.30% | 0.34% | 0.30% |
| 7 | VENTURE GLOBAL LNG INC | 0.27% | 0.52% | 0.27% |
| 8 | EMRLD BOR / EMRLD CO-ISS | 0.27% | 0.34% | 0.27% |
| 9 | TRANSDIGM INC | 0.26% | 0.42% | 0.26% |
| 10 | 1011778 BC / NEW RED FIN | 0.25% | 0.36% | 0.25% |
| 11 | CCO HLDGS LLC/CAP CORP | 0.25% | 0.38% | 0.25% |
| 12 | AMERICAN AIRLINES/AADVAN | 0.25% | 0.31% | 0.25% |
Only in HYG
597 total- BlackRock Funds III 15.84%
- QUIKRETE HOLDINGS INC 0.39%
- ASURION LLC/ASURION CO 0.35%
- PANTHER ESCROW ISSUER 0.29%
- LEVEL 3 FINANCING INC 0.24%
- ECHOSTAR CORP 0.23%
- TRANSDIGM INC 0.23%
- BEACH ACQUISITION BIDCO 0.23%
- CCO HLDGS LLC/CAP CORP 0.23%
- QXO BUILDING PRODUCTS 0.22%
Only in SJNK
392 total- State Street Global Advisors 0.71%
- DISH DBS CORP 0.28%
- BUCKEYE PARTNERS LP 0.23%
- BLOCK INC 0.20%
- AIR CANADA 0.20%
- COHERENT CORP 0.16%
- TOUCAN FINCO LTD/CAN/US 0.15%
- SUMMIT MIDSTREAM HOLDING 0.15%
- SC GAMES HOLDIN/US FINCO 0.15%
- ROCKETMTGE CO-ISSUER INC 0.15%
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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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