ETF comparison
SHY vs SJNK
US Treasury (Short) vs US High Yield Bond.
iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF · State Street SPDR Bloomberg Short Term High Yield Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SHY and SJNK would leave roughly 0.0% 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
Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.
Cost difference
SHY is 25 bps cheaper than SJNK. On a $100,000 position that's about $250/yr more in fees for SJNK.
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 SHY vs SJNK.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in SHY
89 total- United States of America 1.96%
- United States of America 1.84%
- United States of America 1.71%
- United States of America 1.60%
- United States of America 1.60%
- United States of America 1.52%
- United States of America 1.48%
- United States of America 1.45%
- United States of America 1.43%
- United States of America 1.40%
Only in SJNK
1,148 total- MERIDIAN ARC HOLDCO LLC 0.65%
- ECHOSTAR CORP 0.63%
- PR RNO PROPERTY OWNER 1 0.51%
- CENTENE CORP 0.51%
- VENTURE GLOBAL LNG INC 0.44%
- CLOUD SOFTWARE GRP INC 0.43%
- CLOUD SOFTWARE GRP INC 0.43%
- WULF COMPUTE LLC 0.42%
- TRANSDIGM INC 0.42%
- SV RNO PROPERTY OWNER 1 0.41%
Related comparisons
More comparisons with SHY
- SHY vs SPHY · State Street SPDR Portfolio High Yield Bond ETF 0.0%
- SHY vs SPIB · State Street SPDR Portfolio Intermediate Term Corporate Bond ETF 0.0%
- SHY vs SPLB · State Street SPDR Portfolio Long Term Corporate Bond ETF 0.0%
- SHY vs SPMB · State Street SPDR Portfolio Mortgage Backed Bond ETF 0.0%
- SHY vs SPSB · State Street SPDR Portfolio Short Term Corporate Bond ETF 0.0%
- SHY vs SPTI · State Street SPDR Portfolio Intermediate Term Treasury ETF 0.0%
More comparisons with SJNK
- SJNK vs TIP · iShares TIPS Bond ETF 0.0%
- SJNK vs TLT · iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF 0.0%
- SJNK vs VGLT · Vanguard Long-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- SJNK vs VGSH · Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- SJNK vs VTIP · Vanguard Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- SJNK vs SHYG · iShares 0-5 Year High Yield Corporate Bond ETF 73.7%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
Open SHY or SJNK at a brokerage
Both funds trade commission-free at major US brokerages.
Affiliate links — opening an account through these earns PlainIndex a one-time referral. Scoring is computed before any affiliate consideration; see our methodology and funding disclosure.
Holdings overlap is the sum of min(weight_a, weight_b) over positions
matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.