ETF comparison
SHY vs USHY
US Treasury (Short) vs US High Yield Bond.
iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF · iShares Broad USD High Yield Corporate Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SHY and USHY 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
USHY is 7 bps cheaper than SHY. On a $100,000 position that's about $70/yr more in fees for SHY.
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 USHY.
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 USHY
1,892 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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- SHY vs VGIT · Vanguard Intermediate-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- SHY vs VGLT · Vanguard Long-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- SHY vs VMBS · Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Securities 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/.
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.