ETF comparison
SHYG vs SPHY
Both US High Yield Bond.
iShares 0-5 Year High Yield Corporate Bond ETF · State Street SPDR Portfolio High Yield Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
1,047 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SHYG and SPHY would leave roughly 56.4% 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
SPHY is 25 bps cheaper than SHYG. On a $100,000 position that's about $250/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 SHYG vs SPHY.
Top shared holdings
1,047 shared in total| # | Holding | In SHYG | In SPHY | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ECHOSTAR CORP | 0.53% | 0.40% | 0.40% |
| 2 | MERIDIAN ARC HOLDCO LLC | 0.58% | 0.40% | 0.40% |
| 3 | PR RNO PROPERTY OWNER 1 | 0.46% | 0.30% | 0.30% |
| 4 | CLOUD SOFTWARE GRP LLC | 0.43% | 0.28% | 0.28% |
| 5 | CLOUD SOFTWARE GRP LLC | 0.42% | 0.27% | 0.27% |
| 6 | SV RNO PROPERTY OWNER 1 | 0.29% | 0.27% | 0.27% |
| 7 | AMERICAN AIRLINES/AADVAN | 0.32% | 0.25% | 0.25% |
| 8 | CORE SCIENTIFIC FINANCE | 0.34% | 0.24% | 0.24% |
| 9 | CRC INSURANCE GROUP LLC | 0.27% | 0.24% | 0.24% |
| 10 | WULF COMPUTE LLC | 0.37% | 0.24% | 0.24% |
| 11 | VENTURE GLOBAL LNG INC | 0.36% | 0.24% | 0.24% |
| 12 | CENTENE CORP | 0.23% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
Only in SHYG
105 total- DISH DBS CORP 0.33%
- DISH DBS CORP 0.24%
- GALAXY HELIOS DATA CNTR 0.19%
- SBA COMMUNICATIONS CORP 0.17%
- ICAHN ENTERPRISES/FIN 0.16%
- WYNN MACAU LTD 0.15%
- TEVA PHARMACEUTICALS NE 0.15%
- TEVA PHARMACEUTICALS NE 0.14%
- CORELOGIC INC 0.14%
- TALEN ENERGY SUPPLY LLC 0.14%
Only in SPHY
882 total- QUIKRETE HOLDINGS INC 0.28%
- ASURION LLC/ASURION CO 0.25%
- TRANSDIGM INC 0.22%
- DISH NETWORK CORP 0.22%
- ASURION LLC/ASURION CO 0.22%
- NEXSTAR MEDIA INC 0.22%
- OAK-EAGLE ACQUIRECO INC 0.21%
- DISCOVERY HOLDINGS INC 0.20%
- WINDSTREAM SERVICES/ESCR 0.19%
- CCO HLDGS LLC/CAP CORP 0.18%
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- SHYG vs HYLB · Xtrackers USD High Yield Corporate Bond ETF 54.2%
- SHYG vs JNK · State Street SPDR Bloomberg High Yield Bond ETF 44.0%
- SHYG vs SRLN · State Street Blackstone Senior Loan ETF 5.1%
More comparisons with SPHY
- SPHY vs SJNK · State Street SPDR Bloomberg Short Term High Yield Bond ETF 53.7%
- SPHY vs SRLN · State Street Blackstone Senior Loan ETF 6.4%
- SPHY vs FALN · iShares Fallen Angels USD Bond ETF 4.8%
- SPHY vs ANGL · VanEck Fallen Angel High Yield Bond ETF 4.1%
- SPHY vs BKLN · Invesco Senior Loan ETF 2.6%
- SPHY vs SCHZ · Schwab U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 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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