ETF comparison
SJNK vs USHY
Both US High Yield Bond.
State Street SPDR Bloomberg Short Term High Yield Bond ETF · iShares Broad USD High Yield Corporate Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
1,015 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SJNK and USHY 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
USHY is 32 bps cheaper than SJNK. On a $100,000 position that's about $320/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 SJNK vs USHY.
Top shared holdings
1,015 shared in total| # | Holding | In SJNK | In USHY | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ECHOSTAR CORP | 0.83% | 0.41% | 0.41% |
| 2 | CLOUD SOFTWARE GRP INC | 0.47% | 0.26% | 0.26% |
| 3 | WULF COMPUTE LLC | 0.42% | 0.25% | 0.25% |
| 4 | HUB INTERNATIONAL LTD | 0.34% | 0.25% | 0.25% |
| 5 | CLOUD SOFTWARE GRP INC | 0.47% | 0.25% | 0.25% |
| 6 | VENTURE GLOBAL LNG INC | 0.52% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
| 7 | SV RNO PROPERTY OWNER 1 | 0.23% | 0.27% | 0.23% |
| 8 | DISH NETWORK CORP | 0.38% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
| 9 | AMERICAN AIRLINES/AADVAN | 0.31% | 0.21% | 0.21% |
| 10 | EMRLD BOR / EMRLD CO-ISS | 0.34% | 0.20% | 0.20% |
| 11 | DAVITA INC | 0.27% | 0.20% | 0.20% |
| 12 | TRANSDIGM INC | 0.42% | 0.20% | 0.20% |
Only in SJNK
120 total- State Street Global Advisors 0.71%
- RAKUTEN GROUP INC 0.35%
- NEXSTAR MEDIA INC 0.28%
- DISH DBS CORP 0.28%
- BUCKEYE PARTNERS LP 0.23%
- FRONTIER COMMUNICATIONS 0.22%
- SM ENERGY CO 0.22%
- SBA COMMUNICATIONS CORP 0.21%
- BLOCK INC 0.20%
- AIR CANADA 0.20%
Only in USHY
875 total- BlackRock Funds III 12.12%
- QUIKRETE HOLDINGS INC 0.28%
- ASURION LLC/ASURION CO 0.25%
- ASURION LLC/ASURION CO 0.23%
- PANTHER ESCROW ISSUER 0.21%
- CARNIVAL CORP 0.21%
- DISCOVERY HOLDINGS INC 0.20%
- TRANSDIGM INC 0.19%
- LEVEL 3 FINANCING INC 0.19%
- DISCOVERY HOLDINGS INC 0.18%
Open SJNK or USHY at a brokerage
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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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