ETF comparison
SPHY vs USHY
Both US High Yield Bond.
State Street SPDR Portfolio High Yield Bond ETF · iShares Broad USD High Yield Corporate Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
1,811 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of SPHY and USHY would leave roughly 79.5% 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 3 bps cheaper than USHY. On a $100,000 position that's about $30/yr more in fees for USHY.
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 SPHY vs USHY.
Top shared holdings
1,811 shared in total| # | Holding | In SPHY | In USHY | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1261229 BC LTD | 0.42% | 0.47% | 0.42% |
| 2 | MERIDIAN ARC HOLDCO LLC | 0.40% | 0.39% | 0.39% |
| 3 | ECHOSTAR CORP | 0.40% | 0.39% | 0.39% |
| 4 | PR RNO PROPERTY OWNER 1 | 0.30% | 0.28% | 0.28% |
| 5 | QUIKRETE HOLDINGS INC | 0.28% | 0.29% | 0.28% |
| 6 | CLOUD SOFTWARE GRP INC | 0.28% | 0.26% | 0.26% |
| 7 | CLOUD SOFTWARE GRP INC | 0.27% | 0.25% | 0.25% |
| 8 | SV RNO PROPERTY OWNER 1 | 0.27% | 0.24% | 0.24% |
| 9 | WULF COMPUTE LLC | 0.24% | 0.24% | 0.24% |
| 10 | CRC INSURANCE GROUP LLC | 0.24% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
| 11 | ASURION LLC/ASURION CO | 0.22% | 0.26% | 0.22% |
| 12 | VENTURE GLOBAL LNG INC | 0.24% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
Only in SPHY
118 total- DISH NETWORK CORP 0.22%
- ZEGONA FINANCE PLC 0.10%
- SM ENERGY CO 0.08%
- CHART INDUSTRIES INC 0.08%
- RESIDEO FUNDING INC 0.07%
- TALOS PRODUCTION INC 0.07%
- FS KKR CAPITAL CORP 0.07%
- Seagate Data Storage Technology Pte Ltd 0.06%
- PARAMOUNT GLOBAL 0.06%
- VIASAT INC 0.06%
Only in USHY
81 total- GALAXY HELIOS DATA CNTR 0.12%
- CARRIX INC 0.10%
- CORELOGIC INC 0.09%
- CARNIVAL CORP LTD 0.08%
- CARNIVAL CORP LTD 0.07%
- CARNIVAL CORP LTD 0.06%
- SEAGATE DATA STOR 0.05%
- DISH DBS CORP 0.05%
- RESIDEO FUNDING II LLC 0.04%
- CITGO PETROLEUM CORP 0.04%
Related comparisons
More comparisons with SPHY
- SPHY vs SCYB · Schwab High Yield Bond ETF 75.8%
- SPHY vs HYG · iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF 69.7%
- SPHY vs HYLB · Xtrackers USD High Yield Corporate Bond ETF 66.3%
- SPHY vs JNK · State Street SPDR Bloomberg High Yield Bond ETF 64.5%
- SPHY vs SHYG · iShares 0-5 Year High Yield Corporate Bond ETF 56.4%
- SPHY vs SJNK · State Street SPDR Bloomberg Short Term High Yield Bond ETF 53.7%
More comparisons with USHY
- USHY vs HYG · iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF 74.5%
- USHY vs HYLB · Xtrackers USD High Yield Corporate Bond ETF 70.7%
- USHY vs JNK · State Street SPDR Bloomberg High Yield Bond ETF 62.3%
- USHY vs SHYG · iShares 0-5 Year High Yield Corporate Bond ETF 55.3%
- USHY vs SJNK · State Street SPDR Bloomberg Short Term High Yield Bond ETF 48.9%
- USHY vs SRLN · State Street Blackstone Senior Loan ETF 6.8%
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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