ETF comparison
USHY vs VGSH
US High Yield Bond vs US Treasury (Short).
iShares Broad USD High Yield Corporate Bond ETF · Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of USHY and VGSH 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
VGSH is 5 bps cheaper than USHY. On a $100,000 position that's about $50/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 USHY vs VGSH.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
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%
Only in VGSH
91 total- United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.24%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.40%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.35%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.31%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.30%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.29%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.26%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.26%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.25%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.25%
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- 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%
More comparisons with VGSH
- VGSH vs USIG · iShares Broad USD Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 0.0%
- VGSH vs VBIL · Vanguard 0-3 Month Treasury Bill ETF 0.0%
- VGSH vs VCLT · Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- VGSH vs VGIT · Vanguard Intermediate-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- VGSH vs VGLT · Vanguard Long-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- VGSH vs VMBS · Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Securities Index Fund ETF Shares 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/.
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.