ETF comparison
BKLN vs HYG
Both US High Yield Bond.
Invesco Senior Loan ETF · iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
44 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of BKLN and HYG would leave roughly 2.5% 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
HYG is 16 bps cheaper than BKLN. On a $100,000 position that's about $160/yr more in fees for BKLN.
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 BKLN vs HYG.
Top shared holdings
44 shared in total| # | Holding | In BKLN | In HYG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | HUB International Ltd. | 0.29% | 0.29% | 0.29% |
| 2 | Allied Universal Holdco LLC | 0.27% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
| 3 | 1011778 BC ULC / New Red Finance Inc. | 0.22% | 0.12% | 0.12% |
| 4 | TransDigm, Inc. | 0.12% | 0.17% | 0.12% |
| 5 | Cloud Software Group, LLC | 0.12% | 0.32% | 0.12% |
| 6 | 1011778 BC ULC / New Red Finance Inc. | 0.14% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 7 | Opal Bidco SAS | 0.09% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 8 | Acrisure LLC / Acrisure Finance Inc. | 0.18% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 9 | Focus Financial Partners, LLC | 0.16% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
| 10 | Cloud Software Group, LLC | 0.08% | 0.15% | 0.08% |
| 11 | Neptune Bidco US Inc. | 0.08% | 0.10% | 0.08% |
| 12 | TransDigm, Inc. | 0.07% | 0.13% | 0.07% |
Only in BKLN
116 total- Invesco Premier U.S. Government Money Portfolio 6.38%
- Discovery Global Holdings, Inc.( Warner Bros. Discovery) 1.86%
- Hologic, Inc. 1.82%
- Ultimate Software Group, Inc. 1.65%
- Sedgwick Claims Management Services, Inc. 1.50%
- Dayforce, Inc. 1.46%
- Peraton Corp. 1.45%
- Oak-Eagle AcquireCo, Inc (Electronic Arts, Inc; EA) 1.44%
- McAfee LLC 1.35%
- UFC Holdings, LLC 1.27%
Only in HYG
1,272 total- 1261229 BC LTD 0.50%
- MERIDIAN ARC HOLDCO LLC 0.45%
- ECHOSTAR CORP 0.43%
- PR RNO PROPERTY OWNER 1 0.34%
- CLOUD SOFTWARE GRP LLC 0.32%
- GALAXY HELIOS DATA CNTR 0.30%
- ASURION LLC/ASURION CO 0.29%
- CRC INSURANCE GROUP LLC 0.29%
- WULF COMPUTE LLC 0.28%
- SV RNO PROPERTY OWNER 1 0.28%
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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/.
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