ETF comparison
HYG vs SCHZ
US High Yield Bond vs US Aggregate Bond.
iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF · Schwab U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
4 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of HYG and SCHZ 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
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Cost difference
SCHZ is 46 bps cheaper than HYG. On a $100,000 position that's about $460/yr more in fees for HYG.
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 HYG vs SCHZ.
Top shared holdings
4 shared in total| # | Holding | In HYG | In SCHZ | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PILGRIM'S PRIDE CORP | 0.05% | 0.00% | 0.00% |
| 2 | PILGRIM'S PRIDE CORP | 0.07% | 0.00% | 0.00% |
| 3 | PILGRIM'S PRIDE CORP | 0.04% | 0.00% | 0.00% |
| 4 | PILGRIM'S PRIDE CORP | 0.06% | 0.00% | 0.00% |
Only in HYG
1,312 total- 1261229 BC LTD 0.50%
- MERIDIAN ARC HOLDCO LLC 0.45%
- ECHOSTAR CORP 0.43%
- PR RNO PROPERTY OWNER 1 0.34%
- QUIKRETE HOLDINGS INC 0.32%
- CLOUD SOFTWARE GRP LLC 0.32%
- CLOUD SOFTWARE GRP LLC 0.32%
- GALAXY HELIOS DATA CNTR 0.30%
- ASURION LLC/ASURION CO 0.29%
- HUB INTERNATIONAL LTD 0.29%
Only in SCHZ
12,322 total- United States Treasury 0.39%
- United States Treasury 0.39%
- United States Treasury 0.39%
- United States Treasury 0.37%
- United States Treasury 0.37%
- United States Treasury 0.37%
- United States Treasury 0.36%
- United States Treasury 0.36%
- United States Treasury 0.36%
- United States Treasury 0.36%
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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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