ETF comparison
HYG vs SHY
US High Yield Bond vs US Treasury (Short).
iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF · iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of HYG and SHY 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
SHY is 34 bps cheaper than HYG. On a $100,000 position that's about $340/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 SHY.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in HYG
1,316 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 SHY
90 total- United States of America 1.97%
- United States of America 1.71%
- United States of America 1.61%
- United States of America 1.51%
- United States of America 1.49%
- United States of America 1.48%
- United States of America 1.47%
- United States of America 1.40%
- United States of America 1.39%
- United States of America 1.39%
Related comparisons
More comparisons with HYG
- HYG vs TIP · iShares TIPS Bond ETF 0.0%
- HYG vs TLT · iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF 0.0%
- HYG vs VGLT · Vanguard Long-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- HYG vs VGSH · Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- HYG vs VTIP · Vanguard Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- HYG vs HYLB · Xtrackers USD High Yield Corporate Bond ETF 83.2%
More comparisons with SHY
- SHY vs HYLB · Xtrackers USD High Yield Corporate Bond ETF 0.0%
- SHY vs IAGG · iShares Core International Aggregate Bond ETF 0.0%
- SHY vs ICVT · iShares Convertible Bond ETF 0.0%
- SHY vs IEF · iShares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF 0.0%
- SHY vs IEI · iShares 3-7 Year Treasury Bond ETF 0.0%
- SHY vs IGIB · iShares 5-10 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 0.0%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
Open HYG or SHY at a brokerage
Both funds trade commission-free at major US brokerages.
Affiliate links — opening an account through these earns PlainIndex a one-time referral. Scoring is computed before any affiliate consideration; see our methodology and funding disclosure.
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.