Market Data
iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF (HYG) is a high yield bond exchange-traded fund from iShares, launched Apr 4, 2007. Its latest SEC N-PORT filing lists 1,324 positions. The fund charges an expense ratio of 0.49% a year and holds $17.7B in assets.
Holdings & Allocation
iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF's largest position is XTSLA at 1.06% of the fund, and its top 1 holdings add up to 1.1% of 1,324 positions. By sector, the biggest exposure is Utilities at 99.6%.
Distributions
iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF paid $4.70 per share over the last 12 months, a trailing 12-month distribution yield of 6.10% at the current price. It pays monthly.
| Ex-date | Amount | Type |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 2026 | $0.342 | Regular |
| Sep 1, 2026 | $0.435 | Regular |
| Aug 3, 2026 | $0.384 | Regular |
| Jul 1, 2026 | $0.369 | Regular |
| Jun 1, 2026 | $0.409 | Regular |
| May 1, 2026 | $0.419 | Regular |
| Apr 1, 2026 | $0.384 | Regular |
| Mar 2, 2026 | $0.394 | Regular |
Yield counts regular payments only and is computed from paid distributions and the latest close; it is not the SEC 30-day yield. The next ex-date is estimated from the payment schedule.
Behaviour On Record
iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF is currently running 4.5% annualised volatility over the last 21 sessions. Measured against HYG's own 13 years of daily returns rather than a market-wide average, that is the 40th percentile — on the quiet side for this fund, against a typical reading of 5.1%.
HYG is trading -18.7% below its running peak. Across 13 full years on file, its median worst-drawdown-in-a-year was -5.9%, and the deepest was -22.0% in 2020. The current drawdown is already deeper than this fund's typical annual low point, which puts it in the part of its range where past recoveries began, and where past declines also continued.
Price sits -2.5% from its 200-day moving average. Against every other day in its history, that gap ranks at the 20th percentile — a narrower gap than it typically runs. Over the past year HYG closed higher on 48% of sessions, and it is currently 2 sessions into a rising streak.
On November specifically: over 13 years of records, HYG finished the month higher 8 of 13 times, with a median return of +0.1% and an average of +0.5%. Its strongest month historically has been July at +1.1% on average, its weakest March at -0.8%.
Overnight risk is measurable too: HYG has opened more than 2% away from the prior close in 8 of 3,267 sessions (0.2% of the time), with the largest gaps running +14.7% and -4.5%.
All figures computed from 3,268 daily closes between 2013-11-06 and 2026-11-04, split-adjusted, recomputed daily. Percentiles are against HYG's own 13-year history, not a peer group or index.
News & sentiment
HYG rose 0.1% over the month to Nov 6. News tone held between 34 and 61 from Oct 6 to Oct 13, then jumped to 96 on Oct 14.
Technical analysis
On the daily chart HYG ranks at the 34th percentile for momentum against 1,060 stocks and ETFs, a bearish reading.
Institutional ownership
51 of the 108 tracked managers added to HYG in their latest 13F and 48 trimmed. Together their positions are worth $12.6B.
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Over the six months to Nov 6, HYG returned −3.6%. Of the 7 related ETFs, 4 did better, led by SHY at −0.8%.
