iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF

iShares Trust · Series S000016772 · 1 share classes

Bond fund · 97% debt· rate + credit risk filed
One fund, 1 share classes:HYG
$16.74B NAV
1,343 positions · as of 2026-02-28 · filed 2026-04-23
data updated 2026-08-10

Fund profile

As filed in the prospectus · 2026 Q2

The iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF (the Fund ) seeks to track the investment results of an index composed of U.S. dollar-denominated, high yield corporate bonds.

Strategy · summarised

The fund tracks the iBoxx USD Liquid High Yield Index using representative sampling, holding a sample of high yield corporate bonds selected to match the index's investment characteristics, sector weights, and credit profile rather than all constituents. Because the fund does not hold all index components, its returns may diverge from the index. The fund concentrates its holdings in industries to the same extent as the index, which as of the filing date held a significant portion in consumer goods and services.

Expenses
0.49%one share class
Share classExpense ratio
HYG0.49%

Portfolio turnover 22.00% · as of 2026 Q2

Allocation

Asset groups · long / short shown separately, never netted · 2026 Q1

114.44%
of net assets
Bonds97.22%
Cash & short-term17.08%
Loans0.13%
Stocks0.01%

These positions come to 114.44% of the fund's net assets. This counts only what the fund reported holding — the holdings disclosure covers assets, not liabilities such as borrowings — so it is not expected to reconcile to 100%.

Latest quarter

What changed since the fund's previous filing

vs 2025Q4: 93 new79 exited

Largest new: ASURION LLC/ASURION CO ×2, ECHOSTAR CORP, MAUSER PACKAGING SOLUT, CONNECT HOLDING II LLC, VENTURE GLOBAL PLAQUE, LEVEL 3 FINANCING INC, CCO HLDGS LLC/CAP CORP

Largest exited: MAUSER PACKAGING SOLUT ×2, BOOST NEWCO BORROWER LLC, CELANESE US HOLDINGS LLC, ALBERTSONS COS/SAFEWAY, POST HOLDINGS INC, HERC HOLDINGS INC, SPIRIT AEROSYSTEMS INC

Return profile

Total return as filed — price change plus distributions reinvested · trailing figures to Feb 2026

1-year
3-year
5-year
Volatility
Worst 3-yr fall
Cumulative return· Mar 2023 – Feb 2026

Debt profile

What this fund holds — value-weighted across its bond and securitized long positions · as of 2026-02-28

Avg coupon
6.68%
Avg maturity
5.41 yr
Coupon type

Share of the fund's debt by how its coupon behaves — the fact that decides whether a rate move reaches this portfolio at all.

0%
floating
Fixed rate99.9%
Floating rate0.1%
Maturity ladder

Share of the fund's debt value in each maturity band, shortest first.

<1y10y+
<1y0.7%
1-3y20.2%
3-5y37.6%
5-10y38.5%
10y+3.0%
Flagged holdings
Defaulted: 0.10% · $15.94M · 5 positions
In arrears: 0.09% · $14.70M · 2 positions
Paid in kind: 0.80% · $130.94M · 10 positions

These three overlap — one holding can be in arrears and paying in kind at once — so they are shown separately and never summed.

Risk profile

Interest-rate and credit-spread sensitivity, both in years · as of 2026Q1

More of this fund’s sensitivity sits in credit spreads than in interest rates — a rate rally that comes with a credit selloff works against it.

Interest-rate duration
1.43 yr
approx. move per 100bp
Credit-spread duration
2.80 yr
approx. move per 100bp
If rates and spreads both rise 100bp

Where the loss would come from. The two shocks are the same size, so this is the balance of the fund's two sensitivities rather than a bet on one moving more.

≈ -4.0%
of value
Credit spreads66%
Interest rates34%

Filers report the impact of a 0.01% move only, so the total is our own scaling of that one number and overstates the loss on most bonds — read it as approximate, never as precise. The two sensitivities overlap rather than add up: they measure the same positions against different shocks, which is why the durations above are shown side by side and never summed.

Credit risk by quality

Share of the fund's spread duration carried by each credit tier.

+2.80
yrs total
High yield+2.78 yr
Investment grade+0.02 yr
Where the risk sits on the curve

Share of duration at each point, shortest first. A positive figure loses value when spreads widen; a negative one offsets — a credit hedge.

Interest rate1.43 yr total
3 mo10 yr
3 mo0.03 yr2%
1 yr0.27 yr19%
5 yr1.07 yr75%
10 yr0.07 yr5%

30 yr is NEGATIVE (-0.00 yr) — a deliberate hedge at that point on the curve, so it is not part of the band above.

Credit spread2.80 yr total
3 mo30 yr
3 mo0.02 yr1%
1 yr0.33 yr12%
5 yr2.34 yr84%
10 yr0.10 yr4%
30 yr0.01 yr0%

The two bands measure the same positions against different shocks and do not add — a Treasury carries rate duration and no spread duration, a floating-rate credit the reverse. Rate tenors are also summed across every currency the fund discloses.

Show the numbers
TenorRate yrsIG yrsHY yrsIG $/bpHY $/bp
3 mo+0.03+0.00+0.02$123$33.4k
1 yr+0.27+0.00+0.33$0$547.0k
5 yr+1.07+0.02+2.32$33.5k$3.89m
10 yr+0.07+0.00+0.10$0$165.5k
30 yr-0.00+0.00+0.01$0$9.6k

Dollar change per 1bp of spread movement, as filed and sign-anchored. A blank cell was not filed; a zero was.

Holdings

By % of NAV · equity positions carry filed share counts · every resolvable issuer links to its company page

Issuer%NAVValue
BlackRock Funds III15.84%$2.65B
BLACKROCK CASH FUNDS TREASURY SL AGENCY SHARES1.24%$207.61M
1261229 BC LTD10.00% · due 2032-04-150.52%$87.51M
QUIKRETE HOLDINGS INC6.38% · due 2032-03-010.39%$64.54M
ASURION LLC/ASURION CO8.00% · due 2032-12-310.35%$58.40M
CLOUD SOFTWARE GRP INC6.50% · due 2029-03-310.35%$57.96M
CLOUD SOFTWARE GRP INC9.00% · due 2029-09-300.34%$57.84M
DISH NETWORK CORP11.75% · due 2027-11-150.34%$56.62M
ECHOSTAR CORP10.75% · due 2029-11-300.32%$53.69M
WULF COMPUTE LLC7.75% · due 2030-10-150.31%$51.70M
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Top 10 positions are 20.00% of net assets, top 25 23.81%, across 525 issuers.

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