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HYG holdings

HYG reports 1,322 holdings and behaves like 907.5 equally weighted ones, computed from its SEC Form N-PORT filing for 2026-05-31. The fact sheet publishes the first number; this page computes the second, and traces it across 27 quarters of filings.

Measured concentration

as of 2026-05-31

Read this figure with the following in mind

12.7% of net assets is securities-lending cash collateral, excluded from the figure; counted as filed the fund would read 58.3

The figure below is what the filing says, published unchanged. What it may not do is sit beside a plain long-only fund and be read as the same quantity. How comparability is decided.

1,322 Positions reported
907.5 Effective holdings
1.5× Concentration multiple
3.57% Top ten weight

Computed by this site from the fund's SEC Form N-PORT filing; what the measure does not tell you · every fund in one table · hold it with other funds? X-ray the mix. Pricing: 11.76% at a quoted market price (level 1), 20 issuer countries.

What stands out

as of 2026-05-31

HYG's largest investment is 1261229 BC Ltd at 0.54% of net assets. EchoStar Corp and Cloud Software Group Inc follow; the three together are 1.33%. Ten companies are 3.57% of the fund; the other 1,312 share the rest. Among the 192 bond funds measured here, HYG behaves like 907.5 holdings against a median of 236.4 — 3.8 times the median. Across 27 quarterly filings HYG has become less concentrated: it behaved like 652.9 at 2019-11-30 and 907.5 at 2026-05-31. Between the 2026-02-28 and 2026-05-31 filings 93 positions were added and 113 dropped; 12.8% of the weight moved. the United States is the largest country at 85.35% of the portfolio, across 20 countries in the filing.

Each sentence is read from the fund's own SEC filing; the class median is computed across the comparable bond funds on this site. Nothing here is a view on the fund.

Every filing since 2019

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Between 2019-11-30 and 2026-05-31, HYG went from behaving like 652.9 equally weighted positions to 907.5 — 39% more, while its top ten went from 4.99% to 3.57% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
2026-05-31 1,322 907.5 3.57% 0.56%
2026-02-28 1,342 809.1 4.52% 1.26%
2025-11-30 1,327 913.3 3.58% 0.44%
2025-08-31 1,297 805.7 4.53% 1.24%
2025-05-31 1,274 879.8 3.75% 0.5%
2025-02-28 1,269 830.2 4.31% 1.06%
2024-11-30 1,266 907.5 3.36% 0.39%
2024-08-31 1,247 880.9 3.56% 0.41%
Earlier filings (19 more, back to 2019-11-30)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
2024-05-31 1,249 881.7 3.57% 0.41%
2024-02-29 1,197 814.1 4.2% 0.85%
2023-11-30 1,190 836 3.71% 0.44%
2023-08-31 1,190 806 4.23% 0.81%
2023-05-31 1,207 846.7 3.77% 0.47%
2023-02-28 1,198 819.8 4.28% 0.74%
2022-11-30 1,225 729.4 4.91% 1.5%
2022-08-31 1,259 787.8 4.62% 1.16%
2022-05-31 1,278 796.4 4.45% 1.35%
2022-02-28 1,332 897.5 3.89% 0.81%
2021-11-30 1,349 944.3 3.38% 0.48%
2021-08-31 1,321 853.2 4.04% 1.17%
2021-05-31 1,305 918.5 3.38% 0.47%
2021-02-28 1,287 813.1 4.41% 1.08%
2020-11-30 1,245 686.4 5.23% 1.82%
2020-08-31 1,236 833.1 3.78% 0.51%
2020-05-31 1,090 700.4 4.6% 0.8%
2020-02-29 1,020 566.6 5.79% 1.87%
2019-11-30 1,007 652.9 4.99% 0.99%

One row per filed reporting period, newest first, read from EDGAR. Quarterly because that is the public filing cadence. Rows marked * are published but held out of the comparison above; the methodology page says when and why.

Compared with, in the essays

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Overlap with other funds

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Measured against every other fund on this site, from the same filings. Combined effective holdings is how the pair behaves held in equal size.

WithOverlapSharedCombined effective
HYG vs LQD 0.3% 1 2369.3

As filed, collateral included

12.69% collateral

HYG's filing lists 1,323 positions including 12.69% of net assets in securities-lending cash collateral. Counted as filed the fund reads 58.3 effective holdings with a top ten of 15.89%; on its own investments — the figure above — it reads 907.5 with a top ten of 3.57%. The collateral is matched by a liability and is not a holding the fund chose; since 2026-09-18 every figure on this site sets it aside (methodology). Both numbers are in the data.

Largest positions, as filed

as of 2026-05-31

The 15 largest of 1,322 positions in HYG's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: HYG.csv.gz.

#PositionWeightCumulative
11261229 BC LTD0.56%0.6%
2ECHOSTAR CORP0.45%1.0%
3CLOUD SOFTWARE GRP INC0.35%1.4%
4QUIKRETE HOLDINGS INC0.34%1.7%
5CLOUD SOFTWARE GRP INC0.34%2.0%
6DISH NETWORK CORP0.33%2.4%
7SV RNO PROPERTY OWNER 10.31%2.7%
8NEXSTAR MEDIA INC0.30%3.0%
9HUB INTERNATIONAL LTD0.30%3.3%
10BLACKROCK CASH FUNDS TREASURY SL AGENCY SHARES0.30%3.6%
11VENTURE GLOBAL LNG INC0.29%3.9%
12ASURION LLC/ASURION CO0.28%4.1%
13ASURION LLC/ASURION CO0.28%4.4%
14CRC INSURANCE GROUP LLC0.28%4.7%
15WULF COMPUTE LLC0.27%5.0%

By country of issuer

as of 2026-05-31

Share of HYG's own investments by the issuer country the filer reported (incorporation, not revenue). Each country links to every fund that holds it.

CountryShare
United States 83.45%
Canada 4.11%
United Kingdom 1.78%
Not stated in filing 1.54%
Japan 1.21%
Netherlands° 1.16%
Bermuda° 1.11%
France 1.07%

Returns the fund reported

2019-09 – 2026-05

Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of HYG's own filings, 81 months on record. Not computed here and not from a price feed.

7.1%Last twelve months filed
32%Whole series, compounded
6.8%Best month
-10.1%Worst month

Cross-checked against a series computed separately from prices: median difference 0.20 percentage points over 81 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: HYG.json · all funds.

Who borrows HYG's shares

2026-05-31

The fund lends its holdings, and Item B.4.a of the filing names every firm holding them. At 2026-05-31, $2.0bn was out to 29 borrowers, 12.17% of net assets. The largest, DEUTSCHE BANK SECURITIES INC, held 16.9% of it.

BorrowerOn loanShare of the loan
DEUTSCHE BANK SECURITIES INC $331m 16.9%
BARCLAYS BANK PLC $287m 14.6%
RBC Capital Markets LLC $195m 10.0%
JP MORGAN SECURITIES LLC $192m 9.8%
BNP PARIBAS PRIME BROKERAGE INTERNATIONAL LIMITED $160m 8.2%

Cash collateral reported against the loan: 12.69% of net assets, 104.3% of the amount lent. That is a floor on the collateral, not the whole of it — collateral the fund does not hold as a position is not in this filing, so a figure under 100% is not evidence of under-collateralisation. How that figure behaves across all funds. Every quarter HYG has filed, with each borrower: HYG.json · all funds.

Since the previous filing

2026-02-28 → 2026-05-31

1,342 positions became 1,322: 93 added (6.2% of the fund at the later date), 113 dropped (6.1% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 12.8%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of HYG compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.

Largest increases2026-02-282026-05-31Largest decreases2026-02-282026-05-31
SV RNO PROPERTY OWNER 10.11%0.31% BLACKROCK CASH FUNDS TREASURY SL AGENCY SHARES1.26%0.30%
BLACK PEARL COMPUTE LLC0.02%0.19% DIRECTV FIN LLC/COINC0.16%0.02%
ECHOSTAR CORP0.33%0.45% GLOBAL AIR LEASE CO LTD0.12%0.02%
TRANSDIGM INC0.02%0.14% ICAHN ENTERPRISES/FIN0.12%0.03%
SAKS Global Enterprises LLC0.06%0.17% ASURION LLC/ASURION CO0.35%0.28%
ASURION LLC/ASURION CO0.19%0.29% LIVE NATION ENTERTAINMEN0.12%0.05%

New: NEXSTAR MEDIA INC (0.30%), PR RNO PROPERTY OWNER 1 (0.27%), MERIDIAN ARC HOLDCO LLC (0.26%), APLD COMPUTECO 2 LLC (0.19%), OAK-EAGLE ACQUIRECO INC (0.16%), COREWEAVE INC (0.16%). Gone: LIGHTNING POWER LLC (0.16%), RAKUTEN GROUP INC (0.15%), NEXSTAR MEDIA INC (0.14%), VISTRA OPERATIONS CO LLC (0.14%), UNIVISION COMMUNICATIONS (0.14%), TK ELEVATOR US NEWCO INC (0.13%).

Asset categories and pricing

as of 2026-05-31
Asset category (as filed)Share of investments
debt DBT88.04%
short-term investment STIV11.76%
loan LON0.20%

11.8% of HYG is carried at a quoted market price (fair-value level 1); 0.1% at level 3, priced from the filer's own inputs. Categories and levels are the filer's, from Form N-PORT; what a low level-1 share does and does not mean is in the measure's page.

Neighbours by effective holdings, debt funds

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Every measured debt fund lined up by how many holdings it behaves like; these sit either side of HYG (907.5). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs of
SCHZ Schwab U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 12,327 807.8 4.92% 2026-06-30
BND Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund 17,397 877.7 4.63% 2026-06-30
BHYB Xtrackers USD High Yield BB-B ex Financials ETF 1,478 903.4 4.4% 2026-05-31
ITM VanEck Intermediate Muni ETF 1,369 905 3.9% 2026-07-31
IAGG iShares Core International Aggregate Bond ETF 8,357 906 6.08% 2026-07-31
BWX State Street(R) SPDR(R) Bloomberg International Treasury Bond ETF 1,372 911.5 2.77% 2026-06-30
IBMP iShares iBonds Dec 2027 Term Muni Bond ETF 1,846 957 3.65% 2026-07-31
IBMQ iShares iBonds Dec 2028 Term Muni Bond ETF 2,777 999.7 4.23% 2026-07-31
BNDX Vanguard Total International Bond Index Fund 6,999 1088.6 4.54% 2026-07-31
SPHY State Street(R) SPDR(R) Portfolio High Yield Bond ETF 1,935 1127.1 3.17% 2026-06-30

Essays that examine HYG

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