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HYLS holdings

HYLS reports 333 holdings and behaves like 195.5 equally weighted ones, computed from its SEC Form N-PORT filing for 2026-07-31. The fact sheet publishes the first number; this page computes the second, and traces it across 27 quarters of filings.

Measured concentration

as of 2026-07-31
333 Positions reported
195.5 Effective holdings
1.7× Concentration multiple
11.98% 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: 0.37% at a quoted market price (level 1), 13 issuer countries.

What stands out

as of 2026-07-31

HYLS's largest investment is Bculc 4 10/15/30 144a at 1.48% of net assets. Onedigital Borr 06/12/32 and Bwin 7.125 05/15/31 144a follow; the three together are 4.27%. Ten companies are 11.98% of the fund; the other 323 share the rest. Among the 192 bond funds measured here, HYLS behaves like 195.5 holdings against a median of 236.4 — close to the median. Across 27 quarterly filings HYLS has become less concentrated: it behaved like 128.3 at 2019-10-31 and 180.6 at 2026-04-30. Between the 2026-01-31 and 2026-04-30 filings 48 positions were added and 64 dropped; 22.8% of the weight moved. the United States is the largest country at 88.58% of the portfolio, across 13 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 2019-10-31 and 2026-04-30, HYLS went from behaving like 128.3 equally weighted positions to 180.6 — 41% more, while its top ten went from 17.43% to 11.81% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
2026-04-30 313 180.6 11.81% 1.45%
2026-01-31 328 175.8 12.81% 1.65%
2025-10-31 330 174.6 12.98% 1.87%
2025-07-31 334 172.6 13.23% 1.82%
2025-04-30 332 159.7 14.18% 1.88%
2025-01-31 354 146.9 15.88% 2.31%
2024-10-31 346 127.5 18.48% 3.51%
2024-07-31 329 103.1 21.34% 4.89%
Earlier filings (19 more, back to 2019-10-31)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
2024-04-30 327 111 21.17% 2.6%
2024-01-31 306 96.8 22.32% 2.71%
2023-10-31 312 96.8 22.31% 3.02%
2023-07-31 311 82.5 25.44% 3.63%
2023-04-28 314 85 24.92% 3.75%
2023-01-31 268 75.6 25.99% 4.59%
2022-10-31 295 92.7 21.61% 2.82%
2022-07-29 326 104.4 19.79% 2.54%
2022-04-29 417 135.5 15.71% 2.03%
2022-01-31 448 159.4 13.5% 1.96%
2021-10-29 456 160.1 13.87% 1.95%
2021-07-30 469 164.2 13.67% 2.28%
2021-04-30 462 166.6 13.72% 2.33%
2021-01-29 438 169.2 13.68% 2.27%
2020-10-30 421 163.6 14.99% 2.47%
2020-07-31 399 162.5 15.15% 2.44%
2020-04-30 324 124.5 18.43% 3.38%
2020-01-31 315 123 18.86% 2.57%
2019-10-31 291 128.3 17.43% 2.21%

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.

Largest positions, as filed

as of 2026-04-30

The 15 largest of 333 positions in HYLS's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: HYLS.csv.gz.

#PositionWeightCumulative
11011778 B.C. ULC / NEW RED FINANCE INC1.45%1.4%
2ONEDIGITAL BORR 06/12/321.41%2.9%
3BALDWIN INSURANCE GROUP HOLDINGS LLC (THE)1.32%4.2%
4UNITED RENTALS (NORTH AMERICA) INC1.25%5.4%
5QXO INC1.17%6.6%
6DISH NETWORK CORP1.06%7.7%
7ALLIANT HOLDINGS INTERMEDIATE LLC1.05%8.7%
8FAIR ISAAC CORP1.05%9.8%
9QUIKRETE HOLDINGS INC1.05%10.8%
10ATHENAHEALTH GROUP INC1.01%11.8%
11VIKING OCEAN CRUISES SHIP VII LTD1.01%12.8%
12BUILDERS FIRSTSOURCE INC1.00%13.8%
13CLOUD SOFTWARE GROUP INC1.00%14.8%
14ECHOSTAR CORP0.98%15.8%
15ARDONAGH FINCO LTD0.95%16.8%

By country of issuer

as of 2026-04-30

Share of HYLS'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 87.00%
Canada 4.05%
Jersey° 1.87%
United Kingdom 1.86%
Ireland° 1.39%
Bermuda° 1.05%
Netherlands° 0.56%
Panama° 0.53%

Returns the fund reported

2019-08 – 2026-04

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

6.7%Last twelve months filed
28%Whole series, compounded
7.2%Best month
-9.1%Worst month

Cross-checked against a series computed separately from prices: median difference 0.18 percentage points over 81 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: HYLS.json · all funds.

Since the previous filing

2026-01-31 → 2026-04-30

323 positions became 307: 48 added (10.8% of the fund at the later date), 64 dropped (16.1% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 22.8%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of HYLS compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.

Largest increases2026-01-312026-04-30Largest decreases2026-01-312026-04-30
FAIR ISAAC CORP0.20%1.05% ACRISURE LLC / ACRISURE FINANCE INC1.15%0.51%
ROCKET COMPANIES INC0.27%0.78% HUB INTERNATIONAL LTD0.71%0.12%
ECHOSTAR CORP0.50%0.98% MILANO ACQUISIT 08/17/270.83%0.25%
INSTALLED BUILDING PRODUCTS INC0.04%0.51% VISTA MANAGEMEN 03/26/310.47%0.04%
ZIGGO BV0.08%0.54% MORGAN STANLEY INSTITUTIONAL LIQUIDITY FUNDS1.17%0.78%
SCIH SALT HOLDINGS INC0.08%0.53% MOLINA HEALTHCARE INC0.87%0.51%

New: VIKING OCEAN CRUISES SHIP VII LTD (1.01%), PERFORMANCE FOOD GROUP INC (0.54%), TENET HEALTHCARE CORP (0.53%), PARAMOUNT GLOBAL (0.52%), FLUTTER TREASURY DAC (0.51%), AZORRA FINANCE LTD (0.48%). Gone: LIGHTNING POWER LLC (1.65%), X CORP 9.50%, d0/29/2029 (0.94%), AMWINS GROUP INC (0.59%), FRONERI LUX FINCO SARL (0.53%), Garda World Security Corp (0.51%), TRINET GROUP INC (0.50%).

Asset categories and pricing

as of 2026-07-31
Asset category (as filed)Share of investments
debt DBT87.54%
loan LON12.10%
short-term investment STIV0.37%

0.4% of HYLS is carried at a quoted market price (fair-value level 1). 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 HYLS (195.5). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs of
JSCP JPMorgan Short Duration Core Plus ETF 1,222 180.2 18.91% 2026-05-31
FDHY Fidelity Enhanced High Yield ETF 300 185 10.85% 2026-05-31
CGCB Capital Group Core Bond ETF 771 191 13.29% 2026-06-30
FLHY Franklin High Yield Corporate ETF 290 193.6 9.92% 2026-06-30
ICVT iShares Convertible Bond ETF 376 195.5 12.95% 2026-07-31
BGRN iShares USD Green Bond ETF 317 198 12.76% 2026-07-31
CGSD Capital Group Short Duration Income ETF 1,063 198.7 12.75% 2026-06-30
GSST Goldman Sachs Ultra Short Bond ETF 391 207.8 10% 2026-05-31
UCON First Trust Smith Unconstrained Bond ETF 505 214.4 13.79% 2026-05-31
VNLA Janus Henderson Short Duration Income ETF 363 217.8 10.59% 2026-07-31

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