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YLD holdings

YLD reports 149 holdings and behaves like 94.3 equally weighted ones, computed from its SEC Form N-PORT filing for 2026-06-30. The fact sheet publishes the first number; this page computes the second, and traces it across 28 quarters of filings.

Measured concentration

as of 2026-06-30

Read this figure with the following in mind

3.6% of net assets is securities-lending cash collateral, excluded from the figure; counted as filed the fund would read 83.8

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.

149 Positions reported
94.3 Effective holdings
1.6× Concentration multiple
17.92% 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: 6.87% at a quoted market price (level 1), 11 issuer countries.

What stands out

as of 2026-06-30

The largest line in YLD's filing is not a stock but State Street Institutional U.S. Government Money Market Fund Premier Class, a short-term position at 3.45% of net assets. Ten companies are 17.92% of the fund; the other 139 share the rest. Among the 192 bond funds measured here, YLD behaves like 94.3 holdings against a median of 236.4 — 2.5 times more concentrated than the median. Across 28 quarterly filings YLD has held roughly steady since 2019-09-30 (89.8 then, 94.3 now). Between the 2026-03-31 and 2026-06-30 filings 27 positions were added and 17 dropped; 14.0% of the weight moved. the United States is the largest country at 81.08% of the portfolio, across 11 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

28

Between 2019-09-30 and 2026-06-30, YLD went from behaving like 89.8 equally weighted positions to 94.3 — 5% more, while its top ten went from 20.13% to 17.92% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
2026-06-30 149 94.3 17.92% 3.45%
2026-03-31 139 93.3 17.33% 2.84%
2025-12-31 133 92.1 16.42% 2.04%
2025-09-30 125 83.8 18.53% 3.66%
2025-06-30 126 75 21.38% 4.46%
2025-03-31 135 88.3 17.57% 3.46%
2024-12-31 131 89.7 16.2% 2.6%
2024-09-30 134 91.8 16.46% 2.82%
Earlier filings (20 more, back to 2019-09-30)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
2024-06-30 131 88 17.24% 3.87%
2024-03-31 127 75.4 19.43% 6.18%
2023-12-31 123 76.9 19.32% 5.64%
2023-09-30 125 95.1 15.21% 1.74%
2023-06-30 116 67.4 20.63% 7.05%
2023-03-31 118 83.2 18.82% 3.54%
2022-12-31 118 83.5 18.52% 3.9%
2022-09-30 115 82.2 18.39% 3.69%
2022-06-30 116 79.9 18.7% 4.71%
2022-03-31 124 91.9 16.02% 2.74%
2021-12-31 122 87.7 17.01% 3.42%
2021-09-30 123 68.4 20.88% 7.28%
2021-06-30 130 77.3 21.77% 3.75%
2021-03-31 140 84.6 19.74% 2.14%
2020-12-31 144 84.2 19.78% 2.25%
2020-09-30 147 81 21.08% 3.29%
2020-06-30 161 96.5 19.04% 2.12%
2020-03-31 159 93 19.85% 2.26%
2019-12-31 157 91.9 19.97% 2.78%
2019-09-30 147 89.8 20.13% 3.23%

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.

As filed, collateral included

3.64% collateral

YLD's filing lists 150 positions including 3.64% of net assets in securities-lending cash collateral. Counted as filed the fund reads 83.8 effective holdings with a top ten of 20.09%; on its own investments — the figure above — it reads 94.3 with a top ten of 17.92%. 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 2026-06-30

The 15 largest of 149 positions in YLD's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: YLD.csv.gz.

#PositionWeightCumulative
1State Street Institutional US Government Money Market Fund3.45%3.5%
2ENERGY TRANSFER LP2.02%5.5%
3MATADOR RESOURCES CO1.96%7.4%
4OLYMPUS WTR US HLDG CORP1.54%9.0%
5JAZZ SECURITIES DAC1.52%10.5%
6FREEDOM MORTGAGE HOLD1.49%12.0%
7CALIFORNIA BUYER/ATLANTI1.49%13.5%
8AMERITEX HOLDCO INTERMED1.49%15.0%
9SUNOCO LP1.47%16.4%
10GLOBAL AIR LEASE CO LTD1.47%17.9%
11SMYRNA READY MIX CONCRET1.46%19.4%
12EQUIPMENTSHARE.COM INC1.45%20.8%
13ICAHN ENTERPRISES/FIN1.44%22.3%
14CARVANA CO1.43%23.7%
15SINCLAIR TELEVISION GROU1.42%25.1%

By country of issuer

as of 2026-06-30

Share of YLD'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 80.39%
Canada 5.23%
United Kingdom 3.92%
Ireland° 2.58%
Cayman Islands° 2.10%
Not stated in filing 1.58%
Switzerland 1.41%
France 0.95%

Returns the fund reported

2019-07 – 2026-06

Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of YLD's own filings, 84 months on record. Not computed here and not from a price feed.

6.1%Last twelve months filed
45%Whole series, compounded
7.5%Best month
-15.2%Worst month

Cross-checked against a series computed separately from prices: median difference — percentage points over 0 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: YLD.json · all funds.

Who borrows YLD's shares

2026-06-30

The fund lends its holdings, and Item B.4.a of the filing names every firm holding them. At 2026-06-30, $20m was out to 8 borrowers, 3.57% of net assets. The largest, Jefferies LLC, held 32.4% of it.

BorrowerOn loanShare of the loan
Jefferies LLC $7m 32.4%
JP MORGAN SECURITIES LLC $4m 22.0%
GOLDMAN SACHS & CO. $3m 14.1%
CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS INC. $3m 13.3%
The Bank of Nova Scotia $2m 9.4%

Cash collateral reported against the loan: 3.64% of net assets, 102% 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 YLD has filed, with each borrower: YLD.json · all funds.

Since the previous filing

2026-03-31 → 2026-06-30

138 positions became 148: 27 added (11.0% of the fund at the later date), 17 dropped (7.5% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 14.0%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of YLD compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.

Largest increases2026-03-312026-06-30Largest decreases2026-03-312026-06-30
State Street Institutional US Government Money Market Fund2.84%3.45% EF HOLD/EF KY/ELL KY/TRS1.30%0.31%
AMERITEX HOLDCO INTERMED1.08%1.49% MCAFEE CORP1.32%0.51%
KRONOS ACQUISITION HOLDI0.12%0.50% ENDO FINANCE HOLDINGS LP1.22%0.64%
Zayo Group Holdings Inc0.28%0.62% CINEMARK USA INC1.06%0.56%
SUNOCO LP1.27%1.47% ACADIA HEALTHCARE CO INC0.90%0.47%
SINCLAIR TELEVISION GROU1.22%1.42% GLOBAL MEDICAL RESPONSE0.48%0.12%

New: VIRGIN MEDIA SECURED FIN (1.01%), NOBLE FINANCE II LLC (0.96%), SOLARIS ENERGY INFRASTRU (0.92%), LEVEL 3 FINANCING INC (0.83%), HARVEST MIDSTREAM I LP (0.79%), VIKING BAKED GOODS ACQUI (0.65%). Gone: LIGHTNING POWER LLC (1.46%), KIOXIA HOLDINGS CORP (1.24%), NORTHERN OIL & GAS INC (0.65%), CLYDESDALE ACQUISITION (0.53%), DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS (0.52%), AMERICAN AIRLINES/AADVAN (0.52%).

Asset categories and pricing

as of 2026-06-30
Asset category (as filed)Share of investments
debt DBT88.92%
short-term investment STIV6.84%
loan LON4.21%
equity EC0.02%
preferred equity EP0.01%

6.9% of YLD 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 YLD (94.3). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs of
APLU Allspring Core Plus ETF 543 86.2 26.63% 2026-05-31
VGSH Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index Fund 92 88.2 14% 2026-05-31
SCHO Schwab Short-Term U.S. Treasury ETF 97 89 14.49% 2026-06-30
GOVT iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF 215 92.9 21.91% 2026-07-31
THYF T. Rowe Price U.S. High Yield ETF 110 93.9 16.34% 2026-05-31
PCY Invesco Emerging Markets Sovereign Debt ETF 103 101.5 11.64% 2026-07-31
CMDT PIMCO Commodity Strategy Active Exchange-Traded Fund 371 103.2 * 20.28% 2026-06-30
HFSI Hartford Strategic Income ETF 1,179 104.1 * 24.1% 2026-07-31
FPEI First Trust Institutional Preferred Securities and Income ETF 174 106.7 17.96% 2026-07-31
FALN iShares Fallen Angels USD Bond ETF 159 109.6 17.8% 2026-07-31

Essays that examine YLD

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