Which returned more over the last year, USHY or VCSH?

In the year to Sep 12, 2026, with distributions reinvested, USHY returned +3.3% and VCSH returned +1.6%, so USHY returned more. One year is one year; the longer windows are in the table.

Which is cheaper, USHY or VCSH?

USHY charges 0.08% a year and VCSH charges 0.03%, so VCSH is cheaper. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.

Data as of Sep 12, 2026. Both funds on the fields they both publish, from the same sources.

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USHY vs VCSH: how they differ

USHY and VCSH hold 0% of their weight in the same names, and USHY returned more over the year.

iShares Broad USD High Yield Corporate Bond ETF and Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund.

What they hold in common

By the books each fund has filed, USHY and VCSH hold 0% of their money in the same securities at the same weight.

Positions USHY and VCSH both hold, largest shared weight first
Holding	USHY	VCSH
CONSTELLATION EN GEN LLC	0.03%	0.03%
PILGRIM'S PRIDE CORP	0.05%	0.03%

Largest positions each one holds and the other does not
Only in USHY	Only in VCSH
1261229 BC LTD 0.48%	United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.85%
ECHOSTAR CORP 0.42%	Bank of America Corp 0.24%
QUIKRETE HOLDINGS INC 0.29%	AbbVie Inc 0.21%
SV RNO PROPERTY OWNER 1 0.28%	CVS Health Corp 0.21%
CLOUD SOFTWARE GRP INC 0.27%	T-Mobile USA Inc 0.20%
WULF COMPUTE LLC 0.26%	Boeing Co/The 0.20%
ASURION LLC/ASURION CO 0.26%	Wells Fargo & Co 0.18%
HUB INTERNATIONAL LTD 0.26%	JPMorgan Chase & Co 0.18%

Weight overlap is an ETFIQ calculation: for every security both funds hold, the smaller of the two weights, summed. Above 50%, holding both is close to holding one of them twice. Holdings dated Apr 30, 2026 and May 31, 2026.

USHY and VCSH on the fields both publish, as of Sep 12, 2026. Source: ETFIQ.
	USHY iShares Broad USD High Yield Corporate Bond ETF	VCSH Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund
Where it sits	Core index fund	Core index fund
Issuer	iShares	Vanguard
What it is	Broad USD High Yield Corporate Bond	Short-Term Corporate Bond
Total return, 1 year	+3.3%	+1.6%
S&P 500 over the same days	+17.5%	+17.5%
Gap to the S&P 500	−14.2 pts	−15.9 pts
Expense ratio	0.08%	0.03%
Holdings	1894	2999

USHY in plain words

USHY is a bond fund tracking the Broad USD High Yield Corporate Bond. Over the year to Sep 11, 2026 it returned +3.3% with distributions reinvested, against +17.5% for the S&P 500 and +23.0% for the Nasdaq-100. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.08% a year.

VCSH in plain words

VCSH is a bond fund tracking the Short-Term Corporate Bond. Over the year to Sep 11, 2026 it returned +1.6% with distributions reinvested, against +17.5% for the S&P 500 and +23.0% for the Nasdaq-100. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.03% a year.

Questions people ask

Which returned more over the last year, USHY or VCSH?: In the year to Sep 12, 2026, with distributions reinvested, USHY returned +3.3% and VCSH returned +1.6%, so USHY returned more. One year is one year; the longer windows are in the table.
Which is cheaper, USHY or VCSH?: USHY charges 0.08% a year and VCSH charges 0.03%, so VCSH is cheaper. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.

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USHY against VCSH, ETFIQ, data as of Sep 12, 2026. Every figure is arithmetic on a named public source; the method is at etfiq.com/methodology. A comparison is not a recommendation.

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