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

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USHY vs XLV: how they differ

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

iShares Broad USD High Yield Corporate Bond ETF and State Street(R) Health Care Select Sector SPDR(R) ETF.

What they hold in common

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

Largest positions each one holds and the other does not
Only in USHYOnly in XLV
1261229 BC LTD 0.48%Eli Lilly & Co 16.56%
ECHOSTAR CORP 0.42%Johnson & Johnson 10.67%
QUIKRETE HOLDINGS INC 0.29%AbbVie Inc 7.76%
SV RNO PROPERTY OWNER 1 0.28%UnitedHealth Group Inc 6.59%
CLOUD SOFTWARE GRP INC 0.27%Merck & Co Inc 5.54%
WULF COMPUTE LLC 0.26%Amgen Inc 3.41%
ASURION LLC/ASURION CO 0.26%Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc 3.25%
HUB INTERNATIONAL LTD 0.26%Abbott Laboratories 2.76%

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 Jun 30, 2026.

USHY and XLV on the fields both publish, as of Sep 12, 2026. Source: ETFIQ.
USHY
iShares Broad USD High Yield Corporate Bond ETF
XLV
State Street(R) Health Care Select Sector SPDR(R) ETF
Where it sitsCore index fundCore index fund
IssueriSharesState Street
What it isBroad USD High Yield Corporate BondHealth care
Total return, 1 year+3.3%+20.4%
S&P 500 over the same days+17.5%+17.5%
Gap to the S&P 500−14.2 pts+2.9 pts
Expense ratio0.08%0.08%
Holdings189459

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.

XLV in plain words

XLV is an index equity fund tracking the Health care. Over the year to Sep 11, 2026 it returned +20.4% with distributions reinvested, against +17.5% for the S&P 500 and +23.0% for the Nasdaq-100. By its holdings filed for Jun 30, 2026, 100% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 59 positions, with the top ten at 61.7%. It sat 5.9% below its high of Aug 19, 2026 on Sep 11, 2026.

Questions people ask

Which returned more over the last year, USHY or XLV?
In the year to Sep 12, 2026, with distributions reinvested, USHY returned +3.3% and XLV returned +20.4%, so XLV returned more. One year is one year; the longer windows are in the table.
Which is cheaper, USHY or XLV?
USHY charges 0.08% a year and XLV charges 0.08%, so USHY is cheaper. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.

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USHY against XLV, 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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