Data as of Oct 28, 2026.
BITO vs HYG: Differences, Returns & Fees
Over the year to Oct 28, 2026, BITO returned −30.5% to HYG's +1.3%, and HYG charges 0.49% to BITO's 0.95%.
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Net assets: $1.6bn on Oct 28, 2026 for ProShares Bitcoin ETF, and $17.5bn on Oct 27, 2026 for iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF.
Pair scorecard
HYG costs 0.46 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 31.8 points; HYG is 10.9 times larger.
| Measure | BITO | HYG |
|---|---|---|
| Return | ||
| Total return, 1 year | −30.5% | +1.3% |
| Benchmark | ||
| What it tracks | Bitcoin futures and swaps on Bitcoin | Markit iBoxx USD Liquid High Yield Index |
| Cost and size | ||
| Expense ratio | 0.95% | 0.49% |
| Net assets, as of Oct 27, 2026 | $1.6bn | $17.5bn |
| Holdings | ||
| Holdings in common | 0% | |
Holdings in common uses holdings dated Oct 27, 2026. Method
What they share
By the books each fund has filed, BITO and HYG hold 0% of their money in the same securities at the same weight. Holdings dated Oct 27, 2026.
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0% in common
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Side by side
BITO and HYG on the fields both publish, as of Oct 28, 2026. Source: ETFIQ.
BITO is a registered fund that reaches Bitcoin through what its N-PORT for Aug 31, 2026 lists: Bitcoin futures and swaps on Bitcoin. Over the year to Oct 28, 2026, Bitcoin moved −28.3% and BITO returned −30.5%. That leaves it 2.2 percentage points behind. BITO is a registered investment company: it files a monthly N-PORT rather than a 10-K. Its N-PORT for Aug 31, 2026 puts 67.9% of its net assets in ProShares GENIUS Money Market ETF.
A holder gets exposure to Bitcoin without the fund holding the coin itself. That difference is the fee, the cost of rolling the futures from one month to the next, what the futures traded at against Bitcoin, and what the market paid for the shares, all of it together. It is the only number on this page the sponsor does not publish itself.
HYG
HYG tracks an index of US high yield bonds. Over the year to Oct 28, 2026 it returned +1.3% with distributions reinvested, against −1.2% for its benchmark, the Bloomberg U.S. Universal Index. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.49% a year.
Questions people ask
- Are BITO and HYG in the same category?
- BITO is a crypto futures ETF and HYG is a bond ETF, so they do different jobs. The table compares what both publish: return, cost and holdings.
- Which returned more over the last year, BITO or HYG?
- In the year to Oct 28, 2026, with distributions reinvested, BITO returned −30.5% and HYG +1.3%.
- Which is cheaper, BITO or HYG?
- HYG is cheaper, by 0.46 percentage points a year. That is about $46 on $10,000 held for a year. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.
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How this is computed
Overlap adds up the smaller of the two weights for each security both funds hold.
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