Which returned more over the last year, HYMB or URTH?

In the year to Oct 28, 2026, with distributions reinvested, HYMB returned −1.0% and URTH +13.1%.

Which is cheaper, HYMB or URTH?

URTH is cheaper, by 0.11 percentage points a year. That is about $11 on $10,000 held for a year. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.

Data as of Oct 28, 2026.

Across categories

HYMB vs URTH: Differences, Returns & Fees

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Over the year to Oct 28, 2026, HYMB returned −1.0% to URTH's +13.1%; 0% of their weight is in the same names.

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Net assets: $3.8bn on Oct 27, 2026 for State Street SPDR Nuveen ICE High Yield Municipal Bond ETF, and $8.9bn on Oct 28, 2026 for iShares MSCI World ETF.

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At a glance

−1.0%

HYMB total return, 1 year

+13.1%

URTH total return, 1 year

0.35%

HYMB expense ratio

0.24%

URTH expense ratio

Pair scorecard

URTH costs 0.11 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 14.1 points; URTH is 2.3 times larger.

HYMB vs URTH: Differences, Returns & Fees
Measure	HYMB	URTH
Return
Measure	HYMB	URTH
Total return, 1 year	−1.0%	+13.1%
Drawdown
Measure	HYMB	URTH
Below its high	4.7%, high on Jul 2, 2026
Benchmark
Measure	HYMB	URTH
What it tracks	ICE US Select High Yield Crossover Municipal Index	MSCI World Index
Cost and size
Measure	HYMB	URTH
Expense ratio	0.35%	0.24%
Net assets, as of Oct 27, 2026	$3.8bn	$8.8bn
Holdings
Measure	HYMB	URTH
Holdings in common	0%
In the S&P 500, by weight		69%
Top ten holdings, share of the fund		27.2%

Holdings in common uses holdings dated Oct 27, 2026. Method

What they share

By the books each fund has filed, HYMB and URTH hold 0% of their money in the same securities at the same weight. Holdings dated Oct 27, 2026.

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Positions both hold · largest shared weight first HYMB URTH

Only in one fund ↓

Only in HYMB

PRCGEN 5.000 07/01/58 1.94%

PRCGEN 4.784 07/01/58 1.25%

BUCGEN 5.000 06/01/55 1.08%

PRC 4.000 07/01/46 0.64%

PRCGEN 4.329 07/01/40 0.61%

NYCDEV 5.000 11/15/44 0.49%

PRC 4.000 07/01/41 0.47%

CHIEDU 6.000 12/01/41 0.46%

Only in URTH

APPLE 5.60%

NVIDIA 5.50%

MICROSOFT 4.12%

AMAZON.COM INC 2.69%

ALPHABET CLASS A 2.07%

BROADCOM INC 1.70%

ALPHABET CLASS C 1.62%

META PLATFORMS CLASS A 1.49%

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Side by side

HYMB State Street SPDR Nuveen ICE High Yield Municipal Bond ETF URTH iShares MSCI World ETF

Where it sits Bond ETF Stock ETF

Issuer State Street iShares

What it is Tracks an index of Nuveen ICE High Yield Municipal Bond Tracks the MSCI World

Total return, 1 year −1.0% +13.1%

Its benchmark over the same days −1.4% (AGG) +13.4% (ACWI)

Gap to its benchmark +0.4 pts vs AGG −0.3 pts vs ACWI

Expense ratio 0.35% 0.24%

Holdings 2105 1254

Net assets, HYMB as of Oct 27, 2026 and URTH as of Oct 28, 2026 $3.8bn $8.9bn

HYMB and URTH on the fields both publish, as of Oct 28, 2026. Source: ETFIQ.

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About each fund

HYMB

HYMB tracks an index of Nuveen ICE High Yield Municipal Bond. Over the year to Oct 28, 2026 it returned −1.0% with distributions reinvested, against −1.4% for its benchmark, the Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Bond Index. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.35% a year. It sat 4.7% below its high of Jul 2, 2026 on Oct 28, 2026.

URTH

URTH tracks the MSCI World. Over the year to Oct 28, 2026 it returned +13.1% with distributions reinvested, against +13.4% for its benchmark, the MSCI All Country World Index. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.24% a year. By its holdings published by its issuer for Oct 27, 2026, 69% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 1,254 positions, with the top ten at 27.2%.

Questions people ask

Which returned more over the last year, HYMB or URTH?: In the year to Oct 28, 2026, with distributions reinvested, HYMB returned −1.0% and URTH +13.1%.
Which is cheaper, HYMB or URTH?: URTH is cheaper, by 0.11 percentage points a year. That is about $11 on $10,000 held for a year. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.

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Sources and dates

HYMB filings on SEC EDGAR ↗

HYMB prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗

State Street website ↗

URTH filings on SEC EDGAR ↗

URTH prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗

iShares page for URTH ↗

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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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