SHY · iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF
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SHY tracks an index of 1-3 Year Treasury Bond and returned +1.6% over the past year.
SHY paid $0.241 a share, ex-date Oct 1, 2026, and 3.5% of its price in cash over the year to Oct 28, 2026.
Promise check: DeliveredOver the year to Oct 28, 2026, SHY returned 1.6% against 1.7% for BBSB, which tracks the same ICE U.S. Treasury 1-3 Year Bond Index. Fees aside, SHY finished 0.02 points behind BBSB.
SHY risk and return scorecard
vs BBSB · Apr 2023 to Oct 2026 · 182 weekly returns · dividend-adjusted
Computed by ETFIQ from Tiingo daily prices and ETFIQ's distribution records; risk-free rate: U.S. Treasury, Daily Treasury Bill Rates, 13-week coupon equivalent Method · Data
Money in and out
Net fund flows · Oct 23, 2026What you earned
What does it hold, and how long?
Holdings filed for Aug 31, 2026 (N-PORT)More on SHY
Every number below is on this page. Open what you need.Price and total return, 1 year
$81.470.0%1 day, priceClose, Oct 28, 2026
Total return adds every distribution, reinvested. Computed by ETFIQ from Tiingo daily prices.
Source: Tiingo end-of-day prices. Data as of Oct 28, 2026. Updated every trading night. Report a data error
Points (pts) are percentage points.
| Window | Total return | Benchmark (BBSB) | Gap to BBSB |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1M Sep 28 – Oct 28, 2026 | +0.7% | +0.7% | 0.0 pts |
| 3M Jul 29 – Oct 28, 2026 | +0.3% | +0.3% | 0.0 pts |
| 6M Apr 29 – Oct 28, 2026 | +0.7% | +0.7% | 0.0 pts |
| YTD Dec 31, 2025 – Oct 28, 2026 | +1.0% | +1.1% | −0.1 pts |
| 1Y Oct 28, 2025 – Oct 28, 2026 | +1.6% | +1.7% | −0.1 pts |
| 3Y Oct 27, 2023 – Oct 28, 2026 | +12.5% | +12.9% | −0.4 pts |
| 5Y Oct 29, 2021 – Oct 28, 2026 | +10.0% | not available | not available |
| 10Y Oct 28, 2016 – Oct 28, 2026 | +18.3% | not available | not available |
| Since launch Jul 26, 2002 – Oct 28, 2026 | +59.4% | not available | not available |
| Since launch, annualised Jul 26, 2002 – Oct 28, 2026 | +1.9% | – | – |
Total returns, distributions reinvested.
Source: Tiingo end-of-day prices, with distributions reinvested.
Money in and out
Daily data · as of Oct 23, 2026SHY: in the year to Oct 23, 2026, net $3.4bn came in; in the month to Oct 23, 2026, $949m came in.
Oct 21, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026
Sep 28, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026
Jul 28, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026
Jan 2, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026
Oct 28, 2025 to Oct 23, 2026
SEC filings, then daily counts
SHY, net flow each trading day over the 63 sessions from Jul 28, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026: money came in on 34 days and went out on 21 days.
Money in on 34 of the 63 trading days, out on 21.
SHY, net flow each trading day over the 249 sessions from Oct 28, 2025 to Oct 23, 2026: money came in on 104 days and went out on 101 days.
Money in on 104 of the 249 trading days, out on 101.
SHY, net flow each trading day over the 400 sessions from Mar 24, 2025 to Oct 23, 2026: money came in on 168 days and went out on 157 days.
Money in on 168 of the 400 trading days, out on 157.
SHY is one of 2 US-listed ETFs tracking the ICE U.S. Treasury 1-3 Year Bond. The money in and out of all 2, side by side.
Computed by ETFIQ from iShares’s daily data: each day’s change in shares outstanding times the previous day’s net asset value.
How this is computed
Percentages are of net assets at the start of each window. Numbers are net: money in less money out. Checked against the filing: The month’s daily sum and the filing’s B.6 number agree within rounding or, where the filing’s is larger, within rounding plus the fund’s creation and redemption fees. The full rule is in the fund’s flows file. Every day and month ETFIQ holds for SHY, back to Sep 2019, is in its flows file. Flows across every fund · How these flows are computed · Compare SHY with other funds in the flows tool
Every trading day, last 3 months63 days
Most recent first.
Week by week, last year52 weeks
Net flow into SHY each week, Oct 28, 2025 to Oct 23, 2026, most recent first, each week named by its last trading day with data. Computed by ETFIQ.
Month by month, money in and money outNov 2023 to Oct 2026
SHY, money in and money out each month from Nov 2023 to Sep 2026: two bars a month, money in above the line and money out below. Bars for Nov 2023 to May 2026 are from SHY’s SEC filings (N-PORT item B.6), and for Jun 2026 to Sep 2026 ETFIQ’s sums of its days. Oct 2026 is still in progress, so it is in the list and not drawn. Of the 36 months listed, money came in on net in 15 and went out in 21.
Bars for Nov 2023 to May 2026 are from SHY’s SEC filings (N-PORT item B.6), and for Jun 2026 to Sep 2026 ETFIQ’s sums of its days. Of the 36 months listed, money came in on net in 15 and went out in 21.
Most recent first.
How this is computed
N-PORT months: money in is sales plus reinvestments; money out is redemptions. Months summed from daily data: money in adds the days money came in; money out adds the days it went out.
N-PORT months are the filed sales plus reinvestments less redemptions. Later months add up the daily data; the Source column names any missing day.
Source: ETFIQ, from the fund’s daily share counts and net asset values, and its SEC N-PORT filings. Data as of Oct 23, 2026.
SHY key stats
Trading
as of Oct 27, 2026
Trades like a giant: trades at a typical spread of 0.01%.
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About SHY
12 seats on SHY, as of Oct 28, 2026: 2 Supports, 2 Mixed, 1 Challenges, 3 Not enough data, 4 Does not apply.
Questions people ask about SHY
- How has SHY performed?
- Over the year to Oct 28, 2026, SHY returned +1.6% with distributions reinvested, against +1.7% for its benchmark, the ICE U.S. Treasury 1-3 Year Bond Index. Over three years the number is +12.5%.
- What does SHY cost?
- The prospectus expense ratio is 0.15% a year.
- How far is SHY below its high?
- 0.2% below its high of Aug 25, 2026, measured on the reinvested series to Oct 28, 2026.
- What dividend does SHY pay?
- SHY pays monthly. The last distribution was $0.241 a share, which went ex on Oct 1, 2026.
- What is the expense ratio of SHY?
- SHY's expense ratio is 0.15% a year, read from 485BPOS XBRL, Jun 18, 2026.
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