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About ISHARES TRUST
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Inception date
Jul 22, 2002
Structure
Open-Ended Fund
Dividend treatment
Distributes
Distribution tax treatment
Ordinary income
Income tax type
Capital Gains
Max ST capital gains rate
39.60%
Max LT capital gains rate
20.00%
Primary advisor
BlackRock Fund Advisors
Distributor
BlackRock Investments LLC
SHY is a powerhouse in its segment, stable, liquid vehicle for buy-and-hold investors and short-term traders alike. In addition, SHY is a well managed fund that tracks its index tightly and without significant volatility, like most peer ETFs. The fund delivers excellent coverage of the short-term Treasury space as we see it. SHY and our benchmark share the same index, but the fund's optimization strategyavoiding the index's less liquid components to keep costs downresults in slight performance differences. Still SHY provides excellent exposure to 1-3 year Treasurys. The fund switched its index from the Barclays US Treasury Bond 1-3 Year Term Index to the ICE US Treasury 1-3 Year Bond Index on March 31, 2016. This change effectively maintains the same exposure. Overall SHY is a fine choice for short-dated Treasury exposure.
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Returns
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What's in the fund
Exposure type
Government
Bonds, Cash & Other100.00%
Government98.78%
Cash1.22%
Stock breakdown by region
North America100.00%
Latin America0.00%
Europe0.00%
Asia0.00%
Africa0.00%
Middle East0.00%
Oceania0.00%
Top 10 holdings
Dividends
Dividend payout history
Assets under management (AUM)
Fund Flows
Frequently Asked Questions
SHY top holdings are United States Treasury Notes 0.75% 31-MAY-2026 and United States Treasury Notes 4.0% 15-JAN-2027, occupying 2.53% and 2.33% of the portfolio correspondingly.
SHY last dividends amounted to 0.26 USD. The month before, the issuer paid 0.28 USD in dividends, which shows a 7.95% decrease.
Yes, SHY pays dividends to its holders with the dividend yield of 3.96%. The last dividend (May 6, 2025) amounted to 0.26 USD. The dividends are paid monthly.
SHY shares are issued by BlackRock, Inc. under the brand iShares. The ETF was launched on Jul 22, 2002, and its management style is Passive.
SHY expense ratio is 0.15% meaning you'd have to pay 0.15% of your investment to help manage the fund.
SHY follows the ICE BofA US Treasury Bond (1-3 Y). ETFs usually track some benchmark seeking to replicate its performance and guide asset selection and objectives.
SHY invests in bonds.
SHY price has fallen by −1.72% over the last month, and its yearly performance shows a −1.45% decrease. See more dynamics on SHY price chart.
NAV returns, another gauge of an ETF dynamics, have fallen by −0.03% over the last month, showed a 1.46% increase in three-month performance and has increased by 5.37% in a year.
NAV returns, another gauge of an ETF dynamics, have fallen by −0.03% over the last month, showed a 1.46% increase in three-month performance and has increased by 5.37% in a year.
SHY trades at a premium (2.70%) meaning the ETF is trading at a higher price than the calculated NAV.