Weekly 🇺🇸 High Yield ETF Update - October 2
Since common inception, HYLD leads the U.S. equity income peer group with a +23.50% cumulative total return, followed by USCL (+21.48%), HHIS (+15.78%), SDAY (+15.77%), while BIGY (-9.96%) remains negative. The spread continues to show how leverage, overwrite levels, and portfolio construction can create very different outcomes across strategies targeting similar U.S. equity-income exposure.
Over shorter periods, leadership has rotated. Over the last 6 months, HHIS (+34.00%) leads, followed by HYLD (+26.60%), USCL (+21.52%), BIGY (+14.75%), and SDAY (+9.42%). Over 3 months, BIGY (+12.20%) and HHIS (+11.39%) have led, while over the last 1 month, HHIS (+9.89%) leads, followed by BIGY (+7.98%), USCL (+5.17%), HYLD (+3.16%), and SDAY (-0.67%).
