iShares High Yield Corporate Bond BuyWrite Strategy ETF
HYGW CBOE - exBATS
The iShares High Yield Corporate Bond BuyWrite Strategy ETF seeks to track the investment results of an index that reflects a strategy of holding the while writing (selling) one-month covered call options to generate income.
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- Dividend yield
- 11.10% Trailing 12 months
- Volatility · 1Y
- 3.0% Average Risk
- Beta
- 0.21 vs the market
- 52-week range
- 27.0328.45
How HYGW has paid off
Price return over every period, and total return with dividends reinvested, set against price alone.
Return by period
Price · to Oct 12Total return vs price return
Price onlyOver 1 year, HYGW returned +15.4% with dividends reinvested — dividends added +11.5 pts to the price move.
How bumpy is the ride?
Return only means something next to the risk taken to earn it. Volatility, drawdowns and market sensitivity over 1 year.
Volatility
Annualized · 1YA typical year sees the price swing about ±3% around its trend.
Drawdown from peak
How far below its previous high the price has been Deepest fall −2.2% on Oct 1, 2026 — 35 days after the previous high
More than 5% below a high 0% of the time.
Market sensitivity
BetaA beta of 0.21 means HYGW has moved less than the market.
Trend & momentum
Where the price sits against its moving averages, and how stretched the recent move is.
Price vs moving averages
Uptrend- 12-day average28.02 +0.2%
- 26-day average28.08 −0.0%
- 50-day average28.13 −0.2%
- 200-day average27.86 +0.8%
The price is above 2 of 4 averages. The 50-day average is above the 200-day, a sign of a rising longer-term trend.
Relative strength (RSI)
NeutralRSI compares recent gains with recent losses on a 0–100 scale. Above 70 a move is often considered stretched, below 30 washed out.
Technical indicators describe past prices. They are not a forecast.
What it pays you
Cash distributions over the last twelve months, and how they have grown.
About 111 USD a year for every 1,000 USD invested at today's price.
- Per share
- 3.12
- Last paid
- Oct 2, 2026
Last 12 months
3.12 USD / shareWhere HYGW shows up
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About iShares High Yield Corporate Bond BuyWrite Strategy ETF
The iShares High Yield Corporate Bond BuyWrite Strategy ETF seeks to track the investment results of an index that reflects a strategy of holding the while writing (selling) one-month covered call options to generate income.
- Featured in 1 curated theme
- Ticker
- HYGW
- Exchange
- CBOE - exBATS
- ISIN
- US46436E3201
- CUSIP
- 46436E320
- Currency
- U.S. Dollar (USD)
- Country
- USA
- Sector
- Corporate High Yield
- Industry
- Covered Calls
- Benchmark
- CBOE HYG BuyWrite Index
All key statistics
Details
Shareas of Oct 12, 2026
Dataas of Oct 13, 2026
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Data for information only, not investment advice. Past performance does not guarantee future results.