Schwab Short-Term US Treasury ETF™
SCHO NYSE Arca
Schwab Short-Term US TreasuryETF™ seeks to track as closely as possible, before fees and expenses, the total return of the Bloomberg Barclays US Treasury 1-3 Year Index
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- Fund size
- 6.42B as of Feb 2020
- Expense ratio
- 0.06% per year
- Dividend yield
- 3.82% Monthly
- Volatility · 1Y
- 1.4% Low Risk
- Beta
- 0.02 vs the market
- 52-week range
- 23.4924.02
How SCHO has paid off
Price return over every period, and total return with dividends reinvested, set against price alone.
Return by period
Price · to Oct 30Total return vs price return
Price onlyOver 1 year, SCHO returned +5.7% with dividends reinvested — dividends added +3.5 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 ±1% around its trend.
Drawdown from peak
How far below its previous high the price has been Deepest fall −0.9% on Sep 24, 2026 — 30 days after the previous high
More than 5% below a high 0% of the time.
Market sensitivity
BetaA beta of 0.02 means SCHO 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 average23.94 +0.3%
- 26-day average23.91 +0.5%
- 50-day average23.89 +0.6%
- 200-day average23.77 +1.0%
The price is above 4 of 4 averages. The 50-day average is above the 200-day, a sign of a rising longer-term trend.
Relative strength (RSI)
OverboughtRSI 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.
Inside the fund
Treasuries · Short Term — tracking the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Treasury 1-3 Year Index.
- Assets under management6.42BUSD
- Expense ratio0.06%per year
- Holdings109
- Risk score1.8Low
Launched August 2010. Fund data as of Feb 28, 2020.
What it pays you
Cash distributions over the last twelve months, and how they have grown.
About 38 USD a year for every 1,000 USD invested at today's price.
- Per share
- 0.92
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Last paid
- Oct 1, 2026
Last 12 months
0.92 USD / shareWhere SCHO shows up
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About Schwab Short-Term US Treasury ETF™
Schwab Short-Term US TreasuryETF™ seeks to track as closely as possible, before fees and expenses, the total return of the Bloomberg Barclays US Treasury 1-3 Year Index
- Featured in 1 curated theme
- 109 holdings
- Ticker
- SCHO
- Exchange
- NYSE Arca
- ISIN
- US8085248628
- CUSIP
- US8085248628
- Currency
- U.S. Dollar (USD)
- Country
- USA
- Sector
- Treasuries
- Industry
- Short Term
- Benchmark
- Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Treasury 1-3 Year Index
All key statistics
Details
Shareas of Oct 30, 2026
Dataas of Feb 28, 2020
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Data for information only, not investment advice. Past performance does not guarantee future results.