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- Pays: monthly — 106 dividends since December 2017.
- Trailing 12 months: $2.55 per share across 12 payments — up 1% from the year before. Steadiness is the whole pitch.
- What it holds: over a thousand below-investment-grade ("junk") corporate bonds — the broad U.S. high-yield market in one ticker.
- Fee: 0.08% expense ratio — index-fund pricing for junk-bond exposure.
- Yield context: roughly 6.9% of the recent ~$36.96 share price, with the biggest single month ($0.233) paid February 2023.
USHY's dividend barely moves — up 1% on the trailing year — because it averages the coupons of a thousand-plus bonds that turn over gradually. What moves instead, when credit markets sour, is the share price: junk bonds sell off together in recessions, exactly when their issuers' defaults rise. The income record looks placid because the record hasn't yet included a true default cycle.
Each point is one monthly USHY dividend since December 2017. The line is unusually level for a high-yield product — coupon averaging at work.
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Each point is one payment; the line ends at the most recent payout. The table below totals them by year.
- Trailing 12 months: $2.55 per share across 12 payments — down 0% from $2.55 in the 12 months before (split-adjusted, in today's share terms). What a change like that does to your income →
- Current pace: recent payments annualize to $2.53 — 1% below the trailing figure. When those two disagree, the trailing yield is quoting the past. Live cut & raise board →
- Share price, same 12 months: down 6% (dividends excluded) — income and principal are one story. Erosion Index →
- Record: 108 payments over 9 years; the largest single payment was $0.233 (Feb 2023), split-adjusted.
- Payment drops ≥20% below trend, last 24 months: none. Get one short email if that changes →
- Payment steadiness: the last 12 checks wobble ±2% around their median. Compare that against any fund →
Every figure above is computed from USHY's actual payment record and share-price history as of the date shown — not copied from a fact sheet. Recomputed regularly; the chart above always shows the live data.
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| Recent Ex-Dividend Dates | Dividend / Share |
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"Next expected" is estimated from USHY's recent payment rhythm — the fund announces exact dates shortly before each payout, and the data feed can lag a few days. You must own shares before the ex-dividend date to receive that payout; the cash typically arrives days later. See every fund's upcoming date on the live dividend calendar.
A real total-return estimate, assuming every payout was reinvested — including what happened to the share price. Before taxes and fees. Past performance does not predict the future.
Among funds paying near 7%, USHY's payment line is one of the calmest we chart: $2.55 per share in the trailing year, $2.53 the year before. No options, no leverage — just the averaged coupons of the U.S. junk-bond market at a 0.08% fee. The honesty requirement is naming what pays for that yield: these are loans to below-investment-grade companies, and in a recession both the bond prices and, eventually, some of the coupons go away.
Ladder it mentally between BND (investment-grade, ~4%) and the option funds (10%+ with equity-sized risk); its closest sibling here is SCYB, Schwab's version of the same market. The compare tool draws any pairing.
| Year | Total Dividends / Share | Payments | Change vs Prior Year |
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Data source: Yahoo Finance. Figures are per share; the current year may be partial and figures should be verified against official sources.
Calculated from complete calendar years in the data above. Past results don't guarantee future payments.
When Is USHY's Next Ex-Dividend Date?
USHY pays monthly — from junk-bond coupons. The exact date of each payout is announced by the fund only shortly beforehand, so no site can promise the next date — but the live schedule box above shows the most recent ex-dividend date and the expected window for the next one, computed from USHY's actual payment rhythm. Remember: you must own shares before the ex-dividend date to receive that payout.
The Junk-Bond Market, Averaged and Passed Through
USHY holds the broad U.S. high-yield market — more than a thousand bonds from below-investment-grade issuers — and forwards their coupons monthly, charging 0.08%. It has paid 106 straight months since December 2017, and the record's defining feature is how little the checks move: $2.55 per share over the trailing year against $2.53 the year before, a 1% drift. (One display note: a 6:5 share split in April 2019 means the earliest payments show slightly smaller than originally paid.)
Where the 6.9% Comes From
Every extra point of yield over Treasuries is compensation for lending to companies whose balance sheets don't qualify for an investment-grade stamp. In calm markets that compensation simply arrives, month after month — which is what the chart since 2017 mostly shows. The part the chart can't show yet is a genuine default cycle, where junk bond prices fall in unison and some coupons stop. Holders are being paid roughly 6.9% on the recent ~$36.96 price to carry exactly that scenario.
Using USHY Well
It's the middle rung of the income ladder: meaningfully more yield than BND's investment-grade ~4%, far less machinery and price risk than the double-digit option funds. The compare tool makes the laddering visible, and the cut & raise board will flag the month its steady drift ever turns into something sharper.
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