Vanguard Long-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares
Vanguard · Tracks Bloomberg US Long Government/Credit Float Adjusted Index · Inception Apr 10, 2007
Trailing returns
through Oct 23, 2026- 1 year
- -3.9%
- 3 year
- +5.7%
- annualized
- 5 year
- -4.8%
- annualized
Price return from month-end closes, distributions reinvested at month end. Excludes trading costs, bid-ask spreads and taxes. Past performance says nothing about future returns and is not part of the composite score — see the methodology for what the score does measure.
Composite score
Based on a 0.030% expense ratio.
Based on $7.79B in net assets for the whole fund, all 4 share classes. Our sources don't report the ETF class alone.
Top-10 holdings represent 11.0% of net assets.
US Aggregate Bond base · ETF wrapper · 5.08% TTM yield.
The composite is a weighted average of the four core sub-scores above (cost, tax efficiency, liquidity, concentration). Missing sub-scores fall back to the per-category median when the category has at least 50% data coverage, so funds without (e.g.) parsed N-PORT holdings aren't accidentally boosted by renormalization. Tracking quality is shown where computable but isn't currently part of the composite weighting. See methodology for formulas, the tracking-quality partial-coverage rationale, and the dimensions we deliberately don't score (methodology v0.5.2).
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Top holdings
| # | Holding | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.17% |
| 2 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.15% |
| 3 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.14% |
| 4 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.13% |
| 5 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.13% |
| 6 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.10% |
| 7 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.08% |
| 8 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.08% |
| 9 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.06% |
| 10 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.97% |
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- VGLT Vanguard Long-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 51.2% overlap
- TLT iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF 28.3% overlap
- BND Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares 18.5% overlap
- SCHZ Schwab U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 17.2% overlap
- SPAB State Street SPDR Portfolio Aggregate Bond ETF 17.1% overlap
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