Vanguard Short-Term Bond Index Fund ETF Shares
Vanguard · Tracks Bloomberg US 1-5 Year Government/Credit Float Adjusted Index · Inception Apr 3, 2007
Trailing returns
through Oct 23, 2026- 1 year
- +1.3%
- 3 year
- +4.6%
- annualized
- 5 year
- +1.8%
- 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 $69.54B in net assets for the whole fund, all 5 share classes. Our sources don't report the ETF class alone.
Top-10 holdings represent 8.4% of net assets.
US Aggregate Bond base · ETF wrapper · 4.10% 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 | 1.12% |
| 2 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.89% |
| 3 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.88% |
| 4 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.81% |
| 5 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.80% |
| 6 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.79% |
| 7 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.78% |
| 8 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.77% |
| 9 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.77% |
| 10 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.75% |
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Similar ETFs by holdings overlap
- GVI iShares Intermediate Government/Credit Bond ETF 58.3% overlap
- VGSH Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index Fund ETF Shares 39.2% overlap
- GOVT iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF 37.6% overlap
- SHY iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF 37.4% overlap
- BND Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares 36.9% overlap
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