VCSH
US Corporate BondVanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares
Vanguard · Tracks Bloomberg US 1-5 Year Corporate Bond Index · Inception Nov 19, 2009
Trailing returns
through Oct 23, 2026- 1 year
- +1.7%
- 3 year
- +5.6%
- annualized
- 5 year
- +2.5%
- 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 $50.87B in net assets for the whole fund, all 3 share classes. Our sources don't report the ETF class alone.
Top-10 holdings represent 2.6% of net assets.
US Corporate Bond base · ETF wrapper · 4.54% 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 | 0.83% |
| 2 | Bank of America Corp | 0.23% |
| 3 | AbbVie Inc | 0.21% |
| 4 | CVS Health Corp | 0.20% |
| 5 | T-Mobile USA Inc | 0.19% |
| 6 | Boeing Co/The | 0.19% |
| 7 | Wells Fargo & Co | 0.18% |
| 8 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 0.18% |
| 9 | Pfizer Investment Enterprises Pte Ltd | 0.17% |
| 10 | Amgen Inc | 0.17% |
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- IGSB iShares 1-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 58.1% overlap
- SPSB State Street SPDR Portfolio Short Term Corporate Bond ETF 40.3% overlap
- SPIB State Street SPDR Portfolio Intermediate Term Corporate Bond ETF 38.5% overlap
- VTC Vanguard Total Corporate Bond ETF ETF Shares 29.4% overlap
- USIG iShares Broad USD Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 27.2% overlap
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