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Vanguard Tax-Exempt Bond Index Fund ETF Shares

Vanguard · Tracks Standard & Poor's National AMT-Free Municipal Bond Index · Inception Aug 21, 2015

Expense ratio
0.030%
3.0 bps
Net assets
$51.71B
whole fund, 2 share classes
TTM yield
3.50%
Last price
$48.51
as of Oct 23, 2026
Avg volume
36,258,205
shares/day, 30d

Trailing returns

through Oct 23, 2026
1 year
-0.9%
3 year
+4.0%
annualized
5 year
+0.4%
annualized
Growth of $1, 2021-11 to 2026-10

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

97 / 100
Cost 97

Based on a 0.030% expense ratio.

Liquidity 100

Based on $51.71B in net assets for the whole fund, all 2 share classes. Our sources don't report the ETF class alone.

Concentration 100

Top-10 holdings represent 0.9% of net assets.

Tax efficiency 93

US Municipal Bond base · ETF wrapper · 3.50% 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

10,591 total holdings · as of Jul 31, 2026
# Holding Weight
1 City of New York NY 0.12%
2 University of California 0.11%
3 State of Idaho 0.10%
4 State of California 0.10%
5 State of Maryland 0.09%
6 New York State Thruway Authority 0.09%
7 Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority 0.09%
8 Dallas Independent School District 0.08%
9 Ohio Water Development Authority Water Pollution Control Loan Fund 0.08%
10 Energy Northwest 0.08%

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Holdings sourced from SEC Form N-PORT-P (accession 0000225997-26-000381).