Summary
Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund is an ETF - a fund traded on an exchange like a stock - run by Vanguard. Positions inside: 16,305. The ten largest make up 4.5% of the fund.
- Yearly costs
- 0.03%
- Fund size
- $389.3B
- Positions
- 16,305
- Dividend yield
- 4.13%
- Running since
- 2007
What speaks for it
- Costs of 0.03% a year are below the middle of comparable funds (0.20%).
- Widely spread: the ten largest positions make up only 4.5% of the fund.
- A large fund with $389.3B under management.
- Easy to buy and sell: about $657.3M changes hands a day.
- It has been running since 2007.
What to watch
- 93% of the fund is in one country (United States).
A fund has no Bulios Score and no Fair Price of its own - both are computed from the results of a single company. This page shows what is inside the fund and what it costs instead.
Price
Performance
- 1 month
- +1.1%
- 3 months
- -1.5%
- This year
- -3.9%
- 1 year
- -5.1%
- 3 years
- +3.5%
- 5 years
- -16%
- 10 years
- -15%
What is inside?
Widely spread- 1 MKTLIQ 12/31/2049 0.9%
- 2 United States Treasury Note/Bond 4.25% 11/15/2034 0.4%
- 3 United States Treasury Note/Bond 4.38% 05/15/2034 0.4%
- 4 United States Treasury Note/Bond 4.63% 02/15/2035 0.4%
- 5 United States Treasury Note/Bond 3.88% 08/15/2034 0.4%
- 6 United States Treasury Note/Bond 3.50% 01/31/2028 0.4%
- 7 United States Treasury Note/Bond 4.00% 02/15/2034 0.4%
- 8 United States Treasury Note/Bond 4.13% 02/15/2036 0.4%
- 9 United States Treasury Note/Bond 4.25% 08/15/2035 0.4%
- 10 United States Treasury Note/Bond 4.50% 11/15/2033 0.4%
Positions in the fund: 16,305. The ten largest make up 4.5% of it.
Composition as of Oct 18, 2026.
Where is it spread?
One countryBy country
- United States 93%
- Canada 1.1%
- United Kingdom 0.9%
- Japan 0.5%
- Other countries 4.2%
Largest country: United States (93%).
What does it cost me?
Cheap- A year from $10,000
- $3.00
- Over 20 years
- $151
From every $10,000 invested the fund takes $3.00 a year. You do not pay it separately - it is taken out of the fund's value. Over 20 years at 5% yearly growth that adds up to about $151.
How has it done?
Losing value- A year on average, 10 years
- -1.6%
- Deepest drop
- -23%
- Yearly volatility
- 4.2%
Average yearly decline over the last ten years: 1.6%. Deepest drop in these years: 23% below the earlier high.
Does it pay dividends?
Yes, it pays out- Yield
- 4.13%
- Payments a year
- 12
- Last payment
- $0.25
Over the last 12 months it paid $2.94 per share, which is 4.13% of today's price. The last payment was $0.25 on Oct 1, 2026.
Is it easy to buy and sell?
Very easy- Traded a day
- $657.3M
- Shares a day
- 9.2M
On an average day about $657.3M of the fund changes hands.