Summary
Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond ETF is an ETF - a fund traded on an exchange like a stock - run by Vanguard. Positions inside: 3,069. The ten largest make up 2.8% of the fund.
- Yearly costs
- 0.03%
- Fund size
- $50.8B
- Positions
- 3,069
- Dividend yield
- 4.56%
- Running since
- 2009
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 2.8% of the fund.
- A large fund with $50.8B under management.
- Easy to buy and sell: about $391.7M changes hands a day.
- It has been running since 2009.
What to watch
- 83% 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
- -0.2%
- 3 months
- -1.4%
- This year
- -2.8%
- 1 year
- -3.2%
- 3 years
- +3.8%
- 5 years
- -5.5%
- 10 years
- -3.7%
What is inside?
Widely spread- 1 MKTLIQ 12/31/2049 0.7%
- 2 US Dollar 0.6%
- 3 Bank of America Corp 3.42% 12/20/2028 0.2%
- 4 Space Exploration Technologies Corp 5.35% 07/15/2031 0.2%
- 5 CVS Health Corp 4.30% 03/25/2028 0.2%
- 6 AbbVie Inc 3.20% 11/21/2029 0.2%
- 7 Amazon.com Inc 4.25% 03/13/2031 0.2%
- 8 Boeing Co/The 5.15% 05/01/2030 0.2%
- 9 T-Mobile USA Inc 3.88% 04/15/2030 0.2%
- 10 Wells Fargo & Co 5.57% 07/25/2029 0.2%
Positions in the fund: 3,069. The ten largest make up 2.8% of it.
Composition as of Oct 18, 2026.
Where is it spread?
One countryBy country
- United States 83%
- United Kingdom 4.8%
- Canada 3.4%
- Japan 2.7%
- Other countries 5.7%
Largest country: United States (83%).
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
- -0.4%
- Deepest drop
- -12%
- Yearly volatility
- 2.4%
Average yearly decline over the last ten years: 0.4%. Deepest drop in these years: 12% below the earlier high.
Does it pay dividends?
Yes, it pays out- Yield
- 4.56%
- Payments a year
- 12
- Last payment
- $0.30
Over the last 12 months it paid $3.53 per share, which is 4.56% of today's price. The last payment was $0.30 on Oct 1, 2026.
Is it easy to buy and sell?
Very easy- Traded a day
- $391.7M
- Shares a day
- 5.1M
On an average day about $391.7M of the fund changes hands.