Summary
Vanguard Short-Term Investment-Grade Fund Admiral Shares is a mutual fund run by Vanguard. It does not trade on an exchange: you buy it from the fund company at a price set once a day. Positions inside: 2,364. The ten largest make up 6.6% of the fund.
- Yearly costs
- 0.09%
- Fund size
- $54.5B
- Positions
- 2,364
- Dividend yield
- 4.41%
- Running since
- 2001
What speaks for it
- Costs of 0.09% a year are below the middle of comparable funds (0.27%).
- Widely spread: the ten largest positions make up only 6.6% of the fund.
- A large fund with $54.5B under management.
- It has been running since 2001.
What to watch
- 82% of the fund is in one sector (Basic materials).
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
- +0.4%
- 3 months
- -1.1%
- This year
- -3.0%
- 1 year
- -3.3%
- 3 years
- +3.1%
- 5 years
- -6.1%
- 10 years
- -5.2%
What is inside?
Widely spread- 1 United States Treasury Note/Bond 3.38% 12/31/2027 1.0%
- 2 United States Treasury Note/Bond 3.63% 03/31/2028 0.9%
- 3 MKTLIQ 12/31/2049 0.9%
- 4 United States Treasury Note/Bond 4.13% 11/30/2029 0.7%
- 5 Abbott Laboratories 4.00% 03/15/2031 0.6%
- 6 United States Treasury Note/Bond 3.88% 04/15/2029 0.6%
- 7 Boeing Co/The 5.15% 05/01/2030 0.5%
- 8 United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.25% 04/30/2028 0.5%
- 9 United States Treasury Note/Bond 3.50% 04/30/2030 0.4%
- 10 Space Exploration Technologies Corp 5.35% 07/15/2031 0.4%
Positions in the fund: 2,364. The ten largest make up 6.6% of it.
Composition as of Oct 18, 2026.
Where is it spread?
One sector dominatesBy sector
- Basic materials 82%
- Healthcare 18%
Largest sector: Basic materials (82%).
What does it cost me?
Cheap- A year from $10,000
- $9.00
- Over 20 years
- $451
From every $10,000 invested the fund takes $9.00 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 $451.
How has it done?
Losing value- A year on average, 10 years
- -0.5%
- Deepest drop
- -12%
- Yearly volatility
- 1.9%
Average yearly decline over the last ten years: 0.5%. Deepest drop in these years: 12% below the earlier high.
Does it pay dividends?
Yes, it pays out- Yield
- 4.41%
- Payments a year
- 12
- Last payment
- $0.04
Over the last 12 months it paid $0.45 per share, which is 4.41% of today's price. The last payment was $0.04 on Sep 30, 2026.