Summary
Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index 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: 95. The ten largest make up 14% of the fund.
- Yearly costs
- 0.06%
- Fund size
- $39.6B
- Positions
- 95
- Dividend yield
- 3.75%
- Running since
- 2009
What speaks for it
- Costs of 0.06% a year are below the middle of comparable funds (0.27%).
- A large fund with $39.6B under management.
- It has been running since 2009.
What to watch
Nothing here calls for caution.
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
- -0.7%
- This year
- -1.8%
- 1 year
- -2.1%
- 3 years
- +0.4%
- 5 years
- -5.9%
- 10 years
- -5.6%
What is inside?
Widely spread- 1 United States Treasury Note/Bond 3.50% 01/31/2028 2.1%
- 2 United States Treasury Note/Bond 4.63% 04/30/2029 1.4%
- 3 United States Treasury Note/Bond 4.00% 07/31/2029 1.4%
- 4 United States Treasury Note/Bond 3.88% 07/15/2028 1.4%
- 5 United States Treasury Note/Bond 4.25% 06/30/2029 1.4%
- 6 United States Treasury Note/Bond 4.50% 05/31/2029 1.3%
- 7 United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.13% 02/29/2028 1.3%
- 8 United States Treasury Note/Bond 3.63% 08/31/2029 1.3%
- 9 United States Treasury Note/Bond 2.88% 05/15/2028 1.3%
- 10 United States Treasury Note/Bond 4.25% 02/28/2029 1.3%
Positions in the fund: 95. The ten largest make up 14% of it.
Composition as of Oct 18, 2026.
Where is it spread?
What does it cost me?
Cheap- A year from $10,000
- $6.00
- Over 20 years
- $302
From every $10,000 invested the fund takes $6.00 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 $302.
How has it done?
Losing value- A year on average, 10 years
- -0.6%
- Deepest drop
- -7.0%
- Yearly volatility
- 1.7%
Average yearly decline over the last ten years: 0.6%. Deepest drop in these years: 7.0% below the earlier high.
Does it pay dividends?
Yes, it pays out- Yield
- 3.75%
- Payments a year
- 12
- Last payment
- $0.06
Over the last 12 months it paid $0.72 per share, which is 3.75% of today's price. The last payment was $0.06 on Oct 1, 2026.