Summary
Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond 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: 3,069. The ten largest make up 2.8% of the fund.
- Yearly costs
- 0.06%
- Fund size
- $50.8B
- Positions
- 3,069
- Dividend yield
- 4.51%
- Running since
- 2010
What speaks for it
- Costs of 0.06% a year are below the middle of comparable funds (0.27%).
- Widely spread: the ten largest positions make up only 2.8% of the fund.
- A large fund with $50.8B under management.
- It has been running since 2010.
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
- +0.4%
- 3 months
- -1.0%
- This year
- -2.6%
- 1 year
- -3.1%
- 3 years
- +3.7%
- 5 years
- -5.2%
- 10 years
- -3.3%
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?
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
- -0.3%
- Deepest drop
- -12%
- Yearly volatility
- 2.3%
Average yearly decline over the last ten years: 0.3%. Deepest drop in these years: 12% below the earlier high.
Does it pay dividends?
Yes, it pays out- Yield
- 4.51%
- Payments a year
- 12
- Last payment
- $0.08
Over the last 12 months it paid $0.95 per share, which is 4.51% of today's price. The last payment was $0.08 on Oct 1, 2026.