Vanguard Long-Term Bond ETF
ALTAR
Score™
5.1% info Median Credit
S&P/Moody's
A+/A1
 
Yield to
Maturity
5.3% Current
Yield
5.3%
Macaulay
Duration
15.3 yrs Modified
Duration
15.0%


  • Description
  • Performance
  • Fundamentals
  • Rate Sensitivity
  • Rating
Vanguard Long-Term Bond ETF is an exchange-traded fund incorporated in the USA. The Fund seeks to track the performance of the Barclays Capital Long Government/Credit Index, which includes all medium and larger issues of U.S. government, investment-grade corporate and international bonds that have maturities of greater than 10 years.

FUND BASICS
Category Aggregate
Fund Sponsor Vanguard Group
Website www.vanguard.com
Inception date Apr 03, 2007
Assets (mns) $5,602
Currency USD
Expense ratio 4 bp
Distributions Monthly

FUND STRUCTURE
Regulation Open-End Investment Company
Custodian JPMorgan Chase Bank
Weighting Market Cap
Index replication Full

ISSUER TYPE BREAKDOWN

CONSTITUENT BREAKDOWN
No. of constituents 49
No of distinct issuers 44
Inflation protected 0%
Variable/Fixed coupon 4% /96%
Non-standard maturity (callable, etc.) 24%

TOP TEN HOLDINGS
UNITED STATES TREASUR 3.0% 8/15/48 2.1 %
UNITED STATES TREASUR 3.6% 2/15/44 1.7 %
UNITED STATES TREASUR 3.0% 2/15/49 1.6 %
UNITED STATES TREASUR 3.4% 5/15/44 1.4 %
UNITED STATES TREASUR 4.5% 2/15/36 1.3 %
UNITED STATES TREASUR 3.0% 5/15/45 1.3 %
UNITED STATES TREASUR 3.4% 11/15/48 1.3 %
UNITED STATES TREASUR 3.1% 8/15/44 1.2 %
UNITED STATES TREASUR 2.9% 11/15/46 1.2 %
UNITED STATES TREASUR 2.9% 5/15/43 1.2 %
   
TOTAL 14.3 %

TOP ISSUERS
U.S. TREASURY22.0%
GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF...15.6%
PERU (REPUBLIC OF)2.2%
21ST CENTURY FOX AMERICA2.0%
NEXEN INC2.0%

TOP COUNTRY EXPOSURE
UNITED STATES 88.3 %
PERU 2.2 %
COLOMBIA 1.9 %
CANADA 1.4 %
BRITAIN 1.4 %

 





HISTORICAL RETURNS info

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Standardized Annual Returns (thru March 31)
Year-to-date 1 year 5 years 10 years Since Incep.
-2.3% -0.7% -0.5% 2.4% 4.4%

Market Correlations
versus... Beta R-squared
Barclays Agg. Bond 2.11 94%
S&P500 0.64 52%
MSCI EAFE 0.70 58%
MSCI Emg. Mkts. 0.64 53%

Technical Indicators
Recent close $69.86
30d moving avg. $69.59
Annualized volatility 15.6%
Short interest (ETF) 0.3%
Relative strength (RSI) 74
Liquidity measures
Avg. volume (thou.) 560
Avg. daily value traded (mns) $39
Turnover 0.7%
Bid/Ask (% of price) 0.06

Distributions


Yield Comparison

*Fund Category: AGGREGATE

CREDIT QUALITY: MOODY'S

DISTRIBUTION YIELD (TRAILING 12 MONTHS)
Macaulay Duration info
 
BLV 15.3 yrs Category
Avg.*
4.8 yrs
 

Modified Duration info
 
BLV 15.0% Category
Avg.*
4.7%

RATE SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS info
Change
in YTM
New
YTM
Est. Price
Change
Est. New
Price
+300 bp 8.29% -36.1% $44.61
+200 bp 7.29% -26.1% $51.63
+150 bp 6.79% -20.3% $55.66
+100 bp 6.29% -14.0% $60.05
+75 bp 6.04% -10.7% $62.37
+50 bp 5.79% -7.3% $64.78
+25 bp 5.54% -3.7% $67.28
0 bp 5.29% 0% $69.86
-25 bp 5.04% 3.8% $72.53
-50 bp 4.79% 7.8% $75.29
-75 bp 4.54% 11.8% $78.14
-100 bp 4.29% 16.0% $81.07
-150 bp 3.79% 24.8% $87.20
-200 bp 3.29% 34.1% $93.68
-300 bp 2.29% 54.1% $107.69

*Fund Category: AGGREGATE

ALTAR Score™


Calculation of ALTAR Score™
Adj. Yield to Maturity info 529 bp
Less: Annual "default factor" info 13 bp
Less: Expense ratio 4 bp
Equals: ALTAR Score 5.12 %
 

Average ALTAR Score™ by Category
Aggregate 3.5%
Corporate 4.4%
Emerging Market 6.2%
Government 4.9%
Inflation Protected 3.0%
Mortgage 5.2%
Municipals 3.4%
 
*Note: The Vanguard Long-Term Bond ETF is classified as a Aggregate fund.

 

Our estimate of the impact of potential defaults on investor returns, based on historical default and recovery rates for bonds of similar credit rating and maturities.
See RATING tab for calculations of ALTAR Score™
Estimate of fund sensitivity to interest rate changes based on modified duration and convexity adjustment applied to underlying bonds. Note: Less meaningful for inflation-indexed bonds.
Adds expected inflation to real YTM for inflation-linked bonds so that all instruments are compared on a nominal basis
Weighted-average term to maturity of the cash flows from a bond. All else being equal, bonds of longer duration are more sensitive to changes in interest rates than bonds of shorter duration.
Approximation of the change in bond prices given a 100 basis point shift in interest rates. A better estimate, particularly for larger moves in interest rates, is provided by the Rate Sensitivity Analysis below.