Vanguard Short-Term Bond ETF
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- Description
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- Fundamentals
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Vanguard Short-Term Bond ETF is an exchange-traded fund incorporated in the USA. The Fund seeks to track the performance of the Barclays Capital 1-5 Year Government/Credit Index, which includes all medium and larger issues of U.S. government, investment-grade corporate, and investment-grade international bonds that have a maturities between 1 and 5 years. |
Category | Aggregate |
Fund Sponsor | Vanguard Group |
Website | www.vanguard.com |
Inception date | Apr 03, 2007 |
Assets (mns) | $59,689 |
Currency | USD |
Expense ratio | 4 bp |
Distributions | Monthly |
Regulation | Open-End Investment Company |
Custodian | JPMorgan Chase Bank |
Weighting | Market Cap |
Index replication | Full |
No. of constituents | 33 |
No of distinct issuers | 27 |
Inflation protected | 0% |
Variable/Fixed coupon | 6% /94% |
Non-standard maturity (callable, etc.) | 21% |
0.0% // | 1.8 % |
0.0% // | 1.5 % |
0.0% // | 0.9 % |
0.0% // | 0.8 % |
0.0% // | 0.8 % |
0.0% // | 0.7 % |
0.0% // | 0.7 % |
0.0% // | 0.7 % |
0.0% // | 0.7 % |
0.0% // | 0.7 % |
TOTAL | 9.3 % |
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U.S. TREASURY | 58.6% |
INTERNATIONAL BANK FOR RECONSTRUCT... | 2.8% |
KREDITANSTALT FUER WIEDERAUFBAU - | 2.3% |
ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK | 2.2% |
ANADARKO PETROLEUM CORPORATION | 2.0% |
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UNITED STATES | 90.3 % |
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GERMANY | 3.9 % |
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SUPRA-NATIONAL | 2.2 % |
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Hungary | 1.8 % |
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IRELAND | 0.7 % |
HISTORICAL RETURNS 

Custom date range | Compare to | ||
thru |
Year-to-date | 1 year | 5 years | 10 years | Since Incep. |
2.0% | 5.3% | 1.0% | 1.7% | 2.5% |
versus... | Beta | R-squared |
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Barclays Agg. Bond | 0.40 | 83% |
S&P500 | 0.11 | 32% |
MSCI EAFE | 0.13 | 48% |
MSCI Emg. Mkts. | 0.12 | 41% |
Recent close | $78.60 |
30d moving avg. | $78.07 |
Annualized volatility | 3.2% |
Short interest (ETF) | 0.3% |
Relative strength (RSI) | 62 |
Avg. volume (thou.) | 2,216 |
Avg. daily value traded (mns) | $174 |
Turnover | 0.3% |
Bid/Ask (% of price) | 0.01 |
DISTRIBUTION YIELD (TRAILING 12 MONTHS)
BSV | 2.7 yrs | Category Avg.* |
4.8 yrs |
BSV | 2.7% | Category Avg.* |
4.7% |
Change in YTM |
New YTM |
Est. Price Change |
Est. New Price |
+300 bp | 5.74% | -7.7% | $72.57 |
+200 bp | 4.74% | -5.2% | $74.50 |
+150 bp | 4.24% | -3.9% | $75.50 |
+100 bp | 3.74% | -2.7% | $76.51 |
+75 bp | 3.49% | -2.0% | $77.03 |
+50 bp | 3.24% | -1.3% | $77.55 |
+25 bp | 2.99% | -0.7% | $78.07 |
0 bp | 2.74% | 0% | $78.60 |
-25 bp | 2.49% | 0.7% | $79.13 |
-50 bp | 2.24% | 1.4% | $79.67 |
-75 bp | 1.99% | 2.1% | $80.21 |
-100 bp | 1.74% | 2.7% | $80.76 |
-150 bp | 1.24% | 4.2% | $81.87 |
-200 bp | 0.74% | 5.6% | $83.00 |
-300 bp | -0.26% | 8.5% | $85.31 |
*Fund Category: AGGREGATE
ALTAR Score™
Calculation of ALTAR Score™ | ||
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Adj. Yield to Maturity ![]() |
274 | bp |
Less: Annual "default factor" ![]() |
6 | bp |
Less: Expense ratio | 4 | bp |
Equals: ALTAR Score | 2.64 | % |
Average ALTAR Score™ by Category | |
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Aggregate | 3.1% |
Corporate | 4.0% |
Emerging Market | 5.8% |
Government | 7.0% |
Inflation Protected | 2.4% |
Mortgage | 5.0% |
Municipals | 3.5% |
*Note: The Vanguard Short-Term Bond ETF is classified as a Aggregate fund. |