VCSHVanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares

Beacon PickGet income16y track recordRanked #5 of 1,622 in this goal

Seeks to track the performance of a market-weighted corporate bond index with a short-term dollar-weighted average maturity.

By Vanguard · Launched 2009

Annual Cost

0.03%

#190 of 5,562 · low cost

Fund Size

$50.5B

#61 of 5,562 · large

Dividend YieldGoal

4.43%

Track Record

16 years

#722 of 5,562 · established

Performance

Total-return NAV · USD

Growth of $10,000

$10,339+3.4%

Total-return NAV, USD. Net of fund fees, before tax.

Classification

How Beacon categorizes this fund

Asset class

Fixed income

Region

North america

Strategy

Index tracking

Index tracked

Bloomberg US 1-5 Year Corporate Bond Index

What it actually holds

By weight

Concentration

Top 10 holdings = 2.9% of fund✓ well diversified

Vanguard Cmt Funds-Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund

1.0%

United States Treasury Note/Bond

0.4%

Bank of America Corp

0.2%

CVS Health Corp

0.2%

AbbVie Inc

0.2%

Wells Fargo & Co

0.2%

Pfizer Investment Enterprises Pte Ltd

0.2%

T-Mobile USA Inc

0.2%

Citigroup Inc

0.2%

Amgen Inc

0.2%

Asset allocation

Bonds

100.1%

Risk profile

Last 12 months · Sharpe & Sortino need 3+ years

Volatility (1Y)

1.9%Low

Year-on-year price swings

Max drawdown

-12.9%Mild

Worst peak-to-trough loss

Sharpe (3Y)

0.80Decent risk-adjusted returns

Sortino (3Y)

1.19Good downside protection

Bond profile

Avg maturity

9.9 years

Credit ratings

US Government

0.6%

AAA

0.8%

7.7%

45.4%

BBB

45.7%

Other

0.3%

Where to buy

Listing

Exchange: NASDAQ Global Select Market

Full fund details

Objective: Seeks to track the performance of a market-weighted corporate bond index with a short-term dollar-weighted average maturity.
Strategy: Invests primarily in bonds that make up the Bloomberg U.S. 1-5 Year Corporate Bond Index, which includes U.S. dollar-denominated, investment-grade, fixed-rate, taxable debt securities with maturities between 1 and 5 years. Uses sampling to approximate the full index.
Inception date: November 19, 2009
Fund family: Vanguard