Vanguard Long-Term Bond Index Fund Institutional Plus Shares (VBLIX)

NASDAQ · Mutual Fund · Delayed Price · Currency is USD
10.43
0.00 (0.00%)
Jun 25, 2025, 4:00 PM EDT
-4.14%
Fund Assets 10.72B
Expense Ratio 0.03%
Min. Investment $100,000,000
Turnover n/a
Dividend (ttm) 0.49
Dividend Yield 4.67%
Dividend Growth 2.53%
Payout Frequency Monthly
Ex-Dividend Date May 30, 2025
Previous Close 10.43
YTD Return 1.13%
1-Year Return -0.87%
5-Year Return -24.51%
52-Week Low 10.01
52-Week High 11.61
Beta (5Y) n/a
Holdings 3061
Inception Date Oct 6, 2011

About VBLIX

The Vanguard Long-Term Bond Index Fund Institutional Plus Shares (VBLIX) seeks to track the performance of a market-weighted bond index with a long-term dollar-weighted average maturity. VBLIX employs an indexing investment approach to track the performance of the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Long Government/Credit Float Adjusted Index and invests by sampling the index.

Fund Family Vanguard
Category Long-Term Bond
Stock Exchange NASDAQ
Ticker Symbol VBLIX
Share Class Institutional Plus Shares
Index Bloomberg US Long Gov/Credit Float Adj TR

Performance

VBLIX had a total return of -0.87% in the past year, including dividends. Since the fund's inception, the average annual return has been 2.20%.

Equivalent ETF

VBLIX has an equivalent ETF with the ticker symbol BLV, the Vanguard Long-Term Bond ETF. This is an ETF from the same fund company that follows the same index. It has an expense ratio of 0.03% compared to 0.03% for VBLIX.

Symbol Name Expense Ratio
BLV Vanguard Long-Term Bond ETF 0.03%

Other Share Classes

These are alternative share classes of the same fund, from the same provider.

Symbol Share Class Expense Ratio
VBLLX Institutional Shares 0.04%
VBLAX Admiral Shares 0.06%

Top 10 Holdings

11.82% of assets
Name Symbol Weight
United States Treasury Bonds T.4.625 05.15.54 1.37%
United States Treasury Bonds T.4.5 11.15.54 1.35%
United States Treasury Bonds T.3.875 02.15.43 1.29%
United States Treasury Bonds T.4.75 11.15.53 1.22%
United States Treasury Bonds T.4.625 02.15.55 1.21%
United States Treasury Bonds T.4.25 02.15.54 1.18%
United States Treasury Bonds T.4.125 08.15.53 1.12%
United States Treasury Bonds T.4.25 08.15.54 1.10%
United States Treasury Bonds T.2.25 02.15.52 1.05%
United States Treasury Bonds T.1.75 08.15.41 0.92%
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Dividend History

Ex-Dividend Amount Pay Date
May 30, 2025 $0.04223 Jun 2, 2025
Apr 30, 2025 $0.04083 May 1, 2025
Mar 31, 2025 $0.04193 Apr 1, 2025
Feb 28, 2025 $0.03767 Mar 3, 2025
Jan 31, 2025 $0.04137 Feb 3, 2025
Dec 31, 2024 $0.04157 Jan 2, 2025
Full Dividend History