Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund Institutional Shares (VSTBX)

NASDAQ · Mutual Fund · Delayed Price · Currency is USD
26.25
+0.07 (0.27%)
Apr 24, 2025, 4:00 PM EDT
2.82%
Fund Assets 26.53B
Expense Ratio 0.05%
Min. Investment $5,000,000
Turnover n/a
Dividend (ttm) 1.07
Dividend Yield 4.07%
Dividend Growth 24.55%
Payout Frequency Monthly
Ex-Dividend Date Mar 31, 2025
Previous Close 26.18
YTD Return 2.03%
1-Year Return 7.48%
5-Year Return 12.40%
52-Week Low n/a
52-Week High n/a
Beta (5Y) n/a
Holdings 2552
Inception Date Nov 19, 2009

About VSTBX

The Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund Institutional Shares (VSTBX) seeks to track the performance of a market-weighted corporate bond index with a short-term dollar-weighted average maturity. VSTBX employs a "passive management" - or indexing - investment approach designed to track the performance of the Barclays Capital U.S. 1-5 Year Corporate Bond Index.

Fund Family Vanguard
Category Short-Term Bond
Performance Rating Above Average
Risk Rating Above Average
Stock Exchange NASDAQ
Ticker Symbol VSTBX
Share Class Institutional Shares
Index Bloomberg US 1-5 Yr Corporate Bond TR

Performance

VSTBX had a total return of 7.48% in the past year, including dividends. Since the fund's inception, the average annual return has been 3.01%.

Equivalent ETF

VSTBX has an equivalent ETF with the ticker symbol VCSH, the Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond ETF. This is an ETF from the same fund company that follows the same index. It has an expense ratio of 0.04% compared to 0.05% for VSTBX.

Symbol Name Expense Ratio
VCSH Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond ETF 0.04%

Other Share Classes

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

Symbol Share Class Expense Ratio
VSCSX Admiral Shares 0.07%

Top 10 Holdings

2.35% of assets
Name Symbol Weight
United States Treasury Notes T 4 03.31.30 0.34%
United States Treasury Notes T 3.875 03.15.28 0.33%
Bank of America Corp. BAC V3.419 12.20.28 0.25%
Bank of America Corp. BAC V1.734 07.22.27 0.24%
CVS Health Corp CVS 4.3 03.25.28 0.22%
AbbVie Inc. ABBV 3.2 11.21.29 0.21%
Wells Fargo & Co. WFC V5.574 07.25.29 MTN 0.20%
Anheuser-Busch InBev Worldwide Inc. ABIBB 4.75 01.23.29 0.19%
Bank of America Corp. BAC V2.496 02.13.31 MTN 0.19%
Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. GS V1.948 10.21.27 0.19%
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Dividend History

Ex-Dividend Amount Pay Date
Mar 31, 2025 $0.0961 Apr 1, 2025
Feb 28, 2025 $0.0861 Mar 3, 2025
Jan 31, 2025 $0.0935 Feb 3, 2025
Dec 23, 2024 $0.0931 Dec 24, 2024
Nov 29, 2024 $0.0908 Dec 2, 2024
Oct 31, 2024 $0.0912 Nov 1, 2024
Full Dividend History