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Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Securities ETF (VMBS)

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Price: $45.32; —11 Sept 2026
Assets: $17.6B; Total net assets
Expense ratio: 0.03%; Category 0.82%
Yield: 4.25%; Trailing distributions

1Y return: 0.2%-0.3%; Category 0.5%
3Y CAGR: 4.7%+0.2%; Category 4.4%
5Y CAGR: 0.1%0.0%; Category 0.1%

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Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Securities ETF

Calendar-year returns

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Risk statistics

Five years of daily closes. Risk-free rate 4% a year.

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Trailing returns compared with benchmark
Period	1M	3M	6M	YTD	1Y	3YCAGR	5YCAGR	10YCAGR	LaunchCAGR
ETF	-1.5%	-1.9%	-1.4%	-1.0%	+0.2%	+4.7%	+0.1%	+1.1%	+2.0%
Government Mortgage-Backed Bond average	-1.4%	-1.8%	-1.3%	-0.8%	0.5%	4.4%	0.1%	1.1%	2.1%
Difference	-0.2%	-0.1%	-0.1%	-0.2%	-0.3%	+0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	-0.1%

Holdings

Allocation as last published by the fund.

Credit quality

Share of the bonds by rating.

AA99.9%
Other0.1%

Asset mix

Bonds96.2%
Cash3.8%

ETF details

Issuer: Vanguard
Category: Fixed Income · Government Mortgage-Backed Bond
Ticker: VMBS
Exchange: Nasdaq
Inception: 19 Nov 2009 (16.8 years)
Structure: Exchange Traded Fund
Expense ratio: 0.03% (category 0.82%)
Holdings turnover: 91% (category 321%)
Distribution yield: 4.25%
Beta, 3 years: 1.12
Total net assets: $17.6B
Average maturity: 9.24 years

Prices and returns as of 11 Sept 2026; total return with distributions reinvested, before brokerage and taxes. Not investment advice.

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