# BSV (Vanguard Short-Term Bond ETF)

Vanguard · Bond ETFs · Short-term bond · data as of Oct 28, 2026

BSV returned +1.0% over the year to Oct 28, 2026, charges 0.03% a year and holds $45.4bn in net assets on Sep 30, 2026.

Promise check: Delivered. As of Jun 30, 2026, BSV had a duration of 2.5 years against "short". https://etfiq.com/promise-index/bonds/

BSV tracks an index of Short-Term Bond and returned +1.0% over the past year.

## Key facts

- BSV, total return, 1 year: +1.0%, as of Oct 28, 2026.
- BSV, expense ratio: 0.03%, as of Apr 28, 2026.
- BSV, holdings: 3157, as of Sep 30, 2026.
- BSV, below its high: −0.5%, as of Oct 28, 2026.
- BSV, 12-month yield, capital gains included, on its starting price: 4.0%, as of Oct 28, 2026.
- BSV, last payment (paid monthly), ex-date Oct 1, 2026: $0.268, as of Oct 1, 2026.
- BSV, net assets: $45.4bn (the issuer’s own number for this ETF, month end, as of Sep 30, 2026).

## BSV over each window to Oct 28, 2026

| Window | Total return |
| --- | --- |
| 1 month | +0.9% |
| 3 months | −0.1% |
| 6 months | +0.2% |
| Year to date | +0.4% |
| 1 year | +1.0% |
| 3 years | +14.1% |
| 5 years | +9.3% |
| 10 years | +21.0% |
| Since launch | +61.4% |
| Since launch, annualised | +2.5% |

## BSV key stats

- 52-week high, daily closes to Oct 28, 2026: $79.27 on Feb 27, 2026 (computed by ETFIQ from Tiingo daily prices)
- 52-week low, daily closes to Oct 28, 2026: $76.21 on Oct 2, 2026 (computed by ETFIQ from Tiingo daily prices)
- Close on Oct 28, 2026, within that range: $76.77, 18% of the way from the low to the high (computed by ETFIQ from Tiingo daily prices)
- Holdings: 3157
- Top ten weight: 9.8%

## BSV trading

- Not scored.
- $1,000: at least $0.07, 0.007%, one way, half a one-cent tick.
- $10,000: at least $0.65, 0.007%, one way, half a one-cent tick.
- Premium to NAV at the Oct 27 close: +0.04%; 95% of days within ±0.04%.
- Limit: midpoint + 1¢ to buy, midpoint − 1¢ to sell. At the Oct 27 close of $76.78, that’s $76.79 to buy and $76.77 to sell.
- The full trading page: https://etfiq.com/funds/bsv/trading/

## Every published field

| Field | Value | Source |
| --- | --- | --- |
| What it tracks | Bloomberg U.S. 1-5 Year Government/Credit Float Adjusted Index | ETFIQ |
| Fund type | Bond fund | ETFIQ |
| Category | Bonds · Short-term bond | ETFIQ |
| Expense ratio | 0.03% | 485BPOS XBRL, Apr 28, 2026 |
| Price | $76.77 | ETFIQ |
| First traded | Apr 10, 2007 | ETFIQ |
| Net assets | $45.4bn | the issuer’s own number for this ETF, month end, as of Sep 30, 2026 |
| Benchmark | Its own holdings, as of Sep 30, 2026; no other fund tracks the Bloomberg U.S. 1-5 Year Government/Credit Float Adjusted Index, the index its prospectus names | ETFIQ, from its filings |
| Below its high | −0.5% | ETFIQ |
| Holdings | 3157 | ETFIQ |
| Top ten weight | 9.8% | ETFIQ |
| Holdings as of | Sep 30, 2026 | the issuer’s month-end file |

## Money in and out, to Jun 30, 2026

Monthly data only. Jun 2026: −$364m, from SEC Form N-PORT, all share classes of the fund, not the ETF alone.

Computed by ETFIQ from the change in shares outstanding times the previous day’s NAV. Every day and month: <https://etfiq.com/data/flows/funds/bsv.json>. Method: https://etfiq.com/methodology/flows

## Questions

### How has BSV performed?

Over the year to Oct 28, 2026, BSV returned +1.0% with distributions reinvested. Over three years the number is +14.1%.

### What does BSV cost?

The prospectus expense ratio is 0.03% a year.

### How far is BSV below its high?

0.5% below its high of Aug 25, 2026, measured on the reinvested series to Oct 28, 2026.


## Cite this page

ETFIQ, BSV, bond fund, data as of Oct 28, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/bsv
Free to use with attribution for data ETFIQ computes; issuer data stays under its owner's terms. The underlying files are at <https://etfiq.com/data/>.

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