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VCLT · Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF

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$70.53
−0.5% · 1 day, price
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VCLT tracks an index of Long-Term Corporate Bond and returned −5.9% over the past year.

What drove VCLT’s returns?What would a 1-point rise in rates do to VCLT?What does VCLT cost to hold and to trade?
Bond fund · Tracks the Bloomberg U.S. 10+ Year Corporate Bond IndexVanguard ↗Expense ratio 0.03%Fund assets $7.5bn on Sep 30, 2026First traded Nov 23, 2009Benchmark Its own holdings, as of Sep 30, 2026; no other fund tracks the Bloomberg U.S. 10+ Year Corporate Bond Index, the index its prospectus namesFund page at the issuer ↗SEC filings ↗Every Vanguard fund ETFIQ coversDividend history

VCLT returned −5.9% over the year to Oct 28, 2026, charges 0.03% a year and holds $7.5bn in net assets on Sep 30, 2026.

Promise check: DeliveredAs of May 31, 2026, VCLT had a duration of 12.0 years against "long".

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VCLT risk and return scorecard

vs its own holdings

Not measured: its benchmark is its own holdings, which has no weekly price series.

Computed by ETFIQ from Tiingo daily prices and ETFIQ's distribution records; risk-free rate: U.S. Treasury, Daily Treasury Bill Rates, 13-week coupon equivalent Method · Data

What you earned

VCLT +2.8%: total return over one month to Oct 28, 2026.
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VCLT −0.6%: total return over three months to Oct 28, 2026.
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VCLT −2.6%: total return over six months to Oct 28, 2026.
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VCLT −3.0%: total return over the year to Oct 28, 2026.
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VCLT −5.9%: total return over one year to Oct 28, 2026.
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VCLT +20.4%: total return over three years to Oct 28, 2026.
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VCLT −15.9%: total return over five years to Oct 28, 2026.
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VCLT +18.0%: total return over ten years to Oct 28, 2026.
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VCLT +101.2%: total return since launch to Oct 28, 2026.
VCLT+101.2%
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What does it hold, and how long?

Holdings filed for May 31, 2026 (N-PORT)
−5.9%
Total return, 1 year
Report
0.03%
Expense ratio
Report
2562
Holdings
Report
−17.8%
Below its high
Report
5.2%
12-month yield, capital gains included, on its starting price
Report
$0.3498
Last payment (paid monthly), ex-date Oct 1, 2026
Report
Maturity
Under 1 yr
0.0%
1 to 3 yrs
0.0%
3 to 5 yrs
0.0%
5 to 10 yrs
0.5%
10 to 20 yrs
38.7%
Over 20 yrs
59.2%
What it holds
Corporate 98.0%Cash and repo 0.7%Treasury 0.3%
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Price and total return, 1 year

$70.53−0.5%1 day, priceClose, Oct 28, 2026

Total return adds every distribution, reinvested. Computed by ETFIQ from Tiingo daily prices.

Source: Tiingo end-of-day prices. Data as of Oct 28, 2026. Updated every trading night. Report a data error

VCLT returns by window: total return, cash paid and price change
WindowTotal return
1M Sep 28 – Oct 28, 2026+2.8%
3M Jul 29 – Oct 28, 2026−0.6%
6M Apr 29 – Oct 28, 2026−2.6%
YTD Dec 31, 2025 – Oct 28, 2026−3.0%
1Y Oct 28, 2025 – Oct 28, 2026−5.9%
3Y Oct 27, 2023 – Oct 28, 2026+20.4%
5Y Oct 29, 2021 – Oct 28, 2026−15.9%
10Y Oct 28, 2016 – Oct 28, 2026+18.0%
Since launch Nov 23, 2009 – Oct 28, 2026+101.2%
Since launch, annualised Nov 23, 2009 – Oct 28, 2026+4.2%

Total returns, distributions reinvested.

Source: Tiingo end-of-day prices, with distributions reinvested.

Money in and out

Monthly data · as of May 31, 2026

VCLT’s fund, all share classes together: in the month to May 31, 2026, net $601m came in, by its SEC filing.

Computed by ETFIQ from the monthly sales and redemptions VCLT files with the SEC on Form N-PORT.

How this is computed

ETFIQ reads no daily data for this fund, so its flows are monthly, and the latest month filed is May 2026. The filing covers all share classes of the fund, not the ETF alone: Vanguard sells its ETF as one share class of a fund that also has mutual fund shares. Every day and month ETFIQ holds for VCLT, back to Sep 2019, is in its flows file. Flows across every fund · How these flows are computed · Compare VCLT with other funds in the flows tool

Month by month, money in and money outJun 2023 to May 2026

VCLT, all share classes of its fund, money in and money out each month from Jun 2023 to May 2026: two bars a month, money in above the line and money out below. Every bar is from VCLT’s SEC filings (N-PORT item B.6). Of the 36 months listed, money came in on net in 22 and went out in 14.

Every bar is from VCLT’s SEC filings (N-PORT item B.6). Of the 36 months listed, money came in on net in 22 and went out in 14.

MonthInOutNet
May 2026 SEC Form N-PORT, all share classes of the fund, not the ETF alone+$3.3bn−$2.7bn+$601m
Apr 2026 SEC Form N-PORT, all share classes of the fund, not the ETF alone+$2.1bn−$1.8bn+$329m
Mar 2026 SEC Form N-PORT, all share classes of the fund, not the ETF alone+$2.1bn−$2.3bn−$180m
Feb 2026 SEC Form N-PORT, all share classes of the fund, not the ETF alone+$1.5bn−$1.5bn−$72.5m
Jan 2026 SEC Form N-PORT, all share classes of the fund, not the ETF alone+$2.1bn−$1.8bn+$242m
Dec 2025 SEC Form N-PORT, all share classes of the fund, not the ETF alone+$1.3bn−$1.7bn−$433m
Nov 2025 SEC Form N-PORT, all share classes of the fund, not the ETF alone+$1.2bn−$1.4bn−$141m
Oct 2025 SEC Form N-PORT, all share classes of the fund, not the ETF alone+$1.7bn−$1.1bn+$597m
Sep 2025 SEC Form N-PORT, all share classes of the fund, not the ETF alone+$1.6bn−$1.4bn+$279m
Aug 2025 SEC Form N-PORT, all share classes of the fund, not the ETF alone+$2.6bn−$2.0bn+$573m
Jul 2025 SEC Form N-PORT, all share classes of the fund, not the ETF alone+$1.1bn−$4.3bn−$3.2bn
Jun 2025 SEC Form N-PORT, all share classes of the fund, not the ETF alone+$901m−$1.5bn−$606m
May 2025 SEC Form N-PORT, all share classes of the fund, not the ETF alone+$491m−$2.4bn−$1.9bn
Apr 2025 SEC Form N-PORT, all share classes of the fund, not the ETF alone+$1.0bn−$2.2bn−$1.2bn
Mar 2025 SEC Form N-PORT, all share classes of the fund, not the ETF alone+$743m−$1.4bn−$643m
Feb 2025 SEC Form N-PORT, all share classes of the fund, not the ETF alone+$1.2bn−$581m+$595m
Jan 2025 SEC Form N-PORT, all share classes of the fund, not the ETF alone+$668m−$809m−$140m
Dec 2024 SEC Form N-PORT, all share classes of the fund, not the ETF alone+$442m−$1.1bn−$632m
Nov 2024 SEC Form N-PORT, all share classes of the fund, not the ETF alone+$765m−$301m+$464m
Oct 2024 SEC Form N-PORT, all share classes of the fund, not the ETF alone+$1.4bn−$644m+$797m
Sep 2024 SEC Form N-PORT, all share classes of the fund, not the ETF alone+$1.7bn−$688m+$1.0bn
Aug 2024 SEC Form N-PORT, all share classes of the fund, not the ETF alone+$2.1bn−$669m+$1.5bn
Jul 2024 SEC Form N-PORT, all share classes of the fund, not the ETF alone+$1.8bn−$247m+$1.5bn
Jun 2024 SEC Form N-PORT, all share classes of the fund, not the ETF alone+$915m−$504m+$411m
May 2024 SEC Form N-PORT, all share classes of the fund, not the ETF alone+$1.5bn−$805m+$679m
Apr 2024 SEC Form N-PORT, all share classes of the fund, not the ETF alone+$1.1bn−$468m+$595m
Mar 2024 SEC Form N-PORT, all share classes of the fund, not the ETF alone+$1.3bn−$160m+$1.1bn
Feb 2024 SEC Form N-PORT, all share classes of the fund, not the ETF alone+$1.2bn−$524m+$644m
Jan 2024 SEC Form N-PORT, all share classes of the fund, not the ETF alone+$624m−$945m−$321m
Dec 2023 SEC Form N-PORT, all share classes of the fund, not the ETF alone+$733m−$439m+$294m
Nov 2023 SEC Form N-PORT, all share classes of the fund, not the ETF alone+$521m−$40.9m+$480m
Oct 2023 SEC Form N-PORT, all share classes of the fund, not the ETF alone+$559m−$978m−$419m
Sep 2023 SEC Form N-PORT, all share classes of the fund, not the ETF alone+$354m−$471m−$118m
Aug 2023 SEC Form N-PORT, all share classes of the fund, not the ETF alone+$591m−$303m+$288m
Jul 2023 SEC Form N-PORT, all share classes of the fund, not the ETF alone+$256m−$182m+$74.2m
Jun 2023 SEC Form N-PORT, all share classes of the fund, not the ETF alone+$410m−$313m+$97.2m

Most recent first.

How this is computed

N-PORT months: money in is sales plus reinvestments; money out is redemptions.

N-PORT months are the filed sales plus reinvestments less redemptions. Later months add up the daily data; the Source column names any missing day.

Source: ETFIQ, from the fund’s SEC N-PORT filings. Data as of May 31, 2026. Updated when the fund files its next report.

VCLT key stats

52-week high, daily closes to Oct 28, 2026 (ETFIQ)$78.64 on Oct 29, 2025
52-week low, daily closes to Oct 28, 2026 (ETFIQ)$68.13 on Oct 5, 2026
Close on Oct 28, 2026, within that range (ETFIQ)$70.53, 23% of the way from the low to the high
Holdings2562
Top ten weight3.6%
Range, beta and R-squared computed by ETFIQ from Tiingo daily prices.

Trading

as of Oct 27, 2026
Trading · VCLTas of Oct 27, 2026
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Not scored2 of 6 measured · Oct 27, 2026
0 · Hard to tradeIQ Liquidity Score100 · Trades like a giant
Cost for your order · one way, half its 30-day median spread
$1,000$0.080.007%
$10,000$0.750.007%
Premium or discount to NAV, Oct 27 close+0.13%
−0.2%95% of days within ±0.14% · the 1% band is off this scale+0.2%
How to tradeLimit: midpoint + 1¢ to buy, midpoint − 1¢ to sell.At the Oct 27 close of $70.88, that’s $70.89 to buy and $70.87 to sell.
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About VCLT

What it tracksBloomberg U.S. 10+ Year Corporate Bond Index
Fund typeBond fund
Category (ETFIQ)Bonds · Long-term bond
Expense ratio (497 XBRL, Jun 30, 2026)0.03%
Price$70.53
First tradedNov 23, 2009
Net assets (the issuer’s own number for this ETF, month end, as of Sep 30, 2026)$7.5bnReport
Benchmark (ETFIQ, from its filings)Its own holdings, as of Sep 30, 2026; no other fund tracks the Bloomberg U.S. 10+ Year Corporate Bond Index, the index its prospectus names
Below its high (ETFIQ)−17.8%
Holdings2562
Top ten weight3.6%
Holdings as of (the issuer’s month-end file)Sep 30, 2026
IQ Investment Committee on VCLT

12 seats on VCLT, as of Oct 28, 2026: 1 Supports, 2 Mixed, 6 Not enough data, 3 Does not apply.

In the tradition ofJohn BogleBogle-style Low CostSupports
In the tradition ofBenjamin GrahamGraham-style Margin of SafetyNot enough data
In the tradition ofWarren Buffett & Charlie MungerBuffett & Munger-style QualityNot enough data
In the tradition ofPeter LynchLynch-style Growth at a Reasonable PriceNot enough data
In the tradition ofJohn TempletonTempleton-style Global ContrarianDoes not apply
In the tradition ofRay DalioDalio-style All-WeatherNot enough data
In the tradition ofHoward MarksMarks-style Cycles & RiskNot enough data
In the tradition ofStanley DruckenmillerDruckenmiller-style Macro & LiquidityDoes not apply
In the tradition ofDavid SwensenSwensen-style DiversificationMixed
In the tradition ofCathie WoodWood-style Disruptive InnovationDoes not apply
In the tradition ofJesse LivermoreLivermore-style Trend FollowingMixed
Uses ETFIQ’s measuresThe ETFIQ SkepticETFIQ’s own seatNot enough data
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Questions people ask about VCLT

How has VCLT performed?
Over the year to Oct 28, 2026, VCLT returned −5.9% with distributions reinvested. Over three years the number is +20.4%.
What does VCLT cost?
The prospectus expense ratio is 0.03% a year.
How far is VCLT below its high?
17.8% below its high of Sep 22, 2021, measured on the reinvested series to Oct 28, 2026.
Sources and dates
Prices, VCLTTiingo end-of-day · Oct 28, 2026
Fee, 0.03%Prospectus filing with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗
Net assets, $7.5bnThe issuer’s own number for this ETF, month end · Sep 30, 2026
IssuerHoldings, the issuer’s own month-end file ↗
IssuerVanguard page for VCLT ↗
All fund filingsFund filings on SEC EDGAR ↗

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