VCSH · Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond ETF
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VCSH tracks an index of Short-Term Corporate Bond and returned +1.3% over the past year.
VCSH returned +1.3% over the year to Oct 28, 2026, charges 0.03% a year and holds $43.9bn in net assets on Sep 30, 2026.
Promise check: DeliveredOver the year to Oct 28, 2026, VCSH returned 1.3% against 1.3% for SCHJ, which tracks the same Bloomberg U.S. 1-5 Year Corporate Bond Index. Fees aside, VCSH finished 0.04 points ahead of SCHJ.
VCSH risk and return scorecard
vs SCHJ · Oct 2019 to Oct 2026 · 366 weekly returns · dividend-adjusted
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
What does it hold, and how long?
Holdings filed for May 31, 2026 (N-PORT)More on VCSH
Every number below is on this page. Open what you need.Price and total return, 1 year
$77.670.0%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
| Window | Total return | Benchmark (SCHJ) | Gap to SCHJ |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1M Sep 28 – Oct 28, 2026 | +1.0% | +0.9% | +0.1 pts |
| 3M Jul 29 – Oct 28, 2026 | −0.1% | −0.1% | 0.0 pts |
| 6M Apr 29 – Oct 28, 2026 | +0.3% | +0.4% | −0.1 pts |
| YTD Dec 31, 2025 – Oct 28, 2026 | +0.7% | +0.7% | 0.0 pts |
| 1Y Oct 28, 2025 – Oct 28, 2026 | +1.3% | +1.3% | 0.0 pts |
| 3Y Oct 27, 2023 – Oct 28, 2026 | +17.5% | +17.5% | 0.0 pts |
| 5Y Oct 29, 2021 – Oct 28, 2026 | +12.9% | +12.9% | 0.0 pts |
| 10Y Oct 28, 2016 – Oct 28, 2026 | +29.6% | not available | not available |
| Since launch Nov 23, 2009 – Oct 28, 2026 | +60.6% | not available | not available |
| Since launch, annualised Nov 23, 2009 – Oct 28, 2026 | +2.8% | – | – |
Total returns, distributions reinvested.
Source: Tiingo end-of-day prices, with distributions reinvested.
How far can rates rise in a year before the year's income is gone?
That is the share of the 32 investment-grade bond ETFs with a short duration sitting at or below VCSH.
One year's income against today's duration; it ignores credit risk, and both numbers move. Where the fund sits in this set, not a rating. Do not average it with another category's score.
How far rates could rise before a year's income is gone, ranked against 32 investment-grade bond ETFs with a short duration. 100 is best. How it is computed
VCSH paid 4.54% of its NAV in income over the year to Oct 27, 2026, with a duration of 2.70 years: rates could rise 1.68 percentage points in a year before that income was gone.
Money in and out
Monthly data · as of May 31, 2026VCSH’s fund, all share classes together: in the month to May 31, 2026, net $1.1bn came in, by its SEC filing.
Computed by ETFIQ from the monthly sales and redemptions VCSH 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 VCSH, back to Sep 2019, is in its flows file. Flows across every fund · How these flows are computed · Compare VCSH with other funds in the flows tool
Month by month, money in and money outJun 2023 to May 2026
VCSH, 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 VCSH’s SEC filings (N-PORT item B.6). Of the 36 months listed, money came in on net in 23 and went out in 13.
Every bar is from VCSH’s SEC filings (N-PORT item B.6). Of the 36 months listed, money came in on net in 23 and went out in 13.
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.
VCSH key stats
Trading
as of Oct 27, 2026
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About VCSH
12 seats on VCSH, as of Oct 28, 2026: 2 Supports, 1 Mixed, 5 Not enough data, 4 Does not apply.
Questions people ask about VCSH
- How has VCSH performed?
- Over the year to Oct 28, 2026, VCSH returned +1.3% with distributions reinvested, against +1.3% for its benchmark, the Bloomberg U.S. 1-5 Year Corporate Bond Index. Over three years the number is +17.5%.
- What does VCSH cost?
- The prospectus expense ratio is 0.03% a year.
- How far is VCSH below its high?
- 0.6% below its high of Aug 25, 2026, measured on the reinvested series to Oct 28, 2026.
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