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About Vanguard Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities Index Fund ETF Shares
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Inception date
Oct 12, 2012
Structure
Open-Ended Fund
Dividend treatment
Distributes
Distribution tax treatment
Ordinary income
Income tax type
Capital Gains
Max ST capital gains rate
39.60%
Max LT capital gains rate
20.00%
Primary advisor
The Vanguard Group, Inc.
Distributor
Vanguard Marketing Corp.
VTIP offers representative exposure to the short-term TIPS market. The fund tracks our benchmark index, which means it provides broad, unbiased exposure to the short-term TIPS market. True to its mandate, 100% of VTIP's assets are allocated to TIPS with less than 5 years to maturity. The fund has almost identical portfolio statistics as our benchmark. Based on its portfolio maturity distributions, VTIP does exactly what it says on the tin. Like all Treasury debts, TIPS are issued by and backed by the full faith and credit of the US government. On top of that, the fund is short-term in nature, so it bears minimal interest rate risk.
Classification
Returns
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What's in the fund
Exposure type
Government
Bonds, Cash & Other100.00%
Government99.97%
Cash0.03%
Stock breakdown by region
North America100.00%
Latin America0.00%
Europe0.00%
Asia0.00%
Africa0.00%
Middle East0.00%
Oceania0.00%
Top 10 holdings
Dividends
Dividend payout history
Assets under management (AUM)
Fund Flows
Frequently Asked Questions
VTIP top holdings are Government of the United States of America 1.625% 15-OCT-2029 and Government of the United States of America 2.125% 15-APR-2029, occupying 5.40% and 5.33% of the portfolio correspondingly.
VTIP last dividends amounted to 0.10 USD. The quarter before, the issuer paid 0.53 USD in dividends, which shows a 440.90% decrease.
VTIP assets under management is 14.91 B USD. It's risen 0.12% over the last month.
VTIP fund flows account for 3.62 B USD (1 year). Many traders use this metric to get insight into investors' sentiment and evaluate whether it's time to buy or sell the fund.
Yes, VTIP pays dividends to its holders with the dividend yield of 2.77%. The last dividend (Apr 3, 2025) amounted to 0.10 USD. The dividends are paid quarterly.
VTIP shares are issued by The Vanguard Group, Inc. under the brand Vanguard. The ETF was launched on Oct 12, 2012, and its management style is Passive.
VTIP expense ratio is 0.03% meaning you'd have to pay 0.03% of your investment to help manage the fund.
VTIP follows the Bloomberg US Treasury TIPS (0-5 Y). ETFs usually track some benchmark seeking to replicate its performance and guide asset selection and objectives.
VTIP invests in bonds.
VTIP price has fallen by −0.06% over the last month, and its yearly performance shows a 3.80% increase. See more dynamics on VTIP price chart.
NAV returns, another gauge of an ETF dynamics, have risen by −0.08% over the last month, have fallen by −0.08% over the last month, showed a 1.66% increase in three-month performance and has increased by 6.83% in a year.
NAV returns, another gauge of an ETF dynamics, have risen by −0.08% over the last month, have fallen by −0.08% over the last month, showed a 1.66% increase in three-month performance and has increased by 6.83% in a year.
VTIP trades at a premium (0.06%) meaning the ETF is trading at a higher price than the calculated NAV.