Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond ETF offers exposure to investment-grade corporate bonds falling towards the short end of the maturity spectrum, thereby delivering a moderate amount of credit risk but limiting exposure to rising interest rates. The Fund seeks to track the performance of the Barclays Capital U.S. 1-5 Year Corporate Bond Index, a market-weighted bond index with a short-term dollar-weighted average maturity. VCSH provides a diversified exposure to the short-term investment grade U.S. corporate bond market, including U.S. dollar-denominated, investment-grade, fixed-rate, taxable securities issued by industrial, utility, and financial companies, with maturities between 1 and 5 years.
VCSH seeks to provide current income with modest price fluctuation.
The Fund follows a passively managed, index sampling approach.
It provides current income with high credit quality.
VCSH TOP 10 HOLDINGS
Bank of America Corporation 3% 0.31
Apple Inc. 2.4% 0.25
Charter Communications Operating, LLC/Charter Communications Operating Capi 0.24
Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. 3.5% 0.22
The Boeing Company 2.2% 0.21
JPMorgan Chase & Co. 0.20
Dell International L.L.C. and EMC Corporation 5.45% 0.20
Verizon Communications Inc. 5.15% 0.19
The Boeing Company 4.88% 0.19
CVS Health Corp 3.7% 0.19
As of 04/06/21