Vanguard Long-Term Bond Fund
Vanguard · Tracks Bloomberg US Long Government/Credit Float Adjusted Index · Inception Feb 2, 2006
Composite score
Based on a 0.030% expense ratio.
Based on $8.67B in net assets.
Top-10 holdings represent 11.3% of net assets.
US Aggregate Bond base · ETF wrapper · 4.86% TTM yield.
The composite is a weighted average of the four core sub-scores above (cost, tax efficiency, liquidity, concentration). Missing sub-scores fall back to the per-category median when the category has at least 50% data coverage, so funds without (e.g.) parsed N-PORT holdings aren't accidentally boosted by renormalization. Tracking quality is shown where computable but isn't currently part of the composite weighting. See methodology for formulas, the tracking-quality partial-coverage rationale, and the dimensions we deliberately don't score (methodology v0.5.1).
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Top holdings
| # | Holding | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.23% |
| 2 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.21% |
| 3 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.18% |
| 4 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.18% |
| 5 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.18% |
| 6 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.14% |
| 7 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.13% |
| 8 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.10% |
| 9 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.98% |
| 10 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.97% |
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