Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Securities ETF
VMBS NASDAQ
The Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Securities ETF seeks to provide a moderate and sustainable level of current income by investing primarily in U.S. agency mortgage-backed pass-through securities issued by Ginnie Mae (GNMA), Fannie Mae (FNMA), and Freddie Mac (FHLMC), with moderate interest rate risk, wi...
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- Fund size
- 11.8B as of Feb 2020
- Expense ratio
- 0.07% per year
- Dividend yield
- 4.41% Monthly
- Volatility · 1Y
- 4.6% Above Average
- Beta
- 0.10 vs the market
- 52-week range
- 44.1646.53
How VMBS has paid off
Price return over every period, and total return with dividends reinvested, set against its benchmark.
Return by period
Price · to Oct 12Total return vs benchmark
Total Market US Cap Weighted 1200 IndexOver 1 year, VMBS returned +3.0% with dividends reinvested — −50.7 pts behind its benchmark.
How bumpy is the ride?
Return only means something next to the risk taken to earn it. Volatility, drawdowns and market sensitivity over 1 year.
Volatility
Annualized · 1YA typical year sees the price swing about ±5% around its trend.
Drawdown from peak
How far below its previous high the price has been Deepest fall −5.1% on Oct 5, 2026 — 220 days after the previous high
More than 5% below a high 0% of the time.
Risk vs reward
1YOver 1 year, VMBS delivered less return, with less risk than its benchmark.
Market sensitivity
BetaA beta of 0.10 means VMBS has moved less than the market.
Trend & momentum
Where the price sits against its moving averages, and how stretched the recent move is.
Price vs moving averages
Downtrend- 12-day average44.48 +0.2%
- 26-day average44.76 −0.5%
- 50-day average45.10 −1.2%
- 200-day average45.41 −1.9%
The price is above 1 of 4 averages. The 50-day average is below the 200-day, a sign of a falling longer-term trend.
Relative strength (RSI)
NeutralRSI compares recent gains with recent losses on a 0–100 scale. Above 70 a move is often considered stretched, below 30 washed out.
Technical indicators describe past prices. They are not a forecast.
Inside the fund
Mortgage-Backed Securities · U.S. Agency Backed — tracking the Bloomberg U.S. MBS Float Adjusted Index.
- Assets under management11.8BUSD
- Expense ratio0.07%per year
- Holdings186
- Risk score1.7Low
Launched November 2009. Fund data as of Feb 28, 2020.
What it pays you
Cash distributions over the last twelve months, and how they have grown.
About 44 USD a year for every 1,000 USD invested at today's price.
- Per share
- 1.97
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Last paid
- Oct 1, 2026
Last 12 months
1.97 USD / shareWhere VMBS shows up
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About Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Securities ETF
The Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Securities ETF seeks to provide a moderate and sustainable level of current income by investing primarily in U.S. agency mortgage-backed pass-through securities issued by Ginnie Mae (GNMA), Fannie Mae (FNMA), and Freddie Mac (FHLMC), with moderate interest rate risk, with a dollar-weighted average maturity of 3 to 10 years
- Featured in 2 curated themes
- 186 holdings
- Ticker
- VMBS
- Exchange
- NASDAQ
- ISIN
- US92206C7719
- CUSIP
- 92206C771
- Currency
- U.S. Dollar (USD)
- Country
- USA
- Sector
- Mortgage-Backed Securities
- Industry
- U.S. Agency Backed
- Benchmark
- Total Market US Cap Weighted 1200 Index
All key statistics
Details
Shareas of Oct 12, 2026
Dataas of Feb 28, 2020
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Data for information only, not investment advice. Past performance does not guarantee future results.