Vanguard Core-Plus Bond ETF
VPLS NASDAQ
This actively managed fund seeks to provide broadly diversified exposure primarily to the U.S. investment-grade bond market, with selective exposure to below-investment-grade bonds and debt from other countries, including emerging markets
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- Dividend yield
- 4.98% Trailing 12 months
- Volatility · 1Y
- 3.7% Average Risk
- Beta
- 0.08 vs the market
- 52-week range
- 73.6276.92
How VPLS 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, VPLS returned +3.4% with dividends reinvested — −50.3 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 ±4% around its trend.
Drawdown from peak
How far below its previous high the price has been Deepest fall −4.3% 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, VPLS delivered less return, with less risk than its benchmark.
Market sensitivity
BetaA beta of 0.08 means VPLS 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 average74.04 −0.0%
- 26-day average74.42 −0.5%
- 50-day average74.87 −1.1%
- 200-day average75.25 −1.6%
The price is above 0 of 4 averages. The 50-day average is below the 200-day, a sign of a falling longer-term trend.
Relative strength (RSI)
OversoldRSI 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.
What it pays you
Cash distributions over the last twelve months, and how they have grown.
About 50 USD a year for every 1,000 USD invested at today's price.
- Per share
- 3.69
- Last paid
- Oct 1, 2026
Last 12 months
3.69 USD / shareWhere VPLS shows up
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About Vanguard Core-Plus Bond ETF
This actively managed fund seeks to provide broadly diversified exposure primarily to the U.S. investment-grade bond market, with selective exposure to below-investment-grade bonds and debt from other countries, including emerging markets
- Featured in 1 curated theme
- Ticker
- VPLS
- Exchange
- NASDAQ
- ISIN
- US9220207552
- CUSIP
- 922020755
- Currency
- U.S. Dollar (USD)
- Country
- USA
- Sector
- Aggregate
- Industry
- Intermediate
- Benchmark
- Total Market US Cap Weighted 1200 Index
All key statistics
Details
Shareas of Oct 12, 2026
Dataas of Oct 13, 2026
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