Vanguard Short Term Inflation Protected Securities ETF
VTIP NASDAQ
Vanguard Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities ETF seeks to track the performance of a benchmark index that measures the investment return of inflation-protected public obligations of the U.S. Treasury with remaining maturities of less than five years
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- Fund size
- 7.58B as of Feb 2020
- Expense ratio
- 0.06% per year
- Dividend yield
- 4.84% Quarterly
- Volatility · 1Y
- 3.0% Average Risk
- Beta
- 0.03 vs the market
- 52-week range
- 47.6649.22
How VTIP 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, VTIP returned +6.3% with dividends reinvested — −47.4 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 ±3% around its trend.
Drawdown from peak
How far below its previous high the price has been Deepest fall −1.7% on Oct 2, 2026 — 2 days after the previous high
More than 5% below a high 0% of the time.
Risk vs reward
1YOver 1 year, VTIP delivered less return, with less risk than its benchmark.
Market sensitivity
BetaA beta of 0.03 means VTIP 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
Uptrend- 12-day average48.47 +0.0%
- 26-day average48.51 −0.0%
- 50-day average48.57 −0.2%
- 200-day average48.36 +0.3%
The price is above 2 of 4 averages. The 50-day average is above the 200-day, a sign of a rising 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
Treasuries · Inflation protected — tracking the Bloomberg US Treasury TIPS (0-5 Y).
- Assets under management7.58BUSD
- Expense ratio0.06%per year
- Holdings18
- Risk score2.2Low
Launched October 2012. Fund data as of Feb 28, 2020.
What it pays you
Cash distributions over the last twelve months, and how they have grown.
About 48 USD a year for every 1,000 USD invested at today's price.
- Per share
- 2.35
- Frequency
- Quarterly
- Last paid
- Oct 1, 2026
Last 12 months
2.35 USD / shareWhere VTIP shows up
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About Vanguard Short Term Inflation Protected Securities ETF
Vanguard Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities ETF seeks to track the performance of a benchmark index that measures the investment return of inflation-protected public obligations of the U.S. Treasury with remaining maturities of less than five years
- Featured in 1 curated theme
- 18 holdings
- Ticker
- VTIP
- Exchange
- NASDAQ
- ISIN
- US9220208055
- CUSIP
- 922020805
- Currency
- U.S. Dollar (USD)
- Country
- USA
- Sector
- Treasuries
- Industry
- Inflation protected
- 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.