Avantis Short-Term Fixed Income ETF
$45.65−0.22 (−0.48%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.15%
- Fund size
- $656M
- 1Y return
- +1.4%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 4.39%
- Holdings
- 486
- Volume · 30D
- 0.1M sh
- NAV per share
- $45.84
- 52W range
The ETF.net AVSF Grade
Score 63 of 100 sits in the B band. Bands: A ≥ 70, B ≥ 55, C ≥ 40, D ≥ 25, F < 25; the scale skips E.
Cost
What you pay to own it — the expense ratio plus trading frictions, ranked within its category.BScore 64Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.Not scoredRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.CScore 44Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 70Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 78Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 66Category rank
Our read on AVSF
BActive bond management at an index-fund price. Avantis works the short end of the curve, the 1-5 year government and credit zone, across roughly 500 positions, for 0.15% a year.
The fund seeks to maximize total return by investing broadly in short-term debt obligations across sectors, maturities, and issuers. It uses active portfolio management informed by current yields, interest rates, credit metrics, and other investment considerations.
Why people hold it
- 0.15% a year buys an actively managed bond portfolio, a fraction of what the typical fund in this cohort charges.
- Anchored to the 1-5 year part of the curve, so it carries far less interest-rate sensitivity than a total-market bond fund.
- Roughly 500 holdings spread across sectors, maturities and issuers. No single borrower drives the result.
- Managers adjust to yields, rate levels and credit metrics instead of buying whatever the index prints. One of the stronger builds in a crowded bond cohort.
Worth knowing
- Trades lighter than the index giants, so spreads can widen. Limit orders are the sane way in and out.
- Payouts don't follow a fixed calendar, so the income stream arrives unevenly.
- Active costs more than plain trackers: BND, SPAB and SCHZ each charge 0.03%, though they hold the whole bond market, not the short end.
AVSF Holdings
- Bonds
- 486
- 10%
- US TREASURY N/B 01/27 4.125
Geography
- United States87.39%
- Canada4.27%
- United Kingdom2.19%
- Japan0.98%
- Netherlands0.69%
- Germany0.61%
- Luxembourg0.61%
- Ireland0.53%
- 2.73%
AVSF Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
Returns run to the Sep 22, 2026 close, with cash distributions reinvested. Each period starts on the same date that many months or years earlier. Periods over one year show the average yearly return.
| Period | AVSF |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +0.2% |
| 1 month | −0.8% |
| 3 months | −0.2% |
| 1 year | +1.4% |
| 3 years | +4.7% |
| 5 years | +1.8% |
| 10 years | — |
Calendar-year total return with cash distributions hypothetically reinvested at the ex-dividend date’s closing price. The current year shows year to date.
| Year | Return bar | AVSF |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +0.2% | |
| 2025 | +6.6% | |
| 2024 | +3.8% | |
| 2023 | +5.3% | |
| 2022 | −5.5% | |
| 2021 | −1.2% | |
| 2020 | +0.5% |
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AVSF Dividends
- 4.39%
- $2.01
- $0.15 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 4, 2026 | Sep 8, 2026 | $0.15 |
| Aug 6, 2026 | Aug 10, 2026 | $0.18 |
| Jul 7, 2026 | Jul 9, 2026 | $0.16 |
| Jun 4, 2026 | Jun 8, 2026 | $0.15 |
| May 6, 2026 | May 8, 2026 | $0.15 |
| Apr 7, 2026 | Apr 9, 2026 | $0.19 |
| Mar 5, 2026 | Mar 9, 2026 | $0.16 |
| Feb 5, 2026 | Feb 9, 2026 | $0.18 |
| Dec 16, 2025 | Dec 18, 2025 | $0.19 |
| Dec 1, 2025 | Dec 3, 2025 | $0.15 |
| Nov 3, 2025 | Nov 5, 2025 | $0.17 |
| Oct 1, 2025 | Oct 3, 2025 | $0.18 |
AVSF Risk
- 2.2%
How it’s calculated: standard deviation
The sample standard deviation of monthly total returns, multiplied by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Total returns include reinvested distributions.
- 0.05
How it’s calculated: Sharpe ratio
Subtract each month’s Treasury-bill return from the fund’s monthly total return.
Divide the average of those excess returns by their sample standard deviation, then multiply by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Each month uses the Treasury yield quoted at the end of the previous month.
- −8.6%
How it’s calculated: maximum drawdown
The largest percentage decline from an earlier peak, using total returns with reinvested distributions.
Uses up to five years through the last close, with at least 12 months required.
- 0.35
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
AVSF Cost
- The middle half of Short-Term Core Bond funds
- Median 0.25%
4 of the 12 Short-Term Core Bond funds charge less.