VictoryShares Core Plus Bond ETF
$20.91−0.18 (−0.88%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.45%
- Fund size
- $2.0B
- 1Y return
- +0.6%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 5.01%
- Holdings
- 1110
- Volume · 30D
- 0.3M sh
- NAV per share
- $21.07
- 52W range
The ETF.net UBND Grade
Score 61 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.DScore 26Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 98Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.BScore 58Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 61Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 79Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 68Category rank
Our read on UBND
BA core-plus bond fund parked in an aisle full of three-basis-point index trackers. It hunts high current income without a benchmark to hug, spreads the risk across more than a thousand bonds, and pays monthly.
The Fund seeks high current income while limiting undue risk to principal.
Why people hold it
- Income is the stated job: the prospectus asks for high current income while limiting undue risk to principal, and the fund's behavior has stayed close to that mandate.
- Diversification is broad for a bond fund, spread over more than a thousand positions, with cash paid out monthly rather than quarterly.
- Scale is real: a multi-billion-dollar fund with steady day-to-day trading, and it sits in the upper half of a crowded core bond field.
Worth knowing
- At 0.45%, it runs above the category median and well above index rivals like BND and SCHZ at 0.03%. The fee buys manager discretion, not index replication.
- No declared index means no benchmark to shadow. Sector and credit calls drive the outcome, so behavior can diverge from a plain aggregate tracker.
- Launched in 2021, so its track record is shorter than the decades-old core bond funds it shares shelf space with.
UBND Holdings
- Bonds
- 1,110
- 10%
- US T-BOND 4.375% 11/15/39
Geography
- United States89.82%
- United Kingdom2.73%
- Canada2.25%
- Luxembourg1.14%
- Ireland0.99%
- France0.59%
- Mexico0.50%
- Bermuda0.42%
- 1.56%
UBND 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 | UBND |
|---|---|
| Year to date | −0.9% |
| 1 month | −0.9% |
| 3 months | −1.3% |
| 1 year | +0.6% |
| 3 years | +5.2% |
| 5 years | — |
| 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 | UBND |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | −0.9% | |
| 2025 | +7.8% | |
| 2024 | +3.0% | |
| 2023 | +7.4% | |
| 2022 | −12.7% | |
| 2021 | +0.1% |
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UBND Dividends
- 5.01%
- $1.06
- $0.09 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 9, 2026 | Sep 10, 2026 | $0.09 |
| Aug 7, 2026 | Aug 10, 2026 | $0.08 |
| Jul 9, 2026 | Jul 10, 2026 | $0.09 |
| Jun 9, 2026 | Jun 10, 2026 | $0.08 |
| May 8, 2026 | May 11, 2026 | $0.08 |
| Apr 9, 2026 | Apr 10, 2026 | $0.11 |
| Mar 10, 2026 | Mar 11, 2026 | $0.09 |
| Feb 9, 2026 | Feb 10, 2026 | $0.09 |
| Jan 8, 2026 | Jan 9, 2026 | $0.01 |
| Dec 11, 2025 | Dec 12, 2025 | $0.16 |
| Nov 7, 2025 | Nov 10, 2025 | $0.08 |
| Oct 9, 2025 | Oct 10, 2025 | $0.10 |
UBND Risk
- 5.3%
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.
- 0.07
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.
- −16.6%
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.
- 0.94
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
UBND Cost
- The middle half of US Aggregate Bond funds
- Median 0.34%
79 of the 112 US Aggregate Bond funds charge less.