VictoryShares Core Intermediate Bond ETF
$45.08−0.40 (−0.89%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.38%
- Fund size
- $2.7B
- 1Y return
- −0.1%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 4.36%
- Holdings
- 1101
- Volume · 30D
- 0.2M sh
- NAV per share
- $45.47
- 52W range
The ETF.net UITB Grade
Score 66 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.CScore 42Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 100Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.CScore 43Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 73Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 71Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 76Category rank
Our read on UITB
BMost core bond ETFs clone the Agg index for three basis points. This one is run by people: an active take on the intermediate investment-grade market, launched in 2017 under the USAA banner and flying Victory Capital's flag since 2019.
The Fund seeks high current income while limiting undue risk to principal. It invests mainly in debt securities and related instruments, with duration generally near that of the Bloomberg 1-3 Year Credit Index.
Why people hold it
- Human-run, not index-bound: managers choose among Treasuries, corporates and mortgage bonds rather than owning whatever the Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate benchmark weights dictate.vcm.com
- Roughly 1,100 bonds with an average maturity in the 3-to-10 year range. Core plumbing, not a bet on either end of the yield curve.advisor.vcm.com
- Cash goes out monthly, the cadence income-focused holders usually want from a bond sleeve.
- A multi-billion-dollar fund with a live record back to 2017, and the portfolio it actually holds lines up with the mandate its prospectus sets out.vcm.com
Worth knowing
- It charges 0.38% a year while index peers BND, SPAB and SCHZ charge 0.03%. Active security selection is the thing you are paying that gap for.
- Intermediate maturities carry real interest-rate sensitivity: when yields rise, prices fall. This is not a short-duration parking spot.advisor.vcm.com
- Moderately traded rather than a volume giant, so spreads can widen in fast markets and limit orders do more work than market orders.
UITB Holdings
- Bonds
- 1,101
- 15%
- US T-NOTE 4.125% 05/31/32
Sectors
- Energy100.0%
Geography
- United States93.30%
- Canada1.48%
- United Kingdom1.25%
- Japan0.94%
- Netherlands0.59%
- Ireland0.39%
- Mexico0.39%
- Luxembourg0.37%
- 1.28%
UITB 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 | UITB |
|---|---|
| Year to date | −1.1% |
| 1 month | −0.9% |
| 3 months | −1.4% |
| 1 year | −0.1% |
| 3 years | +4.6% |
| 5 years | −0.0% |
| 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 | UITB |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | −1.1% | |
| 2025 | +7.3% | |
| 2024 | +1.8% | |
| 2023 | +6.5% | |
| 2022 | −12.2% | |
| 2021 | −0.9% | |
| 2020 | +7.5% |
UITB in the news
ETF.net Research hasn’t filed on UITB yet — coverage lands here as it’s written.
UITB Dividends
- 4.36%
- $1.98
- $0.17 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 9, 2026 | Sep 10, 2026 | $0.17 |
| Aug 7, 2026 | Aug 10, 2026 | $0.16 |
| Jul 9, 2026 | Jul 10, 2026 | $0.18 |
| Jun 9, 2026 | Jun 10, 2026 | $0.17 |
| May 8, 2026 | May 11, 2026 | $0.16 |
| Apr 9, 2026 | Apr 10, 2026 | $0.18 |
| Mar 10, 2026 | Mar 11, 2026 | $0.16 |
| Feb 9, 2026 | Feb 10, 2026 | $0.16 |
| Jan 8, 2026 | Jan 9, 2026 | $0.03 |
| Dec 11, 2025 | Dec 12, 2025 | $0.30 |
| Nov 7, 2025 | Nov 10, 2025 | $0.15 |
| Oct 9, 2025 | Oct 10, 2025 | $0.17 |
UITB Risk
- 5.4%
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.
- −0.02
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.
- −16.7%
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.
- 0.96
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
UITB Cost
- The middle half of US Aggregate Bond funds
- Median 0.34%
64 of the 112 US Aggregate Bond funds charge less.