Vident U.S. Bond Strategy ETF
$42.02−0.36 (−0.85%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.41%
- Fund size
- $516M
- 1Y return
- +0.3%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 4.48%
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $42.26
- 52W range
The ETF.net VBND Grade
Score 51 of 100 sits in the C 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 30Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 84Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.BScore 56Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.CScore 40Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.CScore 40Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 57Category rank
Our read on VBND
CAn actively managed core bond fund that refuses to clone the Agg. Vident bolts high yield, TIPS, dollar-denominated foreign bonds and private credit onto a US investment-grade core, steered by its own governance-and-value scoring. Running since 2014.
The Fund seeks current income and long-term capital appreciation.
Why people hold it
- Core-plus with a real 'plus': the mandate allows high yield corporates, TIPS, private credit and dollar-denominated international bonds around a US investment-grade core, within stated limits.
- Vident applies its own scorecard rather than hunches: international bonds are drawn only from countries in the top half of its Country Opportunity Score.videntam.com
- Pays income monthly and has been trading since 2014, so there is a decade-plus of live operating history behind the strategy, not a backtest.
Worth knowing
- At 0.41% it costs real money beside index core-bond giants like BND, SPAB and SCHZ at 0.03%. The active sleeves carry the job of justifying that gap.
- High yield and private credit exposure brings credit and liquidity risk a plain aggregate-bond tracker does not carry.
- Thinly traded for its category, so bid-ask spreads and fill quality matter more here than with the mega-sized bond funds.
VBND Holdings
- Bonds
- —
- 28%
- U.S. Bank Money Market Deposit Account 06/01/2031
VBND 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 | VBND |
|---|---|
| Year to date | −0.9% |
| 1 month | −0.6% |
| 3 months | −1.3% |
| 1 year | +0.3% |
| 3 years | +4.7% |
| 5 years | −0.3% |
| 10 years | +1.2% |
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 | VBND |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | −0.9% | |
| 2025 | +7.3% | |
| 2024 | +1.3% | |
| 2023 | +8.2% | |
| 2022 | −14.2% | |
| 2021 | −0.4% | |
| 2020 | +5.4% |
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VBND Dividends
- 4.48%
- $1.90
- $0.17 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 17, 2026 | Sep 18, 2026 | $0.17 |
| Aug 18, 2026 | Aug 19, 2026 | $0.16 |
| Jul 16, 2026 | Jul 17, 2026 | $0.17 |
| Jun 16, 2026 | Jun 17, 2026 | $0.15 |
| May 19, 2026 | May 20, 2026 | $0.17 |
| Apr 16, 2026 | Apr 17, 2026 | $0.17 |
| Mar 17, 2026 | Mar 18, 2026 | $0.16 |
| Feb 18, 2026 | Feb 19, 2026 | $0.12 |
| Jan 21, 2026 | Jan 22, 2026 | $0.12 |
| Dec 17, 2025 | Dec 18, 2025 | $0.19 |
| Nov 18, 2025 | Nov 19, 2025 | $0.15 |
| Oct 21, 2025 | Oct 22, 2025 | $0.17 |
VBND 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.
- −0.002
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.
- −18.7%
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.
- 0.97
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
VBND Cost
- The middle half of US Aggregate Bond funds
- Median 0.34%
77 of the 112 US Aggregate Bond funds charge less.