Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap Value ETF
$237.85−0.89 (−0.37%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.05%
- Fund size
- $68.2B
- 1Y return
- +15.9%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 1.81%
- Holdings
- 841
- Volume · 30D
- 0.3M sh
- NAV per share
- $238.75
- 52W range
The ETF.net VBR Grade
Score 68 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.AScore 87Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.BScore 69Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.DScore 28Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.CScore 53Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 85Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 87Category rank
Our read on VBR
BVanguard's small-cap value index fund, running since 2004 at five basis points. It owns roughly 800 names off the CRSP index, and CRSP's definition of "small" stretches up toward mid-cap turf, making it a gentler read on small-cap value than Russell 2000 versions.
Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF seeks to follow the CRSP US Small Cap Value Index, which represents U.S. small-cap value stocks. It uses a passive, full-replication approach and normally remains fully invested.
Why people hold it
- 0.05% a year, against a peer-group median of 0.18%. Roughly a quarter of what the typical value fund in its group charges.
- Full replication across about 800 small-cap value names, cap-weighted, so no single stock steers the portfolio.workplace.vanguard.com
- CRSP shifts companies between size indexes in half-position "packets" inside buffer bands, softening turnover when a holding drifts across the small-cap line.crsp.org
- Live since 2004, a multi-billion-dollar fund on one index mandate the whole way. Distributions land quarterly.
Worth knowing
- CRSP calls the bottom 2%-15% of the investable market "small," so this leans larger than Russell 2000 value funds such as VTWV.crsp.com
- Small companies swing harder than large ones, and the fund normally stays fully invested through the swings.workplace.vanguard.com
- Value here is CRSP's price-ratio screen (book, earnings, dividends, sales to price). No profitability or quality filter sits on top.pnc.com
VBR Holdings
- Stocks
- 841
- 6%
- MRNA
Sectors
- Financials17.7%
- Industrials16.3%
- Consumer Discr.13.0%
- Technology10.8%
- Real Estate10.8%
- Health Care9.5%
- Materials5.4%
- Energy5.1%
- Utilities4.6%
- Cons. Staples4.4%
- Communication2.5%
Geography
- United States96.10%
- Bermuda1.33%
- Ireland1.22%
- United Kingdom0.45%
- Puerto Rico0.27%
- Switzerland0.27%
- Netherlands0.18%
- Canada0.13%
- 0.05%
VBR Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
VBR$11,586
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 | VBR |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +13.9% |
| 1 month | −4.2% |
| 3 months | +0.4% |
| 1 year | +15.9% |
| 3 years | +16.8% |
| 5 years | +9.4% |
| 10 years | +10.1% |
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 | VBR |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +13.9% | |
| 2025 | +9.1% | |
| 2024 | +12.4% | |
| 2023 | +16.0% | |
| 2022 | −9.4% | |
| 2021 | +28.1% | |
| 2020 | +5.9% |
VBR in the news
VBR Dividends
- 1.81%
- $4.32
- $1.09 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 2026 | Jun 30, 2026 | $1.09 |
| Mar 27, 2026 | Mar 31, 2026 | $1.24 |
| Dec 22, 2025 | Dec 24, 2025 | $1.06 |
| Sep 29, 2025 | Oct 1, 2025 | $0.93 |
| Jun 30, 2025 | Jul 2, 2025 | $0.91 |
| Mar 27, 2025 | Mar 31, 2025 | $1.24 |
| Dec 23, 2024 | Dec 26, 2024 | $1.09 |
| Sep 26, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 | $0.87 |
| Jun 27, 2024 | Jul 1, 2024 | $1.02 |
| Mar 21, 2024 | Mar 26, 2024 | $0.94 |
| Dec 21, 2023 | Dec 27, 2023 | $1.15 |
| Sep 21, 2023 | Sep 26, 2023 | $0.88 |
VBR Risk
- 16.1%
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.
- 0.71
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.
- −24.2%
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.
VBR Cost
0.05%
VBR0.05%
- The middle half of US Value Index funds
- Median 0.20%
4 of the 41 US Value Index funds charge less.