Vanguard Total Treasury ETF
$72.72−0.60 (−0.82%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.03%
- Fund size
- $206M
- 1Y return
- −0.4%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 3.75%
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $73.30
- 52W range
The ETF.net VTG Grade
Score 76 of 100 sits in the A 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 97Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 96Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.DScore 39Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.CScore 44Category 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.BScore 56Category rank
Our read on VTG
AOne ticker for the whole Treasury curve. Vanguard's 2025 answer to the do-it-yourself stack of short, intermediate and long Treasury funds: a single index fund covering the market at three basis points.
The fund aims to track the performance of an index representing the broad U.S. Treasury bond market.
Why people hold it
- Costs 0.03% a year, about a quarter of the typical fee in its Treasury peer group, and it lands in the top tier of that cohort on build quality.
- Does the job of a three-fund short/intermediate/long stack in one holding, tracking the Bloomberg U.S. Treasury Total Return Unhedged USD Index across maturities.corporate.vanguard.com
- Plain Treasuries only: no credit sleeve, no currency hedge, no active tilts, with income paid out monthly.
Worth knowing
- Whole-curve exposure means long maturities are in the mix, so the share price moves with interest rates more than a short-term Treasury fund would.workplace.vanguard.com
- A July 2025 launch, so it is still a small fund that trades lightly next to decade-old Treasury ETFs. Wider bid-ask spreads are the trade-off.
- The index begins at one year to maturity, so T-bills and cash-like exposure sit outside it. Vanguard parks that end of the curve in separate funds such as VGUS.stockanalysis.com
VTG Holdings
- Bonds
- —
- 9%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 4.63% 02/15/2035
VTG 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 | VTG |
|---|---|
| Year to date | −1.3% |
| 1 month | −0.8% |
| 3 months | −1.3% |
| 1 year | −0.4% |
| 3 years | — |
| 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 | VTG |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | −1.3% | |
| 2025 | +2.9% |
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VTG Dividends
- 3.75%
- $2.75
- $0.25 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 2026 | Sep 3, 2026 | $0.25 |
| Aug 3, 2026 | Aug 5, 2026 | $0.24 |
| Jul 1, 2026 | Jul 6, 2026 | $0.24 |
| Jun 1, 2026 | Jun 3, 2026 | $0.21 |
| May 1, 2026 | May 5, 2026 | $0.23 |
| Apr 1, 2026 | Apr 6, 2026 | $0.24 |
| Mar 2, 2026 | Mar 4, 2026 | $0.23 |
| Feb 2, 2026 | Feb 4, 2026 | $0.24 |
| Dec 18, 2025 | Dec 22, 2025 | $0.24 |
| Dec 1, 2025 | Dec 3, 2025 | $0.22 |
| Nov 3, 2025 | Nov 5, 2025 | $0.18 |
| Oct 1, 2025 | Oct 3, 2025 | $0.23 |
VTG Risk
- 3.2%
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.
- −0.53
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.
- −3.4%
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.
- 0.06
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
VTG Cost
- The middle half of US Treasury & Government funds
- Median 0.15%
No US Treasury & Government fund charges less.