Vanguard Long-Term Bond ETF (BLV)

88.55
Data as of 11:34am ET
 -0.59 / -0.66%
Today’s Change
88.20
Today|||52-Week Range
99.66
-5.67%
Year-to-Date
BLV Regular Dividend: BLV began trading ex-dividend on 06/03/13. A $0.3114 dividend will be paid to shareholders of record as of 06/05/13.

Investment Objective

The investment seeks to track the performance of a market-weighted bond index with a long-term dollar-weighted average maturity. The fund employs an indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the Barclays U.S. Long Government/Credit Float Adjusted Index. It invests at least 80% of assets in bonds held in the index. The fund maintains a dollar-weighted average maturity consistent with that of the index, which generally ranges between 15 and 30 years.

No recent news for Vanguard Long-Term Bond ETF.

Performance

1 month-4.11% 3 years+9.63%
3 months-1.09% 5 years+9.47%
1 year+0.81% Since inception+8.52%
Data through 06/07/2013

Quote Details

Previous close$89.14
Open day’s range88.47 – 89.09
Net asset value (NAV)89.01 (06/06/2013)
Daily volume23,351
Average volume (3 months)71,138
Data as of 11:34am ET, 06/07/2013

Peer Comparisonvs. Long-term bond ETFs

 BLVCategory
Performance 5-yr return+9.47%+6.59%
Expense Gross exp ratio0.10%0.34%
Risk 5 year sharpe ratio0.830.52
Net assets$6.1B$1.8B
Average market cap----
Average P/E----
Dividend / Share--0.21%

Competitors

LQD iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corpora...
CLY iShares 10+ Year Credit Bond Fund
ILTB iShares Core Long-Term U.S. Bond ETF

Holdings

Top 5 Sectors
Portfolio weighting
Financial service 100.00%
Business service 0.00%
Consumer goods 0.00%
Consumer service 0.00%
Energy 0.00%
Top 10 Holdings
Portfolio weighting
-- US Treasury Bond 4.375%2.63%
-- US Treasury Bond 4.25%2.52%
-- US Treasury Bond 2.75%2.02%
-- US Treasury Bond 4.375%2.00%
-- US Treasury Bond 4.375%2.00%
-- US Treasury Bond 4.75%1.96%
-- US Treasury Bond 3%1.87%
-- US Treasury Bond 2.75%1.82%
-- US Treasury Bond 4.625%1.82%
-- US Treasury Bond 3.125%1.75%

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