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The Fixed-Income Fork: The Critical Differences Between VCSH and SMB
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NASDAQ · VCSH
Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund
Financial Services · Asset Management - Bonds
$77.89
Up+$0.13 (+0.16%)
Updated Nov 1, 2026, 11:12 PM
SID Score
6.0/10
Composite research score
Smart Money
54/100
Neutral
- Market cap
- 47.01B
- P/E ratio
- —
- Dividend yield
- 4.42%
- 52-week range
- $76.89 – $80.26
- Volume
- 3.71M
- Avg. volume
- 4.85M
Price performance · VCSH
VCSH price history
1M range · 20 trading sessions · Daily adjusted prices
Prices through Oct 30, 2026
VCSH closed at $77.89 after 20 trading sessions, up 1.04% for the selected period.
- Last close
- $77.89
- Period change
- +1.04%
- Period low
- $77.09
- Period high
- $77.89
Daily close
View OHLC price history
| Date | Open | High | Low | Close | Volume |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 30, 2026 | $77.87 | $77.915 | $77.8025 | $77.89 | 3.71M |
| Oct 29, 2026 | $77.72 | $77.8499 | $77.705 | $77.765 | 8M |
| Oct 28, 2026 | $77.69 | $77.756 | $77.57 | $77.67 | 6.36M |
| Oct 27, 2026 | $77.61 | $77.6957 | $77.605 | $77.68 | 6.03M |
| Oct 26, 2026 | $77.64 | $77.715 | $77.61 | $77.63 | 5.66M |
| Oct 23, 2026 | $77.67 | $77.7099 | $77.6139 | $77.63 | 7.7M |
| Oct 22, 2026 | $77.54 | $77.775 | $77.475 | $77.71 | 6.84M |
| Oct 21, 2026 | $77.42 | $77.51 | $77.314 | $77.39 | 5.77M |
| Oct 20, 2026 | $77.38 | $77.51 | $77.36 | $77.40 | 8.5M |
| Oct 19, 2026 | $77.47 | $77.5099 | $77.37 | $77.40 | 8.38M |
| Oct 16, 2026 | $77.47 | $77.595 | $77.43 | $77.51 | 5.78M |
| Oct 15, 2026 | $77.53 | $77.5599 | $77.4342 | $77.48 | 5.82M |
| Oct 14, 2026 | $77.12 | $77.33 | $77.09 | $77.30 | 12.47M |
| Oct 13, 2026 | $77.34 | $77.40 | $77.26 | $77.32 | 4.5M |
| Oct 12, 2026 | $77.27 | $77.36 | $77.26 | $77.36 | 2.42M |
| Oct 9, 2026 | $77.29 | $77.32 | $77.25 | $77.30 | 12.04M |
| Oct 8, 2026 | $77.20 | $77.35 | $77.1701 | $77.34 | 2.9M |
| Oct 7, 2026 | $77.08 | $77.29 | $77.065 | $77.27 | 5.46M |
| Oct 6, 2026 | $77.17 | $77.26 | $77.1601 | $77.21 | 4.93M |
| Oct 5, 2026 | $77.04 | $77.115 | $77.02 | $77.09 | 5.42M |
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The fund employs an indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the Bloomberg U.S. 1-5 Year Corporate Bond Index. This index includes U.S. dollar-denominated, investment-grade, fixed-rate, taxable securities issued by U.S. and non-U.S. industrial, utility, and financial companies, with maturities between 1 and 5 years. Under normal circumstances, at least 80% of the fund's assets will be invested in bonds included in the index.
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