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BSV — Vanguard SHORT-TERM Bond Index Fund ETF Shares

Data as of 2026-09-29 · US · Bonds · window 2016-09-29 → 2026-09-29 (10.0 years) · returns assume dividends reinvested, net of fund fees · Market Data from Tiingo.com

What the history says

BSV
Total return+19.6%
Annualised (CAGR)+1.8%
Volatility (annualised)+2.3%
Sharpe (rf = 0)0.78
Deepest drawdown-8.5%
Drawdown peak → trough2021-08-03 → 2022-10-20
Fee (annual expense ratio)0.05%
Dividend yield (12m distributions)4.10% (as of 2026-09-29)

Over the 10.0 years to 2026-09-29 the fund returned +19.6% in total (+1.8% a year), with a deepest drawdown of -8.5% from 2021-08-03 to 2022-10-20. Its worst calendar year was 2022 (-5.5%), its best 2025 (+6.0%).

Every calendar year

Calendar-year returns (net of fees, dividends reinvested)
YearBSV
2026-0.5%
2025+6.0%
2024+3.8%
2023+4.9%
2022-5.5%
2021-1.1%
2020+4.7%
2019+5.0%
2018+1.3%
2017+1.2%
2016-1.2%

Common questions

How much has BSV returned over the last 10 years?

+19.6% in total, which works out to +1.8% a year over the 10 years to 2026-09-29. Both figures assume dividends were reinvested and the fund's own fees were already deducted, so they are what an investor would have kept — before tax.

What was BSV's worst year?

2022 — its calendar-year return was -5.5% (net of fees, dividends reinvested). Its best year was 2025 (+6.0%).

How deep was BSV's worst drawdown?

-8.5%, from a peak on 2021-08-03 to a trough on 2022-10-20. From that trough it took 648 days (about 21.3 months) to climb back to the earlier peak.

Does BSV pay dividends?

Over the last 12 months it distributed 4.10% of its share price (as of 2026-09-29). That is a past distribution, not a promise of future income, and it is already counted in every return figure on this page.

What is BSV's expense ratio?

0.05% a year, and it is already deducted from every return figure on this page. A fund charges it inside the fund rather than billing you, which is why fee differences show up as a smaller final balance, not as a line item.

What this page does not say

It does not say BSV is a good or bad fund, and it is not a forecast. Returns above are history: they already include dividends and already exclude the fund's own fees. A drawdown of -8.5% means an investor who bought at the peak would have watched that much value disappear before it recovered — how long that takes is the part most tables leave out.

Run your own window, add fees or a second fund: open BSV in the tool. History is shown as history, never sold as a forecast.

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