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VANGUARD TOTAL BOND MARKET II INDEX FUND

Index fundBondsTracks the Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Float Adjusted IndexOpen-end fund
VANGUARD BOND INDEX FUNDS: VTBIX · VTBNXHoldings as of Jun 30, 2026Filed Aug 28, 2026

U.S. bond index fund · tracks Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Float Adjusted Index

As of its 2026 Q2 report, VANGUARD TOTAL BOND MARKET II INDEX FUND held 15,856 positions with $384.36B in net assets. Its ten largest holdings made up 11.5% of the fund. The VTBIX share class costs 0.09% a year. Over the 12 months to May 2026, VTBIX returned 4.9%, with dividends reinvested. In 2026 Q2 it added 628 new positions and exited 417.

2026 Q2 holdings and allocationChanges are against the previous quarter, 2026 Q1Headline fees and returns use the VTBIX share class
Expense ratio · VTBIX
0.09%
$9 a year for every $10,000 invested
0.02% – 0.09% across the 2 classes
$384.36B
The whole fund, all share classes
15,856 holdings
11.5%in the top 10
Weight held in the ten largest holdings
Top 25 hold 16.3%
Return, 1 year · VTBIX
+4.9%
With dividends, to May 2026
3 yr total +12.0% · 5 yr total +0.5%
What this fund is
Objective, as filed

Vanguard Total Bond Market II Index Fund (the Fund) seeks to track the performance of a broad, market-weighted bond index.

Strategy, summarised

The fund tracks the Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Float Adjusted Index using a sampling approach, holding a range of investment-grade bonds including government, corporate, mortgage-backed, and asset-backed securities with maturities over one year. Because the fund samples rather than holds all index constituents, its returns may diverge from the Target Index.

What you own

per cent of the fund
CompanyWeightValue
Vanguard Cmt Funds-Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund
5.19%
$19.95B
United States Treasury Note/Bond
4.13% · due 2028-06-30
1.55%
$5.95B
United States Treasury Note/Bond
4.13% · due 2029-06-15
1.42%
$5.45B
United States Treasury Note/Bond
4.13% · due 2031-06-30
0.68%
$2.62B
United States Treasury Note/Bond
5.00% · due 2056-05-15
0.64%
$2.44B
United States Treasury Note/Bond
4.25% · due 2033-06-30
0.57%
$2.21B
United States Treasury Note/Bond
3.50% · due 2028-01-31
0.38%
$1.47B
United States Treasury Note/Bond
4.13% · due 2036-02-15
0.37%
$1.42B
United States Treasury Note/Bond
4.25% · due 2035-05-15
0.37%
$1.42B
United States Treasury Note/Bond
4.25% · due 2035-08-15
0.37%
$1.42B
Showing 1–10 of 15,856 · the top 10 are 11.54% of the fund, the top 25 are 16.32%

The 200 largest of 15,856 holdings, with the share counts as filed, open with a free account.

What the fund is made of

Percentages are of fund net assets. Rounding, liabilities and short positions can make totals differ from 100%.

103.64%
of net assets
Bonds77.64%
Securitized20.80%
Cash & short-term5.19%
Derivatives0.02%

Derivatives are shown at market value, not notional exposure.

By sector

Government
49.5%
Securitized
20.4%
Cash
5.0%
Financials
4.9%
12 other sectors
20.2%

How it has done

Total return, dividends reinvested · to May 2026

VTBIX share class · total returns with dividends reinvested

1 year
+4.90%
3 years
+12.01%
Cumulative, not per year
5 years
+0.54%
Cumulative, not per year
Largest decline in 3 years
-5.04%
From a previous high to a later low
Cumulative return, last three years· Jul 2023 – May 2026

Volatility over the last 12 months: 3.15%. Past returns are a record, not a forecast.

Jun 2026 has been filed since the trailing figures were struck, so it is not in the table above or the curve — every figure here shares one cut-off, which is what makes them comparable with other funds.

The 2 share classes hold the same portfolio

Share classExpense ratio1 year3 years5 yearsWorst fall
0.09%+4.90%+12.01%+0.54%-5.04%
0.02%+4.98%+12.24%+0.89%-5.01%

These classes hold the same portfolio, so the 0.35pp spread over 5 years is the cost difference between them — roughly 0.07pp a year — not a difference in what they own.

Fees & fund details

VANGUARD TOTAL BOND MARKET II INDEX FUND is a U.S. bond index fund that tracks the Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Float Adjusted Index.

Asset class
Bonds
Region
United States
Management
Index (passive)
Fund type
Open-end fund
Credit quality
Investment grade
Rate sensitivity
Intermediate duration
Expense ratio, by class
0.02% – 0.09%· VTBIX 0.09%
Portfolio turnover
107.00% a year · as of 2026 Q2

Turnover is how much of the portfolio was replaced in a year.

Classified from what the fund holds, not from its name · 2026 Q2. The summary is a paraphrase of the prospectus; the objective is verbatim.

What changed this quarter

2026 Q2 vs 2026 Q1

Positions that entered or left the fund since its previous filing. Positions that were only resized are not listed.

628 new· the largest 2

United States Treasury Note/Bond
7 holdings
Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac

417 exited· the largest 2

United States Treasury Note/Bond
7 holdings
Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac

Debt profile

What this fund holds — value-weighted across its bond and securitized long positions · as of 2026-06-30

Avg coupon
3.93%
Avg maturity
11.47 yr
Coupon type

Share of the fund's debt by how its coupon behaves — the fact that decides whether a rate move reaches this portfolio at all.

5%
floating
Fixed rate94.7%
Floating rate5.3%
Maturity ladder

Share of the fund's debt value in each maturity band, shortest first.

<1y10y+
<1y2.7%
1-3y23.2%
3-5y16.9%
5-10y19.5%
10y+37.7%
Flagged holdings
Defaulted: none reported
In arrears: none reported
Paid in kind: none reported

Based on what filers reported; a filer that never reported a flag also reads as none.

Risk profile

Interest-rate and credit-spread sensitivity, both in years · as of 2026Q2

Most of this fund’s sensitivity is to interest rates, with credit spreads carrying about half as much.

5.70 yr
approx. move per 100bp
2.77 yr
approx. move per 100bp
If rates and spreads both rise 100bp

Where the loss would come from. The two shocks are the same size, so this is the balance of the fund's two sensitivities rather than a bet on one moving more.

≈ -8.5%
of value
Interest rates67%
Credit spreads33%

Filers report the impact of a 0.01% move only, so the total is our own scaling of that one number and overstates the loss on most bonds — read it as approximate, never as precise. The two sensitivities overlap rather than add up: they measure the same positions against different shocks, which is why the durations above are shown side by side and never summed.

Credit risk by quality

Share of the fund's spread duration carried by each credit tier.

+2.77
yrs total
Investment grade+2.75 yr
High yield+0.02 yr
Where the risk sits on the curve

Share of duration at each point, shortest first. A positive figure loses value when spreads widen; a negative one offsets — a credit hedge.

Interest rate5.70 yr total
3 mo30 yr
3 mo0.01 yr0%
1 yr0.66 yr12%
5 yr1.62 yr28%
10 yr2.18 yr38%
30 yr1.23 yr22%
Credit spread2.77 yr total
3 mo30 yr
3 mo0.01 yr0%
1 yr0.25 yr9%
5 yr0.78 yr28%
10 yr1.17 yr42%
30 yr0.55 yr20%

The two bands measure the same positions against different shocks and do not add — a Treasury carries rate duration and no spread duration, a floating-rate credit the reverse. Rate tenors are also summed across every currency the fund discloses.

Show the numbers
TenorRate yrsIG yrsHY yrsIG $/bpHY $/bp
3 mo+0.01+0.01+0.00$308.9k$1.6k
1 yr+0.66+0.25+0.00$9.67m$65.5k
5 yr+1.62+0.78+0.01$29.82m$198.3k
10 yr+2.18+1.16+0.01$44.77m$379.9k
30 yr+1.23+0.55+0.01$21.09m$194.5k

Dollar change per 1bp of spread movement, as filed and sign-anchored. A blank cell was not filed; a zero was.

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