Vanguard Short Term Inflation Protected Fund Quote

VTAPX Fund  USD 24.84  0.01  0.04%   

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Vanguard Short is trading at 24.84 as of the 27th of January 2026; that is 0.04 percent down since the beginning of the trading day. The fund's open price was 24.85. Vanguard Short has less than a 19 % chance of experiencing some financial distress in the next two years of operation and had a fair performance during the last 90 days. The performance scores are derived for the period starting the 29th of October 2025 and ending today, the 27th of January 2026. Click here to learn more.
The index is a market-capitalization-weighted index that includes all inflation-protected public obligations issued by the U.S. Treasury with remaining maturities of less than 5 years. More on Vanguard Short Term Inflation Protected

Moving together with Vanguard Mutual Fund

  0.83VMIAX Vanguard Materials IndexPairCorr
  0.77VMLUX Vanguard Limited TermPairCorr
  0.75VMNVX Vanguard Global MinimumPairCorr
  0.79VMVAX Vanguard Mid CapPairCorr
  0.72VPMCX Vanguard PrimecapPairCorr
  0.84VSCSX Vanguard Short TermPairCorr

Moving against Vanguard Mutual Fund

  0.38VUIAX Vanguard Utilities IndexPairCorr

Vanguard Mutual Fund Highlights

Fund ConcentrationVanguard Funds, Large Value Funds, Short-Term Inflation-Protected Bond Funds, Short-Term Inflation-Protected Bond, Vanguard, Large, Inflation-Protected Bond (View all Sectors)
Update Date31st of December 2025
Expense Ratio Date31st of January 2025
Fiscal Year EndSeptember
Vanguard Short Term Inflation Protected [VTAPX] is traded in USA and was established 27th of January 2026. Vanguard Short is listed under Vanguard category by Fama And French industry classification. The fund is listed under Short-Term Inflation-Protected Bond category and is part of Vanguard family. This fund at this time has accumulated 64.94 B in net assets with no minimum investment requirementsVanguard Short Term is currently producing year-to-date (YTD) return of 0.2% with the current yeild of 0.04%, while the total return for the last 3 years was 4.95%.
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Vanguard Mutual Fund Analysis Notes

The fund keeps most of the net assets in exotic instruments. Vanguard Short Term last dividend was 0.24 per share. Large Value For more information please call the company at 800-662-7447.

Vanguard Short Term Investment Alerts

The fund keeps most of the net assets in exotic instruments.

Institutional Mutual Fund Holders for Vanguard Short

Have you ever been surprised when a price of an equity instrument such as Vanguard Short is soaring high without any particular reason? This is usually happening because many institutional investors are aggressively trading Vanguard Short Term Inflation Protected backward and forwards among themselves. Vanguard Short's institutional investor refers to the entity that pools money to purchase Vanguard Short's securities or originate loans. Institutional investors include commercial and private banks, credit unions, insurance companies, pension funds, hedge funds, endowments, and mutual funds. Operating companies that invest excess capital in these types of assets may also be included in the term and may influence corporate governance by exercising voting rights in their investments.
Note, although Vanguard Short's institutional investors appear to be way more sophisticated than retail investors, it remains unclear if professional active investment managers can reliably enhance risk-adjusted returns by an amount that exceeds fees and expenses.

Vanguard Short Outstanding Bonds

Vanguard Short issues bonds to finance its operations. Corporate bonds make up one of the largest components of the U.S. bond market, which is considered the world's largest securities market. Vanguard Short Term uses the proceeds from bond sales for a wide variety of purposes, including financing ongoing mergers and acquisitions, buying new equipment, investing in research and development, buying back their own stock, paying dividends to shareholders, and even refinancing existing debt. Most Vanguard bonds can be classified according to their maturity, which is the date when Vanguard Short Term Inflation Protected has to pay back the principal to investors. Maturities can be short-term, medium-term, or long-term (more than ten years). Longer-term bonds usually offer higher interest rates but may entail additional risks.

Vanguard Short Predictive Daily Indicators

Vanguard Short intraday indicators are useful technical analysis tools used by many experienced traders. Just like the conventional technical analysis, daily indicators help intraday investors to analyze the price movement with the timing of Vanguard Short mutual fund daily movement. By combining multiple daily indicators into a single trading strategy, you can limit your risk while still earning strong returns on your managed positions.

Vanguard Short Forecast Models

Vanguard Short's time-series forecasting models are one of many Vanguard Short's mutual fund analysis techniques aimed at predicting future share value based on previously observed values. Time-series forecasting models ae widely used for non-stationary data. Non-stationary data are called the data whose statistical properties e.g. the mean and standard deviation are not constant over time but instead, these metrics vary over time. These non-stationary Vanguard Short's historical data is usually called time-series. Some empirical experimentation suggests that the statistical forecasting models outperform the models based exclusively on fundamental analysis to predict the direction of the market movement and maximize returns from investment trading.

Other Information on Investing in Vanguard Mutual Fund

Vanguard Short financial ratios help investors to determine whether Vanguard Mutual Fund is cheap or expensive when compared to a particular measure, such as profits or enterprise value. In other words, they help investors to determine the cost of investment in Vanguard with respect to the benefits of owning Vanguard Short security.
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