BLV Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Vanguard Long-Term Bond ETF | ARCA:BLV)

Vanguard Long-Term Bond ETF Seeks to track the performance of the Bloomberg U.S. Long Government/Credit Float Adjusted Index. Exchange-traded share class. Passively managed using index sampling. Diversified exposure to the long-term investment-grade U.S. bond market. Provides high current income with high credit quality.

Vanguard Long-Term Bond ETF trades on the ARCA stock market under the symbol BLV.

As of January 30, 2026, BLV stock price declined to $69.79 with 572,130 million shares trading.

BLV has a beta of -0.11, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. BLV has a correlation of 0.04 to the broad based SPY ETF.

BLV has a market cap of $5.97 billion. This is considered a Mid Cap stock.

In the last 3 years, BLV traded as high as $79.22 and as low as $62.95.

BLV has underperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +5.9% while the SPY ETF gained +15.9%. BLV has also underperformed the stock market ETF in the last 3 month and 2 week periods returning -1.9% and -0.7%, respectively, while the SPY returned +0.7% and -0.3%, respectively.

BLV support price is $69.52 and resistance is $70.20 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that BLV shares will trade within this expected range on the day.