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VMBS seeks to provide a moderate and sustainable level of current income. Invests primarily in U.S. agency mortgage-backed pass-through securities issued by Ginnie Mae (GNMA) Fannie Mae (FNMA) and Freddie Mac (FHLMC). Moderate interest rate risk with a dollar-weighted average maturity of 3 to 10 years.
Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Securities ETF trades on the NASDAQ stock market under the symbol VMBS.
As of August 14, 2026, VMBS stock price declined to $46.17 with 1,048,200 million shares trading.
VMBS has a beta of 0.10, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. VMBS has a correlation of 0.11 to the broad based SPY ETF.
VMBS has a market cap of $15.68 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.
In the last 3 years, VMBS traded as high as $47.90 and as low as $42.06.
VMBS has underperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +3.6% while the SPY ETF gained +21.6%. VMBS has also underperformed the stock market ETF in the last 3 month and 2 week periods returning -0.1% and +0.2%, respectively, while the SPY returned +4.8% and +4.7%, respectively.
VMBS support price is $46.20 and resistance is $46.44 (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 VMBS shares will trade within this expected range on the day.
