21-Jul-2026
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Vanguard Core-Plus Bond ETF is an actively managed fund seeks to provide broadly diversified exposure primarily to the U.S. investment-grade bond market, with selective exposure to below-investment-grade bonds and debt from other countries, including emerging markets. The low-cost fund invests in U.S. Treasury, mortgage-backed, and corporate securities, and emerging markets debt of varying yields, maturities, and credit qualities. The Fund invests in fixed income securities of various maturities, yields, and qualities. Under normal circumstances, the Fund will invest at least 80% of its assets in bonds, which include fixed income securities such as corporate bonds. In general, bonds purchased by the Fund will have a maturity of 90 days or more at the time of their issuance. The Fund may invest in fixed income securities of non-U.S. issuers, including emerging market countries. The Fund may make use of the unique features of the ETF structure, such as in-kind transactions and custom baskets, to select securities.
Vanguard Core Plus Bond ETF trades on the NASDAQ stock market under the symbol VPLS.
As of July 21, 2026, VPLS stock price declined to $76.65 with 156,048 million shares trading.
VPLS has a beta of 0.08, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. VPLS has a correlation of 0.09 to the broad based SPY ETF.
VPLS has a market cap of $1.71 billion. This is considered a Small Cap stock.
VPLS has underperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +4.3% while the SPY ETF gained +20.4%. VPLS has also underperformed the stock market ETF in the last 3 month and 2 week periods returning -0.8% and -0.8%, respectively, while the SPY returned +5.9% and -0.4%, respectively.
VPLS support price is $76.66 and resistance is $76.95 (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 VPLS shares will trade within this expected range on the day.
