VTES Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Vanguard Short-Term Tax-Exempt Bond ETF | ARCA:VTES)

The investment objective of this index fund is to seek to track the performance of a benchmark index that measures the investment-grade segment of the U.S. municipal bond market with maturities between one month and 7 years. The fund employs an indexing investment approach designed to track the S&P 0-7 Year National AMT-Free Municipal Bond Index using a sampling technique to closely match key benchmark characteristics. All of the fund investments will be selected through the sampling process, and at least 80% of the fund assets will be invested in securities held in the index.

Vanguard Short-Term Tax-Exempt Bond ETF trades on the ARCA stock market under the symbol VTES.

As of April 1, 2026, VTES stock price climbed to $101.07 with 148,268 million shares trading.

VTES has a beta of -0.04, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. VTES has a correlation of 0.08 to the broad based SPY ETF.

VTES has a market cap of $1.83 billion. This is considered a Small Cap stock.

In the last 3 years, VTES traded as high as $102.71 and as low as $98.00.

VTES has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of +3.6%, while SPY returned +18.5%. This shows that you would have done better investing in the overall market (through SPY) over the last year than in VTES shares. However, VTES has outperformed the market in the last 3 month and 2 week periods, returning 0.0% and -0.6%, while SPY returned -3.6% and -2.1%, respectively. This indicates VTES has been having a stronger performance recently.

VTES support price is $100.80 and resistance is $101.03 (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 VTES shares will trade within this expected range on the day.