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 September 2, 2026, VTES stock price declined to $100.34 with 130,786 million shares trading.

VTES has a beta of 0.06, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. VTES has a correlation of 0.20 to the broad based SPY ETF.

VTES has a market cap of $2.41 billion. This is considered a Mid 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 price return of +1.8% while the SPY ETF gained +19.9%. VTES has also underperformed the stock market ETF in the last 3 month and 2 week periods returning 0.0% and -0.3%, respectively, while the SPY returned +1.2% and -0.2%, respectively.

VTES support price is $100.28 and resistance is $100.43 (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.