VTIP Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Vanguard Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities ETF Shares | NASDAQ:VTIP)

The Vanguard Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities Index ETF seeks to track an index that measures the performance of inflation-protected public obligations of the U.S. Treasury that have a remaining maturity of less than five years. It is designed to generate returns more closely correlated with realized inflation over the near term, and to offer investors the potential for less volatility of returns relative to a longer-duration TIPS fund.

Vanguard Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities ETF Shares trades on the NASDAQ stock market under the symbol VTIP.

As of September 25, 2026, VTIP stock price climbed to $49.26 with 2,892,442 million shares trading.

VTIP has a beta of 0.02, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. VTIP has a correlation of 0.04 to the broad based SPY ETF.

VTIP has a market cap of $20.75 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

In the last 3 years, VTIP traded as high as $50.81 and as low as $46.70.

VTIP has underperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +1.3% while the SPY ETF gained +17.8%. VTIP has also underperformed the stock market ETF in the last 3 month and 2 week periods returning -0.4% and -0.8%, respectively, while the SPY returned +5.5% and +2.0%, respectively.

VTIP support price is $49.12 and resistance is $49.24 (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 VTIP shares will trade within this expected range on the day.