VGLT: Vanguard Long-Term Treasury ETF

What does VGLT hold?#

This fund owns about 100 US Treasury bonds, which are loans to the US government. These bonds are not paid back for 10 years or more. Long bonds like these can lose a lot of value when interest rates rise.

It tracks the Bloomberg US Long Treasury Bond Index. It had 101 holdings as of September 30, 2026, according to Vanguard.

What is the VGLT expense ratio?#

VGLT charges 0.03% a year. An expense ratio is the yearly fee a fund takes to run itself. On $10,000, a 0.03% fee comes to about $3 a year.

You never get a bill for it. The fund takes the fee out of its own value a little each day.

How has VGLT done since 2010?#

From January 2010 to October 2026, VGLT returned about 2.4% a year. Say you put in $10,000 at the start. It would have been worth about $14,953 at the end, with every dividend reinvested.

Prices through October 16, 2026. Figures use daily closing prices adjusted for splits, with dividends reinvested. They do not include taxes or the cost of buying and selling. Past results do not tell you what will happen next.

VGLT returns by year#

What was VGLT’s worst drop?#

A drawdown is how far a fund falls from its last high point. VGLT’s worst fall was −46.2%, from August 4, 2020 to October 19, 2023. By October 16, 2026 it had not yet climbed back to that high.

The chart shows how far below its last high the fund was on each day. Big drops are normal for some funds. They matter because selling during a drop locks in the loss.

Which Tactfolio strategies hold VGLT?#

No classic strategy holds VGLT yet. You can add it to your own rules in the builder and see how they would have done.

How does VGLT compare with similar ETFs?#

Funds that can stand in for VGLT:

• EDV: Vanguard Extended Duration Treasury ETF, 0.05% a year
• TLT: iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF, 0.15% a year
• VGIT: Vanguard Intermediate-Term Treasury ETF, 0.03% a year
• IEF: iShares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF, 0.15% a year

See all 4 VGLT alternatives, compared on the same dates as VGLT.

Test VGLT in your own rules#

Tactfolio is a platform where you build rules-based investing strategies, backtest them on decades of real prices, share them, and run them automatically in your own Alpaca account. Open the builder, add VGLT, and see how a rule such as “hold it only above its 200-day average” would have done. Strategies run on daily prices and hold US stocks and ETFs only.

The details#

Prices come from Tactfolio’s stored daily prices for VGLT. Each close is adjusted for splits, and dividends are reinvested on the day the fund pays them out. CAGR is the steady yearly return that turns the starting value into the ending value. Volatility is the yearly standard deviation of daily returns.

Fund facts come from Vanguard. We checked them on October 17, 2026. Read what a backtest simulates and how to read drawdown and CAGR for more on these measures.