Vanguard Materials ETF (VAW)
| 90.85 Data as of May 24 |  -0.31 / -0.34%Today’s Change | 71.63 Today|||52-Week Range 93.36 | +7.89% Year-to-Date |
Investment Objective
The investment seeks to track the performance of a benchmark index. The fund employs an indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the MSCI US Investable Market Index (IMI)/Materials 25/50, an index made up of stocks of large, mid-size, and small U.S. companies within the materials sector, as classified under the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS). It attempts to replicate the target index by investing all, or substantially all, of its assets in the stocks that make up the index, holding each stock in approximately the same proportion as its weighting in the index. The fund is non-diversified.
Latest VAW News
No recent news for Vanguard Materials ETF.
Performance
| 1 month | +5.63% | 3 years | +14.90% | |
| 3 months | +6.05% | 5 years | +1.85% | |
| 1 year | +24.17% | Since inception | +8.80% |
Data through 05/24/2013
Quote Details
| Previous close | $91.16 |
| Open day’s range | 90.30 – 90.97 |
| Net asset value (NAV) | 91.19 (05/23/2013) |
| Daily volume | 21,622 |
| Average volume (3 months) | 87,351 |
Data as of 4:00pm ET, 05/24/2013
Peer Comparisonvs. Natural resources ETFs
| VAW | Category | |
|---|---|---|
| Performance 5-yr return | +1.85% | +0.54% |
| Expense Gross exp ratio | 0.14% | 0.55% |
| Risk 5 year sharpe ratio | 0.20 | 0.12 |
| Net assets | $901.5M | $489.9M |
| Average market cap | $12.7B | $15.0B |
| Average P/E | 18.9 | 14.9 |
| Dividend / Share | -- | 0.28% |
Competitors
| XLB Materials Select Sector SPDR Fund |
| RTM Guggenheim S&P 500 Equal Weight Material... |
| PYZ PowerShares Dynamic Basic Materials Port... |
Holdings
Top 5 SectorsPortfolio weighting
| Industrial materials | 83.98% |
| Consumer goods | 11.49% |
| Business service | 1.96% |
| Consumer service | 1.35% |
| Energy | 1.13% |
Top 10 HoldingsPortfolio weighting
| MON Monsanto Company | 8.55% |
| DD E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company | 6.94% |
| DOW Dow Chemical Co | 5.78% |
| PX Praxair, Inc. | 5.01% |
| FCX Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Class B | 4.76% |
| ECL Ecolab, Inc. | 3.55% |
| NEM Newmont Mining Corporation | 3.15% |
| LYB LyondellBasell Industries NV | 3.03% |
| IP International Paper Co. | 2.94% |
| PPG PPG Industries, Inc. | 2.89% |