Vanguard Consumer Staples ETF (VDC)
| 105.60 Data as of 3:59pm ET |  -0.91 / -0.85%Today’s Change | 83.24 Today|||52-Week Range 107.13 | +20.13% 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)/Consumer Staples 25/50, an index made up of stocks of large, mid-size, and small U.S. companies within the consumer staples 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 VDC News
No recent news for Vanguard Consumer Staples ETF.
Performance
| 1 month | +4.34% | 3 years | +18.76% | |
| 3 months | +12.35% | 5 years | +11.50% | |
| 1 year | +29.03% | Since inception | +10.47% |
Data through 05/18/2013
Quote Details
| Previous close | $106.51 |
| Open day’s range | 105.47 – 106.49 |
| Net asset value (NAV) | 106.49 (05/17/2013) |
| Daily volume | 160,604 |
| Average volume (3 months) | 109,257 |
Data as of 3:59pm ET, 05/20/2013
Peer Comparisonvs. Consumer defensive ETFs
| VDC | Category | |
|---|---|---|
| Performance 5-yr return | +11.50% | +10.39% |
| Expense Gross exp ratio | 0.14% | 0.51% |
| Risk 5 year sharpe ratio | 0.88 | 0.78 |
| Net assets | $1.6B | $831.9M |
| Average market cap | $53.3B | $58.5B |
| Average P/E | 19.7 | 20.1 |
| Dividend / Share | -- | 0.30% |
Competitors
| IYK iShares Dow Jones US Consumer Goods Sect... |
| KXI iShares S&P Global Consumer Staples Inde... |
| XLP Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR Fund |
Holdings
Top 5 SectorsPortfolio weighting
| Consumer goods | 77.17% |
| Consumer service | 22.48% |
| Business service | 0.14% |
| Healthcare | 0.10% |
| Industrial materials | 0.10% |
Top 10 HoldingsPortfolio weighting
| PG Procter & Gamble Co | 12.14% |
| KO Coca-Cola Co | 9.27% |
| PM Philip Morris International, Inc. | 8.76% |
| WMT Wal-Mart Stores Inc | 7.52% |
| PEP PepsiCo Inc | 6.78% |
| CVS CVS Caremark Corp | 4.19% |
| MO Altria Group Inc. | 4.04% |
| CL Colgate-Palmolive Company | 3.41% |
| MDLZ Mondelez International Inc | 2.95% |
| COST Costco Wholesale Corporation | 2.78% |