Vanguard Telecommunication Services ETF (VOX)
| 81.41 Data as of 10:37am ET |  -0.2292 / -0.28%Today’s Change | 62.38 Today|||52-Week Range 81.99 | +16.28% 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)/Telecommunication Services 25/50, an index made up of stocks of large, mid-size, and small U.S. companies within the telecommunication services sector, as classified under the Global Industry Classification Standard. 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 VOX News
No recent news for Vanguard Telecommunication Services ETF.
Performance
| 1 month | +6.29% | 3 years | +17.13% | |
| 3 months | +14.12% | 5 years | +6.61% | |
| 1 year | +34.05% | Since inception | +8.78% |
Data through 05/18/2013
Quote Details
| Previous close | $81.64 |
| Open day’s range | 81.41 – 81.65 |
| Net asset value (NAV) | 81.64 (05/17/2013) |
| Daily volume | 13,843 |
| Average volume (3 months) | 72,908 |
Data as of 10:37am ET, 05/20/2013
Peer Comparisonvs. Communications ETFs
| VOX | Category | |
|---|---|---|
| Performance 5-yr return | +6.61% | +5.74% |
| Expense Gross exp ratio | 0.14% | 0.49% |
| Risk 5 year sharpe ratio | 0.46 | 0.36 |
| Net assets | $647.9M | $231.7M |
| Average market cap | $17.0B | $26.1B |
| Average P/E | 26.5 | 23.9 |
| Dividend / Share | -- | 0.55% |
Competitors
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Holdings
Top 5 SectorsPortfolio weighting
| Telecommunication | 100.00% |
| Business service | 0.00% |
| Consumer goods | 0.00% |
| Consumer service | 0.00% |
| Energy | 0.00% |
Top 10 HoldingsPortfolio weighting
| VZ Verizon Communications Inc | 23.70% |
| T AT&T Inc | 22.51% |
| S Sprint Nextel Corp | 4.67% |
| CTL CenturyLink Inc | 4.44% |
| CCI Crown Castle International Corp | 4.36% |
| SBAC SBA Communications Corp | 3.40% |
| TMUS MetroPCS Communications Inc | 2.13% |
| WIN Windstream Corp | 2.03% |
| TWTC tw telecom inc | 1.90% |
| FTR Frontier Communications Corp Class B | 1.83% |