Vanguard Utilities ETF (VPU)
| 87.62 Data as of May 17 |  +0.84 / +0.97%Today’s Change | 72.64 Today|||52-Week Range 89.54 | +16.36% 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)/Utilities 25/50, an index made up of stocks of large, mid-size, and small U.S. companies within the utilities 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 VPU News
No recent news for Vanguard Utilities ETF.
Performance
| 1 month | +1.46% | 3 years | +15.51% | |
| 3 months | +10.96% | 5 years | +4.59% | |
| 1 year | +20.74% | Since inception | +9.91% |
Data through 05/18/2013
Quote Details
| Previous close | $86.78 |
| Open day’s range | 86.81 – 87.65 |
| Net asset value (NAV) | 87.61 (05/17/2013) |
| Daily volume | 57,679 |
| Average volume (3 months) | 118,004 |
Data as of 4:00pm ET, 05/17/2013
Peer Comparisonvs. Utilities ETFs
| VPU | Category | |
|---|---|---|
| Performance 5-yr return | +4.59% | +3.03% |
| Expense Gross exp ratio | 0.14% | 0.48% |
| Risk 5 year sharpe ratio | 0.43 | 0.29 |
| Net assets | $2.0B | $826.9M |
| Average market cap | $14.0B | $16.8B |
| Average P/E | 19.1 | 16.7 |
| Dividend / Share | -- | 0.42% |
Competitors
| JXI iShares S&P Global Utilities Index Fund |
| PSCU PowerShares S&P SmallCap Utilities Portf... |
| DBU WisdomTree Global ex-US Utilities Fund |
Holdings
Top 5 SectorsPortfolio weighting
| Utilities | 96.74% |
| Energy | 2.50% |
| Industrial materials | 0.76% |
| Business service | 0.00% |
| Consumer goods | 0.00% |
Top 10 HoldingsPortfolio weighting
| DUK Duke Energy Corporation | 8.47% |
| SO Southern Co | 6.80% |
| D Dominion Resources Inc | 5.54% |
| NEE NextEra Energy Inc | 5.18% |
| EXC Exelon Corp | 4.88% |
| AEP American Electric Power Co Inc | 3.91% |
| PCG PG&E Corp | 3.17% |
| SRE Sempra Energy | 3.04% |
| PPL PPL Corp | 3.02% |
| ED Consolidated Edison, Inc. | 2.96% |