Vanguard Utilities ETF (VPU)
| 89.98 Data as of Jul 31 |  -1.50 / -1.64%Today’s Change | 79.71 Today|||52-Week Range 96.82 | +8.05% 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
| 5 Utility Mutual Funds for Glowing Returns - Best of Funds Jul 25 / Zacks.com |
Performance
| 1 month | -5.38% | 3 years | +12.85% | |
| 3 months | -1.80% | 5 years | +12.45% | |
| 1 year | +9.85% | Since inception | +9.65% |
Data through 07/31/2014
Quote Details
| Previous close | $91.48 |
| Open day’s range | -- – -- |
| Net asset value (NAV) | 91.49 (07/30/2014) |
| Daily volume | 144,032 |
| Average volume (3 months) | 144,068 |
Data as of 07/31/2014
Peer Comparisonvs. Utilities ETFs
| VPU | Category | |
|---|---|---|
| Performance 5-yr return | +12.45% | +11.96% |
| Expense Gross exp ratio | 0.14% | 0.41% |
| Risk 5 year sharpe ratio | 1.34 | 1.04 |
| Net assets | $2.2B | $949.1M |
| Average market cap | $15.8B | $20.1B |
| Average P/E | 20.8 | 20.7 |
| Dividend / Share | -- | 0.40% |
Competitors
| PUI PowerShares DWA Utilities Momentum Portf... |
| RYU Guggenheim S&P 500® Equal Weight Utilit... |
| PSCU PowerShares S&P SmallCap Utilities Portf... |
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 | 7.61% |
| NEE NextEra Energy Inc | 6.48% |
| D Dominion Resources Inc | 6.04% |
| SO Southern Co | 5.85% |
| EXC Exelon Corp | 4.54% |
| AEP American Electric Power Co Inc | 3.95% |
| SRE Sempra Energy | 3.54% |
| PPL PPL Corp | 3.25% |
| PCG PG&E Corp | 3.19% |
| PEG Public Service Enterprise Group Inc | 3.00% |
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