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 | -2.48% | | 3 years | +11.61% |
| 3 months | +4.59% | | 5 years | +11.05% |
| 1 year | +12.87% | | Since inception | +8.93% |
Quote Details
| Previous close | $82.86 |
| Open day’s range | 83.24 – 84.14 |
| Net asset value (NAV) | 82.91 (12/05/2013) |
| Daily volume | 74,682 |
| Average volume (3 months) | 96,229 |
Data as of 3:59pm ET, 12/06/2013
Peer Comparisonvs. Utilities ETFs
| | VPU | Category |
|---|
| Performance 5-yr return | +11.05% | +4.62% |
| Expense Gross exp ratio | 0.14% | 0.42% |
| Risk 5 year sharpe ratio | 0.82 | 0.64 |
| Net assets | $1.7B | $568.7M |
| Average market cap | $13.8B | $17.2B |
| Average P/E | 20.0 | 21.6 |
| Dividend / Share | -- | 0.43% |
Competitors
| PUI PowerShares Dynamic Utilities Portfolio |
| DBU WisdomTree Global ex-US Utilities Fund |
| RYU Guggenheim S&P 500 Equal Weight Utilitie... |
Holdings
Top 5 Sectors
Portfolio weighting
Top 10 Holdings
Portfolio weighting
| DUK Duke Energy Corporation | 8.26% |
| D Dominion Resources Inc | 6.01% |
| NEE NextEra Energy Inc | 5.87% |
| SO Southern Co | 5.81% |
| EXC Exelon Corp | 3.99% |
| AEP American Electric Power Co Inc | 3.72% |
| SRE Sempra Energy | 3.44% |
| PCG PG&E Corp | 3.02% |
| PPL PPL Corp | 2.96% |
| ED Consolidated Edison, Inc. | 2.78% |
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