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Vanguard Consumer Staples Fund

$217.71-0.23% vs prior close
20724452-WK

Price through Oct 1 · Flows through Oct 31. Figures use the latest available records, not a live quote. Fund details retrieved Oct 1. Holdings snapshot retrieved Oct 1.

The fund employs an indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the MSCI US Investable Market Index/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. The Advisor attempts to replicate the target index by seeking to invest all, or substantially all, of its assets in the stocks that make up the index, in order to hold each stock in approximately the same proportion as its weighting in the index. The fund is non-diversified.

Price & daily flows
236.1225.4214.8Thu Sep 24 · The utility tariff is now the data center credit screenThu Sep 24 · The permit is now the power contractThu Sep 24 · AI rack density is outrunning the electrical plant217.71DAILY NET FLOWOct 1Jan 30Jun 1Oct 1

SOURCE: MARKET TAPE & DAILY CREATION/REDEMPTION RECORDS · 1Y SHOWN

The desk’s read

Recent fund-flow records are unavailable, while the price has returned +3.1% so far this year. At 0.10% a year, no lower reported fee appears among the alternatives shown here.

COMPOSED FROM THE FUND’S OWN DAILY RECORDS · UPDATED WITH EACH REFRESH

$7.1Bassets under management
0.10%expense ratio · $10 per $10,000 a year
—net flow, trailing month
194Kavg daily volume, 30 days
103holdings · US-domiciled
2004listed January 26, 2004 · beta -0.04
The book at a glance
WMT+0.3%COST+0.5%PG-0.9%KO+0.0%PM-1.4%PEP-0.9%MO-0.6%MDLZ-0.1%TGT+0.0%CL-0.9%MNST+1.2%KDP+1.2%ADM+0.2%SYY-0.2%KR+1.5%KVUE-2.5%DG-0.5%KMB-3.2%HSY+1.1%CHD-0.1%EL-2.8%CASY+1.8%DLTR+0.4%USFD+1.9%KHC-1.1%GISSTZ

CELL SIZE IS PORTFOLIO WEIGHT · COLOR IS THE CHANGE IN THE LATEST AVAILABLE SNAPSHOT · TOP 40 POSITIONS

HoldingsDownload CSV
#HoldingWeightPriceDay52-wk
1WMTWALMART13.37%$104.26+0.3%
2COSTCOSTCO WHOLESALE12.02%$914.94+0.5%
3PGPROCTER & GAMBLE9.45%$143.95-0.9%
4KOCOCA COLA9.65%$86.10+0.0%
5PMPHILIP MORRIS INTERNATIONAL4.54%$188.18-1.4%
6PEPPEPSICO4.53%$125.60-0.9%
7MOALTRIA 3.75%$66.95-0.6%
8MDLZMONDELEZ INTERNATIONAL2.65%$57.76-0.1%
9TGTTARGET2.45%$156.70+0.0%
10CLCOLGATE PALMOLIVE2.30%$84.53-0.9%
11MNSTMONSTER BEVERAGE2.19%$42.14+1.2%
12KDPKEURIG DR PEPPER1.48%$30.69+1.2%
13ADMARCHER-DANIELS-MIDLAND1.38%$79.52+0.2%
14SYYSYSCO1.36%$77.77-0.2%
15KRKROGER1.15%$59.48+1.5%

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Sector weights
Consumer Discretionary99.29%
Consumer Defensive98.44%
Consumer Non-Durables67.22%
Retail Trade25.68%
Process Industries2.69%
Distribution Services2.5%
Consumer Cyclical0.93%
Health Technology0.78%
Transportation0.52%
Healthcare0.27%
PORTFOLIO COMPOSITION, LATEST DISCLOSURE
Country weights
United States100%
Cayman Islands0.11%
PORTFOLIO COMPOSITION, LATEST DISCLOSURE
Performance
1 week-2.0%
1 month-5.4%
3 months-3.6%
6 months-2.8%
YTD+3.1%
1 year+2.1%
3 years—

PRICE RETURN, DISTRIBUTIONS NOT REINVESTED

Net flows
1 week—
1 month—
3 months—
YTD—
1 year—

CREATION/REDEMPTION DOLLARS, DAILY RECORDS

The risk read
11%realized volatility, 30 days (annualized)
14%realized volatility, 1 year
-10.8%deepest fall from a peak, 1 year
-10.8%latest close versus that peak

The top holding is 13.4% of the book; the top ten carry 65%. Spread across 103+ names, it behaves like roughly 16 equally-weighted positions.

VOLATILITY & DRAWDOWN FROM THE DAILY TAPE · CONCENTRATION FROM THE LATEST DISCLOSED BOOK

Options tape
6calls · latest snapshot
1puts · latest snapshot
0.17put/call ratio
224Kshares traded
Most-traded holdings, options premiumBullishBearish
COST COSTCO WHOLESALE$23M$18M
WMT WALMART$10M$13M
PEP PEPSICO$10M$8M
TGT TARGET$3M$7M
KO COCA COLA$2M$2M

TODAY’S OPTIONS PREMIUM IN THE FUND’S UNDERLYING NAMES

The case against VDC

Due diligence cuts both ways. These funds sit on the same shelf and beat VDC on at least one dimension that matters — the fee, the asset base, or where the money is going.

FundFeeAssetsFlow, 1MThe case
SPDW State Street SPDR Portfolio Developed World ex-US ETF0.03%$41.5B+$286M-7bp on fee · 6× the assets · +$286M in over the monthHead-to-head
SPMD State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 400 Mid Cap ETF0.03%$18.2B+$199M-7bp on fee · 3× the assets · +$199M in over the monthHead-to-head
IDEV iShares Core MSCI International Developed Markets ETF0.04%$32.9B+$497M-6bp on fee · 5× the assets · +$497M in over the monthHead-to-head
IGSB iShares 1-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF0.04%$23.7B+$575M-6bp on fee · 3× the assets · +$575M in over the monthHead-to-head
IGIB iShares 5-10 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF0.04%$18.6B+$412M-6bp on fee · 3× the assets · +$412M in over the monthHead-to-head
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