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About VANGUARD WORLD FUND VANGUARD UTILITIES ETF
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Inception date
Jan 26, 2004
Structure
Open-Ended Fund
Dividend treatment
Distributes
Distribution tax treatment
Qualified dividends
Income tax type
Capital Gains
Max ST capital gains rate
39.60%
Max LT capital gains rate
20.00%
Primary advisor
The Vanguard Group, Inc.
Distributor
Vanguard Marketing Corp.
VPU is designed to track an all-cap index of US electric, gas, and water utility companies. The index is market-cap weighted index and subject to capping limitations. The capping is designed to ensure diversity among its portfolio by limiting the weight of a single issuer to 25% of the fund’s assets. The fund may also hold independent power producers, energy traders and companies engaged in electricity using renewable sources. VPU 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 index is rebalanced quarterly.
Classification
What's in the fund
Exposure type
Utilities
Stock breakdown by region
Top 10 holdings
VPU starting to pull back? VPU tracks a broad-based, market-cap-weighted index of US utilities companies.
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Frequently Asked Questions
An exchange-traded fund (ETF) is a collection of assets (stocks, bonds, commodities, etc.) that track an underlying index and can be bought on an exchange like individual stocks.
VPU trades at 3,397.000 MXN today, its price has risen 0.50% in the past 24 hours. Track more dynamics on VPU price chart.
VPU net asset value is 3,380.60 today — it's risen 2.91% over the past month. NAV represents the total value of the fund's assets less liabilities and serves as a gauge of the fund's performance.
VPU assets under management is 134.41 B MXN. AUM is an important metric as it reflects the fund's size and can serve as a gauge of how successful the fund is in attracting investors, which, in its turn, can influence decision-making.
VPU price has risen by 0.50% over the last month, and its yearly performance shows a 31.41% increase. See more dynamics on VPU price chart.
NAV returns, another gauge of an ETF dynamics, have risen by 2.91% over the last month, showed a −2.73% decrease in three-month performance and has increased by 35.74% in a year.
NAV returns, another gauge of an ETF dynamics, have risen by 2.91% over the last month, showed a −2.73% decrease in three-month performance and has increased by 35.74% in a year.
Since ETFs work like an individual stock, they can be bought and sold on exchanges (e.g. NASDAQ, NYSE, EURONEXT). As it happens with stocks, you need to select a brokerage to access trading. Explore our list of available brokers to find the one to help execute your strategies. Don't forget to do your research before getting to trading. Explore ETFs metrics in our ETF screener to find a reliable opportunity.
VPU invests in stocks. See more details in our Analysis section.
VPU expense ratio is 0.09%. It's an important metric for helping traders understand the fund's operating costs relative to assets and how expensive it would be to hold the fund.
No, VPU isn't leveraged, meaning it doesn't use borrowings or financial derivatives to magnify the performance of the underlying assets or index it follows.
In some ways, ETFs are safe investments, but in a broader sense, they're not safer than any other asset, so it's crucial to analyze a fund before investing. But if your research gives a vague answer, you can always refer to technical analysis.
Today, VPU technical analysis shows the buy rating and its 1-week rating is buy. Since market conditions are prone to changes, it's worth looking a bit further into the future — according to the 1-month rating VPU shows the buy signal. See more of VPU technicals for a more comprehensive analysis.
Today, VPU technical analysis shows the buy rating and its 1-week rating is buy. Since market conditions are prone to changes, it's worth looking a bit further into the future — according to the 1-month rating VPU shows the buy signal. See more of VPU technicals for a more comprehensive analysis.
Yes, VPU pays dividends to its holders with the dividend yield of 2.91%.
VPU trades at a premium (0.19%).
Premium/discount to NAV expresses the difference between the ETF’s price and its NAV value. A positive percentage indicates a premium, meaning the ETF trades at a higher price than the calculated NAV. Conversely, a negative percentage indicates a discount, suggesting the ETF trades at a lower price than NAV.
Premium/discount to NAV expresses the difference between the ETF’s price and its NAV value. A positive percentage indicates a premium, meaning the ETF trades at a higher price than the calculated NAV. Conversely, a negative percentage indicates a discount, suggesting the ETF trades at a lower price than NAV.
VPU shares are issued by The Vanguard Group, Inc.
VPU follows the MSCI US IMI 25/50 Utilities. ETFs usually track some benchmark seeking to replicate its performance and guide asset selection and objectives.
The fund started trading on Jan 26, 2004.
The fund's management style is passive, meaning it's aiming to replicate the performance of the underlying index by holding assets in the same proportions as the index. The goal is to match the index's returns.