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VDCVanguardINDEX

Vanguard Consumer Staples Fund

$234.40+0.98% today
20724452-WK

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
233.7230.5227.4234.40DAILY NET FLOWJul 20Jul 29Aug 10Aug 19

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

The desk’s read

Flows are quiet — the past month netted out near zero, while the price has returned +11.1% so far this year. At 0.10% a year it is not the cheapest way in — SCHD runs the same ground at 0.06%.

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
136Kavg daily volume, 30 days
103holdings · US-domiciled
2004listed January 25, 2004 · beta -0.06
The book at a glance
WMT+0.7%COST+0.9%KO+2.1%PG+0.3%PM+1.6%PEP+1.4%MO+2.2%MDLZ+0.9%TGT+0.7%CL+1.3%KDP+1.7%ADM+1.4%SYY+0.3%KVUE-0.1%KR+0.3%CASY-1.6%MNST+4.1%KMB+0.7%DG+0.7%DLTR+0.6%HSY+1.4%USFD-1.6%CHD+1.3%KHC+0.2%BJ

CELL SIZE IS PORTFOLIO WEIGHT · COLOR IS TODAY’S MOVE · TOP 40 POSITIONS

HoldingsDownload CSV
#HoldingWeightPriceDay52-wk
1WMTWALMART13.55%$115.15+0.7%
2COSTCOSTCO WHOLESALE11.46%$962.03+0.9%
3KOCOCA COLA8.53%$88.83+2.1%
4PGPROCTER & GAMBLE8.51%$143.45+0.3%
5PMPHILIP MORRIS INTERNATIONAL4.56%$187.52+1.6%
6PEPPEPSICO4.25%$140.11+1.4%
7MOALTRIA 3.72%$65.30+2.2%
8MDLZMONDELEZ INTERNATIONAL2.66%$62.66+0.9%
9TGTTARGET2.24%$152.09+0.7%
10CLCOLGATE PALMOLIVE2.34%$91.44+1.3%
11KDPKEURIG DR PEPPER1.44%$30.80+1.7%
12ADMARCHER-DANIELS-MIDLAND1.37%$82.43+1.4%
13SYYSYSCO1.47%$82.03+0.3%
14KVUEKENVUE1.35%$18.80-0.1%
15KRKROGER1.25%$56.32+0.3%

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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+1.4%
1 month+1.8%
3 months+0.1%
6 months-3.4%
YTD+11.1%
1 year
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
15%realized volatility, 30 days (annualized)
14%realized volatility, 1 year
-9.6%deepest fall from a peak, 1 year
-4.0%where it sits vs. that peak today

The top holding is 13.6% of the book; the top ten carry 62%. Spread across 103+ names, it behaves like roughly 18 equally-weighted positions.

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

Options tape
1calls today
puts today
put/call ratio
100Kshares traded
Most-traded holdings, options premiumBullishBearish
COST COSTCO WHOLESALE$14M$11M
TGT TARGET$10M$11M
WMT WALMART$9M$8M
KO COCA COLA$3M$3M
EL ESTEE LAUDER$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
IJH iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF0.05%$128.4B+$547M-5bp on fee · 18× the assets · +$547M in over the monthHead-to-head
IDEV iShares Core MSCI International Developed Markets ETF0.04%$32.7B+$104M-6bp on fee · 5× the assets · +$104M in over the monthHead-to-head
IGSB iShares 1-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF0.04%$23.4B+$520M-6bp on fee · 3× the assets · +$520M in over the monthHead-to-head
IGIB iShares 5-10 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF0.04%$18.7B+$312M-6bp on fee · 3× the assets · +$312M in over the monthHead-to-head
IEFA iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF0.07%$195.3B+$631M-3bp on fee · 28× the assets · +$631M in over the monthHead-to-head
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