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VOOVanguardINDEX

Vanguard 500 Index Fund

$707.51+0.30% today
58171552-WK

The fund employs an indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the Standard & Poor's 500 Index, a widely recognized benchmark of U.S. stock market performance that is dominated by the stocks of large U.S. companies. The advisor 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.

Price & daily flows
686.1647.9609.7Wed Aug 19 · State Street says Trump Accounts default to SPYMTue Aug 18 · Record highs get bought, but the leverage crowd sits out707.51DAILY NET FLOWFeb 17Apr 17Jun 17Aug 19

SOURCE: MARKET TAPE & DAILY CREATION/REDEMPTION RECORDS · 6M SHOWN

The desk’s read

Flows are quiet — the past month netted out near zero, while the price has returned +12.6% so far this year. At 0.030% a year, nothing comparable on our shelf runs cheaper.

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

$500.4Bassets under management
0.030%expense ratio · $3 per $10,000 a year
net flow, trailing month
5.5Mavg daily volume, 30 days
504holdings · US-domiciled
2010listed September 6, 2010 · beta 0.99
The book at a glance
NVDA-2.3%AAPL+1.5%MSFT+0.3%AMZN-0.8%GOOGL-0.0%AVGO-3.2%GOOG-0.1%META-4.4%MU-7.0%JPM+0.6%LLY+3.6%TSLA-0.7%BRKB+1.0%AMD-4.3%XOM+2.5%JNJ+3.2%V+1.5%WMT+0.7%MA+2.1%ABBV+3.4%INTC-6.6%CSCO-1.2%COST+0.9%BAC+0.5%LRCX-4.7%AMAT-4.0%GE+1.7%CAT-4.7%CVX+1.6%UNH-0.5%KO+2.1%

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

HoldingsDownload CSV
#HoldingWeightPriceDay52-wk
1NVDANVIDIA7.55%$219.76-2.3%
2AAPLAPPLE7.05%$310.20+1.5%
3MSFTMICROSOFT5.36%$481.85+0.3%
4AMZNAMAZON 4.13%$259.34-0.8%
5GOOGLALPHABET3.24%$344.14-0.0%
6AVGOBROADCOM2.86%$379.84-3.2%
7GOOGALPHABET2.62%$341.34-0.1%
8METAMETA1.90%$543.59-4.4%
9MUMICRON TECHNOLOGY1.44%$941.17-7.0%
10JPMJPMORGAN CHASE1.46%$363.33+0.6%
11LLYELI LILLY1.41%$1226.44+3.6%
12TSLATESLA1.36%$336.83-0.7%
13BRKBBerkshire Hathaway Inc.1.46%$503.10+1.0%
14AMDADVANCED MICRO DEVICES1.21%$484.59-4.3%
15XOMEXXON MOBIL1.00%$165.56+2.5%

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Sector weights
Information Technology33.38%
Technology32.34%
Technology Services20.75%
Electronic Technology17.99%
Consumer Discretionary15.87%
Financial Services12.86%
Finance12.41%
Healthcare12.2%
Financials11.99%
Consumer Cyclical9.86%
PORTFOLIO COMPOSITION, LATEST DISCLOSURE
Country weights
United States99.41%
Switzerland0.28%
Netherlands0.15%
Bermuda0.12%
Canada0.1%
United Kingdom0.09%
Other0.05%
PORTFOLIO COMPOSITION, LATEST DISCLOSURE
Performance
1 week-0.4%
1 month+3.6%
3 months+4.2%
6 months+12.9%
YTD+12.6%
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

Monthly net flows
JulSepOct
DAILY CREATION/REDEMPTION RECORDS, TRAILING TWELVE MONTHS
The risk read
13%realized volatility, 30 days (annualized)
13%realized volatility, 1 year
-9.2%deepest fall from a peak, 1 year
-1.0%where it sits vs. that peak today

The top holding is 7.5% of the book; the top ten carry 38%. Spread across 250+ names, it behaves like roughly 40 equally-weighted positions.

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

Options tape
4Kcalls today
3Kputs today
0.86put/call ratio
4.2Mshares traded
Most-traded holdings, options premiumBullishBearish
MU MICRON TECHNOLOGY$984M$1.1B
SNDK Sandisk Corporation $832M$975M
META META$364M$489M
NVDA NVIDIA$404M$388M
TSLA TESLA$334M$383M

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

The case against VOO

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

FundFeeAssetsFlow, 1MThe case
ITOT iShares Core S&P Total U.S. Stock Market ETF0.03%$97.9B+$245M+$245M in over the monthHead-to-head
DYNF BLACKROCK US EQUITY FACTOR ROTATION ETF$41.4B+$1.5B+$1.5B in over the monthHead-to-head
IUSG iShares Core S&P U.S. Growth ETF0.04%$33.8B+$668M+$668M in over the monthHead-to-head
IUSV iShares Core S&P U.S. Value ETF0.04%$28.1B+$103M+$103M in over the monthHead-to-head
IVV iShares Core S&P 500 ETF0.03%$900.9B−$14.2B2× the assetsHead-to-head
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