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Vanguard Communication Services Index Fund

$185.93+0.85% today
17320052-WK

The fund employs an indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the MSCI US Investable Market Index (IMI)/Communication Services 25/50, an index made up of stocks of large, mid-size, and small U.S. companies within the communication services sector, as classified under the GICS. 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. It is non-diversified.

Price & daily flows
194.4186.6178.7185.93DAILY NET FLOWAug 19Dec 16Apr 17Aug 19

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

The desk’s read

Flows are quiet — the past month netted out near zero, while the price has returned -3.7% so far this year. At 0.10% a year, nothing comparable on our shelf runs cheaper.

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

$4Bassets under management
0.10%expense ratio · $10 per $10,000 a year
net flow, trailing month
287Kavg daily volume, 30 days
117holdings · US-domiciled
2004listed September 22, 2004
The book at a glance
META-4.4%GOOGL-0.0%GOOG-0.1%NFLX+2.3%VZ+1.0%DIS+0.4%T+0.7%CMCSA+2.5%TMUS+1.4%WBD+2.0%TTWO+0.3%SPCX-2.0%LYV-2.2%APP-1.4%OMC+1.1%RBLX-0.7%FWONK+0.1%ROKURDDTASTSPINSNYT

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

HoldingsDownload CSV
#HoldingWeightPriceDay52-wk
1METAMETA19.89%$543.59-4.4%
2GOOGLALPHABET15.14%$344.14-0.0%
3GOOGALPHABET8.57%$341.34-0.1%
4NFLXNETFLIX4.82%$77.77+2.3%
5VZVERIZON COMMUNICATIONS4.50%$48.55+1.0%
6DISWALT DISNEY4.02%$103.97+0.4%
7TAT&T3.96%$24.93+0.7%
8CMCSACOMCAST2.74%$26.21+2.5%
9TMUST-MOBILE US2.59%$182.65+1.4%
10WBDWARNER BROS DISCOVERY2.39%$28.49+2.0%
11TTWOTAKE TWO INTERACTIVE 2.11%$242.39+0.3%
12SPCXSpace Exploration Technologies Corp1.53%$143.33-2.0%
13LYVLIVE NATION ENTERTAINMENT1.66%$180.88-2.2%
14APPAPPLOVIN2.06%$307.09-1.4%
15OMCOMNICOM GROUP1.37%$86.42+1.1%

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Sector weights
Communication Services96.82%
Technology Services59.62%
Consumer Services21.17%
Communications15.41%
Technology2.48%
Information Technology2.46%
Commercial Services2.42%
Consumer Durables0.9%
Consumer Cyclical0.6%
Consumer Discretionary0.58%
PORTFOLIO COMPOSITION, LATEST DISCLOSURE
Country weights
United States99.42%
United Kingdom0.52%
Bermuda0.11%
Canada0.07%
PORTFOLIO COMPOSITION, LATEST DISCLOSURE
Performance
1 week+0.4%
1 month-1.1%
3 months-5.7%
6 months-0.6%
YTD-3.7%
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
25%realized volatility, 30 days (annualized)
17%realized volatility, 1 year
-13.8%deepest fall from a peak, 1 year
-7.2%where it sits vs. that peak today

The top holding is 19.9% of the book; the top ten carry 69%. Spread across 113+ names, it behaves like roughly 12 equally-weighted positions.

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

Options tape
2calls today
2puts today
1.00put/call ratio
130Kshares traded
Most-traded holdings, options premiumBullishBearish
META META$364M$489M
SPCX Space Exploration Technologies Corp$155M$158M
GOOG ALPHABET$101M$113M
GOOGL ALPHABET$67M$72M
APP APPLOVIN$33M$37M

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