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VDCVanguardINDEX

Vanguard Consumer Staples Fund

$238.92-0.13% vs prior close
20724452-WK

Price through Oct 26, 2026 · Flows through Oct 31, 2024. Figures use the latest available records, not a live quote. Fund details retrieved Oct 26, 2026. Holdings snapshot retrieved Oct 26, 2026.

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.

VDC price

Source: Market tape, daily closes; price return, distributions not reinvested
Table
DateVDC close
Sep 28, 2026$222.80
Sep 29, 2026$221.56
Sep 30, 2026$218.21
Oct 1, 2026$217.71
Oct 2, 2026$218.48
Oct 5, 2026$219.93
Oct 6, 2026$221.78
Oct 7, 2026$221.62
Oct 8, 2026$226.04
Oct 9, 2026$226.37
Oct 12, 2026$228.90
Oct 13, 2026$228.57
Oct 14, 2026$233.41
Oct 15, 2026$234.93
Oct 16, 2026$237.43
Oct 19, 2026$236.43
Oct 20, 2026$237.63
Oct 21, 2026$236.02
Oct 22, 2026$243.57
Oct 23, 2026$239.24
Oct 26, 2026$238.92

The desk’s read

Recent fund-flow records are unavailable, while the price has returned +13.1% so far this year. At 0.10% a year it is not the cheapest way in — SCHD has a reported fee of 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
195Kavg daily volume, 30 days
103holdings · US-domiciled
2004listed January 26, 2004 · beta -0.08
The book at a glance
WMT+0.3%COST+0.2%PG-0.7%KO-0.0%PM+1.2%PEP-0.2%MO-0.9%MDLZ-1.3%CL-1.0%TGT-2.8%MNST+0.5%KDP+0.9%SYY+1.0%ADM-1.4%KR+0.0%KVUE-0.4%KMB-0.5%DG-3.2%EL+0.1%CASYCHD+0.2%HSYDLTRUSFD

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

Holdings
#HoldingWeightPriceDay52-wk
1WMTWALMART13.91%$120.29+0.3%
2COSTCOSTCO WHOLESALE12.17%$1005.16+0.2%
3PGPROCTER & GAMBLE9.93%$159.92-0.7%
4KOCOCA COLA9.84%$92.70-0.0%
5PMPHILIP MORRIS INTERNATIONAL4.85%$201.87+1.2%
6PEPPEPSICO4.29%$135.46-0.2%
7MOALTRIA 3.87%$73.62-0.9%
8MDLZMONDELEZ INTERNATIONAL2.59%$62.97-1.3%
9CLCOLGATE PALMOLIVE2.29%$93.10-1.0%
10TGTTARGET2.50%$148.53-2.8%
11MNSTMONSTER BEVERAGE2.09%$46.44+0.5%
12KDPKEURIG DR PEPPER1.48%$34.99+0.9%
13SYYSYSCO1.38%$82.16+1.0%
14ADMARCHER-DANIELS-MIDLAND1.42%$79.01-1.4%
15KRKROGER1.23%$66.77+0.0%

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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%
Source: Portfolio composition, latest disclosure
Show as table
ItemValue (%)
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%

Country weights

  • United States100%
  • Cayman Islands0.11%
Source: Portfolio composition, latest disclosure
Show as table
ItemValue (%)
United States100%
Cayman Islands0.11%
Performance
1 week+0.5%
1 month+7.5%
3 months+5.1%
6 months+4.3%
YTD+13.1%
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
19%realized volatility, 30 days (annualized)
15%realized volatility, 1 year
-10.8%deepest fall from a peak, 1 year
-2.2%latest close versus that peak

The top holding is 13.9% of the book; the top ten carry 66%. Spread across 102+ names, it behaves like roughly 16 equally-weighted positions.

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

Options tape
—calls · latest snapshot
7puts · latest snapshot
—put/call ratio
143Kshares traded
Most-traded holdings, options premiumBullishBearish
COST COSTCO WHOLESALE$21M$22M
WMT WALMART$8M$8M
PEP PEPSICO$9M$4M
KO COCA COLA$5M$5M
CART MAPLEBEAR INC$4M$4M

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 SPDR Portfolio Developed World ex-US ETF0.03%$40.7B+$609M-7bp on fee · 6× the assets · +$609M in over the monthHead-to-head
SPMD State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 400 Mid Cap ETF0.03%$18.4B+$199M-7bp on fee · 3× the assets · +$199M in over the monthHead-to-head
IDEV iShares Core MSCI International Developed Markets ETF0.04%$32.4B+$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+$51M-6bp on fee · 3× the assets · +$51M 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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