Vanguard Utilities is trading at 89.47 as of the 13th of July 2025; that is 0.12 percent up since the beginning of the trading day. The fund's open price was 89.36. Vanguard Utilities has less than a 19 % chance of experiencing some financial distress in the next two years of operation, but did not have a good performance during the last 90 trading days. The performance scores are derived for the period starting the 14th of April 2025 and ending today, the 13th of July 2025. Click here to learn more.
The fund employs an indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the index, an index made up of stocks of large, mid-size, and small U.S. companies within the utilities 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. More on Vanguard Utilities Index
Vanguard Utilities Index [VUIAX] is traded in USA and was established 13th of July 2025. Vanguard Utilities is listed under Vanguard category by Fama And French industry classification. The fund is listed under Utilities category and is part of Vanguard family. This fund at this time has accumulated 3.67 B in net assets with no minimum investment requirementsVanguard Utilities Index is currently producing year-to-date (YTD) return of 10.67% with the current yeild of 0.03%, while the total return for the last 3 years was 8.99%.
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Investors will always prefer to have their portfolios divercified against different sectors. The broad sector allocation increases the possibility of making a profit or at least avoiding a loss. However, this may also reduce the expected return on Vanguard Mutual Fund. Generally, it depends on diversification level and type but usually, the broader the sector allocation, the less risk can be expected from holding Vanguard Mutual Fund, and the less return is expected.
Institutional investors that are interested in enforcing a sector tilt in their portfolio can use exchange-traded funds, such as Vanguard Utilities Index Mutual Fund, as a low-cost alternative to building a custom portfolio. So, using sector ETFs to diversify your portfolio can be a profitable strategy. However, no matter what sectors are desirable at a given time, no single industry should ever make up more than 20 percent of your stock portfolio.
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Vanguard Utilities financial ratios help investors to determine whether Vanguard Mutual Fund is cheap or expensive when compared to a particular measure, such as profits or enterprise value. In other words, they help investors to determine the cost of investment in Vanguard with respect to the benefits of owning Vanguard Utilities security.