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About Vanguard Consumer Discretion ETF
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Inception date
Jan 26, 2004
Structure
Open-Ended Fund
Dividend treatment
Distributes
Distribution tax treatment
Qualified dividends
Income tax type
Capital Gains
Max ST capital gains rate
39.60%
Max LT capital gains rate
20.00%
Primary advisor
The Vanguard Group, Inc.
Distributor
Vanguard Marketing Corp.
The fund is passively managed to deliver plain-vanilla exposure to the consumer discretionary sector, as defined by GICS. The fund has breadth, holding a huge basket of stocks that it selects and weights by market capitalization. Media and entertainment companies that were reclassified to the communication services sector under GICS in 2018 are excluded. The index diversifies its holdings by applying limits on regulated investment companies using the MSCI 25/50 methodology. The index is rebalanced on a quarterly basis.
Classification
Returns
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What's in the fund
Exposure type
Retail Trade
Consumer Services
Consumer Durables
Stocks99.60%
Retail Trade46.40%
Consumer Services22.85%
Consumer Durables21.41%
Consumer Non-Durables3.46%
Producer Manufacturing1.71%
Transportation1.20%
Distribution Services0.59%
Electronic Technology0.59%
Commercial Services0.53%
Technology Services0.44%
Industrial Services0.28%
Finance0.13%
Bonds, Cash & Other0.40%
Cash0.40%
Stock breakdown by region
North America96.88%
Latin America1.92%
Europe1.16%
Middle East0.04%
Asia0.00%
Africa0.00%
Oceania0.00%
Top 10 holdings
Dividends
Dividend payout history
Assets under management (AUM)
Fund Flows
Frequently Asked Questions
VCR invests in stocks. The fund's major sectors are Retail Trade, with 46.40% stocks, and Consumer Services, with 22.85% of the basket. The assets are mostly located in the North America region.
VCR top holdings are Amazon.com, Inc. and Tesla, Inc., occupying 22.54% and 14.30% of the portfolio correspondingly.
VCR last dividends amounted to 0.77 USD. The quarter before, the issuer paid 0.66 USD in dividends, which shows a 14.49% increase.
VCR assets under management is 5.79 B USD. It's risen 11.49% over the last month.
VCR fund flows account for −368.55 M USD (1 year). Many traders use this metric to get insight into investors' sentiment and evaluate whether it's time to buy or sell the fund.
Yes, VCR pays dividends to its holders with the dividend yield of 0.83%. The last dividend (Mar 27, 2025) amounted to 0.77 USD. The dividends are paid quarterly.
VCR shares are issued by The Vanguard Group, Inc. under the brand Vanguard. The ETF was launched on Jan 26, 2004, and its management style is Passive.
VCR expense ratio is 0.09% meaning you'd have to pay 0.09% of your investment to help manage the fund.
VCR follows the MSCI US IMI 25/50 Consumer Discretionary. ETFs usually track some benchmark seeking to replicate its performance and guide asset selection and objectives.
VCR invests in stocks.
VCR price has risen by 9.84% over the last month, and its yearly performance shows a 14.50% increase. See more dynamics on VCR price chart.
NAV returns, another gauge of an ETF dynamics, have risen by 11.42% over the last month, showed a −4.00% decrease in three-month performance and has increased by 15.81% in a year.
NAV returns, another gauge of an ETF dynamics, have risen by 11.42% over the last month, showed a −4.00% decrease in three-month performance and has increased by 15.81% in a year.
VCR trades at a premium (0.03%) meaning the ETF is trading at a higher price than the calculated NAV.