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About Vanguard Utilities 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.
VPU is designed to track an all-cap index of US electric, gas, and water utility companies. The index is market-cap weighted index and subject to capping limitations. The capping is designed to ensure diversity among its portfolio by limiting the weight of a single issuer to 25% of the funds assets. The fund may also hold independent power producers, energy traders and companies engaged in electricity using renewable sources. VPU 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 index is rebalanced quarterly.
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Returns
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What's in the fund
Exposure type
Utilities
Stocks99.88%
Utilities98.75%
Distribution Services0.55%
Energy Minerals0.49%
Producer Manufacturing0.08%
Process Industries0.01%
Bonds, Cash & Other0.12%
Cash0.12%
Stock breakdown by region
North America100.00%
Latin America0.00%
Europe0.00%
Asia0.00%
Africa0.00%
Middle East0.00%
Oceania0.00%
Top 10 holdings
Dividends
Dividend payout history