VDC
Consumer StaplesVanguard Consumer Staples Index Fund ETF Shares
Vanguard · Tracks MSCI US Investable Market Consumer Staples 25/50 Index · Inception Jan 26, 2004
Trailing returns
through Oct 23, 2026- 1 year
- +19.6%
- 3 year
- +13.4%
- annualized
- 5 year
- +8.1%
- annualized
Price return from month-end closes, distributions reinvested at month end. Excludes trading costs, bid-ask spreads and taxes. Past performance says nothing about future returns and is not part of the composite score — see the methodology for what the score does measure.
Composite score
Based on a 0.090% expense ratio.
Based on $8.70B in net assets for the whole fund, all 2 share classes. Our sources don't report the ETF class alone.
Top-10 holdings represent 64.8% of net assets.
Consumer Staples base · ETF wrapper · 2.04% TTM yield.
The composite is a weighted average of the four core sub-scores above (cost, tax efficiency, liquidity, concentration). Missing sub-scores fall back to the per-category median when the category has at least 50% data coverage, so funds without (e.g.) parsed N-PORT holdings aren't accidentally boosted by renormalization. Tracking quality is shown where computable but isn't currently part of the composite weighting. See methodology for formulas, the tracking-quality partial-coverage rationale, and the dimensions we deliberately don't score (methodology v0.5.2).
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Underlying holdings, with other funds added
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Tool · Cost
Compare VDC's fee against another fund
Compounds the 0.090% expense ratio against a peer over decades.
Tool · Overlap
Compare VDC's holdings with peers
Pairwise holdings heatmap, pre-loaded with similar Consumer Staples funds.
Tool · TLH
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Tool · Placement
Asset location for VDC across account types
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Top holdings
| # | Holding | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Walmart Inc | 14.71% |
| 2 | Costco Wholesale Corp | 12.00% |
| 3 | Procter & Gamble Co/The | 9.24% |
| 4 | Coca-Cola Co/The | 8.69% |
| 5 | Philip Morris International Inc | 4.65% |
| 6 | PepsiCo Inc | 4.28% |
| 7 | Altria Group Inc | 3.90% |
| 8 | Mondelez International Inc | 2.68% |
| 9 | Colgate-Palmolive Co | 2.36% |
| 10 | Monster Beverage Corp | 2.24% |
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Similar ETFs by holdings overlap
- FSTA Fidelity MSCI Consumer Staples Index ETF 95.1% overlap
- XLP State Street Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR ETF 75.8% overlap
- IYK iShares US Consumer Staples ETF 59.6% overlap
- VGT Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0% overlap
- XLK State Street Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF 0.0% overlap
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