VPU
UtilitiesVanguard Utilities Index Fund ETF Shares
Vanguard · Tracks MSCI US Investable Market Utilities 25/50 Index · Inception Jan 26, 2004
Trailing returns
through Oct 23, 2026- 1 year
- -1.4%
- 3 year
- +16.3%
- 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 $9.47B in net assets for the whole fund, all 2 share classes. Our sources don't report the ETF class alone.
Top-10 holdings represent 52.5% of net assets.
Utilities base · ETF wrapper · 2.83% 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
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Compounds the 0.090% expense ratio against a peer over decades.
Tool · Overlap
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Pairwise holdings heatmap, pre-loaded with similar Utilities funds.
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Asset location for VPU across account types
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Top holdings
| # | Holding | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | NextEra Energy Inc | 11.79% |
| 2 | Southern Co/The | 6.67% |
| 3 | Duke Energy Corp | 6.28% |
| 4 | Constellation Energy Corp | 5.83% |
| 5 | American Electric Power Co Inc | 4.45% |
| 6 | Sempra | 3.83% |
| 7 | Dominion Energy Inc | 3.76% |
| 8 | Vistra Corp | 3.57% |
| 9 | Entergy Corp | 3.21% |
| 10 | Xcel Energy Inc | 3.09% |
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