Designed to provide broad exposure to the Consumer Staples - Broad segment of the equity market, the Vanguard Consumer Staples ETF (VDC) is a passively managed exchange traded fund launched on 01/26/2004.
VDC offers defensive exposure to blue-chip consumer staples, but sector performance lags amid mixed economic signals and no clear recession ahead. Top holdings like COST and WMT are overvalued, facing margin pressures from tariffs, though their balance sheets remain strong for the long term. VDC's total returns and dividend yield trail technology and some consumer staples peers, making it less compelling for outperformance in 2025.
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![]() VDC 6 months ago Paid | Quarterly | $1.21 Per Share |
![]() VDC 9 months ago Paid | Quarterly | $1.32 Per Share |
![]() VDC 28 Jun 2024 Paid | Quarterly | $1.54 Per Share |
![]() VDC 22 Mar 2024 Paid | Quarterly | $0.86 Per Share |
![]() VDC 19 Dec 2023 Paid | Quarterly | $1.79 Per Share |
![]() VDC 6 months ago Paid | Quarterly | $1.21 Per Share |
![]() VDC 9 months ago Paid | Quarterly | $1.32 Per Share |
![]() VDC 28 Jun 2024 Paid | Quarterly | $1.54 Per Share |
![]() VDC 22 Mar 2024 Paid | Quarterly | $0.86 Per Share |
![]() VDC 19 Dec 2023 Paid | Quarterly | $1.79 Per Share |
ARCA Exchange | US Country |
The fund operates under an indexing strategy aimed at mimicking the performance of the MSCI US Investable Market Index/Consumer Staples 25/50. This index encompasses a diverse range of stocks from large, mid-size, and small U.S. companies within the consumer staples sector, based on the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS). The fund's management team, referred to as the Advisor, strives to replicate the composition of the target index by allocating nearly all its assets into the constituent stocks. Their goal is to maintain the proportion of each stock in alignment with its index weighting. Unlike diversified funds, this fund is non-diversified, focusing solely on the consumer staples sector.
Employing an indexing investment strategy that aims to track the performance of the MSCI US Investable Market Index/Consumer Staples 25/50. This approach involves investing all or substantially all of the fund's assets into the stocks making up the index, thereby replicating the index's performance as closely as possible.
Through targeting the consumer staples sector, classified under the GICS, the fund invests in a range of companies from large to small cap. The focus on consumer staples—a sector known for its resilience during various market conditions—aims to provide investors with a stable investment option within the volatile market.
As a non-diversified fund, it concentrates its investments in the consumer staples sector rather than spreading them across various sectors. This strategy can offer potentially higher returns but comes with a higher risk due to the lack of diversification.