25-Aug-2026
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Seeks to track the performance of a benchmark index that measures the investment return of stocks in the materials sector. Passively managed using a full-replication strategy when possible and a sampling strategy if regulatory constraints dictate. Includes stocks of companies that extract or process raw materials.
Vanguard Materials ETF trades on the ARCA stock market under the symbol VAW.
As of August 25, 2026, VAW stock price climbed to $240.65 with 41,744 million shares trading.
VAW has a beta of 0.61, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. VAW has a correlation of 0.16 to the broad based SPY ETF.
VAW has a market cap of $3.12 billion. This is considered a Mid Cap stock.
In the last 3 years, VAW traded as high as $245.26 and as low as $161.43.
VAW has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of +17.8%, while SPY returned +20.4%. This shows that you would have done better investing in the overall market (through SPY) over the last year than in VAW shares. However, VAW has outperformed the market in the last 3 month and 2 week periods, returning +6.0% and +1.0%, while SPY returned +3.0% and -0.6%, respectively. This indicates VAW has been having a stronger performance recently.
VAW support price is $236.41 and resistance is $242.29 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that VAW shares will trade within this expected range on the day.
