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Falling retail sales, low savings signal consumer slowdown - Pantheon Macro
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Seeks to track the performance of a benchmark index that measures the investment return of stocks in the consumer discretionary sector. Passively managed using a full-replication strategy when possible and a sampling strategy if regulatory constraints dictate. Includes stocks of companies that manufacture products and provide services that consumers purchase on a discretionary basis.
Vanguard Consumer Discretionary ETF trades on the ARCA stock market under the symbol VCR.
As of August 21, 2026, VCR stock price climbed to $397.13 with 64,125 million shares trading.
VCR has a beta of 1.26, meaning it tends to be more sensitive to market movements. VCR has a correlation of 0.64 to the broad based SPY ETF.
VCR has a market cap of $6.14 billion. This is considered a Mid Cap stock.
In the last 3 years, VCR traded as high as $414.28 and as low as $247.52.
VCR has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of +5.9%, while the SPY ETF gained +21.2%. In the last 3 month period, VCR fell short of the market, returning +2.1%, while SPY returned +3.6%. However, in the most recent 2 weeks VCR has outperformed the stock market by returning -0.1%, while SPY returned -0.4%.
VCR support price is $388.09 and resistance is $396.81 (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 VCR shares will trade within this expected range on the day.
