VDC Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Vanguard Consumer Staples ETF | ARCA:VDC)

Seeks to track the performance of a benchmark index that measures the investment return of stocks in the consumer staples sector. Passively managed using a full-replication strategy when possible and a sampling strategy if regulatory constraints dictate. Includes stocks of companies that provide direct-to-consumer products that based on consumer spending habits are considered nondiscretionary.

Vanguard Consumer Staples ETF trades on the ARCA stock market under the symbol VDC.

As of March 6, 2026, VDC stock price climbed to $232.79 with 184,012 million shares trading.

VDC has a beta of 0.26, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. VDC has a correlation of 0.11 to the broad based SPY ETF.

VDC has a market cap of $8.05 billion. This is considered a Mid Cap stock.

In the last 3 years, VDC traded as high as $244.33 and as low as $172.75.

VDC has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of +6.8%, while SPY returned +18.7%. This shows that you would have done better investing in the overall market (through SPY) over the last year than in VDC shares. However, VDC has outperformed the market in the last 3 month and 2 week periods, returning +9.4% and -2.3%, while SPY returned -1.7% and -2.5%, respectively. This indicates VDC has been having a stronger performance recently.

VDC support price is $229.78 and resistance is $234.44 (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 VDC shares will trade within this expected range on the day.