VDE Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Vanguard Energy ETF | ARCA:VDE)

Seeks to track the performance of a benchmark index that measures the investment return of stocks in the energy sector. Passively managed using a full-replication strategy when possible and a sampling strategy if regulatory constraints dictate. Includes stocks of companies involved in the exploration and production of energy products such as oil natural gas and coal.

Vanguard Energy ETF trades on the ARCA stock market under the symbol VDE.

As of July 14, 2026, VDE stock price climbed to $160.91 with 390,073 million shares trading.

VDE has a beta of -0.59, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. VDE has a correlation of 0.10 to the broad based SPY ETF.

VDE has a market cap of $9.72 billion. This is considered a Mid Cap stock.

In the last 3 years, VDE traded as high as $179.34 and as low as $103.07.

VDE has outperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +31.9% while the SPY ETF gained +21.8%. However, in the short term, VDE had mixed performance relative to the market. It has underperformed in the last 3 months, returning -0.2% vs +9.9% return in SPY. But in the last 2 weeks, VDE shares have fared better than the market returning +6.4% compared to SPY +1.5%.

VDE support price is $157.91 and resistance is $162.39 (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 VDE shares will trade within this expected range on the day.