VFMF Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Vanguard US Multifactor ETF | BATS:VFMF)

The ETF seeks to provide long-term capital appreciation & it's investment advisor constructs a diversified portfolio that invests primarily in U.S. common stocks with the potential to generate higher returns relative to the broad U.S. equity market by investing in stocks with relatively strong recent performance, strong fundamentals, and low prices relative to fundamentals as determined by the advisor.The advisor uses a quantitative model to evaluate all of the securities in an investment universe comprised of U.S. large, mid, and small capitalization stocks and to construct a U.S. equity portfolio that seeks to achieve exposure to multiple factors subject to a set of reasonable constraints designed to foster portfolio diversification, liquidity, and lower volatility. The investment advisor s quantitative model first groups the securities within the fund s investment universe by market capitalization and then ranks each security within each group by reference to characteristics designed to measure its exposure to the momentum, quality, value, and volatility factors.

Vanguard US Multifactor ETF trades on the BATS stock market under the symbol VFMF.

As of May 3, 2024, VFMF stock price climbed to $122.18 with 6,625 million shares trading.

VFMF has a market cap of $263.91 million. This is considered a Small Cap stock.

In the last 3 years, VFMF stock traded as high as $127.06 and as low as $86.38.

VFMF has outperformed the market in the last year with a return of +29.4%, while the SPY ETF gained +27.0%. In the last 3 month period, VFMF beat the market returning +5.2%, while SPY returned +3.7%. However, in the most recent 2 weeks VFMF has underperformed the stock market by returning +2.3%, while SPY returned +3.3%.

VFMF support price is $119.92 and resistance is $122.51 (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 VFMF stock will trade within this expected range on the day.