VFVA Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Vanguard U.S. Value Factor ETF | BATS:VFVA)

Vanguard U.S. Value Factor ETF seeks to provide long-term capital appreciation. The fund 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 lower market valuations relative to fundamentals, such as book value of equity and earnings, as determined by the advisor. The portfolio will include a diverse mix of companies representing many different market sectors and industry groups. 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 securities with lower prices relative to fundamental measures of value subject to a set of reasonable constraints designed to foster portfolio diversification and liquidity. Securities with lower prices relative to fundamental value may be identified by measures such as book to price and earnings to price ratios.

Vanguard U.S. Value Factor ETF trades on the BATS stock market under the symbol VFVA.

As of April 24, 2024, VFVA stock price was flat at $114.64 with 14,037 million shares trading.

VFVA has a market cap of $692.43 million. This is considered a Small Cap stock.

In the last 3 years, VFVA stock traded as high as $119.51 and as low as $86.10.

VFVA has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of +21.5%, while the SPY ETF gained +24.2%. In the last 3 month period, VFVA fell short of the market, returning +3.8%, while SPY returned +4.6%. However, in the most recent 2 weeks VFVA has outperformed the stock market by returning -2.2%, while SPY returned -2.7%.

VFVA support price is $113.45 and resistance is $115.84 (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 VFVA stock will trade within this expected range on the day.