VPU Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Vanguard Utilities ETF | ARCA:VPU)

Seeks to track the performance of a benchmark index that measures the investment return of stocks in the utilities sector. Passively managed using a full-replication strategy when possible and a sampling strategy if regulatory constraints dictate. Includes stocks of companies that distribute electricity water or gas or that operate as independent power producers.

Vanguard Utilities ETF trades on the ARCA stock market under the symbol VPU.

As of February 20, 2026, VPU stock price climbed to $200.31 with 128,440 million shares trading.

VPU has a beta of 0.28, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. VPU has a correlation of 0.12 to the broad based SPY ETF.

VPU has a market cap of $8.62 billion. This is considered a Mid Cap stock.

In the last 3 years, VPU traded as high as $203.50 and as low as $118.81.

VPU has outperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +18.5% while the SPY ETF gained +14.1%. However, in the short term, VPU had mixed performance relative to the market. It has underperformed in the last 3 months, returning +5.8% vs +6.0% return in SPY. But in the last 2 weeks, VPU shares have fared better than the market returning +6.5% compared to SPY -0.2%.

VPU support price is $197.21 and resistance is $201.81 (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 VPU shares will trade within this expected range on the day.