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Vanguard Utilities ETF declares quarterly distribution of $1.0961
Seeking Alpha News (Wed, 27-Mar 9:20 AM ET)
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 March 28, 2024, VPU stock price climbed to $142.58 with 341,466 million shares trading.
VPU has a beta of 0.49, 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 $5.13 billion. This is considered a Mid Cap stock.
In the last 3 years, VPU stock traded as high as $169.55 and as low as $118.81.
VPU has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of +2.8%, while the SPY ETF gained +33.6%. In the last 3 month period, VPU fell short of the market, returning +5.4%, while SPY returned +10.1%. However, in the most recent 2 weeks VPU has outperformed the stock market by returning +3.7%, while SPY returned +1.7%.
VPU support price is $139.91 and resistance is $142.93 (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 stock will trade within this expected range on the day.