VUG Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Vanguard Growth ETF | ARCA:VUG)

Seeks to track the performance of the CRSP U.S. Large Cap Growth Index. Provides a convenient way to match the performance of many of the nation s largest growth stocks. Follows a passively managed full-replication approach.

Vanguard Growth ETF trades on the ARCA stock market under the symbol VUG.

As of August 3, 2026, VUG stock price climbed to $87.08 with 7,151,399 million shares trading.

VUG has a beta of 1.37, meaning it tends to be more sensitive to market movements. VUG has a correlation of 0.89 to the broad based SPY ETF.

VUG has a market cap of $224.33 billion. This is considered a Mega Cap stock.

In the last 3 years, VUG traded as high as $90.60 and as low as $43.44.

VUG has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of +15.2%, while the SPY ETF gained +21.1%. In the last 3 month period, VUG fell short of the market, returning +4.8%, while SPY returned +5.7%. However, in the most recent 2 weeks VUG has outperformed the stock market by returning +2.1%, while SPY returned +1.9%.

VUG support price is $84.20 and resistance is $86.21 (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 VUG shares will trade within this expected range on the day.