Compare Alcon AG (ALC) vs Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF (VYM) Price & Performance
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Alcon AG vs Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF — how do they compare? Alcon AG trades at $74.19 (market cap $36.44B), while Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF trades at $166.41. The key difference: Alcon AG pays a 0.48% dividend while Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF pays none, and Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF is trading nearer its 52-week high, Alcon AG nearer its low. Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| ALC | VYM | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $36.44B | — |
Sector | Health | — |
52-Week High | $90.12 | $166.14 |
52-Week Low | $62.02 | $136.63 |
Enterprise Value | $40.28B | — |
Dividend Yield | 0.48% | — |
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About Alcon AG
Alcon, headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, is the global eyecare leader with a diverse portfolio in ophthalmology including contact lenses, eye drops, surgical equipment, and related surgical products. Novartis purchased Alcon from Nestle in 2010 and, following nine years as a Novartis subsidiary, the company was spun off as a public company in April 2019. The company reports five distinct segments: implantables (16% of revenue), consumables (31%), equipment (9%), contact lenses (27%), and ocular health (17%). The company is geographically diversified, with only about 40% of revenue from the U.S. market, and the firm has a strong presence in the European Union and Japan.
Read more on ALC →About Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF
The advisor employs an indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the index, which consists of common stocks of companies that pay dividends that generally are higher than average. The advisor attempts to replicate the target index by investing all, or substantially all, of the fund's assets in the stocks that make up the index, holding each stock in approximately the same proportion as its weighting in the index.
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