Atmos Energy Corporation vs Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund ETF — how do they compare? Atmos Energy Corporation trades at $169.2 (market cap $28.59B), while Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund ETF trades at $382.1. The key difference: Atmos Energy Corporation pays a 2.36% dividend while Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund ETF pays none, and Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund ETF is trading nearer its 52-week high, Atmos Energy Corporation nearer its low. Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| ATO | VTI | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $28.59B | — |
Sector | Utilities | — |
52-Week High | $192.25 | $381.78 |
52-Week Low | $162.44 | $311.68 |
Enterprise Value | $38.40B | — |
Dividend Yield | 2.36% | — |
Trailing returns across standard periods
Atmos Energy is the largest publicly traded, fully regulated, pure-play natural gas utility in the United States, serving more than 3 million customers in Texas, Colorado, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Virginia. About two thirds of its earnings come from Texas, where it distributes natural gas in northern Texas and owns an intrastate gas pipeline spanning several key shale gas formations and interconnected with five storage facilities.
Read more on ATO →The fund employs an indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the index, which represents approximately 100% of the investable US stock market and includes large-, mid-, small-, and micro-cap stocks. It invests by sampling the index, meaning that it holds a broadly diversified collection of securities that, in the aggregate, approximates the full index in terms of key characteristics.
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