Church & Dwight Co., Inc. vs Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund ETF — how do they compare? Church & Dwight Co., Inc. trades at $103.35 (market cap $24.38B), while Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund ETF trades at $121.04. The key difference: Church & Dwight Co., Inc. pays a 1.2% dividend while Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund ETF pays none. Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| CHD | VGT | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $24.38B | — |
Sector | Consumer Staples | — |
52-Week High | $105.26 | $125.77 |
52-Week Low | $81.60 | $83.59 |
Enterprise Value | $26.38B | — |
Dividend Yield | 1.2% | — |
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Church & Dwight is the leading producer of baking soda in the world. Beyond baking soda, the products in its portfolio have vast category reach, including laundry products, cat litter, oral care, deodorant, and nasal care, all sold under the Arm & Hammer brand. Its mix also includes Xtra, Trojan, OxiClean, First Response, Nair, L'il Critters/Vitafusion, Orajel, and WaterPik, which together with Arm & Hammer constitute more than 80% of its annual sales and profits. In early 2019, the firm announced the addition of Flawless, which manufactures electric shaving products for women. At the end of 2020, the firm acquired Zicam, a leading brand in the cough/cold-shortening category. Church & Dwight derives more than 80% of its sales from its home market in the U.S.
Read more on CHD →The fund employs an indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the MSCI US Investable Market Index/Information Technology 25/50, an index made up of stocks of large, mid-size, and small US companies within the information technology sector, as classified under the GICS. The advisor attempts to replicate the target index by seeking to invest all of its assets in the stocks that make up the index, in order to hold each stock in approximately the same proportion as its weighting in the index. It is non-diversified.
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