CVS Health Corp vs Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund ETF — how do they compare? CVS Health Corp trades at $93.54 (market cap $119.58B), while Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund ETF trades at $120.88. The key difference: CVS Health Corp pays a 2.84% dividend while Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund ETF pays none, and Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund ETF is trading nearer its 52-week high, CVS Health Corp nearer its low. Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| CVS | VGT | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $119.58B | — |
Sector | Health | — |
52-Week High | $110.60 | $125.77 |
52-Week Low | $65.51 | $83.59 |
Enterprise Value | $181.93B | — |
Dividend Yield | 2.84% | — |
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Following its acquisition of Aetna in late 2018, CVS Health now provides an even more integrated healthcare-services offering for its members. Legacy CVS combined both the largest pharmacy benefit manager, processing over 2 billion adjusted claims annually, and a sizable pharmacy operation, including nearly 10,000 retail pharmacy locations primarily in the U.S. Adding a managed-care organization with 24 million medical members gives the company a strong position in the insurance industry and should help CVS better control overall healthcare costs for its clients.
Read more on CVS →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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