Consolidated Edison, Inc. vs Vanguard Real Estate Index Fund ETF — how do they compare? Consolidated Edison, Inc. trades at $107.5 (market cap $39.76B), while Vanguard Real Estate Index Fund ETF trades at $96.66. The key difference: Consolidated Edison, Inc. pays a 3.27% dividend while Vanguard Real Estate Index Fund ETF pays none. Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| ED | VNQ | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $39.76B | — |
Sector | Utilities | — |
52-Week High | $115.46 | $100.95 |
52-Week Low | $95.37 | $87.00 |
Enterprise Value | $66.61B | — |
Dividend Yield | 3.27% | — |
Trailing returns across standard periods
Con Ed is a holding company for Consolidated Edison of New York, or CECONY, and Orange & Rockland, or O&R. These utilities provide steam, natural gas, and electricity to customers in southeastern New York—including New York City—and small parts of New Jersey. The two utilities will generate nearly all of Con Ed's earnings once it closes the sale of its clean energy business to RWE. Con Ed's clean energy business owns the second-largest portfolio of utility-scale solar projects in the U.S. Following the sale, Con Ed's only non-utility earnings will come from investments in gas and electric transmission.
Read more on ED →The fund employs an indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the MSCI US Investable Market Real Estate 25/50 Index, an index made up of stocks of large, mid-size, and small US companies within the real estate sector. 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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