Nomura Holdings Inc vs Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund ETF — how do they compare? Nomura Holdings Inc trades at $9.4 (market cap $27.46B), while Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund ETF trades at $115.82. The key difference: Nomura Holdings Inc pays a 3.45% dividend while Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund ETF pays none. Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| NMR | VGT | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $27.46B | — |
Sector | Financials | — |
52-Week High | $10.04 | $125.77 |
52-Week Low | $6.39 | $83.59 |
Dividend Yield | 3.45% | — |
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Nomura is Japan's largest broker, about twice the size of rival Daiwa Securities and roughly three times the size of the securities units of the three megabanks. It is also the largest asset-management company in Japan, with a similar size differential compared with its rivals. Despite its topnotch brand name in retail broking and asset management in Japan, Nomura has struggled to compete effectively in the institutional securities business against larger global rivals. In 2008, Nomura bought European and Asian assets of the failed Lehman Brothers, which led to a sharply higher cost base but did not provide commensurate revenue. Nomura has reduced the scale of these businesses but maintains its ambition to compete globally with the top players.
Read more on NMR →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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