Novo Nordisk A/S vs Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund ETF — how do they compare? Novo Nordisk A/S trades at $49.35 (market cap $220.53B), while Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund ETF trades at $369.5. The key difference: Novo Nordisk A/S pays a 3.63% 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, Novo Nordisk A/S nearer its low. Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| NVO | VTI | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $220.53B | — |
Sector | Health | — |
52-Week High | $71.70 | $374.36 |
52-Week Low | $35.29 | $305.74 |
Enterprise Value | $239.49B | — |
Dividend Yield | 3.63% | — |
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Latest headlines on both assets
With almost 50% market share by volume of the global insulin market, Novo Nordisk is the leading provider of diabetes-care products in the world. Based in Denmark, the company manufactures and markets a variety of human and modern insulins, injectable diabetes treatments, and oral antidiabetic agents. Novo also has a biopharmaceutical segment (constituting roughly 15% of revenue) that specializes in protein therapies for hemophilia and other disorders.
Read more on NVO →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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