Royal Bank of Canada vs Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF — how do they compare? Royal Bank of Canada trades at $210.37 (market cap $289.51B), while Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF trades at $236.89. The key difference: Royal Bank of Canada pays a 2.42% dividend while Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund ETF pays none. Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| RY | VIG | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $289.51B | — |
Sector | Financials | — |
52-Week High | $217.87 | $239.13 |
52-Week Low | $128.46 | $204.09 |
Dividend Yield | 2.42% | — |
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Royal Bank of Canada is one of the two largest banks in Canada. It is a diversified financial services company, offering personal and commercial banking, wealth-management services, insurance, corporate banking, and capital markets services. The bank is concentrated in Canada, with additional operations in the U.S. and other countries.
Read more on RY →The advisor employs an indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the index, which consists of common stocks of companies that have a record of increasing dividends over time. The advisor attempts to replicate the target index by investing all, or substantially all, of its assets in the stocks that make up the index, holding each stock in approximately the same proportion as its weighting in the index.
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