Royal Bank of Canada vs Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund ETF — how do they compare? Royal Bank of Canada trades at $210.37 (market cap $289.51B), while Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund ETF trades at $369.56. The key difference: Royal Bank of Canada pays a 2.42% dividend while Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund ETF pays none. Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| RY | VTI | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $289.51B | — |
Sector | Financials | — |
52-Week High | $217.87 | $374.36 |
52-Week Low | $128.46 | $305.74 |
Dividend Yield | 2.42% | — |
Trailing returns across standard periods
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 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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