United Microelectronics Corp vs Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund ETF — how do they compare? United Microelectronics Corp trades at $21.12 (market cap $51.00B), while Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund ETF trades at $115.84. The key difference: United Microelectronics Corp pays a 2.03% dividend while Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund ETF pays none. Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| UMC | VGT | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $51.00B | — |
Sector | Technology | — |
52-Week High | $28.02 | $125.77 |
52-Week Low | $6.58 | $83.59 |
Enterprise Value | $48.57B | — |
Dividend Yield | 2.03% | — |
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Founded in 1980, United Microelectronics is the world's third-largest dedicated chip foundry, with 7% market share in 2021, according to Gartner, after TSMC and GlobalFoundries. UMC's headquarters are in Hsinchu, Taiwan, and it operates 12 fabs in Taiwan, Mainland China, Japan and Singapore, with additional sales offices in Europe, the U.S. and South Korea. UMC features a diverse customer base including Texas Instruments, MediaTek, Qualcomm, Broadcom, Xilinx and Realtek, supplying a wide range of products applied in communications, display, memory, automotive and more. UMC employs about 20,000 people.
Read more on UMC →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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