United States Natural Gas Fund vs Vanguard Tax Managed Fund FTSE Developed Markets ETF — how do they compare? United States Natural Gas Fund trades at $10.22, while Vanguard Tax Managed Fund FTSE Developed Markets ETF trades at $73.25. The key difference: Vanguard Tax Managed Fund FTSE Developed Markets ETF is trading nearer its 52-week high, United States Natural Gas Fund nearer its low. Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| UNG | VEA | |
|---|---|---|
Sector | Commodities - Energy | — |
52-Week High | $16.90 | $72.89 |
52-Week Low | $9.63 | $58.19 |
Trailing returns across standard periods
UNG is a commodity ETF that tracks the daily price movements of natural gas futures. It primarily invests in front-month contracts at the Henry Hub, making it a highly volatile tool for short-term trading rather than long-term holding due to contango and roll costs.
Read more on UNG →The fund employs an indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the FTSE Developed All Cap ex US Index, a market-capitalization-weighted index that is made up of approximately 4022 common stocks of large-, mid-, and small-cap companies located in Canada and the major markets of Europe and the Pacific region. 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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