Vanguard Real Estate Index Fund ETF vs Financial Select Sector SPDR Fund — how do they compare? Vanguard Real Estate Index Fund ETF trades at $99.41, while Financial Select Sector SPDR Fund trades at $56.07. Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| VNQ | XLF | |
|---|---|---|
52-Week High | $100.07 | $56.75 |
52-Week Low | $87.00 | $47.80 |
Trailing returns across standard periods
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The fund employs an indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the MSCI US Investable Market Real Estate 25/50 Index, an index made up of stocks of large, mid-size, and small US companies within the real estate sector. 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.
Read more on VNQ →The fund generally invests substantially all, but at least 95%, of its total assets in the securities comprising the index. The index includes securities of companies from the following industries: diversified financial services; insurance; banks; capital markets; mortgage real estate investment trusts; consumer finance; thrifts; and mortgage finance. The fund is non-diversified.
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