Vanguard Real Estate Index Fund ETF vs Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund — how do they compare? Vanguard Real Estate Index Fund ETF trades at $99.41, while Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund trades at $44.97. The key difference: Vanguard Real Estate Index Fund ETF is trading nearer its 52-week high, Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund nearer its low. Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| VNQ | XLU | |
|---|---|---|
52-Week High | $100.07 | $47.73 |
52-Week Low | $87.00 | $41.31 |
Trailing returns across standard periods
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 →In seeking to track the performance of the index, the fund employs a replication strategy. It 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: electric utilities; water utilities; multi-utilities; independent power and renewable electricity producers; and gas utilities. The fund is non-diversified.
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