Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund ETF vs Energy Select Sector SPDR Fund — how do they compare? Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund ETF trades at $369.56, while Energy Select Sector SPDR Fund trades at $58.5. The key difference: Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund ETF is trading nearer its 52-week high, Energy Select Sector SPDR Fund nearer its low. Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| VTI | XLE | |
|---|---|---|
52-Week High | $374.36 | $62.57 |
52-Week Low | $305.74 | $42.12 |
Trailing returns across standard periods
Latest headlines on both assets
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.
Read more on VTI →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 companies that have been identified as energy companies by the GICS®, including securities of companies from the following industries: oil, gas and consumable fuels; and energy equipment and services. It is non-diversified.
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