Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF vs Western Digital Corp — how do they compare? Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF trades at $160.43, while Western Digital Corp trades at $557 (market cap $168.00B). The key difference: Western Digital Corp pays a 0.12% dividend while Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF pays none, and Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF is trading nearer its 52-week high, Western Digital Corp nearer its low. Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| VYM | WDC | |
|---|---|---|
52-Week High | $161.17 | $746.23 |
52-Week Low | $132.90 | $67.06 |
Market Cap | — | $168.00B |
Sector | — | Technology |
Enterprise Value | — | $166.35B |
Dividend Yield | — | 0.12% |
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The advisor employs an indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the index, which consists of common stocks of companies that pay dividends that generally are higher than average. The advisor attempts to replicate the target index by investing all, or substantially all, of the fund's assets in the stocks that make up the index, holding each stock in approximately the same proportion as its weighting in the index.
Read more on VYM →Western Digital is a vertically integrated supplier of data storage solutions, spanning both hard disk drives and solid-state drives. In the HDD market it forms a practical duopoly with Seagate, and it is the largest global producer of NAND flash chips for SSDs in a joint venture with competitor Kioxia.
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