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VANGUARD GROWTH ETF $49.28 – New York symbol VUG

October 2, 2009 -  Be the first to comment
Posted by: Pat McKeough Filed in: Mutual Funds
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VANGUARD GROWTH ETF $49.28 (New York symbol VUG; buy or sell through brokers) aims to track the MSCI U.S. Prime Market Growth Index, a broadly diversified index that mainly consists of stocks of large U.S. companies. The fund has an MER of just 0.15%.

The $14.0-billion fund’s top holdings are Microsoft, IBM, Apple Inc., Cisco Systems, Wal-Mart Stores, Google Inc., Hewlett-Packard, Procter & Gamble, Philip Morris International and PepsiCo.

Vanguard Growth ETF is broken down by economic segment as follows: Information Technologies (34.2%), Health Care (15.5%), Consumer Staples (14.7%), Consumer Discretionary (11.9%), Industrials (7.9%), Energy (6.3%), Financials (4.7%), Materials (3.8%), Telecommunication Services (0.6%) and Utilities (0.4%).

Vanguard Growth ETF is a buy.

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