VANGUARD GROWTH ETF $51.35 - New York symbol VUG

VANGUARD GROWTH ETF $51.35 (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 $15.7-billion fund’s top holdings are Microsoft, IBM, Apple Inc., Cisco Systems, Wal-Mart Stores, Google Inc., Hewlett-Packard, Oracle Corp., Philip Morris International and PepsiCo. Vanguard Growth ETF is broken down by economic segment as follows: Information Technologies (36.1%), Health Care (13.8%), Consumer Staples (11.3%), Consumer Discretionary (11.8%), Industrials (8.0%), Energy (7.5%), Financials (5.9%), Materials (4.5%), Telecommunication Services (0.8%) and Utilities (0.3%). Vanguard Growth ETF is a buy.

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