Your #1 ETF for 2025

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VANGUARD INDUSTRIALS ETF $262.20 (New York symbol VIS; TSINetwork ETF Rating: Conservative; Market cap: $61.3 billion) invests in U.S. industrial companies. That includes stocks of companies that convert unfinished goods into finished durables used to manufacture other goods or to provide services. The ETF began trading on September 23, 2004. It charges a low MER of 0.10%; its dividend yield is 1.2%. The highest-weighted stocks in the Vanguard U.S. Industrials ETF are General Electric (3.4%), Caterpillar (3.4%), RTX Corp. (2.8%), Honeywell (2.6%), Eaton Corp. (2.6%), Union Pacific (2.6%), Uber Technologies (2.3%), Automatic Data Processing (2.1%), Deere (2.1%), and Lockheed Martin (1.9%). Industry segment allocations include Aerospace & Defence (18.3%), Industrial Machinery & Supplies & Components (10.3%), Electrical Components & Equipment (7.8%), Building Products (7.5%), Construction Machinery & Heavy Transport (6.6%), Trading Companies & Distributors (5.7%), Rail Transportation (4.8%), Environmental & Facilities Services (4.6%), Human Resource & Employment Services (4.1%), Industrial Conglomerates (3.8%), Research & Consulting Services (3.7%), Air Freight & Logistics (3.6%), and Construction &…