SeekingAlpha · Jul 10, 2026
VB: The Opportunity Outside The Magnificent Seven
VB is rated a Buy, offering broad, low-cost exposure to over 1,315 U.S. small-cap companies at a 0.03% expense ratio. Read more on VB ETF here.
AMEX · VB
Vanguard Small Cap Index Fund
Financial Services · Asset Management
$290.91
Up+$1.93 (+0.67%)
Updated Sep 18, 2026, 7:33 AM
SID Score
5.8/10
Composite research score
Smart Money
58/100
Neutral
- Market cap
- 167.75B
- P/E ratio
- —
- Dividend yield
- 1.17%
- 52-week range
- $241.17 – $309.51
- Volume
- 531.64K
- Avg. volume
- 716.74K
Price performance
VB price history
1M range · 20 trading sessions · Daily adjusted prices
VB closed at $290.91 after 20 trading sessions, down 3.94% for the selected period.
- Last close
- $290.91
- Period change
- -3.94%
- Period low
- $288.98
- Period high
- $304.76
Daily close
View OHLC price history
| Date | Open | High | Low | Close | Volume |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 17, 2026 | $292.81 | $293.065 | $290.91 | $290.91 | 531.64K |
| Sep 16, 2026 | $291.14 | $292.48 | $286.515 | $288.98 | 935.71K |
| Sep 15, 2026 | $292.25 | $292.885 | $290.0601 | $290.89 | 456.76K |
| Sep 14, 2026 | $291.61 | $293.67 | $291.427 | $292.37 | 447.45K |
| Sep 11, 2026 | $293.82 | $294.25 | $292.71 | $293.45 | 563.24K |
| Sep 10, 2026 | $292.29 | $293.3785 | $290.7001 | $291.18 | 660.65K |
| Sep 9, 2026 | $296.73 | $297.5018 | $293.93 | $294.09 | 405.24K |
| Sep 8, 2026 | $299.62 | $300.00 | $297.54 | $297.76 | 388.82K |
| Sep 4, 2026 | $298.48 | $300.67 | $298.17 | $300.01 | 302.28K |
| Sep 3, 2026 | $299.41 | $299.993 | $297.41 | $299.85 | 353.77K |
| Sep 2, 2026 | $296.19 | $298.19 | $296.00 | $297.68 | 425.66K |
| Sep 1, 2026 | $297.25 | $298.40 | $295.2586 | $295.90 | 491.62K |
| Aug 31, 2026 | $300.13 | $300.64 | $298.34 | $299.15 | 436.11K |
| Aug 28, 2026 | $304.77 | $305.1174 | $300.50 | $300.75 | 307.7K |
| Aug 27, 2026 | $304.35 | $304.88 | $303.29 | $304.28 | 806.85K |
| Aug 26, 2026 | $302.47 | $304.88 | $302.31 | $303.96 | 350.87K |
| Aug 25, 2026 | $304.26 | $304.514 | $302.13 | $303.01 | 453.41K |
| Aug 24, 2026 | $304.13 | $304.50 | $302.14 | $302.90 | 370.16K |
| Aug 21, 2026 | $304.45 | $305.11 | $303.59 | $304.76 | 460.93K |
| Aug 20, 2026 | $304.06 | $305.0854 | $302.59 | $302.83 | 433.26K |
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Company profile
The fund employs an indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the CRSP US Small Cap Index, a broadly diversified index of stocks of small U.S. companies. The advisor attempts to replicate the target index by investing all, or substantially all, of its assets in the stocks that make up the index, holding each stock in approximately the same proportion as its weighting in the index.
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Vanguard Small Cap Index Fund Stock Performance
Vanguard Small Cap Index Fund (VB) trades at $288.98, reflecting a 5.95% decline over the past month and a 2.53% decrease over the trailing three months, per SID market data. Despite near-term weakness, the fund has delivered a 13.89% return over the past twelve months. VB currently trades below its 50-day moving average of $299.52, indicating sustained short-term selling pressure, but remains above its 200-day moving average of $282.05, suggesting the longer-term uptrend has not been broken. The 14-day RSI reading of 27.9 places VB in oversold territory, a level that historically signals potential mean-reversion opportunities. The fund's beta of 1.23 confirms elevated volatility relative to the broader market. Average daily trading volume stands at approximately 716,736 shares, according to Massive/Polygon data, providing adequate liquidity for institutional positioning and orderly price discovery in current conditions.
Vanguard Small Cap Index Fund Valuation Analysis
Vanguard Small Cap Index Fund (VB) carries a market capitalization of approximately $167.75 billion, making it one of the largest small-cap index ETFs available to investors, per SID market data. The fund currently offers a dividend yield of 1.28%, providing a modest income component for total-return-oriented portfolios. As a passively managed index fund tracking small-cap U.S. equities, traditional single-stock valuation metrics such as price-to-earnings or price-to-book ratios are assessed at the portfolio level rather than the fund level. The fund is classified within the Financial Services sector for tracking purposes, according to SEC filings. With small-cap equities having underperformed large-cap counterparts in recent quarters, VB's current price level near its 200-day moving average of $282.05 reflects the broader valuation compression experienced across the small-cap universe amid shifting macroeconomic expectations and tightening financial conditions affecting smaller companies disproportionately.
Smart Money Activity for VB
Vanguard Small Cap Index Fund (VB) registers a composite smart money score of 58 out of 100 with a neutral overall signal, per SID market data. The institutional sub-score stands at a perfect 25 out of 25, reflecting maximum institutional participation and strong demand from large asset allocators, according to 13F institutional filings. Congressional trading activity scores 12 out of 25, indicating moderate engagement from lawmakers in small-cap exposure. The insider activity sub-score registers at 12.5 out of 25, a mid-range reading consistent with the ETF structure where traditional insider buying and selling dynamics differ from individual equities, per SEC Form 4 filings. Dark pool activity scores 8.5 out of 25, suggesting relatively limited off-exchange block trading relative to other comparable funds. The divergence between the maximum institutional score and below-average dark pool reading indicates that institutional accumulation is occurring primarily through lit exchanges rather than private venues, providing greater transparency into order flow patterns.
Vanguard Small Cap Index Fund Earnings Outlook
As a passively managed exchange-traded fund, Vanguard Small Cap Index Fund (VB) does not report corporate earnings in the traditional sense, and no recent earnings data is available for the fund itself, per company earnings reports. However, the fund's performance is directly tied to the aggregate earnings trajectory of its underlying small-cap holdings. VB's 5.95% one-month decline and oversold RSI of 27.9 suggest that market participants may be pricing in earnings deterioration across the small-cap universe. The fund's 1.28% dividend yield reflects the collective payout characteristics of its portfolio constituents. Investors monitoring VB's fundamental trajectory should track quarterly earnings trends across small-cap indices, including revenue growth rates and margin dynamics, per analyst estimates. The fund's 13.89% twelve-month return indicates that, despite recent pullbacks, the underlying earnings power of small-cap companies has supported positive total returns on an annualized basis.
Wall Street Analyst Ratings for VB
Vanguard Small Cap Index Fund (VB) is a passively managed ETF and does not receive traditional buy, hold, or sell ratings from Wall Street equity analysts, per SID consensus data. Analyst coverage of VB instead focuses on asset allocation recommendations and small-cap outlook assessments. The fund's current technical positioning provides notable context for strategists: VB trades 3.52% below its 50-day moving average of $299.52 while maintaining a 2.46% premium above its 200-day moving average of $282.05, according to Wall Street analyst reports. The RSI reading of 27.9 places the fund in deeply oversold territory, a condition that quantitative research desks frequently flag as a tactical entry signal. With a beta of 1.23, analysts note that VB amplifies broader market movements by approximately 23%, making position sizing a critical consideration. The fund's $167.75 billion market capitalization and average daily volume of 716,736 shares ensure sufficient liquidity for institutional-scale rebalancing activities.
