Yahoo · Sep 16, 2026
Should You Invest in the Vanguard Utilities Index Fund ETF Shares (VPU)?
Sector ETF report for VPU
VP
NYSE · VPU
Vanguard Utilities Index Fund
Financial Services · Asset Management
$170.82
Down-$1.63 (-0.95%)
Updated Sep 25, 2026, 11:20 AM
SID Score
5.0/10
Composite research score
Smart Money
54/100
Neutral
- Market cap
- 10.38B
- P/E ratio
- —
- Dividend yield
- 2.90%
- 52-week range
- $170.76 – $206.10
- Volume
- 553.15K
- Avg. volume
- 173.08K
Price performance
VPU price history
1M range · 20 trading sessions · Daily adjusted prices
VPU closed at $170.82 after 20 trading sessions, down 8.53% for the selected period.
- Last close
- $170.82
- Period change
- -8.53%
- Period low
- $170.82
- Period high
- $188.09
Daily close
View OHLC price history
| Date | Open | High | Low | Close | Volume |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 24, 2026 | $172.74 | $172.81 | $170.76 | $170.82 | 553.15K |
| Sep 23, 2026 | $175.24 | $175.24 | $172.30 | $172.45 | 587.49K |
| Sep 22, 2026 | $177.29 | $178.22 | $176.621 | $176.86 | 253.26K |
| Sep 21, 2026 | $178.29 | $178.6699 | $177.26 | $177.38 | 275.72K |
| Sep 18, 2026 | $179.64 | $179.64 | $177.97 | $177.98 | 267.07K |
| Sep 17, 2026 | $179.87 | $180.80 | $179.08 | $180.43 | 226.66K |
| Sep 16, 2026 | $179.96 | $180.2724 | $178.20 | $178.95 | 370.51K |
| Sep 15, 2026 | $181.23 | $181.255 | $178.72 | $178.82 | 1.89M |
| Sep 14, 2026 | $183.21 | $183.362 | $180.565 | $180.77 | 294.8K |
| Sep 11, 2026 | $185.48 | $185.60 | $182.95 | $183.19 | 207.95K |
| Sep 10, 2026 | $185.98 | $187.01 | $183.93 | $184.01 | 349.24K |
| Sep 9, 2026 | $187.98 | $188.35 | $185.32 | $185.89 | 265.9K |
| Sep 8, 2026 | $186.30 | $189.10 | $186.30 | $188.09 | 363.87K |
| Sep 4, 2026 | $185.32 | $186.96 | $185.3127 | $186.35 | 225.18K |
| Sep 3, 2026 | $185.03 | $186.596 | $185.03 | $186.07 | 201.3K |
| Sep 2, 2026 | $183.71 | $184.78 | $181.99 | $184.65 | 307.26K |
| Sep 1, 2026 | $183.14 | $184.43 | $182.395 | $184.24 | 235.29K |
| Aug 31, 2026 | $181.91 | $183.5413 | $181.33 | $182.86 | 369.12K |
| Aug 28, 2026 | $187.39 | $187.6429 | $184.19 | $184.76 | 297.97K |
| Aug 27, 2026 | $187.09 | $187.12 | $185.685 | $186.74 | 265.6K |
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Overview
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Company profile
The fund employs an indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the MSCI US Investable Market Index (IMI)/Utilities 25/50, an index made up of stocks of large, mid-size, and small U.S. companies within the utilities sector, as classified under the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS). The Advisor attempts to replicate the target index by seeking to invest all, or substantially all, of its assets in the stocks that make up the index, in order to hold each stock in approximately the same proportion as its weighting in the index. The fund is non-diversified.
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