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NYSE · VTI

Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF

Financial Services · Asset Management

$373.01

Up+$2.58 (+0.69%)

Updated Oct 27, 2026, 12:28 AM

SID Score

6.4/10

Composite research score

Smart Money

58/100

Neutral

Market cap
278.12B
P/E ratio
—
Dividend yield
1.00%
52-week range
$310.40 – $385.12
Volume
3.08M
Avg. volume
4.04M

Price performance · VTI

VTI price history

1M range · 20 trading sessions · Daily adjusted prices

Prices through Oct 23, 2026

VTI closed at $373.01 after 20 trading sessions, down 0.75% for the selected period.

Last close
$373.01
Period change
-0.75%
Period low
$373.01
Period high
$382.54
Daily close
View OHLC price history
VTI OHLC price history, latest 40 sessions
DateOpenHighLowCloseVolume
Oct 23, 2026$373.00$374.695$372.18$373.013.08M
Oct 22, 2026$375.95$376.63$373.55$374.903.15M
Oct 21, 2026$378.34$379.90$377.0601$379.152.64M
Oct 20, 2026$375.31$378.71$374.59$377.092.29M
Oct 19, 2026$376.17$377.48$375.175$375.542.84M
Oct 16, 2026$379.20$379.42$372.735$374.073.21M
Oct 15, 2026$375.45$378.85$374.45$378.422.81M
Oct 14, 2026$379.64$380.36$375.505$376.883.26M
Oct 13, 2026$381.33$381.9019$380.30$381.322.46M
Oct 12, 2026$382.14$382.30$381.085$381.571.95M
Oct 9, 2026$380.92$382.445$380.22$381.942.69M
Oct 8, 2026$379.95$380.97$377.87$379.563.1M
Oct 7, 2026$380.60$381.46$379.385$381.032.74M
Oct 6, 2026$382.19$383.85$382.00$382.543.04M
Oct 5, 2026$378.075$381.56$378.05$380.603.05M
Oct 2, 2026$378.48$379.61$376.92$377.992.95M
Oct 1, 2026$375.36$375.98$372.59$375.185.19M
Sep 30, 2026$376.31$377.685$374.19$374.244.45M
Sep 29, 2026$376.70$376.82$374.2212$375.263.23M
Sep 28, 2026$377.25$377.85$375.005$375.843.94M

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VTI research

Overview

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Company profile

The fund employs an indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the index, which represents approximately 100% of the investable U.S. stock market and includes large-, mid-, small-, and micro-cap stocks. It invests by sampling the index, meaning that it holds a broadly diversified collection of securities that, in the aggregate, approximates the full index in terms of key characteristics.

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Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF (VTI) Stock Performance

Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF has delivered a 11.78% return over the trailing twelve months, per SID market data, though shorter-term momentum has softened. Over the past month, VTI declined 1.34%, while the three-month return stands at a positive 2.14%, suggesting a recent pullback within a broader uptrend. The fund currently trades at $373.01, sitting below its 50-day moving average of $377.82 but well above its 200-day moving average of $358.41, per Massive/Polygon data. This positioning between key moving averages indicates near-term weakness against a longer-term constructive backdrop. The 14-day RSI reads 37.1, placing VTI closer to oversold territory and reflecting the recent selling pressure. Average daily volume stands at approximately 4.04 million shares, indicating robust liquidity. The ETF carries a beta of 1.04, confirming its role as a near-perfect proxy for total U.S. equity market exposure.

Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF (VTI) Valuation Analysis

As a broad-market index ETF tracking the CRSP US Total Market Index, VTI's valuation reflects the aggregate characteristics of the entire U.S. equity market. The fund currently offers a dividend yield of 1.1%, per SID market data, providing a modest income component alongside capital appreciation potential. With total net assets contributing to an implied market capitalization of approximately $278.1 billion, according to SEC filings, VTI ranks among the largest exchange-traded funds globally. The fund's comprehensive approach encompasses large-, mid-, small-, and micro-cap stocks, making its valuation a weighted composite of thousands of underlying holdings. Given its passive indexing strategy, VTI does not carry individual security valuation risk but instead mirrors the prevailing market-wide price-to-earnings and price-to-book multiples. The current dividend yield sits modestly below long-term historical averages for broad U.S. equity indices, consistent with elevated aggregate equity valuations.

Smart Money Activity for VTI

VTI's composite smart money score stands at 58 out of 100, registering a neutral signal according to SID market data. The sub-component breakdown reveals a notably strong institutional score of 25 out of 25, reflecting maximum confidence from large asset managers, pension funds, and advisory firms that utilize VTI as a core portfolio building block, per 13F institutional filings. The insider component scores 12.5 out of 25, which for an ETF primarily reflects activity among Vanguard-affiliated executives rather than traditional corporate insider transactions, per SEC Form 4 filings. The congressional trading score registers at 12 out of 25, indicating moderate activity among U.S. lawmakers holding or transacting in VTI. Dark pool activity scores a relatively low 8.7 out of 25, suggesting limited off-exchange institutional block trading relative to the fund's substantial public market volume. The combination of perfect institutional conviction with subdued dark pool flow characterizes VTI's current smart money profile as stable but not aggressively bullish.

Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF (VTI) Earnings Outlook

As a passively managed exchange-traded fund, VTI does not report corporate earnings in the traditional sense, and no recent earnings data is available per company earnings reports. Instead, the fund's performance is driven by the aggregate earnings of its thousands of underlying holdings spanning the entire U.S. equity market. VTI currently yields 1.1% in dividends, which reflects the blended payout of constituent companies. Distributions are passed through to shareholders and are influenced by the earnings health of major index components across all market capitalizations. Investors tracking VTI's fundamental trajectory typically monitor the aggregate earnings growth of the CRSP US Total Market Index constituents. The fund's recent one-year return of 11.78%, per SID market data, suggests that underlying corporate earnings and market sentiment have been broadly supportive. Future distribution levels will depend on dividend actions taken by the fund's individual portfolio companies throughout upcoming quarterly reporting cycles.

Wall Street Analyst Ratings for VTI

As a broad-market index ETF, VTI does not carry traditional buy, hold, or sell ratings from Wall Street equity analysts, per SID consensus data. Instead, the fund is evaluated by ETF research teams and fund rating agencies on metrics such as expense ratio, tracking error, liquidity, and tax efficiency. VTI consistently receives top-tier designations from major fund evaluation platforms due to its ultra-low cost structure and comprehensive market coverage. The fund's beta of 1.04, per Wall Street analyst reports, confirms near-perfect correlation with the total U.S. stock market, making it a benchmark-level holding rather than an alpha-generating position. With average daily trading volume of approximately 4.04 million shares, analysts frequently cite VTI's superior liquidity as a key advantage over competing total market products. The ETF's $278.1 billion asset base further reinforces its structural stability and minimizes concerns about fund closure or capacity constraints that sometimes affect smaller competing vehicles.