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An ETF is a collection of hundreds or thousands of stocks or bonds, managed by experts, in a single fund that trades on major stock exchanges, like the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq.
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Investing in ETFs offers benefits you may not get from trading individual stocks and bonds on your own.
- Competitive, long-term returns
- Better prices for your trades
- Lower taxes
- Lower expense ratios
Over the past 10 years, 83% of Vanguard's ETFs® beat the returns of their peer-group averages.*
Of all Vanguard ETF Shares bought and sold with a Vanguard account, 98% of the trades were executed at a better price than the quoted market price.**
In the past 5 years, 85% of all Vanguard ETFs have had no taxable gains distributions.***
Our average ETF expense ratio is 75% less than the industry average.†
Investing in ETFs offers benefits you may not get from trading individual stocks and bonds on your own.
Over the past 10 years, 83% of Vanguard's ETFs® beat the returns of their peer-group averages.*
Of all Vanguard ETF Shares bought and sold with a Vanguard account, 98% of the trades were executed at a better price than the quoted market price.**
In the past 5 years, 85% of all Vanguard ETFs have had no taxable gains distributions.***
Our average ETF expense ratio is 75% less than the industry average.†
- Competitive, long-term returns
- Better prices for your trades
- Lower taxes
- Lower expense ratios
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For more information about Vanguard funds or ETFs, visit vanguard.com to obtain a prospectus or, if available, a summary prospectus. Investment objectives, risks, charges, expenses, and other important information about a fund are contained in the prospectus; read and consider it carefully before investing.
*For the 10-year period ended September 30, 2022, 43 of 52 Vanguard stock ETFs and 10 of 12 Vanguard bond ETFs—for a total of 53 of 64 Vanguard ETFs—outperformed their Lipper peer-group averages. Results will vary for other time periods. Only ETFs with a minimum 10-year history were included in the comparison. Source: Lipper, a Thomson Reuters Company. The competitive performance data shown represent past performance, which is not a guarantee of future results. View ETF performance
**Source: IHS Markit RegOne. Includes market orders entered from January 2, 2020, through December 31, 2020, during market hours with share sizes from 1 to 1,999. Excludes orders received during locked, crossed, or fast markets or during destination outages.
***Source: Morningstar, Inc., as of December 31, 2020.
†Vanguard average ETF expense ratio: 0.06%. Industry average ETF expense ratio: 0.24%. All averages are asset-weighted. Industry averages exclude Vanguard. Sources: Vanguard and Morningstar, Inc., as of December 31, 2021.
All investing is subject to risk, including the possible loss of the money you invest. Diversification does not ensure a profit or protect against a loss.
Morningstar designated 10 Vanguard ETFs as 5-star ETFs with risk-adjusted returns in the top 10% of their peer groups and 35 Vanguard ETFs as 4-star ETFs with risk-adjusted returns in the top third of their peer groups (September 30, 2022).
The Morningstar Rating™ for funds, or "star rating," is calculated for managed products (including mutual funds, variable annuity and variable life subaccounts, exchange-traded funds, closed-end funds, and separate accounts) with at least a three-year history. Exchange-traded funds and open-ended mutual funds are considered a single population for comparative purposes. It is calculated based on a Morningstar Risk-Adjusted Return measure that accounts for variation in a managed product's monthly excess performance, placing more emphasis on downward variations and rewarding consistent performance. The top 10% of products in each product category receive 5 stars, the next 22.5% receive 4 stars, the next 35% receive 3 stars, the next 22.5% receive 2 stars, and the bottom 10% receive 1 star.
The Overall Morningstar Rating for a managed product is derived from a weighted average of the performance figures associated with its three-, five-, and ten-year (if applicable) Morningstar Rating metrics. The weights are: 100% three-year rating for 36–59 months of total returns, 60% five-year rating/40% three-year rating for 60–119 months of total returns, and 50% ten-year rating/30% five-year rating/20% three-year rating for 120 or more months of total returns. While the ten-year overall star rating formula seems to give the most weight to the ten-year period, the most recent three-year period actually has the greatest impact because it is included in all three rating periods.
Vanguard Personal Advisor Services and Vanguard Digital Advisor's services are provided by Vanguard Advisers, Inc. ("VAI"), a federally registered investment advisor. VAI is a subsidiary of The Vanguard Group, Inc. (“VGI”), and an affiliate of Vanguard Marketing Corporation. Neither VGI, VAI, nor its affiliates guarantee profits or protection from losses.
You must buy and sell Vanguard ETF Shares through Vanguard Brokerage Services (we offer them commission-free) or through another broker (which may charge commissions). See the Vanguard Brokerage Services commission and fee schedule for full details. Vanguard ETF Shares are not redeemable directly with the issuing fund other than in very large aggregations worth millions of dollars. ETFs are subject to market volatility. When buying or selling an ETF, you will pay or receive the current market price, which may be more or less than net asset value.
Investments in stocks or bonds issued by non-U.S. companies are subject to risks including country/regional risk and currency risk.
Bond funds are subject to the risk that an issuer will fail to make payments on time, and that bond prices will decline because of rising interest rates or negative perceptions of an issuer's ability to make payments.
ESG funds are subject to ESG investment risk, which is the chance that the stocks or bonds screened by the index provider for ESG criteria generally will underperform the market as a whole or, in the aggregate, will trail returns of other funds screened for ESG criteria. The index provider’s assessment of a company, based on the company’s level of involvement in a particular industry or the index provider’s own ESG criteria, may differ from that of other funds or of the advisor’s or an investor’s assessment of such company. As a result, the companies deemed eligible by the index provider may not reflect the beliefs and values of any particular investor and may not exhibit positive or favorable ESG characteristics. The evaluation of companies for ESG screening or integration is dependent on the timely and accurate reporting of ESG data by the companies. Successful application of the screens will depend on the index provider’s proper indentation and analysis of ESG data.