Vanguard Consumer Discretionary ETF
$372.28−5.56 (−1.47%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.09%
- Fund size
- $6.6B
- 1Y return
- −4.7%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 0.76%
- Holdings
- 293
- Volume · 30D
- 0.1M sh
- NAV per share
- $377.69
- 52W range
The ETF.net VCR Grade
Score 64 of 100 sits in the B band. Bands: A ≥ 70, B ≥ 55, C ≥ 40, D ≥ 25, F < 25; the scale skips E.
Cost
What you pay to own it — the expense ratio plus trading frictions, ranked within its category.AScore 86Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.Not scoredRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.CScore 46Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.CScore 43Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.CScore 52Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 84Category rank
Our read on VCR
BConsumer discretionary, the whole aisle. VCR tracks roughly 300 US retailers, carmakers, restaurants and travel names across large, mid and small caps for 0.09% a year, instead of stopping at the S&P 500's handful of giants.
The fund passively tracks an index representing U.S. consumer discretionary stocks, seeking to approximate the index through full replication when possible and sampling when required.
Why people hold it
- Costs 0.09% a year against a category median near 0.35%. In sector funds, where everyone owns roughly the same giants, that fee gap is the part you control.
- The index reaches past mega-caps into mid and small cap US consumer stocks, so homebuilders, specialty retailers and restaurant chains ride along too.advisors.vanguard.commsci.com
- Plain mechanics: full replication of its MSCI index where possible, sampling only where it isn't, with quarterly distributions. Same recipe since the 2004 launch.
- A multi-billion-dollar fund and one of the stronger builds in the consumer discretionary group, with tracking that stays close to the index it names.
Worth knowing
- Cap weighting rules the top: a few giants carry most of the basket despite about 300 names. Index rules cap any single issuer at 25%, which still leaves it top-heavy.msci.commsci.com
- One sector, and a cyclical one. These are the industries Vanguard describes as most sensitive to economic cycles, so the ride is bumpier than a total-market fund.advisors.vanguard.com
- XLY and FDIS come in a basis point lower at 0.08%. The cost race in this corner is now measured in rounding, not dollars.
VCR Holdings
- Stocks
- 293
- 56%
- AMZN
Geography
- United States96.73%
- Uruguay1.36%
- Switzerland1.07%
- Canada0.24%
- Sweden0.18%
- Bermuda0.16%
- Bahamas0.10%
- Israel0.08%
- 0.07%
VCR Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
Returns run to the Sep 22, 2026 close, with cash distributions reinvested. Each period starts on the same date that many months or years earlier. Periods over one year show the average yearly return.
| Period | VCR |
|---|---|
| Year to date | −3.7% |
| 1 month | −4.9% |
| 3 months | −2.2% |
| 1 year | −4.7% |
| 3 years | +12.8% |
| 5 years | +4.4% |
| 10 years | +12.9% |
Calendar-year total return with cash distributions hypothetically reinvested at the ex-dividend date’s closing price. The current year shows year to date.
| Year | Return bar | VCR |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | −3.7% | |
| 2025 | +5.8% | |
| 2024 | +24.3% | |
| 2023 | +40.4% | |
| 2022 | −35.2% | |
| 2021 | +24.9% | |
| 2020 | +48.3% |
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VCR Dividends
- 0.76%
- $2.87
- $0.71 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 23, 2026 | Pays Sep 25, 2026 | $0.82 |
| Jun 24, 2026 | Jun 26, 2026 | $0.71 |
| Mar 24, 2026 | Mar 26, 2026 | $0.72 |
| Dec 17, 2025 | Dec 19, 2025 | $0.75 |
| Sep 24, 2025 | Sep 26, 2025 | $0.69 |
| Jun 26, 2025 | Jun 30, 2025 | $0.70 |
| Mar 25, 2025 | Mar 27, 2025 | $0.77 |
| Dec 18, 2024 | Dec 20, 2024 | $0.66 |
| Sep 27, 2024 | Oct 1, 2024 | $0.82 |
| Jun 28, 2024 | Jul 2, 2024 | $0.67 |
| Mar 22, 2024 | Mar 27, 2024 | $0.64 |
| Dec 19, 2023 | Dec 22, 2023 | $0.59 |
VCR Risk
- 18.4%
How it’s calculated: standard deviation
The sample standard deviation of monthly total returns, multiplied by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Total returns include reinvested distributions.
- 0.45
How it’s calculated: Sharpe ratio
Subtract each month’s Treasury-bill return from the fund’s monthly total return.
Divide the average of those excess returns by their sample standard deviation, then multiply by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Each month uses the Treasury yield quoted at the end of the previous month.
- −39.2%
How it’s calculated: maximum drawdown
The largest percentage decline from an earlier peak, using total returns with reinvested distributions.
Uses up to five years through the last close, with at least 12 months required.
- 1.24
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
VCR Cost
- The middle half of Consumer Discretionary (Broad) funds
- Median 0.35%
2 of the 14 Consumer Discretionary (Broad) funds charge less.