Vanguard Energy ETF
$174.94+0.60 (+0.34%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.09%
- Fund size
- $13.2B
- 1Y return
- +43.9%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 2.31%
- Holdings
- 112
- Volume · 30D
- 0.6M sh
- NAV per share
- $174.30
- 52W range
The ETF.net VDE Grade
Score 70 of 100 sits in the A 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 92Category 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 44Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 62Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.CScore 49Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 91Category rank
Our read on VDE
AEnergy without the mega-cap tunnel vision. VDE tracks an index of roughly 110 US energy stocks, large down to small cap, for 0.09% a year, and it has been running since 2004.
The fund seeks to track the MSCI US Investable Market Energy 25/50 Index, which represents large-, mid-, and small-cap U.S. energy-sector stocks.
Why people hold it
- Costs 0.09% a year, a fraction of what the typical energy sector fund charges.
- Casts a wider net than mega-cap-only energy funds: about 110 large-, mid- and small-cap US names, from the integrated majors to shale drillers and refiners.investor.vanguard.com
- Hugs its benchmark closely and trades actively, which tends to keep spreads slim for everyday buys and sells.
- Live since 2004 and one of the strongest builds in the broad energy group, with a Vanguard fee structure that has only ratcheted downward.
Worth knowing
- One sector, one storyline: this rides crude and natural gas prices, and it swings harder in both directions than a total-market fund.
- Cap-weighted, so a handful of US oil majors carry outsized weight despite the long holdings list; the index's 25/50 rules limit that concentration rather than erase it.investor.vanguard.com
- Income arrives quarterly, not monthly, and moves with what energy companies choose to pay out.
VDE Holdings
- Stocks
- 112
- 66%
- XOM
Sectors
- Energy99.5%
- Materials0.4%
- Industrials0.1%
Geography
- United States99.32%
- Bermuda0.44%
- Switzerland0.24%
VDE Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
VDE$14,391
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 | VDE |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +40.2% |
| 1 month | −2.9% |
| 3 months | +14.2% |
| 1 year | +43.9% |
| 3 years | +14.9% |
| 5 years | +24.4% |
| 10 years | +10.0% |
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 | VDE |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +40.2% | |
| 2025 | +7.1% | |
| 2024 | +6.8% | |
| 2023 | +0.0% | |
| 2022 | +62.9% | |
| 2021 | +56.2% | |
| 2020 | −33.1% |
VDE in the news
VDE Dividends
- 2.31%
- $4.03
- $1.03 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 23, 2026 | Pays Sep 25, 2026 | $1.05 |
| Jun 24, 2026 | Jun 26, 2026 | $1.03 |
| Mar 24, 2026 | Mar 26, 2026 | $0.97 |
| Dec 17, 2025 | Dec 19, 2025 | $1.03 |
| Sep 24, 2025 | Sep 26, 2025 | $1.00 |
| Jun 26, 2025 | Jun 30, 2025 | $0.93 |
| Mar 25, 2025 | Mar 27, 2025 | $0.95 |
| Dec 18, 2024 | Dec 20, 2024 | $0.97 |
| Sep 27, 2024 | Oct 1, 2024 | $1.05 |
| Jun 28, 2024 | Jul 2, 2024 | $0.95 |
| Mar 22, 2024 | Mar 27, 2024 | $0.96 |
| Dec 19, 2023 | Dec 22, 2023 | $1.06 |
VDE Risk
- 20.2%
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.
- 0.63
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.
- −26.6%
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.
- −0.01
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
VDE Cost
0.09%
VDE0.09%
- The middle half of Energy (Broad) funds
- Median 0.46%
2 of the 24 Energy (Broad) funds charge less.