Vanguard U.S. Quality Factor ETF
$172.04−1.40 (−0.81%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.13%
- Fund size
- $507M
- 1Y return
- +15.1%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 1.04%
- Holdings
- 403
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $173.40
- 52W range
The ETF.net VFQY Grade
Score 69 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 96Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.BScore 66Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.CScore 47Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.DScore 31Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 85Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 75Category rank
Our read on VFQY
BVanguard's quality screen casts a wide net: it fishes the entire Russell 3000 for strong profits, sustainable earnings and clean balance sheets, and charges 0.13% for the work. Quality without the large-cap-only blinders.
The fund seeks long-term capital appreciation by primarily investing in U.S. common stocks selected for strong fundamentals, including profitability, sustainable earnings, and healthy balance sheets.
Why people hold it
- At 0.13% a year it undercuts most of the quality-factor field and sits alongside the cheapest names in it (JQUA, QUAL, FQAL).
- Starts from the Russell 3000 rather than a mega-cap list, so mid and smaller companies that clear the screens can make the cut. Roughly 400 stocks in the basket.investor.vanguard.com
- Quality is defined on several axes at once: profitability, sustainable earnings and healthy balance sheets, spelled out in the fund's own objective.investor.vanguard.com
- Running since 2018, it ranks among the stronger implementations in its quality-factor peer group. Distributions come quarterly.
Worth knowing
- Trades lightly next to the category's household names, which can show up as wider bid-ask spreads when you go to buy or sell.
- The wide net cuts both ways: mid and small-cap holdings can make it move differently from large-cap-only quality funds such as SPHQ.
- This is an advertised factor screen, not the market. The portfolio is built to look different from a plain US index, and it does.
VFQY Holdings
- Stocks
- 403
- 15%
- KLAC
Sectors
- Technology24.1%
- Financials20.1%
- Industrials17.8%
- Consumer Discr.13.1%
- Health Care9.8%
- Cons. Staples6.6%
- Materials3.4%
- Communication3.1%
- Energy2.0%
Geography
- United States93.65%
- Ireland1.93%
- Bermuda1.39%
- Sweden1.25%
- United Kingdom0.62%
- Puerto Rico0.55%
- Canada0.31%
- Switzerland0.20%
- 0.08%
VFQY 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 | VFQY |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +13.7% |
| 1 month | −2.7% |
| 3 months | +3.8% |
| 1 year | +15.1% |
| 3 years | +17.3% |
| 5 years | +9.2% |
| 10 years | — |
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 | VFQY |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +13.7% | |
| 2025 | +10.2% | |
| 2024 | +12.9% | |
| 2023 | +22.5% | |
| 2022 | −15.7% | |
| 2021 | +28.0% | |
| 2020 | +17.0% |
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VFQY Dividends
- 1.04%
- $1.80
- $0.44 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 23, 2026 | Pays Sep 25, 2026 | $0.38 |
| Jun 24, 2026 | Jun 26, 2026 | $0.44 |
| Mar 24, 2026 | Mar 26, 2026 | $0.45 |
| Dec 23, 2025 | Dec 26, 2025 | $0.50 |
| Sep 24, 2025 | Sep 26, 2025 | $0.41 |
| Jun 20, 2025 | Jun 24, 2025 | $0.45 |
| Mar 25, 2025 | Mar 27, 2025 | $0.44 |
| Dec 23, 2024 | Dec 26, 2024 | $0.53 |
| Sep 26, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 | $0.43 |
| Jun 27, 2024 | Jul 1, 2024 | $0.53 |
| Mar 21, 2024 | Mar 26, 2024 | $0.40 |
| Dec 19, 2023 | Dec 22, 2023 | $0.50 |
VFQY Risk
- 13.4%
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.
- 0.85
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.
- −25.9%
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.
- 0.97
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
VFQY Cost
- The middle half of US Quality Index funds
- Median 0.38%
1 of the 27 US Quality Index funds charge less.