Vanguard Industrials ETF
$327.88−0.20 (−0.06%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.09%
- Fund size
- $8.6B
- 1Y return
- +12.1%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 0.94%
- Holdings
- 387
- Volume · 30D
- 0.1M sh
- NAV per share
- $328.13
- 52W range
The ETF.net VIS Grade
Score 65 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 72Category 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.BScore 59Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.CScore 53Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 63Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 83Category rank
Our read on VIS
BIndustrials, the whole aisle: jet engines and railroads down to small-cap machinery shops, roughly 400 names for 0.09% a year. Vanguard has run it as a straight index fund since 2004.
The fund seeks to track the MSCI US Investable Market Industrials 25/50 Index and invests in multicapitalization equities focused on the industrials sector.
Why people hold it
- 0.09% a year against a 0.38% median for broad industrials funds. Index-fund pricing for index-fund work.
- About 400 holdings spanning large, mid and small US industrials, so defense primes and railroads sit next to smaller machinery and services names.advisors.vanguard.com
- Pure index mandate: it follows the MSCI US Investable Market Industrials 25/50 Index and has tracked it very tightly, with no manager stock-picking layered on.
- One of the strongest implementations in the broad US industrials group, a multi-billion-dollar fund trading since 2004 and paying quarterly.
Worth knowing
- One sector, one cycle. Industrials ride capital spending and freight demand, so this tends to move as a block rather than smooth anything out.
- The small- and mid-cap tail is part of the design, and it adds bumpiness a large-cap-only sector fund would not carry.advisors.vanguard.com
- Not the price floor in the group: XLI and FIDU both list 0.08%. One basis point, but worth knowing.
VIS Holdings
- Stocks
- 387
- 31%
- CAT
Sectors
- Industrials89.2%
- Technology6.3%
- Materials3.5%
- Consumer Discr.0.5%
- Financials0.2%
- Energy0.2%
- Utilities0.0%
- Health Care0.0%
- Cons. Staples0.0%
Geography
- United States93.67%
- Ireland5.10%
- United Kingdom0.65%
- Canada0.54%
- Puerto Rico0.02%
- Switzerland0.01%
VIS 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 | VIS |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +10.5% |
| 1 month | −5.1% |
| 3 months | −7.6% |
| 1 year | +12.1% |
| 3 years | +20.2% |
| 5 years | +12.9% |
| 10 years | +13.1% |
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 | VIS |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +10.5% | |
| 2025 | +18.6% | |
| 2024 | +16.9% | |
| 2023 | +22.5% | |
| 2022 | −8.6% | |
| 2021 | +20.8% | |
| 2020 | +12.3% |
VIS in the news
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VIS Dividends
- 0.94%
- $3.09
- $0.76 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 23, 2026 | Pays Sep 25, 2026 | $0.70 |
| Jun 24, 2026 | Jun 26, 2026 | $0.76 |
| Mar 24, 2026 | Mar 26, 2026 | $0.79 |
| Dec 17, 2025 | Dec 19, 2025 | $0.81 |
| Sep 24, 2025 | Sep 26, 2025 | $0.73 |
| Jun 26, 2025 | Jun 30, 2025 | $0.71 |
| Mar 25, 2025 | Mar 27, 2025 | $0.77 |
| Dec 18, 2024 | Dec 20, 2024 | $0.97 |
| Sep 27, 2024 | Oct 1, 2024 | $0.75 |
| Jun 28, 2024 | Jul 2, 2024 | $0.79 |
| Mar 22, 2024 | Mar 27, 2024 | $0.62 |
| Dec 19, 2023 | Dec 22, 2023 | $1.02 |
VIS Risk
- 17.4%
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.
- 0.82
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.
- −23.0%
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.
- 1.05
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
VIS Cost
- The middle half of Industrials (Broad) funds
- Median 0.33%
2 of the 10 Industrials (Broad) funds charge less.