Vanguard Communication Services ETF
$193.55−2.04 (−1.04%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.09%
- Fund size
- $5.9B
- 1Y return
- +3.4%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 1.00%
- Holdings
- 116
- Volume · 30D
- 0.3M sh
- NAV per share
- $195.53
- 52W range
The ETF.net VOX Grade
Score 63 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 76Category 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 47Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.CScore 54Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 56Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 87Category rank
Our read on VOX
BCommunication services across the whole cap range, not just the S&P 500 slice: Vanguard's index reaches down into mid- and small-cap media and telecom, roughly 120 names, at nine basis points. Running since 2004.
The fund seeks to track a benchmark index measuring the investment return of communication-services stocks.
Why people hold it
- 0.09% a year, a basis point off the cheapest rivals (XLC, FCOM) and well under the 0.37% median for this group of funds.
- Tracks an MSCI investable-market index: large, mid and small caps, roughly 120 stocks. S&P 500-based rivals like XLC start and stop at large caps.advisors.vanguard.comssga.com
- Full replication where possible, holding each stock at about its index weight, with sampling used only if regulatory limits get in the way.investor.vanguard.com
Worth knowing
- The sector is top-heavy, so the index applies RIC caps: no issuer above 25%, and all issuers over 5% capped at 50% combined. A few giants still set the pace.msci.com
- A single US sector and a non-diversified fund, so it rides media, entertainment and telecom rather than the broad market. Distributions come quarterly.fund-docs.vanguard.com
VOX Holdings
- Stocks
- 116
- 69%
- META
Geography
- United States99.53%
- Canada0.28%
- Bermuda0.19%
VOX Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
VOX$10,337
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 | VOX |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +1.5% |
| 1 month | +5.2% |
| 3 months | +7.5% |
| 1 year | +3.4% |
| 3 years | +24.2% |
| 5 years | +7.5% |
| 10 years | +9.1% |
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 | VOX |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +1.5% | |
| 2025 | +26.3% | |
| 2024 | +33.1% | |
| 2023 | +44.8% | |
| 2022 | −38.8% | |
| 2021 | +13.8% | |
| 2020 | +29.1% |
VOX in the news
VOX Dividends
- 1.00%
- $1.96
- $0.45 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 23, 2026 | Pays Sep 25, 2026 | $0.36 |
| Jun 24, 2026 | Jun 26, 2026 | $0.45 |
| Mar 24, 2026 | Mar 26, 2026 | $0.44 |
| Dec 17, 2025 | Dec 19, 2025 | $0.62 |
| Sep 24, 2025 | Sep 26, 2025 | $0.45 |
| Jun 26, 2025 | Jun 30, 2025 | $0.38 |
| Mar 25, 2025 | Mar 27, 2025 | $0.38 |
| Dec 18, 2024 | Dec 20, 2024 | $0.46 |
| Sep 27, 2024 | Oct 1, 2024 | $0.53 |
| Jun 28, 2024 | Jul 2, 2024 | $0.32 |
| Mar 22, 2024 | Mar 27, 2024 | $0.32 |
| Dec 19, 2023 | Dec 22, 2023 | $0.29 |
VOX Risk
- 15.2%
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.
- 1.03
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.
- −45.1%
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.
- 1.06
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
VOX Cost
0.09%
VOX0.09%
- The middle half of Communication Services (Broad) funds
- Median 0.35%
2 of the 9 Communication Services (Broad) funds charge less.