Vanguard Extended Market ETF
$236.07−2.65 (−1.11%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.05%
- Fund size
- $95.4B
- 1Y return
- +13.5%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 1.02%
- Holdings
- 3445
- Volume · 30D
- 0.4M sh
- NAV per share
- $238.70
- 52W range
The ETF.net VXF Grade
Score 78 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.AScore 99Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.DScore 27Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 59Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 86Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 95Category rank
Our read on VXF
AEverything the S&P 500 leaves out. VXF tracks the S&P Completion Index, roughly 3,400 US mid- and small-cap names, and a company promoted into the 500 gets dropped from here. The classic completion half of a large-cap core.
The fund seeks to track the investment performance of the S&P Completion Index, an unmanaged benchmark representing U.S. mid- and small-capitalization stocks.
Why people hold it
- Costs 0.05% a year, against a 0.45% median for its index-fund peer group. Vanguard has run it since 2001.
- One ticker for the US market outside the S&P 500, about 3,400 stocks. Zero overlap by construction: index rules remove a company from the Completion Index as soon as the S&P 500 adds it.spglobal.com
- Index-tracking discipline sits among the strongest in its peer group, and it is a multi-billion-dollar fund with steady daily volume. Distributions land quarterly.
Worth knowing
- Mid- and small-cap stocks swing harder than blue chips, and this index reaches well down the size scale. A bumpier ride than an S&P 500 fund.
- It owns none of the S&P 500 by design, so on its own it is a slice of the US market rather than the whole thing.spglobal.com
- A few funds in the same peer group run cheaper still (SCHK at 0.03%, SPYV at 0.04%), though they track different slices of the market.
VXF Holdings
- Stocks
- 3,445
- 9%
- SLCMT1142
Sectors
- Technology20.5%
- Industrials17.1%
- Health Care15.1%
- Financials14.9%
- Consumer Discr.8.8%
- Real Estate5.9%
- Energy5.4%
- Materials5.2%
- Cons. Staples2.8%
- Communication2.6%
- Utilities1.8%
Geography
- United States96.95%
- United Kingdom0.73%
- Bermuda0.65%
- Cayman Islands0.63%
- Ireland0.34%
- Puerto Rico0.25%
- Switzerland0.18%
- Sweden0.10%
- 0.17%
VXF Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
VXF$11,352
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 | VXF |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +14.8% |
| 1 month | −2.8% |
| 3 months | −0.7% |
| 1 year | +13.5% |
| 3 years | +20.1% |
| 5 years | +6.3% |
| 10 years | +11.4% |
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 | VXF |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +14.8% | |
| 2025 | +11.4% | |
| 2024 | +16.9% | |
| 2023 | +25.5% | |
| 2022 | −26.5% | |
| 2021 | +12.3% | |
| 2020 | +32.4% |
VXF in the news
VXF Dividends
- 1.02%
- $2.44
- $0.56 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 23, 2026 | Pays Sep 25, 2026 | $0.56 |
| Jun 24, 2026 | Jun 26, 2026 | $0.56 |
| Mar 24, 2026 | Mar 26, 2026 | $0.65 |
| Dec 22, 2025 | Dec 24, 2025 | $0.66 |
| Sep 24, 2025 | Sep 26, 2025 | $0.58 |
| Jun 26, 2025 | Jun 30, 2025 | $0.53 |
| Mar 25, 2025 | Mar 27, 2025 | $0.61 |
| Dec 23, 2024 | Dec 26, 2024 | $0.58 |
| Sep 27, 2024 | Oct 1, 2024 | $0.49 |
| Jun 28, 2024 | Jul 2, 2024 | $0.55 |
| Mar 22, 2024 | Mar 27, 2024 | $0.46 |
| Dec 20, 2023 | Dec 26, 2023 | $0.68 |
VXF Risk
- 18.3%
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.
- 0.77
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.
- −36.4%
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.
- 1.13
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
VXF Cost
0.05%
VXF0.05%
- The middle half of Other Major Indexes funds
- Median 0.29%
3 of the 42 Other Major Indexes funds charge less.