Vanguard Consumer Staples ETF

What this fund is

Vanguard Consumer Staples ETF is an exchange-traded fund (ETF) from Vanguard, traded under the ticker VDC (ISIN US92204A2078). It lets you buy a basket of holdings in a single trade, spreading your money across them rather than one company. At its core it is a focused, thematic fund: it concentrates on the consumer staples part of the market, so it lives or dies by that one area rather than the economy as a whole. Underneath, it is about owning small slices of companies, so you share in their growth when they do well — and their falls when they don't. Rather than a manager picking stocks, it simply replicates the Spliced U.S.

Investable Market Consumer Staples 25/50 Index index — the passive, low-cost approach, and its largest holdings include Walmart Inc., Costco Wholesale Corp. and Procter & Gamble Co.. It holds around 103 positions (the ten largest ≈ 63%), spreading risk so no single holding decides your outcome. Its biggest country exposures are ~98.5% United States, ~0.7% Switzerland and ~0.3% Cayman Islands. By industry it concentrates most in ~99% Consumer Staples. A focused fund like this is typically held as a smaller 'satellite' position around a broader core — a way to lean into one theme, not usually a portfolio's only holding.

Its ongoing charge (TER) is 0.09% a year — about €9 a year on a €10,000 holding, taken automatically from the fund. It holds the underlying investments directly (physical replication); it is domiciled in the United States and trades in USD. Its price has swung about 13.1% over the past year, which describes how much its price tends to move rather than whether it is good. Like any investment, it can lose value as well as gain, and what it did before does not predict what it will do next. (Fund data sourced from Vanguard.)