Vanguard Industrials ETF

What this fund is

Vanguard Industrials ETF is an exchange-traded fund (ETF) from Vanguard, traded under the ticker VIS (ISIN US92204A6038). In a single purchase you get a diversified basket of holdings rather than a stake in just one business. At its core it is a focused, thematic fund: it concentrates on the industrials 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 Industrials 25/50 Index index — the passive, low-cost approach, and its largest holdings include Caterpillar Inc., General Electric Co. and GE Vernova LLC. It holds around 397 positions (the ten largest ≈ 30.1%), spreading risk so no single holding decides your outcome. Its biggest country exposures are ~92.8% United States, ~5.5% Ireland and ~0.5% Canada. Its heaviest sectors are ~99.4% Industrials and ~0.1% Consumer Discretionary. 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 17.6% over the past year, which describes how much its price tends to move rather than whether it is good. As with any investment, its value can go down as well as up, and past performance is not a guide to future results. (Fund data sourced from Vanguard.)