Vanguard Small Capitalization Index Fund Investor Shares (NAESX)

NASDAQ · Mutual Fund · Delayed Price · Currency is USD
116.70
+1.38 (1.20%)
Jul 18, 2025, 8:09 AM EDT
5.29%
Fund Assets147.56B
Expense Ratio0.17%
Min. Investment$3,000
Turnover13.00%
Dividend (ttm)1.45
Dividend Yield1.24%
Dividend Growth-1.63%
Payout FrequencyQuarterly
Ex-Dividend Daten/a
Previous Close115.32
YTD Return1.65%
1-Year Return5.97%
5-Year Return72.81%
52-Week Low92.85
52-Week High125.16
Beta (5Y)1.17
Holdings1355
Inception DateOct 3, 1960

About NAESX

The fund employs an indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the CRSP US Small Cap Index, a broadly diversified index of stocks of small U.S. companies. The advisor attempts to replicate the target index by investing all, or substantially all, of its assets in the stocks that make up the index, holding each stock in approximately the same proportion as its weighting in the index.

Fund Family Vanguard
Category Small Blend
Stock Exchange NASDAQ
Ticker Symbol NAESX
Share Class Investor Shares
Index CRSP US Small Cap TR

Performance

NAESX had a total return of 5.97% in the past year, including dividends. Since the fund's inception, the average annual return has been 9.02%.

Equivalent ETF

NAESX has an equivalent ETF with the ticker symbol VB, the Vanguard Small-Cap ETF. This is an ETF from the same fund company that follows the same index. It has an expense ratio of 0.05% compared to 0.17% for NAESX.

SymbolNameExpense Ratio
VBVanguard Small-Cap ETF0.05%

Other Share Classes

These are alternative share classes of the same fund, from the same provider.

SymbolShare ClassExpense Ratio
VSCPXInstitutional Plus Shares0.03%
VSCIXInstitutional Shares0.04%
VSMAXAdmiral Shares0.05%

Top 10 Holdings

4.47% of assets
NameSymbolWeight
Slcmt1142n/a1.00%
NRG Energy, Inc.NRG0.52%
Expand Energy CorporationEXE0.43%
Atmos Energy CorporationATO0.42%
Smurfit Westrock PlcSW0.38%
EMCOR Group, Inc.EME0.36%
Formula One GroupFWONK0.35%
Williams-Sonoma, Inc.WSM0.34%
Toast, Inc.TOST0.34%
Natera, Inc.NTRA0.33%
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Dividend History

Ex-DividendAmountPay Date
Jun 30, 2025$0.3434Jul 1, 2025
Mar 27, 2025$0.4024Mar 28, 2025
Dec 23, 2024$0.3997Dec 24, 2024
Sep 27, 2024$0.3046Sep 30, 2024
Jun 28, 2024$0.3717Jul 1, 2024
Mar 22, 2024$0.2912Mar 25, 2024
Full Dividend History