Vanguard Consumer Staples Index Fund Class Admiral Shares (VCSAX)

NASDAQ · Mutual Fund · Delayed Price · Currency is USD
106.99
+0.46 (0.43%)
Aug 1, 2025, 4:00 PM EDT
0.43%
Fund Assets8.94B
Expense Ratio0.10%
Min. Investment$100,000
Turnover9.00%
Dividend (ttm)2.43
Dividend Yield2.28%
Dividend Growth-5.57%
Payout FrequencyQuarterly
Ex-Dividend DateJun 26, 2025
Previous Close106.53
YTD Return3.23%
1-Year Return6.54%
5-Year Return54.11%
52-Week Low101.03
52-Week High111.50
Beta (5Y)0.69
Holdings108
Inception DateJan 30, 2004

About VCSAX

The fund employs an indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the MSCI US Investable Market Index/Consumer Staples 25/50, an index made up of stocks of large, mid-size, and small U.S. companies within the consumer staples sector, as classified under the Global Industry Classification Standard. The Advisor attempts to replicate the target index by seeking to invest all, or substantially all, of its assets in the stocks that make up the index, in order to hold each stock in approximately the same proportion as its weighting in the index. The fund is non-diversified.

Fund Family Vanguard
Category Consumer Defensive
Stock Exchange NASDAQ
Ticker Symbol VCSAX
Share Class Admiral Shares
Index MSCI USA Consumer Staples IMI 25/50 TR USD

Performance

VCSAX had a total return of 6.54% in the past year, including dividends. Since the fund's inception, the average annual return has been 9.39%.

Equivalent ETF

VCSAX has an equivalent ETF with the ticker symbol VDC, the Vanguard Consumer Staples ETF. This is an ETF from the same fund company that follows the same index. It has an expense ratio of 0.10% compared to 0.10% for VCSAX.

SymbolNameExpense Ratio
VDCVanguard Consumer Staples ETF0.10%

Top 10 Holdings

63.89% of assets
NameSymbolWeight
Costco Wholesale CorporationCOST13.04%
Walmart Inc.WMT12.29%
The Procter & Gamble CompanyPG11.05%
The Coca-Cola CompanyKO7.73%
Philip Morris International Inc.PM5.38%
PepsiCo, Inc.PEP4.04%
Altria Group, Inc.MO3.36%
Mondelez International, Inc.MDLZ2.97%
Colgate-Palmolive CompanyCL2.40%
Kimberly-Clark CorporationKMB1.64%
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Dividend History

Ex-DividendAmountPay Date
Jun 26, 2025$0.6126Jun 27, 2025
Mar 25, 2025$0.5747Mar 26, 2025
Dec 18, 2024$0.5952Dec 19, 2024
Sep 27, 2024$0.6501Sep 30, 2024
Jun 28, 2024$0.7598Jul 1, 2024
Mar 22, 2024$0.4254Mar 25, 2024
Full Dividend History