Summary
Vanguard 500 Index Fund is a mutual fund. It does not trade on an exchange: you buy it from the fund company at a price set once a day. Positions inside: 508. The ten largest make up 39% of the fund.
- Positions
- 508
- Dividend yield
- 0.92%
What speaks for it
- Average yearly growth over the last ten years: 14%.
What to watch
Nothing here calls for caution.
A fund has no Bulios Score and no Fair Price of its own - both are computed from the results of a single company. This page shows what is inside the fund and what it costs instead.
Price
Performance
- 1 month
- -0.1%
- 3 months
- +2.7%
- This year
- +12%
- 1 year
- +15%
- 3 years
- +79%
- 5 years
- +69%
- 10 years
- +257%
- Avg. market cap
- $2.52T
- P/E
- 26.5x
- Forward P/E
- 24.5x
- P/S
- 6.3x
- P/B
- 7.8x
- P/FCF
- 35.0x
- EV/EBITDA
- 20.0x
- Dividend yield
- 0.66%
- ROIC
- 28.2%
- ROE
- 60.4%
- Gross margin
- 59.5%
- Operating margin
- 35.2%
- Net margin
- 33.4%
- Payout ratio
- 17.5%
- Net debt/EBITDA
- 0.5x
- Beta
- 1.01
Weighted average of the 50 largest companies, which make up 64% of the fund. Banks and insurers are left out of the gross margin, the ROIC and the EBITDA figures.
What is inside?
Moderately concentrated- 1 NVNvidia NVDA 8.4%
- 2 AAApple AAPL 7.4%
- 3 MSMicrosoft MSFT 5.8%
- 4 AMAmazon AMZN 3.7%
- 5 GOAlphabet GOOGL 3.1%
- 6 AVBroadcom AVGO 2.5%
- 7 GOAlphabet GOOG 2.5%
- 8 MEMeta META 2.4%
- 9 MUMicron MU 1.8%
- 10 TSTesla TSLA 1.5%
Positions in the fund: 508. The ten largest make up 39% of it.
Composition as of Oct 18, 2026.
Where is it spread?
By company size
- Mega cap 66%
- Large cap 34%
- Mid cap 0.2%
By the company's market value: Mega cap from $200B, Large cap from $10B, Mid cap from $2B, Small cap from $300M, Micro cap below $300M.
Largest size group: Mega cap (66%).
What does it cost me?
We do not know the costs of this fund.
How has it done?
Growing over the long run- A year on average, 10 years
- +14%
- Deepest drop
- -25%
- Yearly volatility
- 13%
Average yearly growth over the last ten years: 14%. Deepest drop in these years: 25% below the earlier high.
Does it pay dividends?
Yes, it pays out- Yield
- 0.92%
- Payments a year
- 4
- Last payment
- $1.64
Over the last 12 months it paid $6.54 per share, which is 0.92% of today's price. The last payment was $1.64 on Sep 28, 2026.
How expensive are the companies inside?
Rather expensive- P/E of the companies inside
- 26.5
- Average Bulios Score
- 73 out of 100
Weight by Bulios Fair Price
- Undervalued 10%
- Fairly valued 5.1%
- Overvalued 85%
On average the companies inside trade for 26.5 times their yearly profit. By Fair Price, 85% of the rated weight comes out as overvalued.
Counted from its largest companies (50), which make up 64% of the fund. Each company counts by its weight. We use the metrics, the Bulios Score and the Fair Price of the companies themselves.
Can I buy it as an ETF?
A mutual fund is bought from the fund company. These ETFs hold much of the same and trade on an exchange, so an ordinary broker carries them.
| Fund | Domicile | Size | 1-year change | Dividends | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
VO VOO Vanguard 500 Index Fund | United States | 0.03% | $1.70T | +15% | Pays out | 100% |
VS VSP.TO Vanguard S&P 500 Index ETF (CAD-hedged) | Canada | 0.08% | $4.47B | +13% | Pays out | 100% |
VU VUAA.DE Vanguard S&P 500 UCITS ETF (USD) Accumulating | Ireland | 0.07% | $88.7B | +22% | Pays out | 100% |
VU VUSA.MI Vanguard S&P 500 UCITS ETF (USD) Distributing | Ireland | 0.07% | $88.7B | +21% | Pays out | 100% |
VN VNGDF Vanguard S&P 500 UCITS ETF (USD) Distributing | Ireland | 0.07% | $88.3B | +17% | Pays out | 100% |
VU VUSA.DE Vanguard S&P 500 UCITS ETF (USD) Distributing | Ireland | 0.07% | $88.7B | +21% | Pays out | 100% |
