Summary
Vanguard U.S. Quality Factor ETF is an ETF - a fund traded on an exchange like a stock - run by Vanguard. Positions inside: 442. The ten largest make up 15% of the fund.
- Yearly costs
- 0.13%
- Fund size
- $493.3M
- Positions
- 442
- Dividend yield
- 1.00%
- Running since
- 2018
What speaks for it
- Costs of 0.13% a year are below the middle of comparable funds (0.44%).
- Widely spread: the ten largest positions make up only 15% of the fund.
- Average yearly growth over the last five years: 7.4%.
What to watch
- 96% of the fund is in one country (United States).
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
- +2.5%
- 3 months
- +3.7%
- This year
- +15%
- 1 year
- +16%
- 3 years
- +64%
- 5 years
- +43%
- Avg. market cap
- $381.6B
- P/E
- 21.4x
- Forward P/E
- 19.7x
- P/S
- 3.4x
- P/B
- 7.1x
- P/FCF
- 20.1x
- EV/EBITDA
- 19.7x
- Dividend yield
- 1.08%
- ROIC
- 25.5%
- ROE
- 54.5%
- Gross margin
- 56.8%
- Operating margin
- 27.2%
- Net margin
- 23.5%
- Payout ratio
- 23.1%
- Net debt/EBITDA
- 1.4x
- Beta
- 0.98
Weighted average of the 50 largest companies, which make up 45% of the fund. Banks and insurers are left out of the gross margin, the ROIC and the EBITDA figures.
What is inside?
Widely spread- 1 KLKLA KLAC 1.9%
- 2 LRLam Research LRCX 1.8%
- 3 FTFortinet FTNT 1.8%
- 4 SNSandisk SNDK 1.5%
- 5 AAApple AAPL 1.4%
- 6 LLEli Lilly LLY 1.4%
- 7 TTTrane Technologies TT 1.3%
- 8 ADAutodesk ADSK 1.3%
- 9 VVisa V 1.3%
- 10 COCostco COST 1.2%
Positions in the fund: 442. The ten largest make up 15% of it.
Composition as of Oct 24, 2026.
Where is it spread?
One countryBy sector
- Technology 24%
- Financials 20%
- Industrials 18%
- Consumer cyclical 13%
- Healthcare 9.8%
- Other 15%
By country
- United States 96%
- Other countries 4.0%
By company size
- Mega cap 13%
- Large cap 53%
- Mid cap 24%
- Small cap 9.5%
- Micro cap 0.7%
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 sector: Technology (24%). Largest country: United States (96%). Largest size group: Large cap (53%).
What does it cost me?
Cheap- A year from $10,000
- $13.00
- Over 20 years
- $649
From every $10,000 invested the fund takes $13.00 a year. You do not pay it separately - it is taken out of the fund's value. Over 20 years at 5% yearly growth that adds up to about $649.
How has it done?
Growing over the long run- A year on average, 5 years
- +7.4%
- Deepest drop
- -27%
- Yearly volatility
- 13%
Average yearly growth over the last five years: 7.4%. Deepest drop in these years: 27% below the earlier high.
Does it pay dividends?
Yes, it pays out- Yield
- 1.00%
- Payments a year
- 4
- Last payment
- $0.38
Over the last 12 months it paid $1.77 per share, which is 1.00% of today's price. The last payment was $0.38 on Sep 23, 2026.
Is it easy to buy and sell?
Yes- Traded a day
- $1.27M
- Shares a day
- 7.2K
On an average day about $1.27M of the fund changes hands.
How expensive are the companies inside?
Usual valuation- P/E of the companies inside
- 21.4
- Average Bulios Score
- 74 out of 100
Weight by Bulios Fair Price
- Undervalued 22%
- Fairly valued 5.5%
- Overvalued 72%
On average the companies inside trade for 21.4 times their yearly profit. By Fair Price, 72% of the rated weight comes out as overvalued.
Counted from its largest companies (50), which make up 45% of the fund. Each company counts by its weight. We use the metrics, the Bulios Score and the Fair Price of the companies themselves.
Similar funds
Funds that hold much of the same. The overlap says how much of their weight they share with this fund.
| Fund | Domicile | Size | 1-year change | Dividends | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SP SPHQ Invesco S&P 500 Quality ETF | United States | 0.20% | $18.5B | +11% | Pays out | 31% |
QU QUAL iShares MSCI USA Quality Factor ETF | United States | 0.15% | $48.3B | +13% | Pays out | 29% |
QD QDVB.DE iShares Edge MSCI USA Quality Factor UCITS ETF | Ireland | 0.20% | $1.95B | +19% | Reinvests | 29% |
XQ XQLT.TO iShares MSCI USA Quality Factor Index ETF | Canada | 0.32% | $186.5M | +13% | Pays out | 29% |
RO ROUS Hartford Multifactor US Equity ETF | United States | 0.19% | $783.3M | +19% | Pays out | 28% |
DU DUHP U.S. High Relative Profitability Portfolio ETF Class Shares | United States | 0.24% | $12.6B | +10% | Pays out | 27% |
