Vanguard Utilities Index Fund VPU · AMEX
$179.14 -1.79% (-$3.27)
Summary
Vanguard Utilities Index Fund is an ETF - a fund traded on an exchange like a stock - run by Vanguard. Positions inside: 71. The ten largest make up 52% of the fund.
- Yearly costs
- 0.09%
- Fund size
- $9.50B
- Positions
- 71
- Dividend yield
- 2.90%
- Running since
- 2004
What speaks for it
- Costs of 0.09% a year are below the middle of comparable funds (0.44%).
- A large fund with $9.50B under management.
- Easy to buy and sell: about $56.2M changes hands a day.
- Average yearly growth over the last ten years: 5.6%.
- It has been running since 2004.
What to watch
- The ten largest positions make up 52% of the fund, so its result rests on a few names.
- 99% of the fund is in one sector (Utilities).
- 99% 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
- -6.6%
- This year
- -1.4%
- 1 year
- -8.2%
- 3 years
- +44%
- 5 years
- +27%
- 10 years
- +73%
- Avg. market cap
- $63.0B
- P/E
- 19.0x
- Forward P/E
- 17.9x
- P/S
- 2.7x
- P/B
- 2.1x
- P/FCF
- -
- EV/EBITDA
- 12.6x
- Dividend yield
- 2.97%
- ROIC
- 10,412.1%
- ROE
- 12.6%
- Gross margin
- 53.2%
- Operating margin
- -41.4%
- Net margin
- -28.9%
- Payout ratio
- 56.5%
- Net debt/EBITDA
- 5.4x
- Beta
- 0.50
Weighted average of the 50 largest companies, which make up 97% of the fund. Banks and insurers are left out of the gross margin, the ROIC and the EBITDA figures.
What is inside?
Concentrated- 1 NENextEra Energy NEE 11%
- 2 SOThe Southern Company SO 6.7%
- 3 DUDuke Energy Corporation DUK 6.4%
- 4 CEConstellation Energy CEG 5.7%
- 5 AEAmerican Electric Power Company, Inc. AEP 4.7%
- 6 DDominion Energy D 3.8%
- 7 SRSempra SRE 3.7%
- 8 VSVistra Corp. VST 3.4%
- 9 ETEntergy Corporation ETR 3.3%
- 10 XEXcel Energy Inc. XEL 3.2%
Positions in the fund: 71. The ten largest make up 52% of it.
Composition as of Oct 18, 2026.
Where is it spread?
One sector dominatesBy sector
- Utilities 99%
- Energy 0.5%
- Industrials 0.3%
By country
- United States 99%
- Cayman Islands 0.03%
- Other countries 0.8%
By company size
- Large cap 91%
- Mid cap 8.1%
- Small cap 0.5%
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: Utilities (99%). Largest country: United States (99%). Largest size group: Large cap (91%).
What does it cost me?
Cheap- A year from $10,000
- $9.00
- Over 20 years
- $451
From every $10,000 invested the fund takes $9.00 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 $451.
How has it done?
Growing over the long run- A year on average, 10 years
- +5.6%
- Deepest drop
- -28%
- Yearly volatility
- 15%
Average yearly growth over the last ten years: 5.6%. Deepest drop in these years: 28% below the earlier high.
Does it pay dividends?
Yes, it pays out- Yield
- 2.90%
- Payments a year
- 4
- Last payment
- $1.26
Over the last 12 months it paid $5.20 per share, which is 2.90% of today's price. The last payment was $1.26 on Sep 23, 2026.
Is it easy to buy and sell?
Very easy- Traded a day
- $56.2M
- Shares a day
- 314K
On an average day about $56.2M of the fund changes hands.
How expensive are the companies inside?
Usual valuation- P/E of the companies inside
- 19.0
- Average Bulios Score
- 64 out of 100
Weight by Bulios Fair Price
- Undervalued 53%
- Fairly valued 6.0%
- Overvalued 41%
On average the companies inside trade for 19.0 times their yearly profit. By Fair Price, 53% of the rated weight comes out as undervalued.
Counted from its largest companies (50), which make up 97% 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
VU VUIAX Vanguard Utilities Index Fund Admiral Shares· mutual fund | United States | 0.09% | $9.47B | -8.2% | Pays out | 99% |
FU FUTY Fidelity MSCI Utilities Index ETF | United States | 0.08% | $2.03B | -8.1% | Pays out | 98% |
ID IDU iShares U.S. Utilities ETF | United States | 0.37% | $1.45B | -6.4% | Pays out | 89% |
2B 2B7A.DE iShares S&P 500 Utilities Sector UCITS ETF | Ireland | 0.15% | $1.34B | -1.9% | Reinvests | 89% |
XL XLU Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund | United States | 0.08% | $24.7B | -54% | Pays out | 89% |
ZP ZPDU.DE State Street SPDR S&P U.S. Utilities Select Sector UCITS ETF (Acc) | Ireland | 0.15% | $203.9M | -1.9% | Reinvests | 89% |
