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Applied Finance Valuation Large Cap ETF VSLU · AMEX

$49.53 +0.20% (+$0.10)

Summary

Applied Finance Valuation Large Cap ETF is an ETF - a fund traded on an exchange like a stock - run by Applied Finance. Positions inside: 445. The ten largest make up 53% of the fund.

Yearly costs
0.49%
Fund size
$579.3M
Positions
445
Dividend yield
0.41%
Running since
2021

What speaks for it

  • Average yearly growth over the last five years: 13%.

What to watch

  • The ten largest positions make up 53% of the fund, so its result rests on a few names.
  • 97% of the fund is in one country (United States).
  • Costs of 0.49% a year are above the middle of comparable funds (0.44%).

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
+1.9%
3 months
+4.6%
This year
+12%
1 year
+16%
3 years
+84%
5 years
+84%
Avg. market cap
$2.48T
P/E
27.5x
Forward P/E
23.6x
P/S
6.3x
P/B
11.7x
P/FCF
32.8x
EV/EBITDA
19.7x
Dividend yield
0.87%
ROIC
31.7%
ROE
77.2%
Gross margin
63.9%
Operating margin
40.4%
Net margin
36.0%
Payout ratio
23.8%
Net debt/EBITDA
0.9x
Beta
0.95

Weighted average of the 50 largest companies, which make up 75% of the fund. Banks and insurers are left out of the gross margin, the ROIC and the EBITDA figures.

What is inside?

Concentrated
  1. 1
    AA
    Apple AAPL 10%
  2. 2
    NV
    Nvidia NVDA 9.6%
  3. 3
    MS
    Microsoft MSFT 8.3%
  4. 4
    GO
    Alphabet GOOGL 6.0%
  5. 5
    ME
    Meta META 4.9%
  6. 6
    V
    Visa V 3.6%
  7. 7
    LL
    Eli Lilly LLY 3.1%
  8. 8
    AV
    Broadcom AVGO 2.7%
  9. 9
    MA
    Mastercard MA 2.7%
  10. 10
    MR
    Merck & Co. MRK 1.5%

Positions in the fund: 445. The ten largest make up 53% of it.

Composition as of Oct 18, 2026.

Where is it spread?

One country

By sector

By country

By company size

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 (40%). Largest country: United States (97%). Largest size group: Mega cap (65%).

What does it cost me?

Expensive
A year from $10,000
$49.00
Over 20 years
$2,370

From every $10,000 invested the fund takes $49.00 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 $2,370.

How has it done?

Growing over the long run
A year on average, 5 years
+13%
Deepest drop
-24%
Yearly volatility
13%

Average yearly growth over the last five years: 13%. Deepest drop in these years: 24% below the earlier high.

Does it pay dividends?

Yes, it pays out
Yield
0.41%
Payments a year
1
Last payment
$0.20

Over the last 12 months it paid $0.20 per share, which is 0.41% of today's price. The last payment was $0.20 on Dec 24, 2025.

Is it easy to buy and sell?

Yes
Traded a day
$1.19M
Shares a day
24K

On an average day about $1.19M of the fund changes hands.

How expensive are the companies inside?

Rather expensive
P/E of the companies inside
27.5
Average Bulios Score
75 out of 100

Weight by Bulios Fair Price

On average the companies inside trade for 27.5 times their yearly profit. By Fair Price, 82% of the rated weight comes out as overvalued.

Counted from its largest companies (50), which make up 75% of the fund. Each company counts by its weight. We use the metrics, the Bulios Score and the Fair Price of the companies themselves.

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