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This article describes an exchange traded fund that tracks an index, commodity, currency, or varied basket of securites. View articles referencing this fund. |
Vanguard Energy ETF (VDE)
Overview
The Vanguard Energy ETF is an exchange-traded share class of Vanguard Energy Index Fund. The fund employs a "passive management" - or indexing - investment approach designed to track the performance of the Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) US Investable Market Energy Index, an index of stocks of large, medium, and small U.S. companies in the energy sector, as classified under the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS). This GICS sector is made up of companies whose businesses are dominated by either of the following activities: the construction or provision of oil rigs, drilling equipment, and other energy-related service and equipment (such as seismic data collection); or companies engaged in the exploration, production, marketing, refining, and/or transportation of oil and gas products.
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Fund Information
- Fund Manager - Vanguard Group, Inc.
- Inception Date - 09/23/2004
- Exchange – NYSE Arca
- Index Ticker – VDE
- Intra-day NAV Ticker – VDE.IV
- Expense Ratio - 0.25%
Top Holdings
| Rank | Holding |
| 1 | Exxon Mobil Corp. |
| 2 | Chevron Corp. |
| 3 | Schlumberger Ltd. |
| 4 | ConocoPhillips |
| 5 | Occidental Petroleum Corp. |
| 6 | Apache Corp. |
| 7 | Anadarko Petroleum Corp. |
| 8 | Devon Energy Corp. |
| 9 | Transocean Ltd. |
| 10 | Halliburton Co. |
Holdings as of 12/08/2009
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