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Vanguard Real Estate ETF

VNQ
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Snapshot
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Inception Date
Sep 23, 2004
Expense Ratio
0.12%
Type
US Equities
Fund Owner
Vanguard
Volume (1m avg. daily)
$308,073,610
AUM
$30,231,613,653
Associated Index
MSCI US Investable Market Real Estate 25/50 Index
Inverse/Leveraged
No
Passive/Active
Passive
Fractionable on Composer
Yes
Prospectus

Top 10 Holdings

Vanguard Real Estate II Index Fund Institutional Plus Shares
12.67%
PLD
Prologis Inc
7.75%
AMT
American Tower Corp.
5.71%
EQIX
Equinix Inc
4.94%
PSA
Public Storage.
2.95%
CCI
Crown Castle Inc
2.94%
WELL
Welltower Inc.
2.68%
O
Realty Income Corp.
2.55%
DLR
Digital Realty Trust Inc
2.46%
SPG
Simon Property Group, Inc.
2.43%

What is VNQ?

Vanguard Real Estate ETF seeks to provide a high level of income and moderate long-term capital appreciation by tracking the performance of a benchmark index that measures the performance of publicly traded equity REITs and other real estate-related investments.

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VNQ
Performance Measures**

for the time period Sep 29, 2004 to Dec 4, 2025

Returns

1M Trailing Return: 0.9%

The percent change in the value over the most recent 1-month period.

3M Trailing Return: -0.7%

The percent change in the value over the most recent 3-month period.

Measures of Risk or Volatility

Max Drawdown: -73.1%

The greatest percent loss from peak to trough in value over the time period.

Standard Deviation: 28.6%

The typical amount that daily returns vary from the mean of the returns over the time period, standardized to a period of a year.

Measures of Risk-Adjusted Performance

Sharpe Ratio: 0.39

The annualized arithmetic mean of the daily returns divided by the annualized standard deviation of the daily returns for the selected time period.

Calmar Ratio: 0.10

The annualized return divided by the max drawdown for the selected time period.

ETFs related toVNQ

ETFs correlated to VNQ include FREL, IYR, SCHH

VNQ
Vanguard Group, Inc. - Vanguard Real Estate Index Fund ETF
FREL
Fidelity Covington Trust - Fidelity MSCI Real Estate Index ETF
IYR
BlackRock Institutional Trust Company N.A. - iShares U.S. Real Estate ETF
SCHH
Schwab Strategic Trust - Schwab U.S. REIT ETF
DFAR
Dimensional ETF Trust - Dimensional US Real Estate ETF
XLRE
SSgA Active Trust - Real Estate Select Sector SPDR Fund (The)
DRN
Direxion Shares ETF Trust - Direxion Daily Real Estate Bull 3X Shares
ICF
BlackRock Institutional Trust Company N.A. - iShares Cohen & Steers REIT ETF
USRT
BlackRock Institutional Trust Company N.A. - iShares Core U.S. REIT ETF
RWR
SPDR Series Trust - SPDR DJ Wilshire REIT ETF
BBRE
J.P.Morgan Investment Management Inc. - JPMorgan BetaBuilders MSCI U.S. REIT ETF

What is ETF correlation?

Correlation is a measure of the strength of the relationship between two ETFs. It quantifies the degree to which prices of the two ETFs typically move together.

Here, correlation is measured over the past year with the Pearson correlation coefficient (Pearon’s r), which ranges from -1 to 1.

Using ETF correlations in portfolio and strategy construction

ETF correlations can help you create investing strategies and portfolios. Use them to:

  • Build a diversified portfolio from uncorrelated or inversely correlated ETFs with the aim of minimizing portfolio risk.
  • Compare correlated or related ETFs to find one with a lower expense ratio or higher trading volume.
  • Create an investing strategy that hedges an ETF with an uncorrelated or inversely correlated ETF.

Trading Strategies
Related toVNQ

Aggressive Battleship III/ Sort WM 74

Category

Tactical allocation, trend-following, momentum rotation, multi-asset, leveraged ETFs, crash-hedge, commodities tilt, daily rebalanced

OOS Cumulative Return

147.42%

FTLT V5 W/ Frontrunner V4 + Aggressive Battleship V2 WM74

Category

Trend-following, momentum, mean-reversion, volatility hedge, leveraged/inverse ETFs, tactical allocation, commodities, daily rebalancing

OOS Cumulative Return

137.85%

Create your own algorithmic trading strategy with VNQ using Composer

FAQ

VNQ is a US Equities ETF. Vanguard Real Estate ETF seeks to provide a high level of income and moderate long-term capital appreciation by tracking the performance of a benchmark index that measures the performance of publicly traded equity REITs and other real estate-related investments.

VNQ tracks the MSCI US Investable Market Real Estate 25/50 Index.

No, VNQ is not actively managed. It is passively managed. In an actively managed fund, the fund manager makes decisions about how funds are invested. A passively managed fund typically tries to track or follow a market index.

Yes, VNQ is passively managed. A passively managed fund typically tries to track or follow a market index. In an actively managed fund, the fund manager makes decisions about how funds are invested.

The 1-month return on VNQ is -0.0434%. This is the percent change in the value of VNQ over the most recent 1-month period. The 3-month return on VNQ is -0.0456%. This is the percent change in the value of VNQ over the most recent 3-month period.

The standard deviation of VNQ for the past year is 0.2207%. Standard deviation is the typical amount that the daily returns vary from the mean of the returns over the time period, standardized to a period of a year.

ETFs similar to VNQ include XLI, XLY, and XLV.

ETFs correlated to VNQ include FREL, IYR, and SCHH.

ETFs that are inversely correlated to VNQ include SRS, DRV, and RWM.

Disclaimers

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