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About VOO

Vanguard 500 Index Fund (the Fund) is an open-end investment company, or mutual fund. The Fund offers four classes of shares: Investor Shares, Admiral Shares, Signal Shares, and Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) Shares. The Fund seeks to track the investment performance of the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index, an unmanaged benchmark representing the United States large-capitalization stocks. The Fund employs a passive management-or indexing-investment approach designed to track the performance of the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index. The Fund attempts to replicate the target index by investing all, or substantially all, of its assets in the stocks that make up the index, holding each stock in approximately the same proportion as its weighting in the index.

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Market Capitalisation

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Price-earnings ratio

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Dividend yield

1.21%

Volume

5.13M

High today

$559.96

Low today

$558.08

Open price

$558.47

52-week high

$559.41

52-week low

$417.46


What is VOO ETF?

VOO is an indicator of how America's largest companies are doing. Also known as Vanguard S&P 500 ETF, this is an exchange traded fund (ETF) that tracks the performance of the Standard & Poor's 500 Index (S&P 500).

The S&P 500 index is made of 500 large-cap U.S companies and 80% of all U.S. equities by market cap. The companies within the index are from every U.S. market sector.

For many, VOO is an attractive investment because of its highly diversified nature. 

Which stocks are in the VOO ETF?

Some of VOO ETF’s top holdings include Apple (AAPL), Microsoft (MSFT), Amazon (AMZN), Alphabet (GOOGL), Tesla (TSLA), Meta Platforms (META), Bank of America (BAC), Mastercard (MA), Chevron (CVX), Walt Disney (DIS), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), Costco (COST) and McDonald’s (MCD).

As of the end of February 2022, VOO’s ten largest holdings make up 29.5% of its total net assets.

For a complete list of VOO’s current holdings, click here.

How to buy VOO in Australia?

To buy VOO stock in Australia, open an investing account that offers access to U.S. ETFs, like Stake. It takes just minutes to sign up online or download the Stake stock trading app to get started. You’ll need some I.D. to create your account. Once that’s done, go to Stake Wall St and fund your account. Do your own research to ensure that buying VOO shares is the right investment product for your own circumstances before completing the trade.

Are VOO and SPY the same ETF?

Both VOO and SPY track the S&P 500 but they are different ETFs with expense ratios of 0.03% p.a. and 0.0945% p.a. respectively.

In terms of strategy, holdings and performance, both ETFs are almost identical. 

The major difference between the two ETFs is that they’re run by different parent companies. VOO is administered by Vanguard while SPY is managed by State Street Global Advisors.

Does VOO pay a dividend?

Yes. As of March 2022, VOO stock pays a dividend yield of 1.34%. 

Through FY2021, Vanguard paid out a total of US$5.44 per share of VOO.

VOO’s dividends are paid every 3 months, usually in March, June, September and December.

How does VOO work?

You can buy or sell VOO stock like any other individual stock. The VOO stock price goes up when the average value of companies within the S&P 500 index go up. 

If the value of companies within the S&P 500 index goes down, the value of VOO goes down.

As VOO is made up of 80% of all U.S. equities by market cap, VOO is often regarded as a reflection of how the U.S economy is performing.

Is VOO a good investment?

VOO may be a good purchase for investors wanting to diversify their portfolio without purchasing individual stocks on the S&P 500 index.

As of March 2022, VOO has a median market cap of US$193.6b and an earnings growth rate over the past 5 years of 20.4%.

If you are interested in trading on the ASX, check out our top 10 Vanguard ETFs in Australia.

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VOO FAQs

  1. Find the right investing platform for you. To buy VOO shares in Australia, you’ll need to open an account with an investing platform that offers the security. Try Stake, you can sign up in minutes.
  2. Fund your brokerage account. Once you are set up you can deposit into your account with different payment methods.
  3. Search for VOO or S&P 500 Vanguard ETF. Find the stock by using the search function and go to the VOO page.
  4. Place an order to buy VOO. Press the ‘Buy’ button and choose an order type to place your trade. Depending on the order type, the trade will go through straight away or when a price target is hit.
  5. Monitor your portfolio. You’ve now purchased some VOO shares. Stay on top of your portfolio and monitor its performance. You may be eligible for dividends and shareholder voting rights that affect your stock.

The ticker symbol for S&P 500 Vanguard ETF is VOO.

One share of VOO is valued at $558.94 as of 07 December 2024.

Yes, VOO does pay dividends.

The dividend yield for VOO is 1.21% as of 07 December 2024.

The S&P 500 Vanguard ETF 52-week high stock price is $559.41.

The S&P 500 Vanguard ETF 52-week low stock price is $417.46.

Yes, the Stake investing platform allows you to buy VOO shares and over 12,000 more stocks and ETFs across the ASX and Wall St.

This is not financial product advice nor a recommendation to invest in the securities listed. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance. As always, do your own research and consider seeking financial, legal and taxation advice before investing. No representation is made as to the timeliness, reliability, accuracy or completeness of the market data provided.

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