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VTI - Opportunities And Threats In Today's Stock Market
Vanguard Total Stock Market
Written by Sam Kovacs
How should we measure stock market performance?
Vanguard's total market ETF (VTI) is an interesting beast. It is supposed to track the total US market, in a market cap weighted portfolio. Practically speaking, this means that the 1200 to 1300 largest names make up about 95% of the portfolio. That leaves over 2000 stocks which have to fight for the remaining 5%. In fact, the fund doesn't even bother buying all of these remaining shares, and contents itself in holding a "representative sample" of remaining stocks.