VUG News and Press, Vanguard Growth From 10/15/23

2023-10-15 06:30:00 ET Summary The investment environment has undergone a sweeping alteration, calling for significant capital reallocation. The decline in interest rates over the past 40 years has been overlooked as a major driver of investment profits. Credit instruments may...

2023-10-13 11:08:25 ET Summary Contrarian investing involves going against the majority and choosing less popular or beaten down investments. Large growth funds holding stocks such as Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon have seen significant gains as have highly popular S&P 500 funds...

2023-10-12 21:04:08 ET Summary iShares Russell 1000 Growth ETF is a low-cost ETF that tracks the performance of large-cap U.S. stocks with growth potential. IWF's top holdings include Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, NVIDIA, and Alphabet, with a higher weight on Apple and Microsoft compa...

2023-10-12 13:19:24 ET Summary Visa Inc. is likely to continue to perform in line with the large cap growth stocks, and this is not necessarily good news. An upward multiple repricing appears limited once we consider the drivers behind it. As growth slows down, market-wide for...

2023-10-07 00:51:00 ET Summary The S&P 500 Index's forward price-to-earnings (P/E) multiple of 18.8 times is 8% greater than the historical median valuation of 17.3 times, and in the 68th percentile relative to history. Both the regular return on equity (ROE) and the intangibl...

2023-09-21 02:30:00 ET Summary Active ETFs have scored more investor interest this year than smart beta ETFs - but does that mean the latter will soon be out of the game completely? For US-listed smart beta ETFs, inflows peaked in 2021 at almost US$150 billion. This year - whi...

2023-09-01 13:30:00 ET Summary Vanguard Mega Cap Growth ETF is a focused fund with heavy exposure to 5 individual stocks and 3 sectors. MGK has a long track record and competitive expense ratio of 0.07%. In this article, I compare MGK to Vanguard Growth ETF and Invesco QQQ Tru...

2023-08-30 22:59:44 ET Summary FBCG is an actively managed large-cap growth ETF that focuses on delivering better returns than those reflected in the Russell 1000 Growth Index. It selects companies with above-average earnings growth potential and looks for catalysts that could unl...

2023-08-30 11:01:45 ET Summary Inflation above 2% has a negative impact on stock prices; the Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF has averaged poor performance during such years. Various sub-sectors of the stock market and sectors of the bond market are affected differently by high inf...

2023-08-24 10:44:16 ET Summary Vanguard Growth ETF has recovered most of its losses from 2022, rising by 33% YTD due to AI interest and "discount" buying activity. VUG's high valuation suggests a possible "double top" and potential reversal for the ETF, mainly due to rising long-t...