Vanguard Consumer Discretionary ETF
VCR NYSE Arca
The Vanguard Consumer Discretionary ETF seeks to track the performance of a benchmark index that measures the investment return of stocks in the consumer discretionary sector. The Fund includes stocks of companies that manufacture products and provide services that consumers purchase on a discretio...
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- Fund size
- 2.98B as of Feb 2020
- Expense ratio
- 0.10% per year
- Dividend yield
- 0.78% Quarterly
- Volatility · 1Y
- 19.1% Average Risk
- Beta
- 1.16 vs the market
- 52-week range
- 346.30410.23
How VCR has paid off
Price return over every period, and total return with dividends reinvested, set against price alone.
Return by period
Price · to Oct 30Total return vs price return
Price onlyOver 1 year, VCR returned −2.0% with dividends reinvested — dividends added +0.8 pts to the price move.
How bumpy is the ride?
Return only means something next to the risk taken to earn it. Volatility, drawdowns and market sensitivity over 1 year.
Volatility
Annualized · 1YA typical year sees the price swing about ±19% around its trend.
Drawdown from peak
How far below its previous high the price has been Deepest fall −15.6% on Mar 30, 2026 — 80 days after the previous high
More than 5% below a high 51% of the time.
Market sensitivity
BetaA beta of 1.16 means VCR has moved more than the market.
Trend & momentum
Where the price sits against its moving averages, and how stretched the recent move is.
Price vs moving averages
Downtrend- 12-day average382.81 +0.6%
- 26-day average380.27 +1.3%
- 50-day average380.67 +1.2%
- 200-day average382.17 +0.8%
The price is above 4 of 4 averages. The 50-day average is below the 200-day, a sign of a falling longer-term trend.
Relative strength (RSI)
NeutralRSI compares recent gains with recent losses on a 0–100 scale. Above 70 a move is often considered stretched, below 30 washed out.
Technical indicators describe past prices. They are not a forecast.
Inside the fund
Consumer Discretionary · Consumer Durables — tracking the MSCI US Investable Market Consumer Discretionary 25/50 Index.
- Assets under management2.98BUSD
- Expense ratio0.10%per year
- Holdings298
- Risk score4.2Medium
Launched September 2004. Listed options available. Fund data as of Feb 28, 2020.
What it pays you
Cash distributions over the last twelve months, and how they have grown.
About 8 USD a year for every 1,000 USD invested at today's price.
- Per share
- 2.99
- Frequency
- Quarterly
- Last paid
- Sep 23, 2026
Last 12 months
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About Vanguard Consumer Discretionary ETF
The Vanguard Consumer Discretionary ETF seeks to track the performance of a benchmark index that measures the investment return of stocks in the consumer discretionary sector. The Fund includes stocks of companies that manufacture products and provide services that consumers purchase on a discretionary basis.
- Featured in 1 curated theme
- 298 holdings
- Ticker
- VCR
- Exchange
- NYSE Arca
- ISIN
- US92204A1088
- CUSIP
- 92204A108
- Currency
- U.S. Dollar (USD)
- Country
- USA
- Sector
- Consumer Discretionary
- Industry
- Consumer Durables
- Benchmark
- MSCI US Investable Market Consumer Discretionary 25/50 Index
All key statistics
Details
Shareas of Oct 30, 2026
Dataas of Feb 28, 2020
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Data for information only, not investment advice. Past performance does not guarantee future results.