VCSAX Vanguard Consumer Staples Index Admiral Forecast, Technical & Fundamental Analysis

The most notable companies in this group are Walmart (NYSE:WMT), Costco Wholesale Corp (NASDAQ:COST), Procter & Gamble Company (NYSE:PG), Coca-Cola Company (NYSE:KO), PepsiCo (NASDAQ:PEP), Philip Morris International (NYSE:PM), Altria Group (NYSE:MO), Mondelez International (NASDAQ:MDLZ), Colgate-Palmolive Company (NYSE:CL), Target Corp (NYSE:TGT).

The investment seeks to track the performance of the MSCI US Investable Market Index/Consumer Staples 25/50. The fund employs an indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the MSCI US Investable Market Index/Consumer Staples 25/50, an index made up of stocks of large, mid-size, and small U.S. companies within the consumer staples sector, as classified under the GICS. The Advisor attempts to replicate the target index by seeking to invest all, or substantially all, of its assets in the stocks that make up the index, in order to hold each stock in approximately the same proportion as its weighting in the index. The fund is non-diversified.

The average market capitalization across the Vanguard Consumer Staples Index Admiral MF is 249.83B. The market cap for tickers in the group ranges from 70.08B to 677.22B. WMT holds the highest valuation in this group at 677.22B. The lowest valued company is TGT at 70.08B.

The average weekly volume growth across all stocks in the Vanguard Consumer Staples Index Admiral MF was 45%. For the same stocks of the MF, the average monthly volume growth was 100% and the average quarterly volume growth was 26%