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

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

The investment seeks to track the performance of the MSCI U.S. Investable Market Index/Consumer Staples 25/50. The fund employs an indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the index, 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 263.36B. The market cap for tickers in the group ranges from 72.61B to 825.25B. WMT holds the highest valuation in this group at 825.25B. The lowest valued company is CL at 72.61B.

The average weekly volume growth across all stocks in the Vanguard Consumer Staples Index Admiral MF was 75%. For the same stocks of the MF, the average monthly volume growth was 47% and the average quarterly volume growth was -22%