Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF (NYSEARCA:VTI) to Issue Dividend Increase – $0.95 Per Share

Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF (NYSEARCA:VTI) announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, April 3rd. Investors of record on Monday, December 22nd will be given a dividend of 0.9508 per share on Wednesday, December 24th. This represents a c) annualized dividend and a yield of 1.1%. The ex-dividend date is Monday, December 22nd. This is a 4.8% increase from Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.91.

Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF Trading Up 0.9%

VTI traded up $2.97 during midday trading on Friday, reaching $336.22. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 4,013,493 shares, compared to its average volume of 3,850,286. Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF has a 1 year low of $236.42 and a 1 year high of $339.94. The stock’s 50-day moving average is $332.47 and its 200-day moving average is $319.65. The firm has a market capitalization of $560.71 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 24.26 and a beta of 1.02.

Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF Company Profile

Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF (the Fund) is an exchange-traded share class of Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund, which employs a passive management or indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the of the MSCI US Broad Market Index, which represents 99.5% or more of the total market capitalization of all of the United States common stocks traded on the New York and American Stock Exchanges and the Nasdaq over-the-counter market. The Fund typically holds the largest 1,200 to 1,300 stocks in its target index (covering nearly 95% of the index’s total market capitalization) and a representative sample of the remaining stocks.