Vanguard 500 Index Fund Year To Date Return

VFINX Fund  USD 557.79  3.16  0.57%   
Vanguard 500 Index fundamentals help investors to digest information that contributes to Vanguard 500's financial success or failures. It also enables traders to predict the movement of Vanguard Mutual Fund. The fundamental analysis module provides a way to measure Vanguard 500's intrinsic value by examining its available economic and financial indicators, including the cash flow records, the balance sheet account changes, the income statement patterns, and various microeconomic indicators and financial ratios related to Vanguard 500 mutual fund.
  
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Vanguard 500 Index Mutual Fund Year To Date Return Analysis

Vanguard 500's Year to Date Return (YTD) is the total return generated from holding a security from the beginning of the current fiscal year. In other words, YTD Return represents the capital appreciation of your investments from the start of the current fiscal year.

YTD Return

 = 

(Mean of Monthly Returns - 1)

X

100%

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Current Vanguard 500 Year To Date Return

    
  26.55 %  
Most of Vanguard 500's fundamental indicators, such as Year To Date Return, are part of a valuation analysis module that helps investors searching for stocks that are currently trading at higher or lower prices than their real value. If the real value is higher than the market price, Vanguard 500 Index is considered to be undervalued, and we provide a buy recommendation. Otherwise, we render a sell signal.
Year-To-Date typically refers to a period starting from the beginning of the current year and continuing up to the present day. Investors should becareful when comparing YTD ratios if not much of the year has occurred as research shows that YTD measures are more sensitive to early periods than late.
Competition

As per the company's disclosures, Vanguard 500 Index has a Year To Date Return of 26.5463%. This is much higher than that of the Vanguard family and significantly higher than that of the Large Blend category. The year to date return for all United States funds is notably lower than that of the firm.

Vanguard Year To Date Return Peer Comparison

Stock peer comparison is one of the most widely used and accepted methods of equity analyses. It analyses Vanguard 500's direct or indirect competition against its Year To Date Return to detect undervalued stocks with similar characteristics or determine the mutual funds which would be a good addition to a portfolio. Peer analysis of Vanguard 500 could also be used in its relative valuation, which is a method of valuing Vanguard 500 by comparing valuation metrics of similar companies.
Vanguard 500 is currently under evaluation in year to date return among similar funds.

Fund Asset Allocation for Vanguard 500

The fund invests 99.33% of asset under management in tradable equity instruments, with the rest of investments concentrated in cash (0.67%) .
Asset allocation divides Vanguard 500's investment portfolio among different asset categories to balance risk and reward by investing in a diversified mix of instruments that align with the investor's goals, risk tolerance, and time horizon. Mutual funds, which pool money from multiple investors to buy a diversified portfolio of securities, use asset allocation strategies to manage the risk and return of their portfolios.
Mutual funds allocate their assets by investing in a diversified portfolio of securities, such as stocks, bonds, cryptocurrencies and cash. The specific mix of these securities is determined by the fund's investment objective and strategy. For example, a stock mutual fund may invest primarily in equities, while a bond mutual fund may invest mainly in fixed-income securities. The fund's manager, responsible for making investment decisions, will buy and sell securities in the fund's portfolio as market conditions and the fund's objectives change.

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About Vanguard 500 Fundamental Analysis

The Macroaxis Fundamental Analysis modules help investors analyze Vanguard 500 Index's financials across various querterly and yearly statements, indicators and fundamental ratios. We help investors to determine the real value of Vanguard 500 using virtually all public information available. We use both quantitative as well as qualitative analysis to arrive at the intrinsic value of Vanguard 500 Index based on its fundamental data. In general, a quantitative approach, as applied to this mutual fund, focuses on analyzing financial statements comparatively, whereas a qaualitative method uses data that is important to a company's growth but cannot be measured and presented in a numerical way.
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