Vanguard Consumer Staples ETF (VDC) To Go Ex-Dividend on June 28th

Vanguard Consumer Staples ETF (NYSEARCA:VDC) declared a dividend on Monday, March 4th, NASDAQ reports. Stockholders of record on Friday, June 28th will be paid a dividend of 1.5411 per share on Tuesday, July 2nd. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, June 28th. This is a positive change from Vanguard Consumer Staples ETF’s previous dividend of $1.39.

Vanguard Consumer Staples ETF Stock Down 0.4 %

Shares of VDC traded down $0.74 during mid-day trading on Thursday, hitting $205.41. 78,752 shares of the company’s stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 119,166. The firm has a fifty day moving average of $204.74 and a two-hundred day moving average of $198.70. Vanguard Consumer Staples ETF has a twelve month low of $172.75 and a twelve month high of $209.70. The stock has a market cap of $6.67 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 25.58 and a beta of 0.48.

About Vanguard Consumer Staples ETF

Vanguard Consumer Staples ETF (the Fund) is an exchange-traded share class of Vanguard Consumer Staples Index Fund, which seeks to track the investment performance of the MSCI US Investable Market Consumer Staples 25/50 Index, a benchmark of large-, mid-, and small-cap United States stocks in the consumer staples sector, as classified under the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS).