The Vanguard S&P 500 ETF offers low fees because the fund is passively managed. While VOO offers broad market exposure, it is heavily weighted toward large-cap stocks and may not provide significant exposure to small or mid-cap companies.
Vanguard is owned by its different funds, which are owned by its shareholders. The company has no other owners than its shareholders, which sets it apart from most publicly traded investment firms. Vanguard Group is the second-largest investment firm in the world after BlackRock.
Yes it's definitely beneficial. For one, VOO has a very high Shiller CAPE right now, which forecasts a pretty low real return of around 3%. International stocks do not have as high of a Shiller CAPE. For two they are not as correlated, so you're increasing your expected return while decreasing your variance.
Average Return
In the past year, QQQ returned a total of 25.74%, which is slightly higher than VOO's 24.33% return. Over the past 10 years, QQQ has had annualized average returns of 18.26% , compared to 13.04% for VOO. These numbers are adjusted for stock splits and include dividends.
Bogle attended his wife's Presbyterian church, but maintained his faith as an Episcopalian. At age 31, Bogle suffered from his first of several heart attacks, and at age 38, he was diagnosed with the rare heart disease arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia. He received a heart transplant in 1996 at age 66.
That's why he often recommends they buy exchange-traded funds (ETFs) instead of picking individual stocks. Berkshire actually holds two of them in its portfolio: The Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO -1.52%), and the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY -1.53%).
Many Vanguard ETFs, including VTI and VOO, are index funds. Index funds do not have an active trading strategy, but instead mimic a designated financial market index. This style of fund is popular because it delivers market-level performance with low expense ratios.
It does pay a dividend, because it contains blue-chip stocks that are often reliable dividend stocks. All of the Dividend Aristocrats, a set of companies that have raised their dividends at least once a year for at least 25 years, are S&P 500 members, and thus VOO has exposure to all of them.
Uber Technologies, Inc. Tesla, Inc. Affirm Holdings, Inc. JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Vanguard S&P 500 ETF VOO.
No person or company owns a majority of BlackRock. The largest shareholder is the Vanguard Group, which owned 8.9% of the company's stock in mid-2024.
"John Bogle was a visionary who saw a way to make investing more efficient by providing low-cost access to diversified investments. Then he took the risk to start a company built on that philosophy, and it worked, becoming one of the largest investment firms in the world.
“I'm a Muslim, but I respect all religions. … I pray a lot, and when I die, I want to die as a Muslim,” he said. Some have questioned Tyson's adherence to Islam. By his own admission, he does not keep halal in terms of consuming foods that are permissible by the Quran.
World-renowned investor Warren Buffett is arguably one of the greatest stock pickers of all time. But he does own one Vanguard ETF: the Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (NYSEMKT: VOO). It follows the S&P 500, a market-cap-weighted index of 500 of America's most prominent corporations.
BlackRock is an independently managed public company with no single majority stockholder. The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. has a minority ownership stake in BlackRock with the remainder owned by institutional and individual investors, as well as BlackRock employees.
As of fall 2024, Vanguard has global assets under management of about $9.3 trillion, while Fidelity Investments has about $5.5 trillion in discretionary assets ($14.1 trillion in assets under administration).
SPY is more expensive with a Total Expense Ratio (TER) of 0.0945%, versus 0.03% for VOO. SPY is up 28.31% year-to-date (YTD) with +$7.13B in YTD flows. VOO performs better with 28.36% YTD performance, and +$103.99B in YTD flows.
VOO is less expensive with a Total Expense Ratio (TER) of 0.03%, versus 0.06% for SCHD. VOO is up 27.79% year-to-date (YTD) with +$105.04B in YTD flows. SCHD performs worse with 19.19% YTD performance, and +$6.90B in YTD flows.