6.6 in Small Value
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| Scorecard | |
|---|---|
| Morningstar | 3 / 5 Stars |
| Lipper | 3 4 2 5 4 |
| Zacks Investment Research | 3 (Hold) |
| Standard & Poor's | 3 / 5 Stars |
| TheStreet.com | B+ (Buy) |
Fund Overview
The investment seeks to track the performance of a benchmark index that measures the investment return of small-capitalization value stocks. The fund employs a “passive management”—or indexing—investment approach designed to track the performance of the MSCI US Small Cap Value Index, a broadly diversified index of value stocks of smaller U.S. companies. It attempts to replicate the target index by investing all, or substantially all, of its assets in the stocks that make up the index, holding each stock in approximately the same proportion as its weighting in the index.
| Trailing Returns | Updated 03.31.2012 |
|---|---|
| Year to date | 12.1% |
| 1 Year | 0.5% |
| 3 Years (Annualized) | 28.8% |
| 5 Years (Annualized) | 1.6% |
| 10 Years (Annualized) | 6.3% |
Performance
The fund has returned 0.50 percent over the past year, 28.76 percent over the past three years, 1.58 percent over the past five years, and 6.28 percent over the past decade.
Hypothetical Growth of $10,000
Updated 03.31.2012
Holdings
Asset Allocation
| % Long | % Net | |
|---|---|---|
| Cash | 0.3 | 0.3 |
| Stocks | 98.64 | 98.64 |
| Bonds | 0.01 | 0.01 |
| Other | 0.01 | 0.01 |
| Foreign Bonds | 0.01 | 0.01 |
| Foreign Stocks | 1.02 | 1.02 |
| Convertible | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Preferred | 0.01 | 0.01 |
Updated 12.31.2011
Top Holdings
Performance as of 03.31.2012
Portfolio as of 12.31.2011
| Ticker | YTD Return % | % Net Assets | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Corn Products International, Inc. | CPO | 11.03 | 0.54 |
| BRE Properties, Inc. | BRE | 1.0 | 0.5 |
| Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. | AJG | 8.13 | 0.5 |
| Foot Locker Inc | FL | 31.23 | 0.49 |
| Senior Housing Properties Trust | SNH | 0.04 | 0.48 |
Fees
Vanguard Small Cap Value Index Fund has an expense ratio of 0.24 percent.
