Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF (NYSEARCA:VTI) Declares Quarterly Dividend of $0.95

Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF (NYSEARCA:VTI) declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, April 3rd. Stockholders 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 dividend 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 Stock Performance

Shares of Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF stock traded up $2.97 during midday trading on Friday, reaching $336.22. 4,013,493 shares of the company’s stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 3,850,286. The stock has a 50 day moving average of $332.47 and a 200-day moving average of $319.65. Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF has a 12 month low of $236.42 and a 12 month high of $339.94. The company has a market cap of $560.71 billion, a PE ratio of 24.26 and a beta of 1.02.

About Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF

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.