Yahoo · Sep 15, 2026
This Is the No. 1 Reason I'm Buying and Holding the Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF (VTI) Right Now
Strong fundamentals are historically one of the key drivers of share price growth.
VT
NYSE · VTI
Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF
Financial Services · Asset Management
$372.84
Down-$1.84 (-0.49%)
Updated Sep 16, 2026, 10:30 AM
SID Score
6.5/10
Composite research score
Smart Money
56/100
Neutral
- Market cap
- 278.12B
- P/E ratio
- —
- Dividend yield
- 1.00%
- 52-week range
- $310.40 – $385.12
- Volume
- 2.83M
- Avg. volume
- 4.04M
Price performance
VTI price history
1M range · 20 trading sessions · Daily adjusted prices
VTI closed at $372.84 after 20 trading sessions, down 1.64% for the selected period.
- Last close
- $372.84
- Period change
- -1.64%
- Period low
- $372.84
- Period high
- $380.93
Daily close
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| Date | Open | High | Low | Close | Volume |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 15, 2026 | $374.29 | $374.67 | $372.2041 | $372.84 | 2.83M |
| Sep 14, 2026 | $373.97 | $376.055 | $373.28 | $374.68 | 3.04M |
| Sep 11, 2026 | $376.51 | $377.295 | $375.93 | $376.31 | 2.65M |
| Sep 10, 2026 | $373.095 | $374.54 | $372.7501 | $373.24 | 3.31M |
| Sep 9, 2026 | $376.84 | $377.00 | $375.02 | $375.56 | 2.55M |
| Sep 8, 2026 | $379.34 | $379.57 | $377.28 | $377.60 | 4.29M |
| Sep 4, 2026 | $380.21 | $380.68 | $379.13 | $379.73 | 2.63M |
| Sep 3, 2026 | $378.50 | $381.32 | $378.16 | $380.93 | 2.57M |
| Sep 2, 2026 | $375.70 | $377.53 | $375.28 | $376.88 | 2.47M |
| Sep 1, 2026 | $375.80 | $376.82 | $374.15 | $375.17 | 3.16M |
| Aug 31, 2026 | $378.48 | $378.575 | $376.9693 | $378.15 | 3.19M |
| Aug 28, 2026 | $381.03 | $382.25 | $378.875 | $379.36 | 2.82M |
| Aug 27, 2026 | $379.50 | $381.20 | $378.86 | $380.63 | 2.91M |
| Aug 26, 2026 | $377.69 | $378.90 | $377.28 | $378.23 | 2.25M |
| Aug 25, 2026 | $378.50 | $378.60 | $376.895 | $378.15 | 2.64M |
| Aug 24, 2026 | $377.92 | $378.00 | $376.4836 | $377.07 | 2.97M |
| Aug 21, 2026 | $378.835 | $379.225 | $377.415 | $378.24 | 2.83M |
| Aug 20, 2026 | $378.50 | $379.37 | $376.385 | $376.58 | 3.43M |
| Aug 19, 2026 | $380.71 | $381.67 | $379.57 | $379.99 | 2.69M |
| Aug 18, 2026 | $380.10 | $380.4865 | $378.90 | $379.04 | 3.84M |
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VTI research
Overview
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Company profile
The fund employs an indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the index, which represents approximately 100% of the investable U.S. stock market and includes large-, mid-, small-, and micro-cap stocks. It invests by sampling the index, meaning that it holds a broadly diversified collection of securities that, in the aggregate, approximates the full index in terms of key characteristics.
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Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF Stock Performance
Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF (VTI) trades at $372.84, sitting slightly below its 50-day moving average of $374.60 but well above its 200-day moving average of $352.56, per SID market data. The fund has delivered a 14.97% return over the trailing twelve months, reflecting broad U.S. equity market strength over that period. However, shorter-term performance has been mixed, with a 2.27% gain over three months offset by a 2.5% decline over the past month. The 14-day RSI reading of 45.6 places VTI in neutral territory, neither overbought nor oversold. Average daily trading volume stands at approximately 4.04 million shares, according to Massive/Polygon data, underscoring VTI's position as one of the most liquid ETFs in the market. The fund's beta of 1.04 confirms its close tracking of overall U.S. equity market movements.
Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF Valuation Analysis
Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF (VTI) carries a total net asset base reflected in a market capitalization of approximately $278.1 billion, per SID market data. The fund currently offers a dividend yield of 1.1%, according to SEC filings, providing modest income alongside capital appreciation exposure. As a passively managed index fund tracking the CRSP US Total Market Index, VTI holds thousands of domestic equities across all market capitalizations and sectors. Traditional single-stock valuation metrics such as price-to-earnings or price-to-book ratios apply at the aggregate portfolio level rather than to the fund itself. The fund's current price of $372.84 positions it approximately 5.75% above its 200-day moving average, suggesting the broader U.S. equity market has maintained an upward trend over the longer term despite the recent one-month pullback of 2.5% from near-term highs.
Smart Money Activity for VTI
Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF (VTI) registers a composite smart money score of 56 out of 100 with a neutral signal, per SID market data. The institutional component scores a perfect 25 out of 25, indicating maximum institutional participation and confidence in the fund, consistent with VTI's status as a core portfolio holding for large allocators. The congressional trading component scores 12.8 out of 25, reflecting moderate activity among members of Congress, according to SEC Form 4 filings and congressional disclosure records. Insider activity scores 12.5 out of 25, which for an ETF structure primarily reflects Vanguard corporate actions rather than traditional insider buying or selling. Notably, the dark pool activity component registers just 5.2 out of 25, per 13F institutional filings and off-exchange data, suggesting relatively limited non-public block trading activity. The overall neutral signal indicates no outsized directional positioning by sophisticated market participants at current price levels.
Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF Earnings Outlook
As a passively managed exchange-traded fund, Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF (VTI) does not report corporate earnings in the traditional sense, and no recent earnings data is available per company earnings reports. Instead, the fund's performance is driven by the aggregate earnings of its underlying holdings spanning the entire U.S. equity market. VTI's trailing twelve-month return of 14.97% reflects the cumulative earnings growth and multiple expansion across its constituent stocks. The fund distributes income quarterly, currently yielding 1.1% annually according to SEC filings. Investors monitoring VTI's fundamental outlook should track broader S&P 500 and total market earnings growth trends rather than fund-level reports. Vanguard publishes semi-annual and annual shareholder reports detailing portfolio composition, expense ratios, and realized capital gains distributions, which serve as the closest equivalent to traditional earnings disclosures for this investment vehicle.
Wall Street Analyst Ratings for VTI
Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF (VTI) does not carry traditional Wall Street analyst ratings, buy/sell recommendations, or price targets, as sell-side research coverage typically applies to individual equities rather than broad-market index funds. No consensus analyst data is currently available for VTI per SID consensus data. However, the fund's investment thesis is effectively evaluated through the aggregate analyst outlook for the U.S. equity market. VTI's 14.97% one-year return and current positioning near its 50-day moving average of $374.60 reflect collective market sentiment across all covered sectors. The fund's beta of 1.04, per Wall Street analyst reports and market data, confirms near-perfect correlation with the total U.S. stock market. ETF research firms and Morningstar-style rating agencies generally assess VTI based on expense efficiency, tracking error, and liquidity rather than fundamental price targets, consistently ranking it among the top total market funds available to investors.
