We just covered the Graham Stephan Stock Portfolio: Top 11 Stocks and Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (NYSE:VOO) ranks seventh on this list.
Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (NYSE:VOO) is another index fund that Graham Stephan has recommended his followers buy on multiple occasions. The Vanguard S&P 500 ETF employs an index investing approach designed to track the performance of the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index, a popular benchmark of U.S. stock market performance that is dominated by the stocks of large U.S. companies. The advisor attempts to replicate the target index by investing all, or substantially all, of the assets in the stocks that make up the index, holding each stock approximately the same as its weighting in the index. The fund is not diversified.
Top holdings in the Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (NYSE:VOO) include companies such as Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ:AVGO), Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META), Tesla, Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA), and Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE:BRK-B), among others. These stocks are also very popular with hedge funds. The top holdings in the Vanguard S&P 500 ETF are concentrated in the technology, financial services and communications services sectors. These three represent 35.7%, 11.6% and 11.2% of the total portfolio. The fund has $1.6 trillion in net assets with a year-to-date daily total return of around 8.6%.
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