VFIAX vs VTI
Vanguard 500 Index Fund Admiral Shares vs Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund ETF Shares
Buy VFIAX if…
- •You prefer higher liquidity and trading volume
- •You prioritize historical performance
- •You want stronger recent performance
- •You value a longer track record
Buy VTI if…
- •You want lower costs (0.03% vs 0.04%)
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VFIAX
The fund employs an indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the Standard & Poor's 500 Index, a widely recognized 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 its assets in the stocks that make up the index, holding each stock in approximately the same proportion as its weighting in the index. The fund is non-diversified.
VTI
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 regularly traded on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq. 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. The fund is non-diversified.