Vanguard FTSE Social Index Fund Institutional Shares (VFTNX) Stock

VFTNX

Vanguard FTSE Social Index Fund Institutional Shares VFTNX · NASDAQ

$52.81 +0.00% (+$0.00)

Summary

Vanguard FTSE Social Index Fund Institutional Shares is a mutual fund run by Vanguard. It does not trade on an exchange: you buy it from the fund company at a price set once a day. Positions inside: 361. The ten largest make up 46% of the fund.

Yearly costs: 0.03%
Fund size: $29.5B
Positions: 361
Dividend yield: 0.88%
Running since: 2003

What speaks for it

Costs of 0.03% a year are below the middle of comparable funds (0.40%).
A large fund with $29.5B under management.
Average yearly growth over the last ten years: 15%.
It has been running since 2003.

What to watch

47% of the fund is in one sector (Technology).
97% of the fund is in one country (United States).

A fund has no Bulios Score and no Fair Price of its own - both are computed from the results of a single company. This page shows what is inside the fund and what it costs instead.

1 month: -0.3%
3 months: +3.7%
This year: +12%
1 year: +12%
3 years: +88%
5 years: +62%
10 years: +287%

Avg. market cap: $2.59T
P/E: 25.5x
Forward P/E: 23.4x
P/S: 6.6x
P/B: 8.3x
P/FCF: 35.7x
EV/EBITDA: 19.6x
Dividend yield: 0.66%
ROIC: 29.2%
ROE: 62.7%
Gross margin: 61.1%
Operating margin: 36.4%
Net margin: 34.0%
Payout ratio: 16.8%
Net debt/EBITDA: 0.7x
Beta: 1.08

Weighted average of the 50 largest companies, which make up 71% of the fund. Banks and insurers are left out of the gross margin, the ROIC and the EBITDA figures.

What is inside?

Moderately concentrated

1
NV
Nvidia NVDA 9.7%
2
AA
Apple AAPL 8.8%
3
MS
Microsoft MSFT 6.9%
4
AM
Amazon AMZN 4.4%
5
GO
Alphabet GOOGL 3.7%
6
AV
Broadcom AVGO 3.0%
7
GO
Alphabet GOOG 3.0%
8
ME
Meta META 2.9%
9
MU
Micron MU 2.2%
10
TS
Tesla TSLA 1.9%

Positions in the fund: 361. The ten largest make up 46% of it.

Composition as of Oct 24, 2026.

Where is it spread?

One sector dominates

By sector

Technology 47%
Communication services 12%
Financials 11%
Consumer cyclical 10%
Healthcare 9.9%
Other 9.9%

By country

United States 97%
Ireland 1.0%
United Kingdom 0.5%
Singapore 0.4%
Other countries 1.3%

By company size

Mega cap 69%
Large cap 31%
Mid cap 0.1%

By the company's market value: Mega cap from $200B, Large cap from $10B, Mid cap from $2B, Small cap from $300M, Micro cap below $300M.

Largest sector: Technology (47%). Largest country: United States (97%). Largest size group: Mega cap (69%).

What does it cost me?

Cheap

This fund 0.03%

Middle of comparable mutual funds 0.40%

A year from $10,000: $3.00
Over 20 years: $151

From every $10,000 invested the fund takes $3.00 a year. You do not pay it separately - it is taken out of the fund's value. Over 20 years at 5% yearly growth that adds up to about $151.

How has it done?

Growing over the long run

+26%

-25%

+30%

+25%

+16%

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A year on average, 10 years: +15%
Deepest drop: -30%
Yearly volatility: 14%

Average yearly growth over the last ten years: 15%. Deepest drop in these years: 30% below the earlier high.

Does it pay dividends?

Yes, it pays out

0.32

0.34

0.37

0.41

0.43

20212022202320242025

Yield: 0.88%
Payments a year: 4
Last payment: $0.12

Over the last 12 months it paid $0.47 per share, which is 0.88% of today's price. The last payment was $0.12 on Sep 18, 2026.

How expensive are the companies inside?

Rather expensive

P/E of the companies inside: 25.5
Average Bulios Score: 73 out of 100

Weight by Bulios Fair Price

Undervalued 7.5%
Fairly valued 8.5%
Overvalued 84%

On average the companies inside trade for 25.5 times their yearly profit. By Fair Price, 84% of the rated weight comes out as overvalued.

Counted from its largest companies (50), which make up 71% of the fund. Each company counts by its weight. We use the metrics, the Bulios Score and the Fair Price of the companies themselves.

Can I buy it as an ETF?

A mutual fund is bought from the fund company. These ETFs hold much of the same and trade on an exchange, so an ordinary broker carries them.

Fund	Domicile		Size	1-year change	Dividends
ES ESGV Vanguard ESG U.S. Stock ETF	United States	0.09%	$13.4B	+12%	Pays out	91%
US USNZ Xtrackers Net Zero Pathway Paris Aligned US Equity ETF	United States	0.10%	$297.4M	+12%	Pays out	84%
MG MGC Vanguard Morningstar Mega Cap ETF	United States	0.05%	$11.0B	+13%	Pays out	84%
VS VSP.TO Vanguard S&P 500 Index ETF (CAD-hedged)	Canada	0.08%	$4.52B	+11%	Pays out	84%
SP SPXE ProShares - S&P 500 Ex-Energy ETF	United States	0.09%	$85.5M	+12%	Pays out	83%
US USCL iShares Climate Conscious & Transition MSCI USA ETF	United States	0.08%	$2.80B	+8.8%	Pays out	83%

About the fund

This fund aims to replicate the performance of the FTSE US Choice Index. This benchmark is a market-capitalization-weighted index, encompassing both large and mid-sized U.S. companies. A core principle of the fund is its rigorous screening based on environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) criteria. Specifically, it divests from businesses operating in sectors such as adult entertainment, alcohol, tobacco, cannabis, and gambling. It also omits companies associated with the development or manufacturing of various armaments, including chemical and biological weapons, cluster munitions, anti-personnel landmines, nuclear weapons, conventional military weapons, and civilian firearms. Additionally, the index excludes firms involved in nuclear power, as well as the production or extraction of coal, oil, or gas. Beyond these industry-specific exclusions, it also filters out companies failing to uphold specific standards related to labor practices, human rights, environmental protection, and anti-corruption. Businesses that do not satisfy defined diversity benchmarks are also excluded. The fund utilizes a passive management strategy, aiming for full replication of its benchmark index. It's important to note that the index administrator, FTSE, employs specific methodologies to implement these exclusions. This involves assessing a company's level of involvement in a particular activity or the threshold amount of revenue it derives from such activities, which can vary across different sectors. For instance, companies are barred if they engage in production, distribution, or significant support roles within the excluded industries (e.g., manufacturing alcoholic beverages, owning gambling establishments, producing weapons components, or extracting fossil fuels, including detailed criteria for upstream, midstream, and downstream petroleum activities). Similarly, the non-compliance exclusions (labor, human rights, environmental, anti-corruption) are based on FTSE's internal assessment. For diversity, companies are excluded if they fail to meet at least two of these three criteria: having at least one woman on the board, established diversity policies, and functional diversity management systems. FTSE's internal analysis considers factors like revenue generation from an industry, the extent of company involvement, and the severity of any controversies. For at least 75% of its total assets, the fund operates under specific investment constraints: it cannot acquire more than 10% of the voting shares of any single company, nor can more than 5% of its total assets be allocated to the securities of a single issuer. These restrictions are waived only when necessary to accurately track the composition of the target index or when investing in U.S. government or agency obligations.

Issuer: Vanguard
Asset class: Large Cap Equity
Domicile: United States
Launched: Jan 14, 2003
Net asset value per share: $52.28

Fund page at the issuer

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