Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (NYSEARCA:VOO) Announces Quarterly Dividend of $1.77

Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (NYSEARCA:VOO) announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, April 3rd. Stockholders of record on Monday, December 22nd will be given a dividend of 1.771 per share on Wednesday, December 24th. This represents a c) dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.1%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, December 22nd. This is a 1.8% increase from Vanguard S&P 500 ETF’s previous quarterly dividend of $1.74.

Vanguard S&P 500 ETF Price Performance

Shares of VOO traded up $5.55 during trading hours on Friday, hitting $627.56. 10,469,153 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 7,763,263. Vanguard S&P 500 ETF has a fifty-two week low of $442.80 and a fifty-two week high of $634.13. The business has a 50-day moving average of $621.22 and a 200-day moving average of $596.82. The firm has a market capitalization of $780.94 billion, a P/E ratio of 24.97 and a beta of 1.00.

Vanguard S&P 500 ETF Company Profile

Vanguard 500 Index Fund (the Fund) is an open-end investment company, or mutual fund. The Fund offers four classes of shares: Investor Shares, Admiral Shares, Signal Shares, and Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) Shares. The Fund seeks to track the investment performance of the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index, an unmanaged benchmark representing the United States large-capitalization stocks. The Fund employs a passive management-or indexing-investment approach designed to track the performance of the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index.