Vanguard 500 Index Fund Fundamentals

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Vanguard 500 Index fundamentals help investors to digest information that contributes to Vanguard 500's financial success or failures. It also enables traders to predict the movement of VANGUARD Mutual Fund. The fundamental analysis module provides a way to measure Vanguard 500's intrinsic value by examining its available economic and financial indicators, including the cash flow records, the balance sheet account changes, the income statement patterns, and various microeconomic indicators and financial ratios related to Vanguard 500 mutual fund.
  
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Vanguard 500 Index Mutual Fund Price To Earning Analysis

Vanguard 500's Price to Earnings ratio is typically used for current valuation of a company and is one of the most popular ratios that investors monitor daily. Holding a low PE stock is less risky because when a company's profitability falls, it is likely that earnings will also go down as well. In other words, if you start from a lower position, your downside risk is limited. There are also some investors who believe that low Price to Earnings ratio reflects the low pricing because a given company is in trouble. On the other hand, a higher PE ratio means that investors are paying more for each unit of profit.

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Current Vanguard 500 Price To Earning

    
  4.33 X  
Most of Vanguard 500's fundamental indicators, such as Price To Earning, are part of a valuation analysis module that helps investors searching for stocks that are currently trading at higher or lower prices than their real value. If the real value is higher than the market price, Vanguard 500 Index is considered to be undervalued, and we provide a buy recommendation. Otherwise, we render a sell signal.
Generally speaking, the Price to Earnings ratio gives investors an idea of what the market is willing to pay for the company's current earnings.
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Vanguard 500 Price To Earning Component Assessment

Based on the latest financial disclosure, Vanguard 500 Index has a Price To Earning of 4.33 times. This is 54.56% lower than that of the Vanguard family and 32.89% lower than that of the Large Blend category. The price to earning for all United States funds is 33.69% higher than that of the company.

Vanguard 500 Index Fundamental Drivers Relationships

Comparative valuation techniques use various fundamental indicators to help in determining Vanguard 500's current stock value. Our valuation model uses many indicators to compare Vanguard 500 value to that of its competitors to determine the firm's financial worth. You can analyze the relationship between different fundamental ratios across Vanguard 500 competition to find correlations between indicators driving Vanguard 500's intrinsic value. More Info.
Vanguard 500 Index is presently regarded as number one fund in price to earning among similar funds. It also is presently regarded as number one fund in price to book among similar funds fabricating about  0.64  of Price To Book per Price To Earning. The ratio of Price To Earning to Price To Book for Vanguard 500 Index is roughly  1.57 . The reason why the comparable model can be used in almost all circumstances is due to the vast number of multiples that can be utilized, such as the price-to-earnings (P/E), price-to-book (P/B), price-to-sales (P/S), price-to-cash flow (P/CF), and many others. The P/E ratio is the most commonly used of these ratios because it focuses on the Vanguard 500's earnings, one of the primary drivers of an investment's value.

VANGUARD Price To Earning Peer Comparison

Stock peer comparison is one of the most widely used and accepted methods of equity analyses. It analyses Vanguard 500's direct or indirect competition against its Price To Earning to detect undervalued stocks with similar characteristics or determine the mutual funds which would be a good addition to a portfolio. Peer analysis of Vanguard 500 could also be used in its relative valuation, which is a method of valuing Vanguard 500 by comparing valuation metrics of similar companies.
Vanguard 500 is currently under evaluation in price to earning among similar funds.

Fund Asset Allocation for Vanguard 500

The fund invests 99.33% of asset under management in tradable equity instruments, with the rest of investments concentrated in cash (0.67%) .
Asset allocation divides Vanguard 500's investment portfolio among different asset categories to balance risk and reward by investing in a diversified mix of instruments that align with the investor's goals, risk tolerance, and time horizon. Mutual funds, which pool money from multiple investors to buy a diversified portfolio of securities, use asset allocation strategies to manage the risk and return of their portfolios.
Mutual funds allocate their assets by investing in a diversified portfolio of securities, such as stocks, bonds, cryptocurrencies and cash. The specific mix of these securities is determined by the fund's investment objective and strategy. For example, a stock mutual fund may invest primarily in equities, while a bond mutual fund may invest mainly in fixed-income securities. The fund's manager, responsible for making investment decisions, will buy and sell securities in the fund's portfolio as market conditions and the fund's objectives change.

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About Vanguard 500 Fundamental Analysis

The Macroaxis Fundamental Analysis modules help investors analyze Vanguard 500 Index's financials across various querterly and yearly statements, indicators and fundamental ratios. We help investors to determine the real value of Vanguard 500 using virtually all public information available. We use both quantitative as well as qualitative analysis to arrive at the intrinsic value of Vanguard 500 Index based on its fundamental data. In general, a quantitative approach, as applied to this mutual fund, focuses on analyzing financial statements comparatively, whereas a qaualitative method uses data that is important to a company's growth but cannot be measured and presented in a numerical way.
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The fund employs an indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the Standard Poors 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.

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Vanguard 500 financial ratios help investors to determine whether VANGUARD Mutual Fund is cheap or expensive when compared to a particular measure, such as profits or enterprise value. In other words, they help investors to determine the cost of investment in VANGUARD with respect to the benefits of owning Vanguard 500 security.
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