Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF (the Fund) is an open-end management investment company. The Fund seeks to track the performance of a benchmark index that measures the investment return of common stocks of companies that are characterized by high dividend yields. The Fund is an exchange-traded share class of Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund, which employs a passive management or indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the FTSE High Dividend Yield Index (the Index). As of Oct 31, 2013, the Fund's investments portfolio was valued at $11,341,044,000. The VYM stock yearly return is shown above.
The yearly return on the VYM stock yearly return page and across the coverage universe of our site,
is a measure of the annual return over the calendar year 2015 for the given stock.
When performing this calculation it is important to factor in dividends, because a financial instrument's annual return is
more than just the change in price if that instrument pays a dividend or coupon.
One way to factor dividends into the return is simply to count them as cash — we don't do
that here. Instead, our website aims to empower investors
by performing the VYM annual return calculation with any dividends reinvested as applicable (on ex-dates).
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