VNQ Real Estate ETF (VNQ)
Real Estate · Benchmark: Index Benchmark · Domiciled in US
VMCI-Composite holdings score
ValueMarkers builds the VMCI-Composite by taking the underlying VMCI score for each of the ETF's top-10 holdings and weighting it by the holding's share of the fund. The number summarizes the fundamentals of the largest positions on the five-pillar framework — Value, Quality, Integrity, Growth, Risk.
VNQ Real Estate ETF — analysis
VNQ's headline numbers: $12.1B AUM, 7 bps expense ratio, 1995 inception. Category: Real Estate. Benchmark: Index Benchmark. VNQ Real Estate ETF is the issuer-titled fund managed against that index since launch.
VNQ VMCI-Composite: 69/100. The metric weighs the underlying companies' VMCI by their fund weight (top 10), so it captures whether the index methodology is selecting fundamentally cheaper, higher-quality, or lower-risk names. Read: above-average composite quality.
Trailing total return on VNQ: 15.4% 5y CAGR. The Index Benchmark index returned 16.0% per year over the same window, leaving the fund below index by -0.6 pp annualized.
Income line on VNQ: 4.90% trailing yield, 0.4% 5-year distribution CAGR. The starting yield combined with the growth rate is the standard back-of-envelope for total-income compounding inside the fund.
Holdings detail for VNQ: 30% in top 10 (AAPL 3.54% the largest), with Technology at 28% of the allocation. The remaining sector mix spreads across 11 categories.
For a real estate allocation, the comparable trio to VNQ is SPY, VOO, VTI. The screener and ETF browse pages on ValueMarkers let you sort all four side-by-side on AUM, cost, return, and yield.
Top 25 holdings
| # | Ticker | Weight | VMCI |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AAPL | 3.54% | 89 |
| 2 | MSFT | 3.40% | 67 |
| 3 | NVDA | 3.27% | 86 |
| 4 | AMZN | 3.27% | 43 |
| 5 | GOOGL | 3.05% | 79 |
| 6 | META | 2.87% | 80 |
| 7 | BRK-B | 2.74% | 51 |
| 8 | TSLA | 2.74% | 59 |
| 9 | V | 2.52% | 81 |
| 10 | JPM | 2.52% | 50 |
| 11 | UNH | 2.43% | 56 |
| 12 | XOM | 2.17% | 43 |
| 13 | JNJ | 1.99% | 85 |
| 14 | PG | 1.81% | 54 |
| 15 | MA | 1.68% | 77 |
| 16 | HD | 1.55% | 85 |
| 17 | MRK | 1.41% | 69 |
| 18 | AVGO | 1.28% | 42 |
| 19 | PEP | 1.28% | 78 |
| 20 | COST | 1.06% | 70 |
| 21 | KO | 0.88% | 69 |
| 22 | WMT | 0.88% | 57 |
| 23 | BAC | 0.66% | 87 |
| 24 | CVX | 0.49% | 80 |
| 25 | ADBE | 0.49% | 49 |
Performance & income
Comparable ETFs
Browse more
Data refreshed at request time and cached for 6 hours. As of 2026-05-15.