Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO)

Vanguard S&P 500 ETF — analysis

In the broad market group, Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO) has gathered $33.7B. The cost line is 30 bps per year, the benchmark is S&P 500 Index, and the fund has traded since 2002.

On the ValueMarkers VMCI-Composite read, VOO scores 66/100. The score is the weighted average of the underlying VMCI ratings across the top 10 holdings, which together represent roughly 31% of the fund. That places VOO in above-average composite quality territory inside the Broad Market cohort.

VOO compounded at 14.7% per year over the trailing five years, which compares to 13.0% on the benchmark. The 1.7-pp gap captures expense drag plus any active deviation in the strategy.

Trailing yield on VOO is 5.20%, with distributions growing at 8.7% annualized over five years. That combination is the simplest read on whether the fund is structured for current income or distribution growth.

VOO weight stack: top 10 names equal 31%, sector tilt Technology 28%, single-name concentration peaks at AAPL (3.71%). Those three numbers describe the fund's risk shape on a single screen.

Peer ETFs covering the same mandate as VOO: SPY, IVV, VTI. The practical comparison runs on issuer reliability, expense ratio, holdings concentration, and tax efficiency, all of which ValueMarkers surfaces on the individual ETF pages.