Vanguard Consumer Staples Index Fund ETF Shares (VDC)

Vanguard Consumer Staples Index Fund ETF Shares is trading at $232.60, up 1.03% on the session. The 50 day average sits at $229.21 and the 200 day at $n/a, which puts the stock in a mixed technical position. RSI is at 57.2, which reads as strong, and MACD is bullish crossover. Volume is below average.

The nearest support is around $227.31 with resistance near $233.30, so that band frames the current range. Average daily movement is roughly $3.27, or about 1.4% of the share price, which is what any stop placement has to allow for. The overall health score of 72 out of 100 combines a trend score of 68, momentum of 76 and a risk score of 74.

The fund employs an indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the index, an index made up of stocks of large, mid-size, and small U.S. companies within the consumer staples sector, as classified under the GICS. The Advisor attempts to replicate the target index by seeking to invest all, or substantially all, of its assets in the stocks that make up the index, in order to hold each stock in approximately the same proportion as its weighting in the index. The fund is non-diversified.