Vanguard Consumer Discretionary ETF (NYSEARCA:VCR) Declares Dividend Increase – $0.67 Per Share

Vanguard Consumer Discretionary ETF (NYSEARCA:VCR) announced a dividend on Monday, March 4th, NASDAQ reports. Stockholders of record on Friday, June 28th will be given a dividend of 0.6674 per share on Tuesday, July 2nd. The ex-dividend date is Friday, June 28th. This is a positive change from Vanguard Consumer Discretionary ETF’s previous dividend of $0.55.

Vanguard Consumer Discretionary ETF Price Performance

VCR traded up $1.51 during trading hours on Thursday, reaching $315.87. 73,603 shares of the stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 58,858. The firm’s fifty day simple moving average is $306.24 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $305.53. The company has a market cap of $5.61 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 27.74 and a beta of 1.31. Vanguard Consumer Discretionary ETF has a fifty-two week low of $247.52 and a fifty-two week high of $319.44.

Vanguard Consumer Discretionary ETF Company Profile

Vanguard Consumer Discretionary ETF is an exchange-traded share class of Vanguard Consumer Discretionary Index Fund. It employs investment approach designed to track the performance of the Morgan Stanley Capital International United States Investable Market Consumer Discretionary Index, an Index of stocks of large, medium, and small United States companies in the consumer discretionary sector, as classified under the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS).