The fund employs an indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the index, which represents approximately 100% of the investable U.S. stock market and includes large-, mid-, small-, and micro-cap stocks. It invests by sampling the index, meaning that it holds a broadly diversified collection of securities that, in the aggregate, approximates the full index in terms of key characteristics.
Fund Family VanguardCategory Large BlendStock Exchange NASDAQTicker Symbol VTSAXShare Class Admiral SharesIndex CRSP US Total Stock Market TR PerformanceVTSAX had a total return of 15.54% in the past year, including dividends. Since the fund's inception, the erage annual return has been 8.65%.
Equivalent ETFVTSAX has an equivalent ETF with the ticker symbol VTI, the Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF. This is an ETF from the same fund company that follows the same index. It has an expense ratio of 0.03% compared to 0.04% for VTSAX.
SymbolNameExpense RatioVTIVanguard Total Stock Market ETF0.03% Other Share ClassesThese are alternative share classes of the same fund, from the same provider.
SymbolShare ClassExpense RatioVSTSXInstitutional Select Shares0.01%VSMPXInstitutional Plus Shares0.02%VITSXInstitutional Shares0.03%VTSMXInvestor Shares0.14%