You Could House Your Money in This Fund

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  • 08/21/2022

Consistent followers of the ETF Talk will recognize this week’s return to the world of real estate investment trusts (REITs). A REIT is a company that invests in real estate and gains revenue by renting it out to other organizations. REITs are required by law to distribute a large portion of their profits to shareholders, so they tend to pay solid dividends. One method of investing in this space is through Vanguard REIT ETF (VNQ).

This ETF tracks an index that uses a broad portfolio representative of the U.S. REIT market. Most publicly traded U.S. REITs are represented in this fund. The REITs range in purpose from those more inclined towards residential and retail properties to bigger commercial building REITs.

In the past 12 months, this fund has moved up 21.08%. This ride has not been without its bumps, as the chart below shows, but VNQ’s progress hasn’t been wildly unstable either — the fund has remained above its 200-day moving average (MA) the whole time. This fund manages $53.5 billion in assets and provides a dividend yield of 3.50%. Its expense ratio, at 0.10%, is 92% lower than the category average.

As a REIT ETF, VNQ is fully invested in real estate. In terms of REIT types, the largest subsector holding in VNQ is retail REITs, with 25.60% of its assets invested there. Following that category are residential REITs, with 16.30%, and office REITs, at 16.10%.

VNQ’s 10 largest investments make up 38% of its portfolio. Among these are Simon Property Group Inc. (SPG), 8.37%; Public Storage (PSA), 4.10%; Health Care REIT Inc. (HCN), 3.78%; Equity Residential (EQR), 3.75%; and Ventas Inc. (VTR), 3.41%.

If the REIT space interests you, Vanguard REIT ETF (VNQ) provides a quick and uncomplicated way to invest in a broad swath of the industry, wrapped in one package.

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