Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF

VYM

Market cap $74.9B

Designed to provide broad exposure to the Large Cap Value segment of the US equity market, the Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares (VYM) is a passively managed exchange traded fund launched on November 10, 2006.

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