Vanguard Materials Swot Analysis

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The Vanguard Materials ETF tracks a very broad market-cap-weighted index of US materials companies.VAW offers extremely broad exposure to the USbasic materials segment thanks to a highly representative market-cap-weighted index. While it has a noteworthy large-cap tilt, there's considerable overlap between VAW's holdings and our segment benchmark, and the only meaningful bet it makes is the addition of fishing, farming, and industrial conglomerate firms to the portfolio. In all, it's a fantastic take on the sector. It's also easy to trade, with deep liquidity in both the primary and secondary markets. This is a highly concentrated portfolio the top 10 holdings account ofr nearly half of its assets. It has a total asset of 1.43 Billion and it's