Vanguard Mega Cap 300 Growth Index ETF (the Fund) is an open-end management investment company. The Fund seeks to track the performance of a benchmark index that measures the investment return of the largest-capitalization growth stocks in the United States. The Fund employs a passive management or indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the MSCI US Large-Cap Growth Index, which represents the growth companies of the Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) US Large-Cap 300 Index. The Fund will invest at least 80% of its assets in the stocks that make up its target Index. As of Aug 31 2013, the Fund's investments portfolio was valued at $1,054,696,000. The MGK YTD return is shown above.
The YTD Return on the MGK YTD return page and across the coverage universe of our site,
is a measure of the total return for a given investment year-to-date for the current calendar year
(up to the end of prior trading session). Arguably, choosing the current calendar year for a measurement
period is on the one hand completely arbitrary, but on the other hand a year-to-date look can be extremely
useful in the context of our country's tax system which taxes gains and income on a calendar year basis.
Thus, researching Year-To-Date Returns is good practice for investors — whether MGK YTD return or other benchmarks/peers
— and when doing so it is also important to factor in dividends, because a financial instrument's YTD return is
more than just the change in price if that instrument pays a dividend or coupon. Our website aims to empower investors
by performing the MGK YTD return calculation (with any dividends reinvested as applicable), and to provide a
coverage universe of many stocks and ETFs to be able to compare YTD returns.
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