Seeks to track the performance of the CRSP US Total Market Index.Large-, mid-, and small-cap equity diversified across growth and value styles.Employs a passively managed, index-sampling strategy.The fund remains fully invested.Low expenses minimize net tracking error.With respect to 75% of its total assets, the fund may not: (1) purchase more than 10% of the outstanding voting securities of any one issuer or (2) purchase securities of any issuer if, as a result, more than 5% of the fund’s total assets would be invested in that issuer’s securities; except as may be necessary to approximate the composition of its target index. This limitation does not apply to obligations of the U.S. government or its agencies or instrumentalities.
Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF · Issued by Vanguard
| NVDA | NVIDIA Corp | 6.87% |
| AAPL | Apple Inc | 6.30% |
| MSFT | Microsoft Corp | 5.10% |
| AMZN | Amazon.com Inc | 3.41% |
| GOOGL | Alphabet Inc Class A | 2.70% |
| AVGO | Broadcom Inc | 2.37% |
| GOOG | Alphabet Inc Class C | 2.12% |
| META | Meta Platforms Inc Class A | 1.70% |
| MU | Micron Technology Inc | 1.46% |
| TSLA | Tesla Inc | 1.40% |
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