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Every Closelook reading that exists for VTI, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 1.04%, quarterly · last 1.04 USD on 2026-06-26

Dividends and capital return

What VTI pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 3.90 USD per share · a 1.04% yield on the 2026-09-18 close 4 distributions, paid quarterly 2026-09-18
  • Change on the year +5.1% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 3.71 USD per share
  • Last distribution 1.04 USD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-06-26
  • By calendar year 2023: 1.80 USD (partial) · 2024: 3.67 USD · 2025: 3.76 USD · 2026: 2.04 USD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2023-09-21

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Weather around the name 4 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Region breadth …

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 50/100 · S&P 500 fund at 49, above its 50- and 200-day averagesEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-18
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 97th percentile of the window, +4.9% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-18
  • Region breadth US: 2 of 11 sectors up on the month · leading Technology +3.2%, lagging Industrials −6.7%The Sector Engine column for the market this fund tracks — how many of its eleven sectors are rising and which ones lead, the internals behind the fund's own move. Sector Engine → 2026-09-20
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.07 · down 0.41 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-18

About Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund ETF Shares

Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund ETF Shares (VTI) is an exchange-traded fund that trades on US exchanges. Closelook tracks it as a benchmark: the dailies and the sector dispersion board quote it as a market reference, and the holdings card above matches its largest positions against the names with a Closelook page. It is a constituent of Closelook benchmark ETF set.

closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-19

Quick answers

What is Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund ETF Shares (VTI)?

Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund ETF Shares is an exchange-traded fund trading as VTI on the US exchange (US) and is one of the benchmark ETFs Closelook tracks as a market reference, as of the registry build of 2026-09-19.

How does Closelook use VTI?

As a benchmark: the daily editions, the sector dispersion board and the index dashboards quote Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund ETF Shares as a market reference, and this page matches the fund's largest holdings against the names Closelook covers so a reader can move from the fund to the companies inside it.

Where does VTI trade against its moving averages?

Uptrend stack intact: Trades +0.1% vs the 50-day and +6.4% vs the 200-day average, 2.5% below the 52-week high and +21% off the 52-week low. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-18 — a technical state from the nightly Closelook bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

Does Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund ETF Shares pay a dividend?

Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund ETF Shares has paid 3.90 USD per share over the last twelve months, paid quarterly, a trailing yield of 1.04% on the 2026-09-18 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 1.04 USD on 2026-06-26. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

Where has Closelook written about Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund ETF Shares?

Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund ETF Shares appears in 1 Closelook piece, most recently Strategy: Portfolio Construction — The Barbell Architecture, Why the Middle Is Decay (2026-05-23). What Closelook said most recently: QQQ, VOO, VTI, VEU, VXUS, ACWI, MSCI World total-market ETFs all qualify. (Strategy, 2026-05-23). The "Mentioned on Closelook" block on this page lists the long reads, the reference entries and the dailies that name it.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for VTI, fund basics and the top holdings by weight with the Closelook names among them marked, the technical state where the data exists, and the research diary mentions — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Mentioned on Closelook 1 piece · newest: Strategy, “Portfolio Construction — The Barbell Architecture, Why the Middle Is Decay” (2026-05-23)

Mentioned on Closelook

Where VTI appears in the diary — 1 piece, newest first. Every link is our own writing.

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