Vanguard FTSE Canada Index ETF (TSE:VCE) Trading at C$78.62

Vanguard FTSE Canada Index ETF (TSE:VCE)’s stock price rose 0% during trading on Thursday. The company traded as high as C$78.80 and last traded at C$78.62. 13,649 shares traded hands during trading, a decline of 55% from the average session volume of 30,533 shares. The stock had previously closed at C$78.59.

Vanguard FTSE Canada Index ETF Stock Performance

The firm has a 50 day simple moving average of C$77.45 and a 200-day simple moving average of C$74.21.

Vanguard FTSE Canada Index ETF Increases Dividend

The firm also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Friday, September 25th. Stockholders of record on Friday, September 25th were issued a dividend of $0.4137 per share. The ex-dividend date was Friday, September 18th. This is a boost from Vanguard FTSE Canada Index ETF’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.4095. This represents a $1.65 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 2.1%.

About Vanguard FTSE Canada Index ETF

The investment objective of Vanguard FTSE Canada Index ETF (the ETF) is to track, to the extent reasonably possible and before fees and expenses, the performance of FTSE Canada Domestic Index (the Index). The Index is a market capitalization-weighted index representing the performance of Canadian large- and mid-capitalization stocks. To achieve its investment objective, the ETF employs a passive management, or indexing, investment approach designed to track the performance of the Index by investing all, or substantially all, of its assets in the stocks that make up the Index, holding each stock in approximately the same proportion as its weighting in the Index.