VIG: Vanguard Dividend Appreciation ETF

What does VIG hold?#

This fund owns shares of about 330 large US companies that keep raising their dividends. A dividend is cash a company pays to its owners. The fund still rises and falls with the stock market, and companies can cut dividends.

It tracks the S&P U.S. Dividend Growers Index. It had 333 holdings as of September 30, 2026, according to Vanguard.

What is the VIG expense ratio?#

VIG charges 0.04% a year. An expense ratio is the yearly fee a fund takes to run itself. On $10,000, a 0.04% fee comes to about $4 a year.

You never get a bill for it. The fund takes the fee out of its own value a little each day.

How has VIG done since 2006?#

From May 2006 to October 2026, VIG returned about 10.2% a year. Say you put in $10,000 at the start. It would have been worth about $72,375 at the end, with every dividend reinvested.

Prices through October 16, 2026. Figures use daily closing prices adjusted for splits, with dividends reinvested. They do not include taxes or the cost of buying and selling. Past results do not tell you what will happen next.

VIG returns by year#

What was VIG’s worst drop?#

A drawdown is how far a fund falls from its last high point. VIG’s worst fall was −46.8%, from October 9, 2007 to March 9, 2009. It got back to that high on February 16, 2011.

The chart shows how far below its last high the fund was on each day. Big drops are normal for some funds. They matter because selling during a drop locks in the loss.

Which Tactfolio strategies hold VIG?#

No classic strategy holds VIG yet. You can add it to your own rules in the builder and see how they would have done.

How does VIG compare with similar ETFs?#

Funds that can stand in for VIG:

• DGRO: iShares Core Dividend Growth ETF, 0.08% a year
• DGRW: WisdomTree U.S. Quality Dividend Growth Fund, 0.28% a year
• NOBL: ProShares S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats ETF, 0.35% a year
• VYM: Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF, 0.04% a year

See all 8 VIG alternatives, compared on the same dates as VIG.

Test VIG in your own rules#

Tactfolio is a platform where you build rules-based investing strategies, backtest them on decades of real prices, share them, and run them automatically in your own Alpaca account. Open the builder, add VIG, and see how a rule such as “hold it only above its 200-day average” would have done. Strategies run on daily prices and hold US stocks and ETFs only.

The details#

Prices come from Tactfolio’s stored daily prices for VIG. Each close is adjusted for splits, and dividends are reinvested on the day the fund pays them out. CAGR is the steady yearly return that turns the starting value into the ending value. Volatility is the yearly standard deviation of daily returns.

Fund facts come from Vanguard. We checked them on October 17, 2026. Read what a backtest simulates and how to read drawdown and CAGR for more on these measures.