VOX: Vanguard Communication Services ETF

What does VOX hold?#

This fund owns shares of about 110 US companies in phone service, internet, media, and entertainment. Two giant internet companies make up more than 40 percent of the fund. That means a few stocks can move its value a lot.

It tracks the MSCI US Investable Market Communication Services 25/50 Index. It had 111 holdings as of September 30, 2026, according to Vanguard.

What is the VOX expense ratio?#

VOX charges 0.09% a year. An expense ratio is the yearly fee a fund takes to run itself. On $10,000, a 0.09% fee comes to about $9 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 VOX done since 2004?#

From September 2004 to October 2026, VOX returned about 8.6% a year. Say you put in $10,000 at the start. It would have been worth about $61,212 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.

VOX returns by year#

What was VOX’s worst drop?#

A drawdown is how far a fund falls from its last high point. VOX’s worst fall was −57.2%, from July 16, 2007 to November 20, 2008. It got back to that high on September 12, 2012.

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 VOX?#

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

How does VOX compare with similar ETFs?#

Funds that can stand in for VOX:

• XLC: State Street Communication Services Select Sector SPDR ETF, 0.08% a year
• XLK: State Street Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF, 0.08% a year
• FTEC: Fidelity MSCI Information Technology Index ETF, 0.084% a year
• VGT: Vanguard Information Technology ETF, 0.09% a year

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

Test VOX 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 VOX, 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 VOX. 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.