VDC

Vanguard Consumer Staples ETF (VDC) is a fund that bundles roughly 100 U.S. companies making everyday household products, food, beverages, tobacco and personal care items, plus big staples-focused retailers. Rather than picking individual winners, VDC simply mirrors an index, so buying one share gives an investor a small stake in names like Procter and Gamble, Coca-Cola, Costco and Walmart all at once, weighted by their size. The fund earns money for holders the same way the underlying stocks do: through price gains and the dividends those companies pay out, not by selling any product itself.