VGT Sees $163.32 Million in Fund Inflows in Trailing 3 Months

Fund Flows in Technology ETFs for the Week Ended September 25

(Continued from Prior Part)

Overview of VGT

The Vanguard Information Technology ETF (VGT) tracks a market-cap weighted portfolio of US technology companies. It tracks the performance of 387 publicly listed companies in the technology sector.

VGT’s market capitalization is $7.20 billion with an expense ratio of 0.12%, and average daily volume of shares traded is $38.02 million. VGT’s price-to-earnings ratio is 19.25x. Its price-to-book and distribution yields stand at 4.08x and 2.13%, respectively.

VGT’s top five holdings include Apple (AAPL) at 15.93%, Microsoft (MSFT) at 8.41%, Facebook Class A Shares (FB) at 4.32%, Google Class A (GOOGL) at 4.34%, and Google Class C (GOOG) at 4.19%. These make up more than 37% of VGT’s total portfolio.

Fund flows in VGT

In the trailing one month, VGT’s net fund outflows were $18.22 million. In the trailing 12-month (or TTM) period, net fund inflows were $1.366 billion. Fund flows in the trailing one week and trailing three months were $17.90 million and $163.32 million, respectively. Since August 3, 2015, VGT is trading consistently below its moving averages. Since then, VGT’s net fund inflows have been $66.26 million.

VGT generated investor returns of 2% in the trailing 12-month period and 5.44% in the trailing one-month period. In comparison, it generated 12.30% returns in the trailing three-year period, -2.31% year-to-date, and -7.06% in the last three months.

Moving averages

On September 25, 2015, VGT closed the trading day at $100.84. Based on this figure, here’s how the stock fares in terms of its moving averages:

• 5.75% below its 100-day moving average of $106.99

• 3.94% below its 50-day moving average of $104.98

• 1.36% below its 20-day moving average of $102.24

Relative Strength Index

VGT’s 14-day RSI (Relative Strength Index) is 42.58, which shows that the stock is slightly oversold. Generally, if the RSI is above 70, it indicates the stock is overbought. An RSI figure below 30 suggests that a stock has been oversold.

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• Part 1 - XLK Sees $217.84 Million in Fund Inflows in Trailing One Month

• Part 2 - SKYY Sees $124.22 Million in Fund Inflows in Trailing 12 Months

• Part 3 - IYW Sees -$1.65 Billion in Fund Outflows in Trailing 12 Months