Vanguard 500 Index Fund Market Value

VFFSX Fund  USD 276.65  5.81  2.15%   
Vanguard 500's market value is the price at which a share of Vanguard 500 trades on a public exchange. It measures the collective expectations of Vanguard 500 Index investors about its performance. Vanguard 500 is trading at 276.65 as of the 16th of March 2025; that is 2.15 percent up since the beginning of the trading day. The fund's open price was 270.84.
With this module, you can estimate the performance of a buy and hold strategy of Vanguard 500 Index and determine expected loss or profit from investing in Vanguard 500 over a given investment horizon. Check out Vanguard 500 Correlation, Vanguard 500 Volatility and Vanguard 500 Alpha and Beta module to complement your research on Vanguard 500.
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Please note, there is a significant difference between Vanguard 500's value and its price as these two are different measures arrived at by different means. Investors typically determine if Vanguard 500 is a good investment by looking at such factors as earnings, sales, fundamental and technical indicators, competition as well as analyst projections. However, Vanguard 500's price is the amount at which it trades on the open market and represents the number that a seller and buyer find agreeable to each party.

Vanguard 500 'What if' Analysis

In the world of financial modeling, what-if analysis is part of sensitivity analysis performed to test how changes in assumptions impact individual outputs in a model. When applied to Vanguard 500's mutual fund what-if analysis refers to the analyzing how the change in your past investing horizon will affect the profitability against the current market value of Vanguard 500.
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If you would invest  0.00  in Vanguard 500 on December 16, 2024 and sell it all today you would earn a total of 0.00 from holding Vanguard 500 Index or generate 0.0% return on investment in Vanguard 500 over 90 days. Vanguard 500 is related to or competes with Wealthbuilder Conservative, Stone Ridge, Lord Abbett, Great-west Moderately, Wilmington Diversified, Delaware Limited, and John Hancock. The fund employs an indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the Standard Poors 500 Index, a wi... More

Vanguard 500 Upside/Downside Indicators

Understanding different market momentum indicators often help investors to time their next move. Potential upside and downside technical ratios enable traders to measure Vanguard 500's mutual fund current market value against overall market sentiment and can be a good tool during both bulling and bearish trends. Here we outline some of the essential indicators to assess Vanguard 500 Index upside and downside potential and time the market with a certain degree of confidence.

Vanguard 500 Market Risk Indicators

Today, many novice investors tend to focus exclusively on investment returns with little concern for Vanguard 500's investment risk. Other traders do consider volatility but use just one or two very conventional indicators such as Vanguard 500's standard deviation. In reality, there are many statistical measures that can use Vanguard 500 historical prices to predict the future Vanguard 500's volatility.
Sophisticated investors, who have witnessed many market ups and downs, anticipate that the market will even out over time. This tendency of Vanguard 500's price to converge to an average value over time is called mean reversion. However, historically, high market prices usually discourage investors that believe in mean reversion to invest, while low prices are viewed as an opportunity to buy.
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269.77270.84271.91
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251.28252.35297.92
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LowNextHigh
268.38269.46270.53
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271.93288.01304.09
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Vanguard 500 Index Backtested Returns

Vanguard 500 Index owns Efficiency Ratio (i.e., Sharpe Ratio) of -0.14, which indicates the fund had a -0.14 % return per unit of risk over the last 3 months. Vanguard 500 Index exposes twenty-one different technical indicators, which can help you to evaluate volatility embedded in its price movement. Please validate Vanguard 500's Coefficient Of Variation of (737.26), risk adjusted performance of (0.12), and Variance of 1.15 to confirm the risk estimate we provide. The entity has a beta of 0.0981, which indicates not very significant fluctuations relative to the market. As returns on the market increase, Vanguard 500's returns are expected to increase less than the market. However, during the bear market, the loss of holding Vanguard 500 is expected to be smaller as well.

Auto-correlation

    
  -0.56  

Good reverse predictability

Vanguard 500 Index has good reverse predictability. Overlapping area represents the amount of predictability between Vanguard 500 time series from 16th of December 2024 to 30th of January 2025 and 30th of January 2025 to 16th of March 2025. The more autocorrelation exist between current time interval and its lagged values, the more accurately you can make projection about the future pattern of Vanguard 500 Index price movement. The serial correlation of -0.56 indicates that roughly 56.0% of current Vanguard 500 price fluctuation can be explain by its past prices.
Correlation Coefficient-0.56
Spearman Rank Test-0.19
Residual Average0.0
Price Variance74.33

Vanguard 500 Index lagged returns against current returns

Autocorrelation, which is Vanguard 500 mutual fund's lagged correlation, explains the relationship between observations of its time series of returns over different periods of time. The observations are said to be independent if autocorrelation is zero. Autocorrelation is calculated as a function of mean and variance and can have practical application in predicting Vanguard 500's mutual fund expected returns. We can calculate the autocorrelation of Vanguard 500 returns to help us make a trade decision. For example, suppose you find that Vanguard 500 has exhibited high autocorrelation historically, and you observe that the mutual fund is moving up for the past few days. In that case, you can expect the price movement to match the lagging time series.
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Vanguard 500 regressed lagged prices vs. current prices

Serial correlation can be approximated by using the Durbin-Watson (DW) test. The correlation can be either positive or negative. If Vanguard 500 mutual fund is displaying a positive serial correlation, investors will expect a positive pattern to continue. However, if Vanguard 500 mutual fund is observed to have a negative serial correlation, investors will generally project negative sentiment on having a locked-in long position in Vanguard 500 mutual fund over time.
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Vanguard 500 Lagged Returns

When evaluating Vanguard 500's market value, investors can use the concept of autocorrelation to see how much of an impact past prices of Vanguard 500 mutual fund have on its future price. Vanguard 500 autocorrelation represents the degree of similarity between a given time horizon and a lagged version of the same horizon over the previous time interval. In other words, Vanguard 500 autocorrelation shows the relationship between Vanguard 500 mutual fund current value and its past values and can show if there is a momentum factor associated with investing in Vanguard 500 Index.
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