Vanguard Small Cap Index Fund Admiral Shares (VSMAX)

NASDAQ · Mutual Fund · Delayed Price · Currency is USD
124.73
+0.04 (0.03%)
At close: Dec 5, 2025
-0.03%
Fund Assets 162.36B
Expense Ratio 0.05%
Min. Investment $3,000
Turnover 13.00%
Dividend (ttm) 1.64
Dividend Yield 1.32%
Dividend Growth 3.33%
Payout Frequency Quarterly
Ex-Dividend Date Sep 29, 2025
Previous Close 124.69
YTD Return 9.46%
1-Year Return 1.40%
5-Year Return 48.57%
52-Week Low 92.26
52-Week High 124.73
Beta (5Y) 1.24
Holdings 1334
Inception Date Oct 3, 1960

About VSMAX

The fund employs an indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the CRSP US Small Cap Index, a broadly diversified index of stocks of small U.S. companies. The advisor attempts to replicate the target index by investing all, or substantially all, of its assets in the stocks that make up the index, holding each stock in approximately the same proportion as its weighting in the index.

Fund Family Vanguard
Category Small Blend
Performance Rating Above Average
Risk Rating Average
Stock Exchange NASDAQ
Ticker Symbol VSMAX
Share Class Admiral Shares
Index CRSP US Small Cap TR

Performance

VSMAX had a total return of 1.40% in the past year, including dividends. Since the fund's inception, the average annual return has been 11.32%.

Equivalent ETF

VSMAX has an equivalent ETF with the ticker symbol VB, the Vanguard Small-Cap ETF. This is an ETF from the same fund company that follows the same index. It has an expense ratio of 0.05% compared to 0.05% for VSMAX.

Symbol Name Expense Ratio
VB Vanguard Small-Cap ETF 0.05%

Other Share Classes

These are alternative share classes of the same fund, from the same provider.

Symbol Share Class Expense Ratio
VSCPX Institutional Plus Shares 0.03%
VSCIX Institutional Shares 0.04%
NAESX Investor Shares 0.17%

Top 10 Holdings

5.28% of assets
Name Symbol Weight
Slcmt1142 n/a 1.15%
Insmed Incorporated INSM 0.58%
Comfort Systems USA, Inc. FIX 0.49%
SoFi Technologies, Inc. SOFI 0.49%
NRG Energy, Inc. NRG 0.48%
Pure Storage, Inc. PSTG 0.44%
EMCOR Group, Inc. EME 0.44%
Rocket Lab Corporation RKLB 0.42%
Bloom Energy Corporation BE 0.40%
Sandisk Corporation SNDK 0.40%
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Dividend History

Ex-Dividend Amount Pay Date
Sep 29, 2025 $0.3857 Sep 30, 2025
Jun 30, 2025 $0.3774 Jul 1, 2025
Mar 27, 2025 $0.4402 Mar 28, 2025
Dec 23, 2024 $0.4329 Dec 24, 2024
Sep 27, 2024 $0.3376 Sep 30, 2024
Jun 28, 2024 $0.4056 Jul 1, 2024
Full Dividend History