Graham Stephan Stock Portfolio: Top 11 Stocks

7. Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (NYSE:VOO)

Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (NYSE:VOO) is another index fund that Graham Stephan has recommended his followers buy on multiple occasions. The Vanguard S&P 500 ETF employs an indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index, a popular benchmark of US stock market performance that is dominated by the stocks of large US companies. The advisor attempts to replicate the target index by investing all, or substantially all, of assets in the stocks that make up the index, holding each stock in approximately the same proportion as the weighting in the index. The fund is non-diversified.

The top holdings in the Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (NYSE:VOO) include companies like Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ:AVGO), Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META), Tesla, Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA), and Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE:BRK-B), among others. These stocks are also very popular among hedge funds. The top holdings in the Vanguard S&P 500 ETF are concentrated in the technology, financial services, and communication services sectors. These three make up for 35.7%, 11.6%, and 11,2% of the total portfolio. The fund has $1.6 trillion in net assets with a year-to-date daily total return of around 8.6%.