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To: Steve Felix who wrote (32268)

1/9/2020 12:19:05 AM

From: Investor2

Respond to of 34328

The fund holds quite a few good utilities, if one is into good utility stocks.

Top 10 Holdings	Morningstar Moat Status	% of ETF
NextEra Energy ( NEE)	Narrow	11.3%
Dominion Energy ( D)	Wide	6.9%
Duke Energy ( DUK)	Narrow	6.5%
Southern Co. ( SO)	Narrow	6.3%
American Electric Power ( AEP)	Narrow	4.5%
Exelon Corp. ( EXC)	Narrow	4.3%
Sempra Energy ( SRE)	Narrow	4.1%
Xcel Energy ( XEL)	Narrow	3.2%
Public Service Enterprise Group ( PEG)	Narrow	3.0%
Consolidated Edison ( ED)	None	2.9%
Total:		53.0%

Source: Created by author

Slow growth expected in the next few decades

Utilities sectors include many subsectors such as electric utilities, gas utilities, independent power producers, multi-utilities, etc. As can be seen from the chart below, about 57% of VPU’s portfolio consists of electric utilities.