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10. VIGAX: same story
Mon Jul 6, 2020, 09:24 AM
Jul 2020
VIGAX gives Vanguard 13.18 while Yahoo Finance: 6.24


Using ADJUSTED CLOSES from Yahoo's historic quotes page
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/VIGAX/history?p=VIGAX

12/31/19: 93.41
05/29/20: 99.24   YTD=6.24%
06/30/20: 103.97   YTD=11.30%
07/02/20: 105.71   YTD=13.17%

Morningstar also gets 13.18%, as does Vanguard.

Same reason as with VFTAX why I'm a little off - the adjusted closes I'm using are to 2 places to the right of the decimal, but internally, they are calculated to higher precisions and the higher precision numbers are used in total return calculations.

Oh dammit. The Yahoo Finance quotes summary page gives the YTD return as 6.24%. But if you scroll down and look to the right, under "Performance and Risk", it gives it as 10.28%. And the Yahoo Finance performance tab gives it as 10.28%. I have no idea what the 10.28% might come from. (I tried the Close number in place of Adjusted Close and don't get any matches to 10.28%)

I hate it I hate it I hate it.
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