{"url":"https://etfiq.com/funds/vpu/trading/","section":"funds","title":"VPU Bid-Ask Spread, Liquidity and NAV Premium | ETFIQ","description":"As of Oct 22, 2026, VPU closed \u22120.01% from its NAV, and on 95% of the 6 days to then it was within \u00b10.03%. No fund is recommended.","as_of":"Oct 22, 2026","structured_data":[{"@type":"Dataset","@id":"https://etfiq.com/funds/vpu/trading/#data","name":"VPU trading costs and liquidity","description":"As of Oct 22, 2026, VPU closed \u22120.01% from its NAV, and on 95% of the 6 days to then it was within \u00b10.03%. 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How the score is built \n Cost to trade Not measured: the issuer's 30-day median spread is not read for this fund Capacity, 93.6 Holdings can absorb $642m a day, Oct 22, 2026 Price fidelity Not measured: 6 days of closing premium are held, under the 20 needed Primary market, 100.0 12 active dealers of 34; largest 31% of creations and redemptions, N-CEN to Aug 31, 2025 Bad-day behaviour Not measured: 0 of the 10 worst days and 6 other days are held, under the 5 and 60 needed Depth Not measured: needs trade and quote data (Phase 2) \n Premium or discount to NAV\n Latest close, Oct 22, 2026: \u22120.01%\n 95% of days within: \u00b10.03%\n Days more than 1% from NAV: 0 of 6\n Widest: +0.03%, Oct 21, 2026\n Close against the NAV its issuer struck the same day, 6 days from Sep 11, 2026 to Oct 22, 2026. Source: ETFIQ from the issuer\u2019s NAV and closing price.\n Capacity\n Its holdings can absorb $642m a day, measured on its own holdings, as of Oct 22, 2026. The holding that sets the limit is Dominion Energy Inc (D), 3.84% of the fund.\n Dealers\n 12 active of 34 authorized participants; the largest did 31% of creations and redemptions, in the year to Aug 31, 2025 (Form N-CEN filed Nov 12, 2025).\n The active authorized participants, largest first, by share of the dollars created and redeemed: Merrill Lynch Professional Clearing Corp. (31.2%), Jane Street Capital, LLC (17.3%), RBC Capital Markets, LLC (15.9%), Citadel Securities LLC (11.1%), Virtu Americas LLC (7.6%), HRT Financial LP (5.5%), Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (2.9%), Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC (2.1%), ABN AMRO Clearing USA LLC (2.1%), BNP Paribas Securities Corp. (1.9%), Barclays Capital Inc. (1.8%), Jefferies LLC (0.5%). 22 more were listed and created or redeemed nothing.\n How to trade VPU\n When ETF spreads are usually widest in the first minutes after the open and the last minutes before the close. ETFIQ measures this fund\u2019s own day once it has trade data. Size Up to $6m is 1% of what its holdings can absorb in a day, for a buy or a sell. Watch The premium. On 95% of days it is within \u00b10.03%; beyond that a buyer pays more, and a seller gets less, than the holdings are worth. Coming with trade data\n Spread through the day, buyers against sellers, an estimate of retail flow, large trades and the closing auction\u2019s share, each once ETFIQ has trade and quote data.\n Questions people ask\n Does VPU trade at a premium or discount to NAV? It closed \u22120.01% from its NAV on Oct 22, 2026. On 95% of the 6 days to then it was within \u00b10.03%, and it closed more than 1% from NAV on 0 of them. Who is the AP for VPU? VPU\u2019s latest Form N-CEN, for the period ending Aug 31, 2025, lists 34 authorized participants (APs), and 12 created or redeemed shares. The largest were Merrill Lynch Professional Clearing Corp. (31.2%), Jane Street Capital, LLC (17.3%), RBC Capital Markets, LLC (15.9%) of the dollars its APs created and redeemed. Who is the LMM for VPU? VPU\u2019s lead market maker (LMM) on NYSE Arca is Latour Trading LLC. Lead market maker per NYSE Arca, as of Oct 23, 2026. Sources and dates\n Premium: ETFIQ, close against the issuer\u2019s NAV, Sep 11, 2026 to Oct 22, 2026.\n Capacity: ETFIQ, from each holding\u2019s 20-day median dollar volume, to Oct 22, 2026.\n Dealers: Form N-CEN, the year to Aug 31, 2025, accession 0000052848-25-000301.\n Where to next\n VPU fund page ETF trading costs and liquidity Limit orders vs market orders for ETFs Why low volume does not mean illiquid How the IQ Liquidity Score is built Compare VPU with another fund The score measures trading conditions, not the fund. ETFIQ is an independent publisher, not an adviser, and makes no recommendations. Standards and sources \n Cite this page. ETFIQ, VPU trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers, data as of Oct 22, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/vpu/trading/ Free to use with attribution for figures ETFIQ computes; issuer data stays under its owner's terms. The underlying files are at Open data .\n Other forms Plain ETFIQ, VPU trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers, data as of Oct 22, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/vpu/trading/ APA ETFIQ. (Oct 22, 2026). VPU trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers. Retrieved from https://etfiq.com/funds/vpu/trading/ Markdown [VPU trading: cost, capacity, premium and dealers (ETFIQ, Oct 22, 2026)](https://etfiq.com/funds/vpu/trading/)","source":"ETFIQ, independent ETF data. Recomputed nightly from public filings and prices.","publisher":{"@id":"https://etfiq.com/#org","name":"ETFIQ","url":"https://etfiq.com"},"license":"https://etfiq.com/license/","license_text":"Figures ETFIQ computes are free to use with attribution: ETFIQ (etfiq.com). 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