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VIMAX · Vanguard Mid-Cap Index Fund Admiral Shares
Over the last 15 years (2011-11 to 2026-11), $10,000 invested in VIMAX with dividends reinvested grew to $55,741, 12.06% a year, with a worst peak-to-trough fall of -25.72%. Past performance doesn't predict future results.
Our market-data provider has no prices for VIMAX in 5 months (2025-02 to 2025-06). The move across them is counted in the next month with prices, so the total and annual returns hold, but the volatility, worst drawdown and Sharpe ratio miss what happened inside those months.
Growth of $10,000 · 2011-11 to 2026-11 · dividends reinvested
How VIMAX held up in past market crashes
VIMAX has been through 4 of the market crashes since 2000 in our data. Its deepest price fall was 59.8% in the 2008 financial crisis, when the S&P 500 fell 56.5%. It took 2.2 years from the bottom to get back to its high. No fund is safe from losses; past falls do not predict future ones.
| Crash | VIMAX deepest fall | S&P 500 (SPY) | Peak to bottom | Back to peak |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 financial crisis | -59.8% | -56.5% | Oct 2007 to Mar 2009 | 2.2 years |
| 2018 fourth-quarter selloff | -21.9% | -20.2% | Sep 2018 to Dec 2018 | 4 months |
| 2020 COVID crash | -39.6% | -34.1% | Feb 2020 to Mar 2020 | 7 months |
| 2022 bear market | -25.8% | -25.4% | Jan 2022 to Sep 2022 | 22 months |
Price declines in the fund's listing currency, dividends not included, inside each crash's S&P 500 peak-to-bottom window. See how 50 popular ETFs compare in the crash study.
About VIMAX
Vanguard Mid-Cap Index Fund Admiral Shares is a mutual fund designed to mirror the performance of the CRSP US Mid Cap Index, which represents a wide selection of mid-capitalization U.S. companies. The fund employs a passive, indexing approach, investing substantially all of its assets in the stocks that constitute its benchmark and maintaining portfolio weights closely aligned with the index.
Fund description from our market-data provider.
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