If You'd Invested $1,000 in VIG 5 Years Ago, Here's How Much You'd Have Today

Growth stocks such as Nvidia and may have dominated headlines in recent years due to their huge artificial intelligence (AI)-driven gains. It's not like dividend stocks completely faltered during that stretch, though. Many performed pretty well during that period, too, as evidenced by the performance of the Vanguard Dividend Appreciation ETF (NYSEMKT: VIG) over the course of the past five years.

The graphic below tells the tale. Had you invested $1,000 in the Vanguard Dividend Appreciation fund in August of 2020, today you'd have $1,640 plus all the dividends it paid in the meantime. And if you'd reinvested those dividend payments in more shares of VIG, your $1,000 investment would be worth $1,800 now.