
Capital Group International Equity ETF
$37.02−0.48 (−1.29%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.54%
- Fund size
- $2.5B
- 1Y return
- +12.7%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 1.34%
- Holdings
- 76
- Volume · 30D
- 0.4M sh
- NAV per share
- $36.88
- 52W range
The ETF.net CGIE Grade
Score 60 of 100 sits in the B band. Bands: A ≥ 70, B ≥ 55, C ≥ 40, D ≥ 25, F < 25; the scale skips E.
Cost
What you pay to own it — the expense ratio plus trading frictions, ranked within its category.BScore 63Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.Not scoredRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.CScore 43Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 67Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 58Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 84Category rank
Our read on CGIE
BAn actively run passport out of the US: roughly 80 international names picked for quality and staying power, free to roam into emerging markets, at a fee below the typical active international ETF.
The fund seeks prudent capital growth and principal preservation through primarily developed-market companies, emphasizing long-term growth potential and resilience in international equities.
Why people hold it
- Undercuts the typical fund in its category at 0.54% a year, below the peer median fee.
- Roughly 80 stocks, not a phone book. The mandate advertises a quality focus and pairs long-term growth potential with principal preservation.capitalgroup.com
- The passport covers developed and emerging markets, so managers can follow a business wherever it happens to be listed.capitalgroup.com
- Plain plumbing: a standard 1940 Act fund from Capital Group, already a multi-billion-dollar fund, and it sits in the upper half of its active international peer group.
Worth knowing
- Cheap it is not next to the systematic crowd: AVDE (0.23%) and DFIC (0.22%) charge less than half as much, so the stock picking here has to earn its keep.
- Concentration cuts both ways. With about 80 holdings, single companies and countries carry more weight than in a thousand-stock index fund.
- Launched in 2023, so the record is short, and it pays distributions once or twice a year rather than monthly.
CGIE Holdings
- Stocks
- 76
- 26%
- ASML.AS
Sectors
- Industrials26.1%
- Financials22.8%
- Technology18.9%
- Cons. Staples6.5%
- Utilities6.0%
- Health Care5.1%
- Consumer Discr.4.1%
- Communication3.9%
- Materials3.9%
- Energy2.8%
Geography
- Japan22.17%
- France14.39%
- United Kingdom12.69%
- Netherlands8.32%
- Germany7.40%
- Spain7.25%
- Switzerland4.05%
- Hong Kong2.61%
- 21.11%
Developed 95% · Emerging 5%
CGIE Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
Returns run to the Sep 22, 2026 close, with cash distributions reinvested. Each period starts on the same date that many months or years earlier. Periods over one year show the average yearly return.
| Period | CGIE |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +8.8% |
| 1 month | −1.3% |
| 3 months | +2.0% |
| 1 year | +12.7% |
| 3 years | — |
| 5 years | — |
| 10 years | — |
Calendar-year total return with cash distributions hypothetically reinvested at the ex-dividend date’s closing price. The current year shows year to date.
| Year | Return bar | CGIE |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +8.8% | |
| 2025 | +28.1% | |
| 2024 | +0.7% | |
| 2023 | +11.1% |
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CGIE Dividends
- 1.34%
- $0.50
- $0.37 per share
- Twice a year
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 30, 2026 | Jul 1, 2026 | $0.37 |
| Dec 26, 2025 | Dec 29, 2025 | $0.13 |
| Jun 30, 2025 | Jul 1, 2025 | $0.27 |
| Dec 26, 2024 | Dec 27, 2024 | $0.08 |
| Jun 28, 2024 | Jul 1, 2024 | $0.27 |
| Dec 27, 2023 | Dec 29, 2023 | $0.05 |
CGIE Risk
- 11.7%
How it’s calculated: standard deviation
The sample standard deviation of monthly total returns, multiplied by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Total returns include reinvested distributions.
- 1.02
How it’s calculated: Sharpe ratio
Subtract each month’s Treasury-bill return from the fund’s monthly total return.
Divide the average of those excess returns by their sample standard deviation, then multiply by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Each month uses the Treasury yield quoted at the end of the previous month.
- −13.8%
How it’s calculated: maximum drawdown
The largest percentage decline from an earlier peak, using total returns with reinvested distributions.
Uses up to five years through the last close, with at least 12 months required.
- 0.64
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
CGIE Cost
- The middle half of International Active Equity funds
- Median 0.58%
20 of the 55 International Active Equity funds charge less.