WisdomTree Global High Dividend Fund
$70.36−0.87 (−1.22%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.58%
- Fund size
- $160M
- 1Y return
- +22.6%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 3.17%
- Holdings
- 729
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $71.24
- 52W range
The ETF.net DEW Grade
Score 49 of 100 sits in the C 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.FScore 16Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.BScore 69Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.AScore 83Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.DScore 32Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 77Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.DScore 39Category rank
Our read on DEW
CMost high-dividend funds in this corner of the market stop at the US border. DEW doesn't: one ticket buys the top-yielding slice of US, developed and emerging markets, weighted by the dividend dollars companies actually pay.
The fund seeks to track high-dividend-yielding companies across U.S., developed international, and emerging equity markets.
Why people hold it
- One ticket spans US, developed international and emerging high-yielders. The cohort's cheapest leaders (VYMI, SCHY, IGRO) are ex-US only, making DEW the rarer whole-world version.wisdomtree.com
- Weights companies by the cash dividends they pay rather than market cap, spread across roughly 700 stocks, so no single payer dominates the income stream.wisdomtree.com
- Listed in 2006, one of the longer-running global dividend ETFs, and it pays quarterly.
Worth knowing
- At 0.58% it charges more than the cohort median of 0.50%, and several times the cheapest ex-US dividend peers, VYMI and SCHY, which sit near 0.07%.
- Thinly traded with a modest asset base, so bid-ask spreads and order type matter more here than in the category's giants.
- History before June 2009 reflects a European equity income mandate; the global high-dividend strategy dates from then.wisdomtree.com
DEW Holdings
- Stocks
- 729
- 16%
- XOM
Sectors
- Financials26.1%
- Energy16.7%
- Real Estate10.5%
- Utilities10.5%
- Health Care10.3%
- Cons. Staples8.5%
- Industrials4.7%
- Communication4.2%
- Consumer Discr.3.4%
- Materials2.7%
- Technology2.5%
Geography
- United States57.56%
- United Kingdom6.84%
- Canada4.57%
- France3.88%
- Italy3.59%
- Spain3.55%
- Australia2.32%
- Switzerland2.07%
- 15.63%
Developed 91% · Emerging 9%
DEW 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 | DEW |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +17.4% |
| 1 month | −2.8% |
| 3 months | +4.3% |
| 1 year | +22.6% |
| 3 years | +19.9% |
| 5 years | +12.7% |
| 10 years | +9.3% |
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 | DEW |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +17.4% | |
| 2025 | +22.4% | |
| 2024 | +11.6% | |
| 2023 | +9.4% | |
| 2022 | −2.7% | |
| 2021 | +21.3% | |
| 2020 | −7.4% |
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DEW Dividends
- 3.17%
- $2.25
- $0.90 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 2026 | Jun 29, 2026 | $0.90 |
| Mar 26, 2026 | Mar 30, 2026 | $0.27 |
| Dec 26, 2025 | Dec 30, 2025 | $0.55 |
| Sep 25, 2025 | Sep 29, 2025 | $0.54 |
| Jun 25, 2025 | Jun 27, 2025 | $0.85 |
| Mar 26, 2025 | Mar 28, 2025 | $0.35 |
| Dec 26, 2024 | Dec 30, 2024 | $0.48 |
| Sep 25, 2024 | Sep 27, 2024 | $0.55 |
| Jun 25, 2024 | Jun 27, 2024 | $0.75 |
| Mar 22, 2024 | Mar 27, 2024 | $0.33 |
| Dec 22, 2023 | Dec 28, 2023 | $0.53 |
| Sep 25, 2023 | Sep 28, 2023 | $0.60 |
DEW Risk
- 10.7%
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.
- 1.34
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.
- −18.9%
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.
- 0.61
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
DEW Cost
- The middle half of International Dividend Index funds
- Median 0.50%
25 of the 34 International Dividend Index funds charge less.