State Street SPDR S&P International Dividend ETF
$46.48−0.51 (−1.08%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.45%
- Fund size
- $520M
- 1Y return
- +14.4%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 4.10%
- Holdings
- 100
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $46.84
- 52W range
The ETF.net DWX Grade
Score 69 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 68Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 92Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.BScore 65Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.CScore 50Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 61Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 65Category rank
Our read on DWX
BDWX goes hunting for the fattest dividends outside the US: roughly 100 high yielders pulled from the S&P Global ex-US BMI, China A shares excluded. Yield first, and it has been running that playbook since 2008.
The Fund seeks to track the total return of the S&P International Dividend Opportunities Index, an index of high-yielding international common stocks selected from the S&P Global ex-U.S. BMI, excluding China A shares.
Why people hold it
- Yield-first by design. The index screens for high-yielding international common stocks rather than steady dividend growers, so the basket leans where payouts are richest.
- One of the older international dividend ETFs on the board, live since 2008, with a full market cycle of history behind the strategy.
- Tracks its benchmark tightly, one of the cleaner index implementations among international dividend funds, and the fee sits below the typical charge in that group.
- Concentrated on purpose: about 100 names, paying quarterly. You get a focused slice of global high-yield equity, not a 1,500-stock index blur.
Worth knowing
- It trades thinly for its size, so spreads can run wider than the household-name international dividend funds.
- At 0.45%, it costs several times what plain-vanilla rivals like VYMI, SCHY and VIGI charge. You are paying up for the high-yield screen.
- Chasing the highest yields abroad concentrates the fund in whichever sectors and countries are paying most at rebalance, a different risk mix than a broad international index.
DWX Holdings
- Stocks
- 100
- 21%
- MZTF
Sectors
- Financials21.1%
- Industrials15.3%
- Real Estate13.2%
- Communication10.8%
- Consumer Discr.9.7%
- Utilities9.4%
- Cons. Staples7.8%
- Energy4.3%
- Health Care3.5%
- Materials2.4%
- Technology2.4%
Geography
- Japan24.74%
- France12.25%
- United Kingdom12.21%
- Switzerland7.79%
- Australia5.02%
- Taiwan4.93%
- Singapore4.43%
- Canada3.93%
- 24.70%
Developed 82% · Emerging 18%
DWX 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 | DWX |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +9.6% |
| 1 month | −1.9% |
| 3 months | +3.1% |
| 1 year | +14.4% |
| 3 years | +16.4% |
| 5 years | +8.5% |
| 10 years | +7.1% |
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 | DWX |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +9.6% | |
| 2025 | +31.6% | |
| 2024 | +2.5% | |
| 2023 | +14.8% | |
| 2022 | −13.0% | |
| 2021 | +10.6% | |
| 2020 | −5.1% |
DWX in the news
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DWX Dividends
- 4.10%
- $1.92
- $0.38 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 21, 2026 | Pays Sep 23, 2026 | $0.38 |
| Jun 22, 2026 | Jun 24, 2026 | $0.67 |
| Mar 23, 2026 | Mar 25, 2026 | $0.22 |
| Dec 22, 2025 | Dec 24, 2025 | $0.66 |
| Sep 22, 2025 | Sep 24, 2025 | $0.42 |
| Jun 23, 2025 | Jun 25, 2025 | $0.65 |
| Mar 24, 2025 | Mar 26, 2025 | $0.21 |
| Dec 23, 2024 | Dec 26, 2024 | $0.27 |
| Sep 23, 2024 | Sep 25, 2024 | $0.49 |
| Jun 24, 2024 | Jun 26, 2024 | $0.58 |
| Mar 18, 2024 | Mar 21, 2024 | $0.17 |
| Dec 18, 2023 | Dec 21, 2023 | $0.32 |
DWX Risk
- 11.5%
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.
- 1.00
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.
- −26.7%
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.
- 0.71
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
DWX Cost
- The middle half of International Dividend Index funds
- Median 0.50%
11 of the 34 International Dividend Index funds charge less.