Vanguard ESG U.S. Stock ETF
$136.49−1.08 (−0.79%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.09%
- Fund size
- $13.5B
- 1Y return
- +16.7%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 0.86%
- Holdings
- 1338
- Volume · 30D
- 0.2M sh
- NAV per share
- $137.62
- 52W range
The ETF.net ESGV Grade
Score 74 of 100 sits in the A 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.AScore 87Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 96Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.CScore 44Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 59Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.CScore 46Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 89Category rank
Our read on ESGV
AMost screened U.S. funds start with the S&P 500 and stop there. ESGV screens the whole market instead, holding roughly 1,300 large, mid and small caps at a 0.09% expense ratio.
The Fund passively tracks a broad U.S. equity index covering large-, mid-, and small-capitalization companies that are screened using environmental, social, and corporate governance criteria.
Why people hold it
- Costs 0.09% a year, against a typical fund in its screened-U.S. peer group at 0.25%. It also sits under SNPE and EFIV (0.10%) and ESGU (0.15%).
- All-cap by design: large, mid and small companies, roughly 1,300 names. Most rivals here are screened versions of the S&P 500, so small caps never make the cut.
- Passive and literal: it follows the FTSE US All Cap Choice Index with very little drift, and is one of the cleaner implementations in a 35-fund peer group.
- A multi-billion-dollar Vanguard fund running since 2018, paying distributions quarterly. Long enough on the tape to have a real operating history.
Worth knowing
- The screens strip out companies a plain total-market fund keeps, so the sector mix differs and results can run ahead of or behind the unscreened market in any stretch.
- All stocks, all U.S. No bonds, no foreign listings, so full equity market swings come straight through.
- The values test is FTSE's rulebook, not yours. Worth reading what the index actually excludes before assuming it matches your own list.
ESGV Holdings
- Stocks
- 1,338
- 41%
- NVDA
Sectors
- Technology42.6%
- Financials12.5%
- Consumer Discr.11.1%
- Communication11.0%
- Health Care10.6%
- Industrials4.0%
- Cons. Staples3.7%
- Real Estate2.6%
- Materials1.8%
- Utilities0.1%
Geography
- United States97.14%
- Ireland1.00%
- United Kingdom0.53%
- Switzerland0.32%
- Bermuda0.18%
- Sweden0.16%
- Uruguay0.15%
- Brazil0.10%
- 0.41%
ESGV Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
ESGV$11,665
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 | ESGV |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +14.5% |
| 1 month | +1.6% |
| 3 months | +4.7% |
| 1 year | +16.7% |
| 3 years | +23.4% |
| 5 years | +12.2% |
| 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 | ESGV |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +14.5% | |
| 2025 | +16.5% | |
| 2024 | +24.7% | |
| 2023 | +30.8% | |
| 2022 | −24.0% | |
| 2021 | +26.6% | |
| 2020 | +25.7% |
ESGV in the news
ESGV Dividends
- 0.86%
- $1.19
- $0.32 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 2026 | Sep 22, 2026 | $0.32 |
| Jun 18, 2026 | Jun 23, 2026 | $0.28 |
| Mar 20, 2026 | Mar 24, 2026 | $0.29 |
| Dec 19, 2025 | Dec 23, 2025 | $0.30 |
| Sep 19, 2025 | Sep 23, 2025 | $0.28 |
| Jun 20, 2025 | Jun 24, 2025 | $0.26 |
| Mar 21, 2025 | Mar 25, 2025 | $0.27 |
| Dec 20, 2024 | Dec 24, 2024 | $0.29 |
| Sep 20, 2024 | Sep 24, 2024 | $0.28 |
| Jun 21, 2024 | Jun 25, 2024 | $0.30 |
| Mar 15, 2024 | Mar 20, 2024 | $0.22 |
| Dec 15, 2023 | Dec 20, 2023 | $0.33 |
ESGV Risk
- 14.7%
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.
- 1.07
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.
- −28.8%
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.
- 1.08
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
ESGV Cost
0.09%
ESGV0.09%
- The middle half of US ESG & Values Index funds
- Median 0.23%
2 of the 48 US ESG & Values Index funds charge less.