Schwab International Dividend Equity ETF
$31.98−0.76 (−2.31%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.08%
- Fund size
- $2.6B
- 1Y return
- +21.0%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 3.39%
- Holdings
- 150
- Volume · 30D
- 0.6M sh
- NAV per share
- $32.66
- 52W range
The ETF.net SCHY Grade
Score 77 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 97Category 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 57Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 74Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.DScore 32Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 58Category rank
Our read on SCHY
ASchwab's dividend playbook with a passport: an index of non-US high payers filtered for sustained dividends, financial strength and low volatility, run for 0.08% a year while the typical fund in its group charges 0.50%.
The fund seeks to track, before fees and expenses, an index of high-dividend-yielding stocks issued by companies outside the United States. Its index methodology emphasizes sustained dividend payments, relative financial strength, and lower volatility.
Why people hold it
- Costs 0.08% a year against a 0.50% median for international dividend screens, one of the cheapest ways to rent this strategy.
- The index does more than chase yield: it screens for sustained payers, relative financial strength and lower volatility. Cash goes out quarterly.
- A plain passive tracker of the Dow Jones International Dividend 100 Index that has hugged its benchmark closely, with a multibillion-dollar base and shares that trade actively.
- Stands among the stronger implementations in its international dividend peer group on cost, tracking and tradability.
Worth knowing
- Roughly 130 stocks, a narrower net than a broad international fund. Dividend screens naturally bunch up in a handful of sectors and countries.
- Launched in 2021, so it carries a shorter live record than the veterans of international dividend investing.
- Two neighbors shave the fee a touch further: VYMI and VIGI charge 0.07%, though each screens for different things.
SCHY Holdings
- Stocks
- 150
- 39%
- ULVR.L
Sectors
- Financials16.4%
- Cons. Staples15.1%
- Communication14.5%
- Industrials13.3%
- Health Care8.4%
- Energy8.0%
- Consumer Discr.7.7%
- Utilities7.2%
- Materials5.2%
- Technology3.5%
- Real Estate0.8%
Geography
- France13.70%
- United Kingdom13.37%
- Australia9.37%
- Switzerland8.74%
- Italy8.44%
- Germany8.12%
- Netherlands4.88%
- Singapore4.59%
- 28.78%
Developed 86% · Emerging 14%
SCHY 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 | SCHY |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +11.7% |
| 1 month | −2.6% |
| 3 months | +3.9% |
| 1 year | +21.0% |
| 3 years | +16.6% |
| 5 years | +9.3% |
| 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 | SCHY |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +11.7% | |
| 2025 | +34.0% | |
| 2024 | −1.8% | |
| 2023 | +14.3% | |
| 2022 | −9.4% | |
| 2021 | +4.1% |
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SCHY Dividends
- 3.39%
- $1.11
- $0.36 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 2026 | Jun 29, 2026 | $0.36 |
| Mar 25, 2026 | Mar 30, 2026 | $0.18 |
| Dec 11, 2025 | Dec 16, 2025 | $0.32 |
| Sep 24, 2025 | Sep 29, 2025 | $0.25 |
| Jun 25, 2025 | Jun 30, 2025 | $0.35 |
| Mar 26, 2025 | Mar 31, 2025 | $0.14 |
| Dec 13, 2024 | Dec 18, 2024 | $0.29 |
| Sep 25, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 | $0.27 |
| Jun 26, 2024 | Jul 1, 2024 | $0.35 |
| Mar 20, 2024 | Mar 25, 2024 | $0.16 |
| Dec 6, 2023 | Dec 11, 2023 | $0.69 |
| Jun 21, 2023 | Jun 26, 2023 | $0.29 |
SCHY Risk
- 12.2%
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.
- 0.97
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.
- −24.0%
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.
- 0.76
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
SCHY Cost
- The middle half of International Dividend Index funds
- Median 0.50%
2 of the 34 International Dividend Index funds charge less.