Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US ETF
$84.11−1.33 (−1.56%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.04%
- Fund size
- $98.6B
- 1Y return
- +22.9%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 2.29%
- Holdings
- 3823
- Volume · 30D
- 2.6M sh
- NAV per share
- $85.36
- 52W range
The ETF.net VEU Grade
Score 82 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 93Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 100Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.CScore 54Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 73Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 69Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 82Category rank
Our read on VEU
AOne ticker for everything outside America: roughly 3,800 stocks spanning developed and emerging markets, for 0.04% a year. Vanguard has run it since 2007, and it costs a fraction of what the typical international blend fund charges.
The fund seeks to track the investment performance of the FTSE All-World ex US Index, providing broad exposure to developed and emerging non-U.S. equity markets.
Why people hold it
- At 0.04% a year, it undercuts the typical international blend fund (0.28% median) and comes in below IXUS and VPL at 0.07%, never mind ACWX at 0.32%.
- About 3,800 stocks across developed and emerging markets outside the US. One line in your portfolio, most of the planet's listed companies behind it.investor.vanguard.com
- Trading since 2007, now a multi-billion-dollar fund that changes hands actively, and it has stayed tight to its stated job of tracking the FTSE All-World ex US Index.
- One of the strongest builds in the international blend group: broad mandate, rock-bottom fee, steady index discipline.
Worth knowing
- No US stocks, by design. This is the other half of a portfolio rather than the whole of one.advisors.vanguard.com
- Emerging markets come baked in, not bolted on. Hold a dedicated EM fund alongside it and you'll own some of the same names twice.
- Everything inside is priced in foreign currency, so exchange rates push returns around on top of what the stocks do. Income arrives quarterly.
VEU Holdings
- Stocks
- 3,823
- 15%
- 2330.TW
Sectors
- Financials24.3%
- Technology20.3%
- Industrials14.6%
- Consumer Discr.7.9%
- Materials7.2%
- Health Care6.9%
- Cons. Staples4.8%
- Energy4.8%
- Communication4.5%
- Utilities2.9%
- Real Estate1.8%
Geography
- Japan15.57%
- Taiwan8.63%
- United Kingdom7.79%
- Canada7.71%
- China6.54%
- South Korea6.50%
- Switzerland5.54%
- Germany4.94%
- 36.79%
Developed 67% · Emerging 33%
VEU 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 | VEU |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +17.1% |
| 1 month | −0.1% |
| 3 months | +0.5% |
| 1 year | +22.9% |
| 3 years | +21.0% |
| 5 years | +9.8% |
| 10 years | +9.5% |
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 | VEU |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +17.1% | |
| 2025 | +32.3% | |
| 2024 | +5.6% | |
| 2023 | +15.9% | |
| 2022 | −15.6% | |
| 2021 | +8.3% | |
| 2020 | +11.1% |
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VEU Dividends
- 2.29%
- $1.96
- $0.20 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 2026 | Sep 22, 2026 | $0.20 |
| Jun 18, 2026 | Jun 23, 2026 | $0.39 |
| Mar 20, 2026 | Mar 24, 2026 | $0.11 |
| Dec 19, 2025 | Dec 23, 2025 | $1.26 |
| Sep 19, 2025 | Sep 23, 2025 | $0.35 |
| Jun 20, 2025 | Jun 24, 2025 | $0.47 |
| Mar 21, 2025 | Mar 25, 2025 | $0.19 |
| Dec 20, 2024 | Dec 24, 2024 | $0.94 |
| Sep 20, 2024 | Sep 24, 2024 | $0.25 |
| Jun 21, 2024 | Jun 25, 2024 | $0.46 |
| Mar 15, 2024 | Mar 20, 2024 | $0.22 |
| Dec 18, 2023 | Dec 21, 2023 | $0.84 |
VEU Risk
- 12.1%
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.
- 1.21
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.
- −28.5%
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.
- 0.91
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
VEU Cost
- The middle half of Total International Market funds
- Median 0.23%
No Total International Market fund charges less.