Vanguard International Dividend Appreciation ETF
$95.60−1.11 (−1.15%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.07%
- Fund size
- $9.5B
- 1Y return
- +9.8%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 2.16%
- Holdings
- 354
- Volume · 30D
- 0.3M sh
- NAV per share
- $96.65
- 52W range
The ETF.net VIGI Grade
Score 75 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 93Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.DScore 35Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 64Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.DScore 39Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 85Category rank
Our read on VIGI
AVanguard's dividend-growth playbook, taken overseas: roughly 400 non-US companies chosen for a record of raising payouts rather than for fat current yields, wrapped in a seven-basis-point fee.
The fund passively tracks an index of non-U.S. companies with a history of increasing dividends, using the S&P Global Ex-U.S. Dividend Growers Index as its target index.
Why people hold it
- At 0.07% a year, it sits at the cheapest fee level in its peer group (matched only by sibling VYMI) and well under funds like IGRO at 0.15%.
- The screen asks for a history of increasing dividends, not the biggest payout, which tilts the basket toward companies with durable cash flow.
- Plain index plumbing: roughly 400 stocks across developed and emerging markets outside the US, and it stays close to its S&P target index.
- Running since 2016, now a multi-billion-dollar fund that trades steadily and pays quarterly.
Worth knowing
- Growth of the dividend, not the size of it. Income here runs lighter than yield-first peers such as VYMI or SCHY.
- Holdings are priced in foreign currencies, so dollar moves push returns around in both directions on top of the stocks themselves.
- Emerging markets ride along with developed ones here, a wider net than international dividend funds that stop at developed markets.
VIGI Holdings
- Stocks
- 354
- 36%
- 8306.T
Sectors
- Financials29.6%
- Industrials17.0%
- Health Care14.0%
- Technology13.8%
- Cons. Staples9.2%
- Utilities4.7%
- Materials4.4%
- Consumer Discr.2.6%
- Energy2.4%
- Communication1.5%
- Real Estate1.0%
Geography
- Japan31.26%
- Canada21.99%
- Switzerland14.10%
- Germany6.19%
- United Kingdom5.18%
- France3.22%
- India3.18%
- Spain2.56%
- 12.32%
Developed 95% · Emerging 5%
VIGI 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 | VIGI |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +7.6% |
| 1 month | −1.5% |
| 3 months | +4.1% |
| 1 year | +9.8% |
| 3 years | +12.5% |
| 5 years | +4.7% |
| 10 years | +7.9% |
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 | VIGI |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +7.6% | |
| 2025 | +16.9% | |
| 2024 | +2.7% | |
| 2023 | +16.3% | |
| 2022 | −16.8% | |
| 2021 | +12.5% | |
| 2020 | +14.7% |
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VIGI Dividends
- 2.16%
- $2.09
- $0.46 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 2026 | Sep 22, 2026 | $0.46 |
| Jun 18, 2026 | Jun 23, 2026 | $0.53 |
| Mar 20, 2026 | Mar 24, 2026 | $0.56 |
| Dec 19, 2025 | Dec 23, 2025 | $0.53 |
| Sep 19, 2025 | Sep 23, 2025 | $0.36 |
| Jun 20, 2025 | Jun 24, 2025 | $0.54 |
| Mar 21, 2025 | Mar 25, 2025 | $0.52 |
| Dec 20, 2024 | Dec 24, 2024 | $0.26 |
| Sep 20, 2024 | Sep 24, 2024 | $0.31 |
| Jun 21, 2024 | Jun 25, 2024 | $0.54 |
| Mar 15, 2024 | Mar 20, 2024 | $0.43 |
| Dec 18, 2023 | Dec 21, 2023 | $0.37 |
VIGI Risk
- 11.6%
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.
- 0.64
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.
- −27.7%
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.
- 0.69
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
VIGI Cost
- The middle half of International Dividend Index funds
- Median 0.50%
No International Dividend Index fund charges less.