Vanguard Global ex-U.S. Real Estate ETF
$43.24−0.50 (−1.14%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.12%
- Fund size
- $3.8B
- 1Y return
- −3.7%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 4.93%
- Holdings
- 682
- Volume · 30D
- 0.3M sh
- NAV per share
- $43.80
- 52W range
The ETF.net VNQI 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 94Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 84Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.CScore 46Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 61Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 90Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 91Category rank
Our read on VNQI
AEverything outside the US property market in one ticker: roughly 700 REITs, landlords and developers across 30-plus countries, developed and emerging, for 0.12% a year.
The Fund seeks to track the S&P Global ex-U.S. Property Index, an index of international real estate stocks in developed and emerging markets. It generally uses full replication and invests at least 80% of assets in index securities.
Why people hold it
- At 0.12% a year, it costs about a quarter of the typical global real estate fund and lands within two basis points of the cheapest in its peer group (HAUZ, 0.10%).
- Full replication across roughly 700 names in more than 30 countries, so no single Tokyo landlord or Sydney mall owner carries the portfolio.investor.vanguard.com
- The benchmark reaches past pure REITs into companies that own, manage and develop property, which is how it covers markets where the REIT structure barely exists.eu.spindices.com
- Trading since 2010 and one of the tighter index trackers in its cohort, which is the whole job for a fund like this.
Worth knowing
- Currency exposure is unhedged, so moves in the dollar against the yen, euro and other local currencies feed straight into results.fund-docs.vanguard.com
- Emerging markets and China-linked property companies are in the mix, a risk set the prospectus calls out separately from developed-market investing.fund-docs.vanguard.com
- Distributions land annually or semiannually rather than monthly, so the income arrives in lumps.
VNQI Holdings
- Stocks
- 682
- 22%
- GMG.AX
Sectors
- Real Estate98.4%
- Industrials0.6%
- Consumer Discr.0.5%
- Financials0.4%
- Technology0.1%
- Health Care0.0%
Geography
- Japan22.28%
- Australia11.14%
- Hong Kong10.00%
- United Kingdom7.23%
- Singapore6.20%
- India3.53%
- France3.50%
- Israel3.23%
- 32.90%
Developed 76% · Emerging 24%
VNQI Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
VNQI$9,629
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 | VNQI |
|---|---|
| Year to date | −4.6% |
| 1 month | −4.3% |
| 3 months | −2.1% |
| 1 year | −3.7% |
| 3 years | +8.1% |
| 5 years | −1.4% |
| 10 years | +1.5% |
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 | VNQI |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | −4.6% | |
| 2025 | +21.4% | |
| 2024 | −2.3% | |
| 2023 | +7.0% | |
| 2022 | −22.9% | |
| 2021 | +5.9% | |
| 2020 | −7.2% |
VNQI in the news
VNQI Dividends
- 4.93%
- $2.16
- $2.16 per share
- Annual
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 19, 2025 | Dec 23, 2025 | $2.16 |
| Dec 20, 2024 | Dec 24, 2024 | $2.04 |
| Dec 18, 2023 | Dec 21, 2023 | $1.59 |
| Dec 19, 2022 | Dec 22, 2022 | $0.24 |
| Dec 21, 2021 | Dec 27, 2021 | $2.89 |
| Sep 24, 2021 | Sep 29, 2021 | $0.60 |
| Dec 21, 2020 | Dec 24, 2020 | $0.51 |
| Dec 18, 2019 | Dec 23, 2019 | $3.65 |
| Sep 24, 2019 | Sep 27, 2019 | $0.42 |
| Jun 17, 2019 | Jun 20, 2019 | $0.41 |
| Dec 24, 2018 | Dec 28, 2018 | $1.37 |
| Sep 26, 2018 | Oct 1, 2018 | $0.25 |
VNQI Risk
- 16.0%
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.
- 0.28
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.
- −33.4%
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.
- 0.95
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
VNQI Cost
0.12%
VNQI0.12%
- The middle half of Global & International Real Estate funds
- Median 0.50%
1 of the 17 Global & International Real Estate funds charge less.