Vanguard FTSE Pacific ETF
$116.59−2.49 (−2.09%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.07%
- Fund size
- $13.8B
- 1Y return
- +37.7%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 2.03%
- Holdings
- 2384
- Volume · 30D
- 0.5M sh
- NAV per share
- $118.76
- 52W range
The ETF.net VPL Grade
Score 79 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 89Category 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.BScore 56Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.CScore 48Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 74Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 86Category rank
Our read on VPL
AVanguard's scalpel for the developed Pacific: Japan, Australia, South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore and New Zealand, down to small caps, for 0.07% a year. Asia-Pacific without Europe bolted on, running since 2005.
VPL seeks to track the FTSE Developed Asia Pacific All Cap Index, targeting Pacific-region common stocks through passive full replication.
Why people hold it
- Costs 0.07% a year, roughly a quarter of the 0.28% median in its international-blend group and well under broad rivals like ACWX at 0.32%.advisors.vanguard.com
- Full replication, all-cap: roughly 2,400 stocks held in index weight, small caps included, rather than a large-cap sample of the region.workplace.vanguard.com
- Trading since 2005 and now a multi-billion-dollar fund that has tracked its benchmark tightly, one of the stronger implementations in its peer group.
- FTSE's developed Asia Pacific map includes South Korea, so Korean names sit alongside Japanese and Australian ones in the same index.bogleheads.org
Worth knowing
- Six developed markets, full stop. No Europe and no emerging Asia, so China, Taiwan and India sit outside the mandate.bogleheads.org
- Japan is the region's largest market and the fund's heaviest weight, and currency is unhedged, so Japanese equities and yen moves shape a lot of the ride.investor.vanguard.com
- One region means bumpier ground than a global fund; it doesn't cover developed ex-US or all-world markets the way VEU or IXUS do.
VPL Holdings
- Stocks
- 2,384
- 24%
- 005930.KS
Sectors
- Technology26.6%
- Financials19.9%
- Industrials18.0%
- Consumer Discr.9.2%
- Materials7.5%
- Health Care4.7%
- Communication4.4%
- Real Estate3.6%
- Cons. Staples3.4%
- Utilities1.4%
- Energy1.3%
Geography
- Japan54.55%
- South Korea22.33%
- Australia14.71%
- Hong Kong3.83%
- Singapore3.40%
- New Zealand0.63%
- Bermuda0.14%
- Ireland0.13%
- 0.27%
Developed 77% · Emerging 23%
VPL 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 | VPL |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +31.7% |
| 1 month | +3.4% |
| 3 months | −1.4% |
| 1 year | +37.7% |
| 3 years | +24.0% |
| 5 years | +10.7% |
| 10 years | +9.9% |
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 | VPL |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +31.7% | |
| 2025 | +32.6% | |
| 2024 | +1.7% | |
| 2023 | +15.6% | |
| 2022 | −15.2% | |
| 2021 | +1.1% | |
| 2020 | +16.7% |
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VPL Dividends
- 2.03%
- $2.42
- $2.42 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 19, 2025 | Dec 23, 2025 | $2.42 |
| Sep 19, 2025 | Sep 23, 2025 | $0.61 |
| Jun 20, 2025 | Jun 24, 2025 | $0.18 |
| Mar 21, 2025 | Mar 25, 2025 | $0.42 |
| Dec 20, 2024 | Dec 24, 2024 | $1.24 |
| Sep 20, 2024 | Sep 24, 2024 | $0.51 |
| Jun 21, 2024 | Jun 25, 2024 | $0.20 |
| Mar 15, 2024 | Mar 20, 2024 | $0.29 |
| Dec 18, 2023 | Dec 21, 2023 | $1.30 |
| Sep 18, 2023 | Sep 21, 2023 | $0.28 |
| Jun 20, 2023 | Jun 23, 2023 | $0.52 |
| Mar 20, 2023 | Mar 23, 2023 | $0.15 |
VPL Risk
- 16.1%
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.
- 1.06
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.
- −30.0%
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.
- 1.10
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
VPL Cost
- The middle half of Asia-Pacific Region funds
- Median 0.19%
No Asia-Pacific Region fund charges less.