Vanguard ESG International Stock ETF
$81.90−1.49 (−1.79%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.10%
- Fund size
- $6.8B
- 1Y return
- +23.9%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 2.91%
- Holdings
- 6429
- Volume · 30D
- 0.2M sh
- NAV per share
- $83.17
- 52W range
The ETF.net VSGX Grade
Score 83 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 100Category 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 48Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 71Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 61Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 92Category rank
Our read on VSGX
AMost ex-US ESG funds stop at big developed-market names. VSGX casts a wider net: large, mid and small caps across developed and emerging markets, minus the industries its index screens out, for 0.10% a year.
The Fund seeks to track an index of large-, mid-, and small-capitalization stocks from developed and emerging markets outside the United States, subject to environmental, social, and corporate-governance screening.
Why people hold it
- 0.10% a year, well under half the typical fee in its international ESG peer group. Vanguard's usual move: undercut the room.
- Reaches past the usual EAFE box, holding thousands of stocks across developed and emerging markets. EAFE-based rivals like ESGD and DMXF cover developed large and mid caps only.msci.com
- The screen is FTSE's rulebook, not Vanguard's opinion: out go fossil fuel reserves, weapons, tobacco, alcohol, gambling, adult entertainment and nuclear power, plus conduct flags.research.ftserussell.com
- What survives the screen stays market-cap weighted, with no factor tilts or manager stock picks. Distributions land quarterly.lseg.com
Worth knowing
- Cutting oil, gas, coal, nuclear and weapons names removes whole slices of the market, so results can drift from a plain ex-US index in either direction.research.ftserussell.com
- Emerging markets, small caps and foreign currency all ride along, which can mean wider swings than a developed large-cap-only ex-US fund.
- It de-selects rather than rewards: clearing the screen isn't the same as being a sustainability leader, and there's no carbon or Paris-alignment target.lseg.com
VSGX Holdings
- Stocks
- 6,429
- 17%
- 2330.TW
Sectors
- Financials28.4%
- Technology26.3%
- Health Care9.1%
- Industrials9.1%
- Consumer Discr.8.5%
- Materials6.2%
- Cons. Staples4.8%
- Communication4.3%
- Real Estate2.7%
- Utilities0.6%
- Energy0.0%
Geography
- Japan16.81%
- Taiwan11.71%
- South Korea7.44%
- Canada6.21%
- China6.13%
- United Kingdom5.68%
- Switzerland5.60%
- Germany4.89%
- 35.53%
Developed 63% · Emerging 37%
VSGX Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
VSGX$12,385
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 | VSGX |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +18.8% |
| 1 month | +0.4% |
| 3 months | +0.2% |
| 1 year | +23.9% |
| 3 years | +21.5% |
| 5 years | +8.9% |
| 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 | VSGX |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +18.8% | |
| 2025 | +30.8% | |
| 2024 | +5.7% | |
| 2023 | +15.6% | |
| 2022 | −18.6% | |
| 2021 | +7.3% | |
| 2020 | +13.0% |
VSGX in the news
VSGX Dividends
- 2.91%
- $2.43
- $0.47 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 2026 | Sep 22, 2026 | $0.47 |
| Jun 18, 2026 | Jun 23, 2026 | $0.68 |
| Mar 20, 2026 | Mar 24, 2026 | $0.42 |
| Dec 19, 2025 | Dec 23, 2025 | $0.85 |
| Sep 19, 2025 | Sep 23, 2025 | $0.44 |
| Jun 20, 2025 | Jun 24, 2025 | $0.63 |
| Mar 21, 2025 | Mar 25, 2025 | $0.39 |
| Dec 20, 2024 | Dec 24, 2024 | $0.49 |
| Sep 20, 2024 | Sep 24, 2024 | $0.39 |
| Jun 21, 2024 | Jun 25, 2024 | $0.56 |
| Mar 15, 2024 | Mar 20, 2024 | $0.31 |
| Dec 15, 2023 | Dec 20, 2023 | $0.54 |
VSGX Risk
- 12.9%
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.
- 1.14
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.
- −31.2%
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.
- 0.97
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
VSGX Cost
0.10%
VSGX0.10%
- The middle half of International ESG & Values Index funds
- Median 0.26%
No International ESG & Values Index fund charges less.