Vanguard Total World Stock ETF
$159.57−1.67 (−1.04%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.06%
- Fund size
- $101.7B
- 1Y return
- +18.8%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 1.50%
- Holdings
- 9773
- Volume · 30D
- 2.8M sh
- NAV per share
- $160.99
- 52W range
The ETF.net VT 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 88Category 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.CScore 54Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 71Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 83Category rank
Our read on VT
AOne ticker, the whole investable stock market: roughly 9,800 stocks across developed and emerging markets, weighted by what the market says they're worth. There is no US-versus-international call left for you to make.
The fund seeks to passively track the FTSE Global All Cap Index, which represents large-, mid-, and small-capitalization stocks of companies in developed and emerging markets worldwide.
Why people hold it
- 0.06% a year, against a 0.45% median for the index wrappers it competes with. Worldwide coverage for a rounding error.
- Its benchmark comes from the FTSE Global Equity Index Series, which covers 98% of the world's investable market cap: large, mid and small caps, developed and emerging alike.personal1.vanguard.com
- Passively run with index sampling and kept fully invested. Tracking of the index has been about as tight as this cohort gets, and it trades actively enough to keep spreads thin.workplace.vanguard.com
- Live since 2008 and now a multi-billion-dollar fund, it ranks among the strongest implementations in its peer group. Pays quarterly.
Worth knowing
- Market-cap weighting hands the steering wheel to the market. The biggest countries and companies dominate, and those weights drift with prices, never tilting back.investor.vanguard.compersonal1.vanguard.com
- All equity, all the time: emerging markets and unhedged foreign currency come with the package, and there is no bond sleeve to cushion a selloff.
- Single-market index funds shave the fee further (SCHK at 0.03%, SPYV at 0.04%). Global reach costs a couple of basis points more.
VT Holdings
- Stocks
- 9,773
- 21%
- NVDA
Sectors
- Technology30.7%
- Financials16.5%
- Industrials10.9%
- Consumer Discr.8.7%
- Health Care8.6%
- Communication7.1%
- Cons. Staples4.5%
- Materials4.4%
- Energy4.0%
- Utilities2.3%
- Real Estate2.2%
Geography
- United States60.44%
- Japan5.90%
- Taiwan3.28%
- United Kingdom3.27%
- Canada3.02%
- China2.46%
- South Korea2.41%
- Switzerland2.22%
- 17.00%
Developed 67% · Emerging 33%
VT 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 | VT |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +15.3% |
| 1 month | +0.6% |
| 3 months | +2.6% |
| 1 year | +18.8% |
| 3 years | +21.9% |
| 5 years | +11.3% |
| 10 years | +12.5% |
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 | VT |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +15.3% | |
| 2025 | +22.4% | |
| 2024 | +16.5% | |
| 2023 | +22.0% | |
| 2022 | −18.0% | |
| 2021 | +18.3% | |
| 2020 | +16.6% |
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VT Dividends
- 1.50%
- $2.41
- $0.41 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 2026 | Sep 22, 2026 | $0.41 |
| Jun 18, 2026 | Jun 23, 2026 | $0.56 |
| Mar 20, 2026 | Mar 24, 2026 | $0.33 |
| Dec 19, 2025 | Dec 23, 2025 | $1.12 |
| Sep 19, 2025 | Sep 23, 2025 | $0.48 |
| Jun 20, 2025 | Jun 24, 2025 | $0.59 |
| Mar 21, 2025 | Mar 25, 2025 | $0.39 |
| Dec 20, 2024 | Dec 24, 2024 | $0.88 |
| Sep 20, 2024 | Sep 24, 2024 | $0.42 |
| Jun 21, 2024 | Jun 25, 2024 | $0.58 |
| Mar 15, 2024 | Mar 20, 2024 | $0.42 |
| Dec 18, 2023 | Dec 21, 2023 | $0.80 |
VT 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.
- 1.22
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.
- −26.4%
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.
- 0.93
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
VT Cost
- The middle half of MSCI ACWI / World funds
- Median 0.26%
No MSCI ACWI / World fund charges less.