Vanguard Russell 2000 ETF
$114.17−2.22 (−1.91%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.06%
- Fund size
- $18.0B
- 1Y return
- +18.9%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 1.12%
- Holdings
- 1969
- Volume · 30D
- 1.6M sh
- NAV per share
- $116.30
- 52W range
The ETF.net VTWO Grade
Score 73 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 75Category 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.DScore 38Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 56Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 76Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 84Category rank
Our read on VTWO
AThe Russell 2000 is the small-cap benchmark every headline quotes. VTWO is Vanguard's cheap seat on it: about 2,000 small US companies for 0.06% a year, a fraction of the fee on the best-known fund tracking the same index.
The fund invests in stocks in the Russell 2000 Index and seeks to closely track that index's return, representing small-cap U.S. stock exposure.
Why people hold it
- Same index, smaller toll. VTWO charges 0.06% while IWM, the other big Russell 2000 tracker, charges 0.19%. The small-cap category median is 0.25%.investor.vanguard.com
- Holds roughly 2,000 stocks, the whole small-cap benchmark rather than a trimmed slice. A multi-billion-dollar fund, actively traded, running since 2010 and paying quarterly.
- Tracking has been about as tight as this corner of the market gets, one of the closest index-replication records among US small-cap funds.
Worth knowing
- Small-cap stocks swing harder than large caps, and this fund stays fully invested in them through the rough stretches.investor.vanguard.com
- Cheaper exists on the shelf: VB and SCHA run 0.03%, though they follow different small-cap indexes with different membership rules.
- The Russell 2000 rebuilds its membership on a published schedule (June, plus a December rebalance from 2026), which packs index-driven trading into those dates.lseg.com
VTWO Holdings
- Stocks
- 1,969
- 5%
- SLBBH1142
Sectors
- Health Care21.0%
- Financials18.1%
- Technology13.8%
- Industrials13.3%
- Consumer Discr.8.9%
- Real Estate6.5%
- Energy6.5%
- Materials4.5%
- Utilities2.7%
- Cons. Staples2.6%
- Communication2.3%
Geography
- United States95.16%
- Bermuda1.66%
- United Kingdom0.65%
- Switzerland0.48%
- Canada0.46%
- Ireland0.42%
- Puerto Rico0.27%
- Monaco0.16%
- 0.74%
VTWO 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 | VTWO |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +17.6% |
| 1 month | −4.0% |
| 3 months | −3.4% |
| 1 year | +18.9% |
| 3 years | +19.3% |
| 5 years | +6.9% |
| 10 years | +10.2% |
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 | VTWO |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +17.6% | |
| 2025 | +12.9% | |
| 2024 | +11.5% | |
| 2023 | +17.1% | |
| 2022 | −20.5% | |
| 2021 | +14.8% | |
| 2020 | +20.2% |
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VTWO Dividends
- 1.12%
- $1.31
- $0.30 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 23, 2026 | Pays Sep 25, 2026 | $0.39 |
| Jun 18, 2026 | Jun 23, 2026 | $0.30 |
| Mar 24, 2026 | Mar 26, 2026 | $0.26 |
| Dec 22, 2025 | Dec 24, 2025 | $0.40 |
| Sep 24, 2025 | Sep 26, 2025 | $0.34 |
| Jun 20, 2025 | Jun 24, 2025 | $0.25 |
| Mar 25, 2025 | Mar 27, 2025 | $0.25 |
| Dec 23, 2024 | Dec 26, 2024 | $0.33 |
| Sep 26, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 | $0.28 |
| Jun 27, 2024 | Jul 1, 2024 | $0.30 |
| Mar 21, 2024 | Mar 26, 2024 | $0.17 |
| Dec 19, 2023 | Dec 22, 2023 | $0.40 |
VTWO Risk
- 19.7%
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.
- 0.69
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.
- −31.9%
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.
- 1.26
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
VTWO Cost
- The middle half of US Small-Cap funds
- Median 0.20%
4 of the 17 US Small-Cap funds charge less.