Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets ETF
$60.19−0.92 (−1.50%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.06%
- Fund size
- $168.5B
- 1Y return
- +15.6%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 1.99%
- Holdings
- 5942
- Volume · 30D
- 7.7M sh
- NAV per share
- $61.13
- 52W range
The ETF.net VWO 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 80Category 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 50Category 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 59Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 86Category rank
Our read on VWO
AEmerging markets the FTSE way: no South Korea (FTSE grades it developed), Chinese A-shares in the mix, small caps riding along, all for six basis points.
The fund seeks to track the FTSE Emerging Markets All Cap China A Inclusion Index through passive index sampling, investing in a broadly diversified portfolio of emerging-market equities.
Why people hold it
- 0.06% a year against a 0.19% median for broad emerging-market funds. On a $10,000 position that is roughly $6 annually.
- The benchmark spans large, mid and small caps, so the portfolio holds several thousand emerging-market stocks rather than a few hundred blue chips.advisors.vanguard.com
- Vanguard samples the index instead of buying every line, and tracking has been among the tightest in this peer group. It is also one of the most heavily traded EM funds.advisors.vanguard.com
- Trading since 2005 and now one of the largest emerging-market funds around, with quarterly distributions. SCHE and SPEM match the fee zone but not the size or the all-cap reach.
Worth knowing
- FTSE moved South Korea to developed status, so this fund leaves it out. Country mix differs from MSCI-based emerging-market funds, which still carry Korea.lseg.com
- Market-cap weighting means the biggest emerging markets set the tone. The small-cap tail adds names more than it adds weight.advisors.vanguard.com
- Emerging-market shares and their currencies move more sharply than developed-market ones, and the exposure here is unhedged.fund-docs.vanguard.com
VWO Holdings
- Stocks
- 5,942
- 29%
- 2330.TW
Sectors
- Technology31.8%
- Financials20.2%
- Consumer Discr.9.9%
- Materials7.9%
- Industrials7.5%
- Communication6.5%
- Energy4.1%
- Health Care4.0%
- Cons. Staples3.3%
- Utilities2.7%
- Real Estate2.1%
Geography
- Taiwan (Province of China)34.11%
- China24.97%
- India16.64%
- Brazil4.18%
- South Africa3.47%
- Saudi Arabia2.37%
- Mexico2.18%
- Malaysia1.80%
- 10.27%
Developed 3% · Emerging 97%
VWO Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
VWO$11,555
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 | VWO |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +14.0% |
| 1 month | +1.3% |
| 3 months | −0.0% |
| 1 year | +15.6% |
| 3 years | +18.8% |
| 5 years | +6.9% |
| 10 years | +7.7% |
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 | VWO |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +14.0% | |
| 2025 | +25.6% | |
| 2024 | +10.6% | |
| 2023 | +9.3% | |
| 2022 | −18.0% | |
| 2021 | +1.3% | |
| 2020 | +15.2% |
VWO in the news
VWO Dividends
- 1.99%
- $1.22
- $0.11 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 2026 | Sep 22, 2026 | $0.11 |
| Jun 18, 2026 | Jun 23, 2026 | $0.07 |
| Dec 19, 2025 | Dec 23, 2025 | $1.03 |
| Sep 19, 2025 | Sep 23, 2025 | $0.28 |
| Jun 20, 2025 | Jun 24, 2025 | $0.14 |
| Mar 21, 2025 | Mar 25, 2025 | $0.05 |
| Dec 20, 2024 | Dec 24, 2024 | $1.07 |
| Sep 20, 2024 | Sep 24, 2024 | $0.13 |
| Jun 21, 2024 | Jun 25, 2024 | $0.17 |
| Mar 15, 2024 | Mar 20, 2024 | $0.04 |
| Dec 18, 2023 | Dec 21, 2023 | $0.86 |
| Sep 18, 2023 | Sep 21, 2023 | $0.33 |
VWO Risk
- 11.5%
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.
- 1.09
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.
- −30.2%
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.
- 0.78
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
VWO Cost
0.06%
VWO0.06%
- The middle half of Emerging Markets Total Market funds
- Median 0.07%
No Emerging Markets Total Market fund charges less.