Vanguard Emerging Markets Government Bond ETF
$64.42−0.69 (−1.05%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.15%
- Fund size
- $6.9B
- 1Y return
- +3.1%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 5.95%
- Volume · 30D
- 0.5M sh
- NAV per share
- $65.06
- 52W range
The ETF.net VWOB Grade
Score 87 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 97Category 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 52Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 86Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 82Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 95Category rank
Our read on VWOB
AEmerging-market government debt, Vanguard-style: about 200 dollar bonds from sovereigns and state-backed borrowers, indexed and capped so no one issuer dominates, for 0.15% a year. Income lands monthly.
The Fund seeks to track an index of U.S. dollar-denominated bonds issued by governments and government-related issuers in emerging-market countries.
Why people hold it
- 0.15% a year, versus 0.39% on the category's flagship, EMB. In emerging-market debt, where fees run rich, that gap is the whole pitch.ishares.com
- Dollar-denominated only. Local-law bonds are excluded, so a slide in the peso or the lira doesn't hit these prices directly. Credit risk, not currency risk.assets.bbhub.io
- About 200 bonds spread across sovereign and government-related issuers, with index caps that keep any one borrower from swallowing the fund.assets.bbhub.io
- A multi-billion-dollar fund that trades actively, with monthly distributions.
Worth knowing
- Cheap for emerging-market debt, rich next to the plain Treasury funds it sits beside: VGIT and VCSH charge 0.03%.
- The risk is sovereign credit. Downgrades, defaults and restructurings are live possibilities here in a way they aren't with US Treasuries.fund-docs.vanguard.com
- Vanguard samples the index rather than buying every bond, so day-to-day results can drift from the benchmark more than in a Treasury fund.fund-docs.vanguard.com
VWOB Holdings
- Bonds
- —
- 6%
- Argentine Republic Government International Bond 4.13% 07/09/2035
Geography
- Mexico9.96%
- Saudi Arabia8.16%
- Turkey6.25%
- Cayman Islands5.80%
- Indonesia5.53%
- United Arab Emirates5.10%
- Qatar3.92%
- Argentina3.76%
- 51.51%
Developed 1% · Emerging 99%
VWOB Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
VWOB$10,313
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 | VWOB |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +0.4% |
| 1 month | −0.7% |
| 3 months | −1.7% |
| 1 year | +3.1% |
| 3 years | +9.0% |
| 5 years | +1.5% |
| 10 years | +2.8% |
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 | VWOB |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +0.4% | |
| 2025 | +13.5% | |
| 2024 | +5.2% | |
| 2023 | +10.7% | |
| 2022 | −17.7% | |
| 2021 | −1.8% | |
| 2020 | +5.7% |
VWOB in the news
VWOB Dividends
- 5.95%
- $3.87
- $0.32 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 2026 | Sep 3, 2026 | $0.32 |
| Aug 3, 2026 | Aug 5, 2026 | $0.35 |
| Jul 1, 2026 | Jul 6, 2026 | $0.31 |
| Jun 1, 2026 | Jun 3, 2026 | $0.32 |
| May 1, 2026 | May 5, 2026 | $0.32 |
| Apr 1, 2026 | Apr 6, 2026 | $0.33 |
| Mar 2, 2026 | Mar 4, 2026 | $0.32 |
| Feb 2, 2026 | Feb 4, 2026 | $0.34 |
| Dec 18, 2025 | Dec 22, 2025 | $0.32 |
| Dec 1, 2025 | Dec 3, 2025 | $0.32 |
| Nov 3, 2025 | Nov 5, 2025 | $0.32 |
| Oct 1, 2025 | Oct 3, 2025 | $0.31 |
VWOB Risk
- 7.3%
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.
- 0.56
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.
- −26.6%
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.
VWOB Cost
0.15%
VWOB0.15%
- The middle half of Emerging Markets Bonds (US Dollar) funds
- Median 0.40%
No Emerging Markets Bonds (US Dollar) fund charges less.