Vanguard Total International Stock ETF
$86.03−1.46 (−1.66%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.05%
- Fund size
- $665.7B
- 1Y return
- +22.2%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 2.27%
- Holdings
- 8602
- Volume · 30D
- 5.6M sh
- NAV per share
- $87.06
- 52W range
The ETF.net VXUS Grade
Score 80 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 81Category 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 54Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 75Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 79Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 86Category rank
Our read on VXUS
AEverything outside the US in one ticker: roughly 8,600 stocks across developed and emerging markets, large caps down to small, for 0.05% a year. Vanguard's answer to international investing is to just own the whole thing.
The fund uses a passive indexing strategy to track the FTSE Global All Cap ex US Index, which measures the performance of large-, mid-, and small-cap stocks in developed and emerging markets outside the United States.
Why people hold it
- 0.05% a year, a small fraction of the median fee among its international peers.
- One ticker, roughly 8,600 companies: developed and emerging markets, large caps down to small caps, weighted by market size.fund-docs.vanguard.com
- Tracks the FTSE Global All Cap ex US Index tightly, one of the cleanest index builds among the international funds we grade.
- Trading since 2011, well over $100 billion in assets and one of the busiest names in its category, which usually shows up as tight bid-ask spreads.
Worth knowing
- No US stocks by design. This is the other half of a global portfolio, not the whole portfolio.fund-docs.vanguard.com
- Foreign currency moves feed straight into dollar returns, and Vanguard flags country and currency risk as especially high in emerging markets.fund-docs.vanguard.com
- Market-cap weighting means the largest developed markets and their megacaps steer the fund; the thousands of small names barely move it.fund-docs.vanguard.com
VXUS Holdings
- Stocks
- 8,602
- 14%
- 2330.TW
Sectors
- Financials23.3%
- Technology19.9%
- Industrials15.1%
- Consumer Discr.8.1%
- Materials7.7%
- Health Care6.9%
- Cons. Staples4.8%
- Energy4.8%
- Communication4.3%
- Utilities2.9%
- Real Estate2.3%
Geography
- Japan15.53%
- Taiwan8.66%
- United Kingdom8.29%
- Canada8.11%
- China6.97%
- Korea6.36%
- France5.03%
- Switzerland5.02%
- 36.02%
Developed 66% · Emerging 34%
VXUS 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 | VXUS |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +16.8% |
| 1 month | −0.1% |
| 3 months | +0.7% |
| 1 year | +22.2% |
| 3 years | +20.8% |
| 5 years | +9.5% |
| 10 years | +9.4% |
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 | VXUS |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +16.8% | |
| 2025 | +32.3% | |
| 2024 | +5.1% | |
| 2023 | +15.9% | |
| 2022 | −16.1% | |
| 2021 | +9.0% | |
| 2020 | +10.7% |
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VXUS Dividends
- 2.27%
- $1.98
- $0.16 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 2026 | Sep 22, 2026 | $0.16 |
| Jun 18, 2026 | Jun 23, 2026 | $0.39 |
| Mar 20, 2026 | Mar 24, 2026 | $0.08 |
| Dec 19, 2025 | Dec 23, 2025 | $1.36 |
| Sep 19, 2025 | Sep 23, 2025 | $0.36 |
| Jun 20, 2025 | Jun 24, 2025 | $0.49 |
| Mar 21, 2025 | Mar 25, 2025 | $0.19 |
| Dec 20, 2024 | Dec 24, 2024 | $1.00 |
| Sep 20, 2024 | Sep 24, 2024 | $0.27 |
| Jun 21, 2024 | Jun 25, 2024 | $0.48 |
| Mar 15, 2024 | Mar 20, 2024 | $0.22 |
| Dec 18, 2023 | Dec 21, 2023 | $0.85 |
VXUS 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.
- 1.19
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.
- −28.9%
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.
- 0.92
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
VXUS Cost
- The middle half of Total International Market funds
- Median 0.23%
1 of the 8 Total International Market funds charge less.