Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF
$157.98−0.73 (−0.46%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.04%
- Fund size
- $100.8B
- 1Y return
- +16.1%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 2.32%
- Holdings
- 589
- Volume · 30D
- 1.2M sh
- NAV per share
- $158.71
- 52W range
The ETF.net VYM Grade
Score 82 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 99Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 81Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.AScore 86Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 62Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.CScore 54Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 95Category rank
Our read on VYM
AThe no-frills dividend workhorse. VYM buys the higher-yielding end of the US market, roughly 600 names, for four basis points: no quality screen, no dividend-growth-streak test, just yield, at scale since 2006.
The Fund seeks to track a benchmark index measuring the investment return of common stocks from companies characterized by high dividend yields.
Why people hold it
- Four basis points a year, against a peer-group median near 0.32%. Cheaper than cohort neighbors VONV (0.06%) and FNDX (0.25%).
- Running since 2006 and now a multi-billion-dollar fund that trades actively, so ordinary orders tend to fill at tight spreads.
- Simple mandate: track the FTSE High Dividend Yield Index of US common stocks screened on yield. No manager discretion, no options overlay, plain 1940-Act fund.fund-docs.vanguard.com
- Pays quarterly, and among 100-plus value and multifactor rivals it stands as one of the strongest overall packages in the group.
Worth knowing
- The screen is yield, not payout growth or dividend quality, so a company can qualify simply because its share price fell.
- This is a value slice by design, tilted to established payers, so it behaves differently from a total US market fund.
- Roughly 600 holdings, but weight leans toward the largest payers, so the top of the roster does more of the work than the count suggests.
VYM Holdings
- Stocks
- 589
- 26%
- AVGO
Sectors
- Financials21.7%
- Technology17.0%
- Health Care13.6%
- Industrials11.6%
- Energy10.0%
- Cons. Staples8.1%
- Consumer Discr.6.3%
- Utilities5.1%
- Communication3.4%
- Materials3.3%
- Real Estate0.0%
Geography
- United States94.91%
- Ireland2.56%
- United Kingdom0.96%
- Switzerland0.75%
- Netherlands0.30%
- Bermuda0.20%
- Peru0.11%
- Sweden0.04%
- 0.17%
VYM Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
VYM$11,606
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 | VYM |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +12.6% |
| 1 month | −3.3% |
| 3 months | +0.8% |
| 1 year | +16.1% |
| 3 years | +18.1% |
| 5 years | +12.2% |
| 10 years | +11.5% |
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 | VYM |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +12.6% | |
| 2025 | +15.4% | |
| 2024 | +17.6% | |
| 2023 | +6.6% | |
| 2022 | −0.5% | |
| 2021 | +26.2% | |
| 2020 | +1.1% |
VYM in the news
VYM Dividends
- 2.32%
- $3.68
- $0.89 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 2026 | Sep 22, 2026 | $0.89 |
| Jun 18, 2026 | Jun 23, 2026 | $0.98 |
| Mar 20, 2026 | Mar 24, 2026 | $0.86 |
| Dec 19, 2025 | Dec 23, 2025 | $0.95 |
| Sep 19, 2025 | Sep 23, 2025 | $0.84 |
| Jun 20, 2025 | Jun 24, 2025 | $0.86 |
| Mar 21, 2025 | Mar 25, 2025 | $0.85 |
| Dec 20, 2024 | Dec 24, 2024 | $0.96 |
| Sep 20, 2024 | Sep 24, 2024 | $0.85 |
| Jun 21, 2024 | Jun 25, 2024 | $1.02 |
| Mar 15, 2024 | Mar 20, 2024 | $0.66 |
| Dec 18, 2023 | Dec 21, 2023 | $1.10 |
VYM Risk
- 10.9%
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.
- 1.18
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.
- −15.9%
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.
- 0.74
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
VYM Cost
0.04%
VYM0.04%
- The middle half of US Multifactor funds
- Median 0.30%
No US Multifactor fund charges less.