Vanguard International High Dividend Yield ETF
$102.37−1.56 (−1.50%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.07%
- Fund size
- $22.8B
- 1Y return
- +27.9%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 3.58%
- Holdings
- 1561
- Volume · 30D
- 0.9M sh
- NAV per share
- $103.70
- 52W range
The ETF.net VYMI Grade
Score 85 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.BScore 60Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 66Category 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 89Category rank
Our read on VYMI
AMost international dividend funds hold a hundred-odd developed-market names. VYMI casts a far wider net: roughly 1,600 high-yielders across developed and emerging markets outside the US, at seven basis points.
VYMI seeks to track the FTSE All-World ex US High Dividend Yield Index through passive sampling, targeting international stocks forecast to have above-average dividend yields.
Why people hold it
- 0.07% a year, a fraction of the typical international dividend fund's fee and a shade under screened rivals like SCHY (0.08%) and IGRO (0.15%).
- Roughly 1,600 stocks across developed and emerging markets ex-US, so no single name, sector or country carries the income load.investor.vanguard.com
- Samples the FTSE All-World ex US High Dividend Yield Index and has stayed unusually close to it, among the tightest trackers in its peer group.
- Live since 2016, now a multi-billion-dollar fund that trades actively, and it pays out quarterly.
Worth knowing
- No currency hedge. Dividends and prices arrive in foreign currencies, and exchange-rate swings show up in dollar results either way.fund-docs.vanguard.com
- The emerging-market sleeve adds political, liquidity and currency risk that developed-only dividend funds sidestep.fund-docs.vanguard.com
- Screening on forecast yield tilts toward value and cyclical names, a different ride than dividend-growth peers like VIGI and IGRO.
VYMI Holdings
- Stocks
- 1,561
- 14%
- HSBA.L
Sectors
- Financials44.1%
- Energy8.8%
- Materials6.8%
- Cons. Staples6.5%
- Health Care6.4%
- Industrials6.4%
- Consumer Discr.6.2%
- Technology5.1%
- Utilities5.0%
- Communication3.7%
- Real Estate1.1%
Geography
- Japan12.18%
- United Kingdom10.43%
- Canada8.60%
- Switzerland7.82%
- Australia7.25%
- Taiwan5.36%
- China5.29%
- France5.23%
- 37.85%
Developed 75% · Emerging 25%
VYMI 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 | VYMI |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +18.8% |
| 1 month | −0.5% |
| 3 months | +5.3% |
| 1 year | +27.9% |
| 3 years | +23.5% |
| 5 years | +14.4% |
| 10 years | +10.7% |
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 | VYMI |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +18.8% | |
| 2025 | +38.1% | |
| 2024 | +7.1% | |
| 2023 | +17.1% | |
| 2022 | −7.1% | |
| 2021 | +15.4% | |
| 2020 | −1.0% |
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VYMI Dividends
- 3.58%
- $3.72
- $0.82 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 2026 | Sep 22, 2026 | $0.82 |
| Jun 18, 2026 | Jun 23, 2026 | $1.26 |
| Mar 20, 2026 | Mar 24, 2026 | $0.71 |
| Dec 19, 2025 | Dec 23, 2025 | $0.94 |
| Sep 19, 2025 | Sep 23, 2025 | $0.70 |
| Jun 20, 2025 | Jun 24, 2025 | $1.08 |
| Mar 21, 2025 | Mar 25, 2025 | $0.60 |
| Dec 20, 2024 | Dec 24, 2024 | $0.96 |
| Sep 20, 2024 | Sep 24, 2024 | $0.70 |
| Jun 21, 2024 | Jun 25, 2024 | $1.01 |
| Mar 15, 2024 | Mar 20, 2024 | $0.62 |
| Dec 18, 2023 | Dec 21, 2023 | $0.86 |
VYMI Risk
- 10.6%
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.
- 1.65
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.
- −24.1%
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.
VYMI Cost
- The middle half of International Dividend Index funds
- Median 0.50%
No International Dividend Index fund charges less.