Franklin International Dividend Booster Index ETF
$38.27−0.61 (−1.57%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.19%
- Fund size
- $47M
- 1Y return
- +28.3%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 5.76%
- Holdings
- 108
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $38.91
- 52W range
The ETF.net XIDV Grade
Score 74 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 79Category 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.AScore 77Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.CScore 49Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 60Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.FScore 12Category rank
Our read on XIDV
AMost international dividend funds rank stocks one by one. XIDV's index optimizes the whole basket at once, hunting boosted yield from developed-market names outside the US while keeping volatility in check, for 0.19% a year.
The fund invests in the International Dividend Multiplier Underlying Index and uses foreign investments as part of its strategy.
Why people hold it
- Runs 0.19% a year, well under the roughly 0.50% median for international dividend screens.
- The index aims for excess ("boosted") dividend yield versus the large/mid cap international market, balanced against volatility, instead of a plain high-yield ranking.sec.gov
- Roughly 110 developed-market stocks outside the US, with income paid quarterly.
- Holds what the label promises, sticking to its stated international dividend index, and sits in the upper half of its peer group overall.
Worth knowing
- A small, thinly traded fund. Spreads can run wider than the household-name international dividend ETFs, which shows up most on bigger orders.
- Launched in 2025, so the optimizer has a short live record to judge it by.
- Cheaper shelf-mates exist in the same aisle: VYMI at 0.07%, SCHY at 0.08%, IGRO at 0.15%.
XIDV Holdings
- Stocks
- 108
- 21%
- LGEN.L
Sectors
- Financials33.4%
- Energy12.3%
- Industrials9.4%
- Consumer Discr.8.5%
- Cons. Staples8.2%
- Materials7.8%
- Utilities7.4%
- Health Care5.3%
- Communication5.0%
- Real Estate2.0%
- Technology0.8%
Geography
- France14.92%
- United Kingdom12.97%
- Italy10.25%
- Japan8.12%
- Australia7.69%
- Spain6.87%
- Germany6.22%
- Canada4.65%
- 28.31%
Developed 97% · Emerging 3%
XIDV 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 | XIDV |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +20.2% |
| 1 month | −1.3% |
| 3 months | +7.1% |
| 1 year | +28.3% |
| 3 years | — |
| 5 years | — |
| 10 years | — |
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 | XIDV |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +20.2% | |
| 2025 | +43.2% |
XIDV in the news
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XIDV Dividends
- 5.76%
- $2.24
- $0.32 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 2026 | Pays Sep 25, 2026 | $0.32 |
| Jun 26, 2026 | Jul 6, 2026 | $1.52 |
| Mar 20, 2026 | Mar 27, 2026 | $0.06 |
| Dec 19, 2025 | Dec 29, 2025 | $0.34 |
| Sep 19, 2025 | Sep 26, 2025 | $0.31 |
| Jun 20, 2025 | Jun 27, 2025 | $0.91 |
| Mar 21, 2025 | Mar 28, 2025 | $0.02 |
XIDV Risk
- 9.9%
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.
- 3.05
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.
- −12.2%
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.
- 0.08
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
XIDV Cost
- The middle half of International Dividend Index funds
- Median 0.50%
7 of the 34 International Dividend Index funds charge less.