DIVI vs XIDV

DIVIAFranklin International Core Dividend Tilt Index ETF

XIDVAFranklin International Dividend Booster Index ETF

In short

DIVI A tilt, not a screen: DIVI optimizes a broad developed-markets ex-North America index toward higher yield while limiting drift from that parent. Core international shape, income lean, 0.09% a year.

XIDV Most 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.

Stated mandate

DIVI The Fund seeks to track, before fees and expenses, the Morningstar Developed Markets ex-North America Dividend Enhanced Select Index. Its index methodology seeks higher dividend yield than the parent index while maintaining core exposure to developed markets outside North America.

XIDV The fund invests in the International Dividend Multiplier Underlying Index and uses foreign investments as part of its strategy.

Why people hold it

• DIVI Costs 0.09% a year, while the median fund in its international-dividend cohort charges closer to 0.50%.
• The index takes a broad developed ex-North America benchmark and optimizes it for higher yield while limiting expected tracking error to that parent. Income lean, core shape.sec.gov
• Tracks its index closely, among the strongest implementations in its peer group.
• A multi-billion-dollar fund holding about 80 developed-market names, paying distributions quarterly.

• XIDV 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

• DIVI The tilt is mild by design: the index caps how far it can drift from its parent, so it reaches for less yield than funds built on hard high-yield screens.sec.gov
• Cheaper options sit in the same cohort (VYMI at 0.07%, SCHY at 0.08%), so the fee edge is over the category median, not over the largest index shops.
• Today's strategy dates to 2022, when the fund was renamed from Franklin LibertyQ International Equity Hedged ETF, so its 2016-onward record covers a different mandate.sec.gov

• XIDV 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%.

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