IDVY vs IGRO

IDVYDFirst Trust International Rising Dividend Achievers ETF

IGROAiShares International Dividend Growth ETF

In short

IDVY First Trust points its Rising Dividend Achievers screen overseas: developed-market payers picked for dividend growth and profitability, not the fattest yields. A young, small fund priced above the index giants in its lane.

IGRO Dividend growth, not dividend yield, taken overseas. IGRO tracks a Morningstar index of non-US companies with a habit of raising their payouts, spread across roughly 500 names, for a fee that undercuts most of the international dividend shelf.

Stated mandate

IDVY The fund seeks to track the Nasdaq International Rising Dividend AchieversTM Index, investing at least 80% of net assets in index securities through an indexing approach.

IGRO The fund seeks to track an index of international stocks with a history of growing dividends, providing dividend-focused international equity exposure for income and long-term growth.

Why people hold it

• IDVY Tracks the Nasdaq International Rising Dividend Achievers Index, which screens developed-market dividend payers on growth and profitability rather than headline yield alone.ftportfolios.com
• Simple plumbing: a 1940 Act index fund that puts at least 80% of net assets into index securities, so the published index is what you actually own.ftportfolios.com
• The basket is the strongest part of the package. Portfolio construction holds up well against the international dividend group even where cost and scale trail it.

• IGRO Costs 0.15% a year, well under the typical fee for an international dividend screen.
• Does what the label says: it follows the Morningstar Global ex-US Dividend Growth Index closely, one of the tightest index-to-portfolio matches in its peer group.
• Roughly 500 non-US payers, so no single dividend carries the fund. Cash goes out quarterly.

Worth knowing

• IDVY At 0.60% a year it runs above the 0.50% cohort median and several times the big index rivals: VYMI at 0.07%, SCHY at 0.08%, IGRO at 0.15%.
• Launched in 2026 with a small asset base and light trading, so spreads can run wider than at scaled peers and there is little history to judge it by.
• Dividends arrive once or twice a year rather than quarterly, so the income shows up in a couple of lumps.

• IGRO It trades thin next to heavyweights like VYMI, so limit orders and calmer mid-session trading matter more here.
• The screen targets payout growth, not the fattest yields, so income tends to run lighter than yield-first international funds.
• Cheaper neighbors exist: VIGI at 0.07% and SCHY at 0.08%, though each tracks a different index with a different holdings list.

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