IDVY vs SCHY

IDVYDFirst Trust International Rising Dividend Achievers ETF

SCHYASchwab International Dividend Equity 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.

SCHY Schwab's dividend playbook with a passport: an index of non-US high payers filtered for sustained dividends, financial strength and low volatility, run for 0.08% a year while the typical fund in its group charges 0.50%.

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.

SCHY The fund seeks to track, before fees and expenses, an index of high-dividend-yielding stocks issued by companies outside the United States. Its index methodology emphasizes sustained dividend payments, relative financial strength, and lower volatility.

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.

• SCHY Costs 0.08% a year against a 0.50% median for international dividend screens, one of the cheapest ways to rent this strategy.
• The index does more than chase yield: it screens for sustained payers, relative financial strength and lower volatility. Cash goes out quarterly.
• A plain passive tracker of the Dow Jones International Dividend 100 Index that has hugged its benchmark closely, with a multibillion-dollar base and shares that trade actively.
• Stands among the stronger implementations in its international dividend peer group on cost, tracking and tradability.

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.

• SCHY Roughly 130 stocks, a narrower net than a broad international fund. Dividend screens naturally bunch up in a handful of sectors and countries.
• Launched in 2021, so it carries a shorter live record than the veterans of international dividend investing.
• Two neighbors shave the fee a touch further: VYMI and VIGI charge 0.07%, though each screens for different things.

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