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About Vanguard Total World Stock Index ETF
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Inception date
Jun 24, 2008
Structure
Open-Ended Fund
Dividend treatment
Distributes
Distribution tax treatment
Qualified dividends
Income tax type
Capital Gains
Max ST capital gains rate
39.60%
Max LT capital gains rate
20.00%
Primary advisor
The Vanguard Group, Inc.
Distributor
Vanguard Marketing Corp.
The fund is passively managed to hold a well-diversified, market cap-weighted portfolio of developed and emerging market stocks. The fund ignores frontier markets as do most peer funds but excluding the likes of Vietnam and Kuwait has minimal impact on the fund's ability to track the global market. The fund’s inclusion of small-caps makes it incrementally more representative than direct rivals like ACWI. The fund uses a sampling approach to track its index - in that it may not hold all the stocks in the index - it will hold a representative sample of the securities that resembles the full index in terms of key risk factors.
Classification
Returns
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What's in the fund
Exposure type
Finance
Electronic Technology
Technology Services
Stocks98.41%
Finance19.75%
Electronic Technology15.17%
Technology Services14.85%
Health Technology8.16%
Retail Trade6.31%
Producer Manufacturing4.86%
Consumer Non-Durables4.84%
Consumer Durables2.95%
Utilities2.81%
Energy Minerals2.76%
Consumer Services2.58%
Transportation2.18%
Process Industries2.08%
Non-Energy Minerals1.96%
Industrial Services1.65%
Commercial Services1.61%
Communications1.55%
Health Services1.24%
Distribution Services1.06%
Miscellaneous0.06%
Bonds, Cash & Other1.59%
Cash1.14%
Temporary0.21%
Mutual fund0.09%
UNIT0.08%
Corporate0.06%
Miscellaneous0.01%
Government0.01%
Stock breakdown by region
North America63.28%
Europe17.24%
Asia15.56%
Oceania1.81%
Middle East1.08%
Latin America0.70%
Africa0.32%
Top 10 holdings
Dividends
Dividend payout history
Assets under management (AUM)
Fund Flows
Frequently Asked Questions
VT invests in stocks. The fund's major sectors are Finance, with 19.75% stocks, and Electronic Technology, with 15.17% of the basket. The assets are mostly located in the North America region.
VT top holdings are Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corporation, occupying 3.61% and 3.39% of the portfolio correspondingly.
VT last dividends amounted to 0.39 USD. The quarter before, the issuer paid 0.88 USD in dividends, which shows a 127.78% decrease.
VT assets under management is 45.82 B USD. It's risen 5.62% over the last month.
VT fund flows account for 5.18 B USD (1 year). Many traders use this metric to get insight into investors' sentiment and evaluate whether it's time to buy or sell the fund.
Yes, VT pays dividends to its holders with the dividend yield of 1.83%. The last dividend (Mar 25, 2025) amounted to 0.39 USD. The dividends are paid quarterly.
VT shares are issued by The Vanguard Group, Inc. under the brand Vanguard. The ETF was launched on Jun 24, 2008, and its management style is Passive.
VT expense ratio is 0.06% meaning you'd have to pay 0.06% of your investment to help manage the fund.
VT follows the FTSE Global All Cap Net Tax (US RIC) Index. ETFs usually track some benchmark seeking to replicate its performance and guide asset selection and objectives.
VT invests in stocks.
VT price has risen by 6.65% over the last month, and its yearly performance shows a 11.47% increase. See more dynamics on VT price chart.
NAV returns, another gauge of an ETF dynamics, have risen by 5.90% over the last month, showed a 2.72% increase in three-month performance and has increased by 12.51% in a year.
NAV returns, another gauge of an ETF dynamics, have risen by 5.90% over the last month, showed a 2.72% increase in three-month performance and has increased by 12.51% in a year.
VT trades at a premium (0.10%) meaning the ETF is trading at a higher price than the calculated NAV.