Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US Small-Cap Index Fund ETF Shares
Vanguard · Tracks FTSE Global Small Cap ex US Index · Inception Apr 2, 2009
Trailing returns
through Oct 23, 2026- 1 year
- +8.6%
- 3 year
- +17.7%
- annualized
- 5 year
- +4.8%
- annualized
Price return from month-end closes, distributions reinvested at month end. Excludes trading costs, bid-ask spreads and taxes. Past performance says nothing about future returns and is not part of the composite score — see the methodology for what the score does measure.
Composite score
Based on a 0.060% expense ratio.
Based on $13.99B in net assets for the whole fund, all 3 share classes. Our sources don't report the ETF class alone.
Top-10 holdings represent 2.4% of net assets.
International Developed base · ETF wrapper · 3.02% TTM yield.
The composite is a weighted average of the four core sub-scores above (cost, tax efficiency, liquidity, concentration). Missing sub-scores fall back to the per-category median when the category has at least 50% data coverage, so funds without (e.g.) parsed N-PORT holdings aren't accidentally boosted by renormalization. Tracking quality is shown where computable but isn't currently part of the composite weighting. See methodology for formulas, the tracking-quality partial-coverage rationale, and the dimensions we deliberately don't score (methodology v0.5.2).
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Top holdings
| # | Holding | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hudbay Minerals Inc | 0.27% |
| 2 | Aritzia Inc | 0.27% |
| 3 | Finning International Inc | 0.24% |
| 4 | Storebrand ASA | 0.24% |
| 5 | Accelleron Industries AG | 0.24% |
| 6 | Games Workshop Group PLC | 0.24% |
| 7 | Taiwan Union Technology Corp | 0.24% |
| 8 | Gaztransport Et Technigaz SA | 0.23% |
| 9 | South Bow Corp | 0.22% |
| 10 | Subsea 7 SA | 0.21% |
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- SCHC Schwab International Small-Cap Equity ETF 70.1% overlap
- SCZ iShares MSCI EAFE Small-Cap ETF 47.8% overlap
- FNDC Schwab Fundamental International Small Equity ETF 31.2% overlap
- AVDV Avantis International Small Cap Value ETF 24.2% overlap
- DISV Dimensional International Small Cap Value ETF 21.3% overlap
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