Vanguard Total World Stock ETF (VT)

How has VT done since 2008?#

From June 2008 to October 2026, VT returned about 8.8% a year. The S&P 500 returned about 12.3% a year over the same dates. Say you put in $10,000 at the start. It would have been worth about $46,414 at the end, with every dividend reinvested.

VT returns by month and year#

VT rose in 136 of its 221 months (62%). Its best month was November 2020, at 12.4%. Its worst was October 2008, at −21.4%.

How risky is VT compared with the S&P 500?#

Measured from October 2021 to October 2026, on the days both traded.

• Beta 0.92. When the S&P 500 moved 1% in a day, VT tended to move about 0.92%.
• Correlation 0.97. VT mostly moved with the S&P 500.
• Up and down months. In months the S&P 500 rose, VT rose 91% as much on average. In months it fell, VT fell 97% as much.

Is VT above its 200-day average?#

VT closed 3.6% above its 200-day average on October 16, 2026. A rule that holds VT only above that average would hold it today.

What was VT’s worst drop?#

A drawdown is how far a fund falls from its last high point. VT’s worst fall was −50.3%, from June 26, 2008 to March 9, 2009. It got back to that high on December 29, 2010. On October 16, 2026 it was 3.2% below its highest close.

What does VT hold?#

This fund owns shares in about 10,000 companies from many countries, including the United States. It holds stocks from countries with big, established economies and from countries whose economies are still growing. Its value moves with stock markets around the world and with changes in foreign currencies.

It tracks the FTSE Global All Cap Index. It had 10,185 holdings as of September 30, 2026, according to Vanguard.

What is the VT expense ratio?#

VT charges 0.06% a year. An expense ratio is the yearly fee a fund takes to run itself. On $10,000, a 0.06% fee comes to about $6 a year. Of the 162 ETFs on Tactfolio, 72% charge more.

You never get a bill for it. The fund takes the fee out of its own value a little each day.

Which Tactfolio strategies hold VT?#

No classic strategy holds VT yet. You can add it to your own rules in the builder and see how they would have done.

How does VT compare with similar ETFs?#

Side-by-side pages measure both funds over the same dates:

• VT vs VTI: the whole world stock market against the whole US market.

Funds that can stand in for VT:

• AVGE: Avantis All Equity Markets ETF, 0.23% a year
• URTH: iShares MSCI World ETF, 0.24% a year
• ACWI: iShares MSCI ACWI ETF, 0.32% a year
• VEU: Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US ETF, 0.04% a year

See all 8 VT alternatives, compared on the same dates as VT.

Test VT in your own rules#

Tactfolio is a platform where you build rules-based investing strategies, backtest them on decades of real prices, share them, and run them automatically in your own Alpaca account. Open the builder, add VT, and see how a rule such as “hold it only above its 200-day average” would have done. Strategies run on daily prices and hold US stocks and ETFs only.

The details#

Prices come from Tactfolio’s stored daily prices for VT and SPY. Each close is adjusted for splits, and dividends are reinvested on the day the fund pays them out. CAGR is the steady yearly return that turns the starting value into the ending value. Volatility is the yearly standard deviation of daily returns. Beta and correlation compare daily returns with the S&P 500 over the same dates.

Fund facts come from Vanguard. We checked them on October 16, 2026. Read what a backtest simulates and how to read drawdown and CAGR for more on these measures.