VXUS: Vanguard Total International Stock ETF

What does VXUS hold?#

This fund owns shares in thousands of companies based outside the United States. It includes companies in established markets like Europe and Japan and in growing markets like China and India. Its value can also change when foreign currencies go up or down against the dollar.

It tracks the FTSE Global All Cap ex US Index. It had 8,740 holdings as of August 31, 2026, according to Vanguard.

What is the VXUS expense ratio?#

VXUS charges 0.05% a year. An expense ratio is the yearly fee a fund takes to run itself. On $10,000, a 0.05% fee comes to about $5 a year.

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

How has VXUS done since 2011?#

From January 2011 to October 2026, VXUS returned about 6.5% a year. Say you put in $10,000 at the start. It would have been worth about $26,831 at the end, with every dividend reinvested.

Prices through October 16, 2026. Figures use daily closing prices adjusted for splits, with dividends reinvested. They do not include taxes or the cost of buying and selling. Past results do not tell you what will happen next.

VXUS returns by year#

What was VXUS’s worst drop?#

A drawdown is how far a fund falls from its last high point. VXUS’s worst fall was −36.0%, from January 26, 2018 to March 23, 2020. It got back to that high on November 16, 2020.

The chart shows how far below its last high the fund was on each day. Big drops are normal for some funds. They matter because selling during a drop locks in the loss.

Which Tactfolio strategies hold VXUS?#

One classic strategy holds VXUS at least some of the time. Each is a set of written rules you can open, test and copy.

• Three-Fund Portfolio (Taylor Larimore, Bogleheads), by Taylor Larimore, 2018

How does VXUS compare with similar ETFs?#

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

• VTI vs VXUS: US stocks against stocks from the rest of the world.

Funds that can stand in for VXUS:

• VEU: Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US ETF, 0.04% a year
• IXUS: iShares Core MSCI Total International Stock ETF, 0.07% a year
• SCHF: Schwab International Equity ETF, 0.03% a year
• VEA: Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets ETF, 0.03% a year

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

Test VXUS 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 VXUS, 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 VXUS. 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.

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.