Vanguard Total International Stock ETF (NASDAQ:VXUS) Announces Dividend Increase – $1.36 Per Share

Vanguard Total International Stock ETF (NASDAQ:VXUS) declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, December 17th. Shareholders of record on Friday, December 19th will be paid a dividend of 1.3631 per share on Tuesday, December 23rd. This represents a c) annualized dividend and a yield of 7.3%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, December 19th. This is a 279.0% increase from Vanguard Total International Stock ETF’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.36.

Vanguard Total International Stock ETF Trading Down 1.2%

Shares of VXUS traded down $0.90 during mid-day trading on Friday, reaching $74.67. 7,430,995 shares of the stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 4,571,302. The firm has a fifty day moving average price of $74.59 and a 200 day moving average price of $71.96. The company has a market cap of $109.17 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 15.99 and a beta of 0.79. Vanguard Total International Stock ETF has a 1 year low of $54.98 and a 1 year high of $76.25.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in the company. Rakuten Investment Management Inc. purchased a new position in Vanguard Total International Stock ETF during the third quarter valued at approximately $1,102,286,000. Corient Private Wealth LLC boosted its holdings in Vanguard Total International Stock ETF by 372.2% in the second quarter. Corient Private Wealth LLC now owns 12,318,931 shares of the company’s stock worth $851,110,000 after acquiring an additional 9,710,027 shares in the last quarter. JPMorgan Chase & Co. increased its holdings in Vanguard Total International Stock ETF by 371.0% in the 2nd quarter. JPMorgan Chase & Co. now owns 5,551,166 shares of the company’s stock worth $383,530,000 after buying an additional 4,372,561 shares during the period. Bank of America Corp DE increased its holdings in Vanguard Total International Stock ETF by 17.1% in the third quarter. Bank of America Corp DE now owns 19,473,059 shares of the company’s stock valued at $1,430,491,000 after buying an additional 2,841,876 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Jane Street Group LLC boosted its holdings in Vanguard Total International Stock ETF by 64,544.4% in the 1st quarter. Jane Street Group LLC now owns 2,834,658 shares of the company’s stock worth $176,032,000 after buying an additional 2,830,273 shares during the last quarter.

About Vanguard Total International Stock ETF

The Vanguard Total International Stock ETF (VXUS) is an exchange-traded fund that is based on the FTSE Global All Cap ex US index, a market-cap-weighted index of global stocks covering 99% of the world’s global market capitalization outside the US. VXUS was launched on Jan 26, 2011 and is managed by Vanguard.