Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets ETF (VWO)

Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets ETF — analysis

In the emerging markets group, Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets ETF (VWO) has gathered $203.7B. The cost line is 22 bps per year, the benchmark is Index Benchmark, and the fund has traded since 2022.

On the ValueMarkers VMCI-Composite read, VWO scores 63/100. The score is the weighted average of the underlying VMCI ratings across the top 10 holdings, which together represent roughly 31% of the fund. That places VWO in above-average composite quality territory inside the Emerging Markets cohort.

VWO compounded at 6.9% per year over the trailing five years, which compares to 6.0% on the benchmark. The 0.9-pp gap captures expense drag plus any active deviation in the strategy.

Trailing yield on VWO is 5.40%, with distributions growing at 7.9% annualized over five years. That combination is the simplest read on whether the fund is structured for current income or distribution growth.

VWO weight stack: top 10 names equal 31%, sector tilt Technology 34%, single-name concentration peaks at AAPL (3.63%). Those three numbers describe the fund's risk shape on a single screen.

Peer ETFs covering the same mandate as VWO: IEMG, EEM. The practical comparison runs on issuer reliability, expense ratio, holdings concentration, and tax efficiency, all of which ValueMarkers surfaces on the individual ETF pages.