Summary
Dimensional World ex U.S. Core Equity 2 ETF is an ETF - a fund traded on an exchange like a stock - run by Dimensional. Positions inside: 10,567. The ten largest make up 8.6% of the fund.
- Yearly costs
- 0.28%
- Fund size
- $12.3B
- Positions
- 10,567
- Dividend yield
- 2.48%
- Running since
- 2008
What speaks for it
- Costs of 0.28% a year are below the middle of comparable funds (0.44%).
- Widely spread: the ten largest positions make up only 8.6% of the fund.
- A large fund with $12.3B under management.
- Easy to buy and sell: about $26.1M changes hands a day.
- Average yearly growth over the last five years: 6.7%.
- It has been running since 2008.
What to watch
- In the last five years its price once dropped by 31% from its high.
A fund has no Bulios Score and no Fair Price of its own - both are computed from the results of a single company. This page shows what is inside the fund and what it costs instead.
Price
Performance
- 1 month
- -3.5%
- 3 months
- +0.4%
- This year
- +12%
- 1 year
- +16%
- 3 years
- +69%
- 5 years
- +38%
- Avg. market cap
- $637.6B
- P/E
- 15.0x
- Forward P/E
- 10.9x
- P/S
- 1.7x
- P/B
- 2.7x
- P/FCF
- 13.1x
- EV/EBITDA
- 9.1x
- Dividend yield
- 1.64%
- ROIC
- 18.1%
- ROE
- 29.4%
- Gross margin
- 49.2%
- Operating margin
- 31.1%
- Net margin
- 26.2%
- Payout ratio
- 24.5%
- Net debt/EBITDA
- 0.6x
- Beta
- 0.97
Weighted average of the 50 largest companies, which make up 18% of the fund. Banks and insurers are left out of the gross margin, the ROIC and the EBITDA figures.
What is inside?
Widely spread- 1 23Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited 2330.TW 2.5%
- 2 00Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 005930.KS 1.1%
- 3 TSTSMC TSM 1.0%
- 4 ASASML ASML 0.8%
- 5 00SK hynix Inc. 000660.KS 0.6%
- 6 NVNovartis NVS 0.6%
- 7 TTTotalEnergies SE TTE.PA 0.5%
- 8 SHShell SHEL 0.5%
- 9 07Tencent Holdings Limited 0700.HK 0.4%
- 10 RORoche Holding AG ROP.SW 0.4%
Positions in the fund: 10,567. The ten largest make up 8.6% of it.
Composition as of Oct 18, 2026.
Where is it spread?
Spread outBy sector
- Financials 20%
- Technology 18%
- Industrials 16%
- Basic materials 11%
- Consumer cyclical 8.5%
- Other 28%
By country
- Japan 16%
- Taiwan 11%
- Canada 8.4%
- United Kingdom 6.4%
- Other countries 58%
By company size
- Mega cap 21%
- Large cap 67%
- Mid cap 13%
By the company's market value: Mega cap from $200B, Large cap from $10B, Mid cap from $2B, Small cap from $300M, Micro cap below $300M. Counted from the companies that make up 62% of the fund.
Largest sector: Financials (20%). Largest country: Japan (16%). Largest size group: Large cap (67%).
What does it cost me?
Cheap- A year from $10,000
- $28.00
- Over 20 years
- $1,380
From every $10,000 invested the fund takes $28.00 a year. You do not pay it separately - it is taken out of the fund's value. Over 20 years at 5% yearly growth that adds up to about $1,380.
How has it done?
Growing over the long run- A year on average, 5 years
- +6.7%
- Deepest drop
- -31%
- Yearly volatility
- 17%
Average yearly growth over the last five years: 6.7%. Deepest drop in these years: 31% below the earlier high.
Does it pay dividends?
Yes, it pays out- Yield
- 2.48%
- Payments a year
- 4
- Last payment
- $0.22
Over the last 12 months it paid $0.90 per share, which is 2.48% of today's price. The last payment was $0.22 on Sep 22, 2026.
Is it easy to buy and sell?
Very easy- Traded a day
- $26.1M
- Shares a day
- 724K
On an average day about $26.1M of the fund changes hands.
How expensive are the companies inside?
Rather cheap- P/E of the companies inside
- 15.0
- Average Bulios Score
- 72 out of 100
Weight by Bulios Fair Price
- Undervalued 22%
- Fairly valued 13%
- Overvalued 65%
On average the companies inside trade for 15.0 times their yearly profit. By Fair Price, 65% of the rated weight comes out as overvalued.
Counted from its largest companies (50), which make up 18% of the fund. Each company counts by its weight. We use the metrics, the Bulios Score and the Fair Price of the companies themselves.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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