Summary
Vanguard International Explorer Fund is a mutual fund run by Vanguard. It does not trade on an exchange: you buy it from the fund company at a price set once a day. Positions inside: 354. The ten largest make up 11% of the fund.
- Yearly costs
- 0.46%
- Fund size
- $1.50B
- Positions
- 354
- Dividend yield
- 3.93%
- Running since
- 1996
What speaks for it
- Widely spread: the ten largest positions make up only 11% of the fund.
- A large fund with $1.50B under management.
- It has been running since 1996.
What to watch
- Costs of 0.46% a year are above the middle of comparable funds (0.40%).
- In the last five years its price once dropped by 45% 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
- -4.1%
- 3 months
- -8.0%
- This year
- +5.7%
- 1 year
- +5.2%
- 3 years
- +38%
- 5 years
- -8.4%
- 10 years
- +27%
- Avg. market cap
- $5.39B
- P/E
- 17.1x
- Forward P/E
- 15.8x
- P/S
- 1.8x
- P/B
- 1.8x
- P/FCF
- 13.4x
- EV/EBITDA
- 10.3x
- Dividend yield
- 2.92%
- ROIC
- 7.0%
- ROE
- 13.1%
- Gross margin
- 40.1%
- Operating margin
- 27.3%
- Net margin
- 22.4%
- Payout ratio
- 49.8%
- Net debt/EBITDA
- 1.4x
- Beta
- 1.08
Weighted average of the 50 largest companies, which make up 29% 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 MKTLIQ 12/31/2049 2.1%
- 2 ARArcadis N.V. ARCAD.AS 1.5%
- 3 83Hokuhoku Financial Group, Inc. 8377.T 1.3%
- 4 65Kokusai Electric Corporation 6525.T 1.1%
- 5 SLCMT1142 1.0%
- 6 KBKBC Ancora SCA KBCA.BR 0.8%
- 7 71Mebuki Financial Group, Inc. 7167.T 0.8%
- 8 ATAT & S Austria Technologie & Systemtechnik AG ATS.VI 0.8%
- 9 53Nichias Corporation 5393.T 0.7%
- 10 SCiShares MSCI EAFE Small-Cap ETF SCZ 0.7%
Positions in the fund: 354. The ten largest make up 11% of it.
Composition as of Oct 31, 2026.
Where is it spread?
Spread outBy sector
- Industrials 24%
- Technology 14%
- Financials 13%
- Consumer cyclical 11%
- Real estate 9.4%
- Other 28%
By country
- Japan 33%
- United Kingdom 16%
- Australia 4.3%
- Switzerland 3.8%
- Other countries 44%
By company size
- Large cap 8.5%
- Mid cap 71%
- Small cap 20%
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 77% of the fund.
Largest sector: Industrials (24%). Largest country: Japan (33%). Largest size group: Mid cap (71%).
What does it cost me?
Expensive- A year from $10,000
- $46.00
- Over 20 years
- $2,231
From every $10,000 invested the fund takes $46.00 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 $2,231.
How has it done?
Growing slowly- A year on average, 10 years
- +2.4%
- Deepest drop
- -45%
- Yearly volatility
- 17%
Average yearly growth over the last ten years: 2.4%. Deepest drop in these years: 45% below the earlier high.
Does it pay dividends?
Yes, it pays out- Yield
- 3.93%
- Payments a year
- 1
- Last payment
- $0.84
Over the last 12 months it paid $0.84 per share, which is 3.93% of today's price. The last payment was $0.84 on Dec 17, 2025.
How expensive are the companies inside?
Usual valuation- P/E of the companies inside
- 17.1
- Average Bulios Score
- 66 out of 100
Weight by Bulios Fair Price
- Undervalued 39%
- Fairly valued 16%
- Overvalued 45%
On average the companies inside trade for 17.1 times their yearly profit. By Fair Price, 45% of the rated weight comes out as overvalued.
Counted from its largest companies (50), which make up 29% of the fund. Each company counts by its weight. We use the metrics, the Bulios Score and the Fair Price of the companies themselves.