Summary
Vanguard International Core Stock Fund Investor Shares 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: 115. The ten largest make up 28% of the fund.
- Yearly costs
- 0.47%
- Fund size
- $13.2B
- Positions
- 115
- Dividend yield
- 3.93%
- Running since
- 2019
What speaks for it
- Widely spread: the ten largest positions make up only 28% of the fund.
- A large fund with $13.2B under management.
- Average yearly growth over the last five years: 7.7%.
What to watch
- Costs of 0.47% a year are above the middle of comparable funds (0.40%).
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
- -1.5%
- 3 months
- -2.6%
- This year
- +10%
- 1 year
- +10%
- 3 years
- +71%
- 5 years
- +45%
- Avg. market cap
- $362.3B
- P/E
- 15.6x
- Forward P/E
- 13.8x
- P/S
- 2.2x
- P/B
- 2.5x
- P/FCF
- 14.8x
- EV/EBITDA
- 10.5x
- Dividend yield
- 1.84%
- ROIC
- 18.0%
- ROE
- 25.9%
- Gross margin
- 47.5%
- Operating margin
- 29.1%
- Net margin
- 23.0%
- Payout ratio
- 28.6%
- Net debt/EBITDA
- 0.4x
- Beta
- 0.84
Weighted average of the 50 largest companies, which make up 67% 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 6.4%
- 2 00Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 005930.KS 3.5%
- 3 00SK hynix Inc. 000660.KS 3.3%
- 4 ASASML Holding N.V. ASML.AS 3.1%
- 5 MKTLIQ 12/31/2049 3.0%
- 6 AstraZeneca PLC 2.0%
- 7 UBUBS Group AG UBSG.SW 1.8%
- 8 BNThe Bank of Nova Scotia BNS.TO 1.6%
- 9 80Tokyo Electron Limited 8035.T 1.6%
- 10 07Tencent Holdings Limited 0700.HK 1.6%
Positions in the fund: 115. The ten largest make up 28% of it.
Composition as of Oct 24, 2026.
Where is it spread?
Spread outBy sector
- Technology 24%
- Financials 24%
- Industrials 12%
- Consumer cyclical 8.2%
- Healthcare 7.5%
- Other 24%
By country
- Japan 14%
- United Kingdom 9.9%
- China 8.0%
- Netherlands 6.7%
- Other countries 62%
By company size
- Mega cap 25%
- Large cap 73%
- Mid cap 2.2%
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 84% of the fund.
Largest sector: Technology (24%). Largest country: Japan (14%). Largest size group: Large cap (73%).
What does it cost me?
Expensive- A year from $10,000
- $47.00
- Over 20 years
- $2,277
From every $10,000 invested the fund takes $47.00 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 $2,277.
How has it done?
Growing over the long run- A year on average, 5 years
- +7.7%
- Deepest drop
- -27%
- Yearly volatility
- 17%
Average yearly growth over the last five years: 7.7%. Deepest drop in these years: 27% below the earlier high.
Does it pay dividends?
Yes, it pays out- Yield
- 3.93%
- Payments a year
- 1
- Last payment
- $0.73
Over the last 12 months it paid $0.73 per share, which is 3.93% of today's price. The last payment was $0.73 on Dec 22, 2025.
How expensive are the companies inside?
Usual valuation- P/E of the companies inside
- 15.6
- Average Bulios Score
- 71 out of 100
Weight by Bulios Fair Price
- Undervalued 38%
- Fairly valued 9.2%
- Overvalued 53%
On average the companies inside trade for 15.6 times their yearly profit. By Fair Price, 53% of the rated weight comes out as overvalued.
Counted from its largest companies (50), which make up 67% of the fund. Each company counts by its weight. We use the metrics, the Bulios Score and the Fair Price of the companies themselves.
Can I buy it as an ETF?
A mutual fund is bought from the fund company. These ETFs hold much of the same and trade on an exchange, so an ordinary broker carries them.
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