Vanguard International High Dividend Yield ETF (NASDAQ:VYMI) Announces Dividend Increase – $0.96 Per Share

Vanguard International High Dividend Yield ETF (NASDAQ:VYMI) declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, December 18th,NASDAQ Dividends reports. Stockholders of record on Friday, December 20th will be given a dividend of 0.9647 per share on Tuesday, December 24th. This represents a $3.86 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 5.73%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, December 20th. This is a boost from Vanguard International High Dividend Yield ETF’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.70.

Vanguard International High Dividend Yield ETF Price Performance

Shares of VYMI stock traded down $0.74 during trading hours on Friday, reaching $67.29. 332,890 shares of the company traded hands, compared to its average volume of 359,293. The firm has a 50-day moving average price of $70.77 and a 200 day moving average price of $70.67. The company has a market cap of $7.48 billion, a P/E ratio of 9.68 and a beta of 0.81. Vanguard International High Dividend Yield ETF has a 12-month low of $64.09 and a 12-month high of $74.28.

Vanguard International High Dividend Yield ETF Company Profile

The Vanguard International High Dividend Yield ETF (VYMI) is an exchange-traded fund that mostly invests in high dividend yield equity. The fund tracks a market-cap-weighted index of developed and emerging market firms (ex-US) that are expected to pay above average dividends over the next 12 months. VYMI was launched on Feb 25, 2016 and is managed by Vanguard.