Maybe this is a dumb question, but why such a high yield for Vanguard European Stock Index Fund?
Is it simply because VEURX's share price has dropped so much?
(Morningstar quotes 9.5%, Scottrade quotes 10.23%. Can't find a yield listed on Vanguard's site.)
Why is VEURX yield so high? (9.5% or 10.23%)
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Re: Why is VEURX yield so high? (9.5% or 10.23%)
Must be an error. VG doesn't generally publish SEC yields for its international funds, but there is no way the yield is 3 times that of the S&P.bill99 wrote:Maybe this is a dumb question, but why such a high yield for Vanguard European Stock Index Fund?
Is it simply because VEURX's share price has dropped so much?
(Morningstar quotes 9.5%, Scottrade quotes 10.23%. Can't find a yield listed on Vanguard's site.)
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Vanguard site lists $1.497 as the dividend distributions for 2008. With it's current $14.66 NAV that would imply a trailing 10.21% yield. However I wouldn't count on that much going forward because a lot of companies are lowering their dividends and I'd guess a lot of those dividends were issued in foreign currency when the dollar was quite a bit weaker for much of 08.
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European stock markets have higher yield than US.
The Russell site shows a yield of just over 6% for Europe, 1/31/09: http://www.russell.com/indexes/characte ... _Index.asp
More than double the U.S. Russel 1000 at the same date: http://www.russell.com/indexes/characte ... _Index.asp
Perhaps VEURX may have higher yield than the index, if there have been net redemptions, if for example people have been adding to the FTSE fund but not as much to the old international funds, including the fund-of-funds. There's been other threads about this kind of thing, usually about why a new international fund has low yield. I've posted asking about it myself with VEU, thinking that the difference was too great to be caused by the fund being relatively new but not brand new.
It can be caused by redemptions (or purchases in the case of VEU) after dividends are received by the fund, but before year end distributions.
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The Russell site shows a yield of just over 6% for Europe, 1/31/09: http://www.russell.com/indexes/characte ... _Index.asp
More than double the U.S. Russel 1000 at the same date: http://www.russell.com/indexes/characte ... _Index.asp
Perhaps VEURX may have higher yield than the index, if there have been net redemptions, if for example people have been adding to the FTSE fund but not as much to the old international funds, including the fund-of-funds. There's been other threads about this kind of thing, usually about why a new international fund has low yield. I've posted asking about it myself with VEU, thinking that the difference was too great to be caused by the fund being relatively new but not brand new.
It can be caused by redemptions (or purchases in the case of VEU) after dividends are received by the fund, but before year end distributions.
Of course, this is the biggest cause of high yield in general. The price has also dropped since 1/31.bill99 wrote:Is it simply because VEURX's share price has dropped so much?
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