Vanguard FTSE All-World Ex-US Small-Cap ETF (the Fund) is an open-end management investment company. The Fund is an exchange-traded share class of Vanguard FTSE All-World Ex-US Small-Cap Index Fund, which employs a passive management or indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the FTSE Global Small Cap Ex-US Index (the Index). The Index includes approximately 3,300 stocks of companies in more than 46 countries. The fund seeks to track the performance of the Index that measures the investment return of stocks of international small-cap companies. As of Oct 31 2013, the Fund's investments portfolio was valued at $2,128,574,000. The VSS stock yearly return is shown above.
The yearly return on the VSS stock yearly return page and across the coverage universe of our site,
is a measure of the annual return over the calendar year 2015 for the given stock.
When performing this calculation it is important to factor in dividends, because a financial instrument's annual return is
more than just the change in price if that instrument pays a dividend or coupon.
One way to factor dividends into the return is simply to count them as cash — we don't do
that here. Instead, our website aims to empower investors
by performing the VSS annual return calculation with any dividends reinvested as applicable (on ex-dates).
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