Vanguard International High Dividend Yield ETF (NASDAQ:VYMI) Raises Dividend to $0.96 Per Share

Vanguard International High Dividend Yield ETF (NASDAQ:VYMI) declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, December 18th,NASDAQ Dividends reports. Shareholders of record on Friday, December 20th will be paid a dividend of 0.9647 per share on Tuesday, December 24th. This represents a $3.86 annualized dividend and a yield of 5.73%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend 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 Trading Down 1.1 %

NASDAQ VYMI traded down $0.74 during mid-day trading on Friday, hitting $67.29. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 332,890 shares, compared to its average volume of 359,293. The firm has a market capitalization of $7.48 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 9.68 and a beta of 0.81. Vanguard International High Dividend Yield ETF has a twelve month low of $64.09 and a twelve month high of $74.28. The company’s 50 day simple moving average is $70.77 and its 200 day simple moving average is $70.67.

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.