VYM Dividend Calculator
Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF — what it pays today, and what it could pay later.
Income Calculator
Price
$155.20
Yield
2.37%
Growth
5.0%
median, historical
Pays
Quarterly
Income today
$2,368/year
$197 per month · based on the last 4 payments
Ordinary dividend
taxed this year at your marginal rate
$2,368
If the dividend grows at…
No single forecast. Different assumptions give very different answers — and the shape of that divergence matters more than any single year.
| Growth | Year 10 | Year 20 | Year 30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.0%conservative | $3,183 | $4,277 | $5,748 |
| 5.0%historical | $3,858 | $6,284 | $10,235 |
| 8.0% | $5,113 | $11,038 | $23,831 |
| 10.0%commonly used | $6,143 | $15,932 | $41,324 |
The 6 complete years with data give a median year-over-year growth of 5.0%. That is where the highlighted row comes from — it is a historical measurement, not a forecast.
Fund Facts
- Issuer
- Vanguard
- Expense ratio
- 0.06%
- Inception
- November 2006
- Listed on
- NYSE Arca
- Structure
- Tracks the FTSE High Dividend Yield Index
What VYM is
VYM screens on forecast yield rather than on a growth record, which makes it the broadest of the major US dividend funds — several hundred holdings against roughly a hundred in SCHD. Real estate investment trusts are excluded, since their distributions are structurally different from ordinary dividends. Because it is market-cap weighted and takes whatever the screen returns, the fund owns a wide slice of corporate America rather than a curated list, and its top holdings change less than a concentrated fund's would. Yield sits in the middle of the range and dividend growth has been the slowest of the three largest US funds.
Who it suits. Investors who want wide diversification and a reasonable starting yield, and who are not relying on the payout to grow quickly.
Distribution History
Total distributed per share in each complete calendar year, taken from the fund’s own payment record.
| Year | Per share | vs prior year |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | $2.9061 | — |
| 2021 | $3.0961 | +6.5% |
| 2022 | $3.2518 | +5.0% |
| 2023 | $3.4780 | +7.0% |
| 2024 | $3.4945 | +0.5% |
| 2025 | $3.5008 | +0.2% |
Current trailing payout: $3.6755 per share over the last 4 payments, a yield of 2.37%at today’s price.
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