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Data last updated: Oct 12, 2026
Snapshot (as of Oct 12, 2026): Vanguard Real Estate Index Investor (VGSIX) pays a $3.33 annual dividend ($0.83 quarterly), yielding 3.65% at $30.14/share. Source: Yahoo Finance, aggregated by MerryDiv.
Dividend Yield: 3.65%
Annual Dividend: $3.33 per share
Dividend Frequency: quarterly
Years of Dividend History: 31
The Vanguard Real Estate Index Investor dividend comes from a fund that puts at least 80% of its net assets into the stocks that make up its target real estate index. The current yield is 3.65%, with trailing twelve-month payments totaling $3.3340 per share. VGSIX pays quarterly, with the last dividend amount at $0.8327 per share. That yield level makes this fund a natural fit for income-focused investors who want real estate exposure through a passive, index-tracking structure.
Vanguard Real Estate Index Investor dividend safety is not determined by a single company's earnings but by the aggregate distributions flowing from the real estate stocks that make up the target index, since the fund is required to pass through substantially all of that income. Payout ratio is not applicable (fund/ETF). The most data-supported pressure point is the history of year-over-year declines: annual payments have dropped multiple times within the available window, including a fall from $1.2920 in 2014 to $1.0000 in 2015 and from $1.0280 in 2022 to $0.9380 in 2021, reflecting how directly the fund's distributions track the underlying real estate market's income output.
Vanguard Real Estate Index Investor dividend history shows a CAGR of 4.2% per year from 2010 to 2025. Per-share payments grew from $0.6030 to $1.1120 over that period (2026 is a partial year and excluded from this calculation). The largest annual increase in the window was 44.5% in 2014, but the data also contains multiple years of decline, so that peak is not representative of the typical annual move.
| Period | CAGR | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3-Year | +2.7% | $1.03 (2022) | $1.11 (2025) |
| 5-Year | +0.8% | $1.07 (2020) | $1.11 (2025) |
| 10-Year | +1.1% | $1.00 (2015) | $1.11 (2025) |
VGSIX fits income-focused investors who want real estate index exposure and can accept year-to-year variability in payment size. The yield sits in the moderate (2–4%) range at 3.65%, and no 5-year average yield is available for direct comparison. The 4.2% CAGR over 15 years shows the fund has grown its distributions over time, but the history includes several down years, so the income stream is not smooth. What an investor gets here is real estate sector income at a moderate yield through a passive structure. The trade-off is accepting that distributions can and do fall in weaker years, since the fund simply passes through what the underlying index holdings generate.
| Payment Date | Amount per Share |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-23 | $0.2570 |
| 2026-06-24 | $0.2730 |
| 2026-03-24 | $0.3030 |
| 2025-12-22 | $0.2560 |
| 2025-09-24 | $0.2790 |
| 2025-06-26 | $0.2780 |
| 2025-03-25 | $0.2990 |
| 2024-12-23 | $0.2740 |
| 2024-09-27 | $0.2590 |
| 2024-06-28 | $0.3320 |
| Year | Total Dividends |
|---|---|
| 2026 | $0.8330 |
| 2025 | $1.1120 |
| 2024 | $1.0970 |
| 2023 | $1.1210 |
| 2022 | $1.0280 |
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