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Data last updated: Aug 16, 2026
Snapshot (as of Aug 16, 2026): Vanguard Extended Market ETF (VXF) pays a $2.44 annual dividend ($0.56 quarterly), yielding 0.97% at $250.60/share. Next ex-dividend date 2026-06-24. Source: Yahoo Finance, aggregated by MerryDiv.
Dividend Yield: 0.97%
Annual Dividend: $2.44 per share
Ex-Dividend Date: 2026-06-24
Dividend Frequency: quarterly
Sector: Financial Services
Years of Dividend History: 25
The Vanguard Extended Market ETF dividend comes from a passively managed fund that tracks small and mid-sized U.S. companies not included in the S&P 500. VXF currently yields 0.97%, with a trailing annual dividend rate of $2.4429 per share paid quarterly. The next ex-dividend date is June 24, 2026, and the last quarterly payment was $0.5554 per share. With a beta of 1.132, this fund carries slightly more price volatility than the broader market, making it a better fit for growth-and-income investors than pure income seekers.
Vanguard Extended Market ETF pays out dividends as a pass-through of income generated by its underlying holdings, making a traditional payout ratio not applicable (fund/ETF). Vanguard Extended Market ETF dividend safety is tied directly to the dividend income produced by the hundreds of small and mid-cap U.S. companies the fund holds, rather than to any single company's earnings or cash flow decisions. The primary pressure on the payout is market-driven: because distributions reflect actual income from underlying securities, a broad decline in small and mid-cap earnings or dividend activity across those holdings would reduce what VXF passes through to shareholders.
Vanguard Extended Market ETF dividend history shows a CAGR of 10.4% per year from 2010 to 2025. Per-share payments grew from $0.5410 to $2.3795 over that period (2026 is a partial year and excluded from the growth calculation). The largest single-year jump in the window was 68.1% in 2012, though the data also includes at least one year-over-year decline exceeding 5%, so growth has not been linear.
| Period | CAGR | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3-Year | +16.0% | $1.52 (2022) | $2.38 (2025) |
| 5-Year | +6.1% | $1.77 (2020) | $2.38 (2025) |
| 10-Year | +7.8% | $1.13 (2015) | $2.38 (2025) |
VXF fits growth-and-income investors who want exposure to small and mid-cap U.S. companies and are willing to accept a low current yield in exchange for above-average dividend growth. The yield is classified as low (below 2%), and at 0.97% it sits above the fund's own 5-year average of 0.81%, which means current income is modestly better than recent norms. The 10.4% annual growth rate over 15 years is the real draw here. The trade-off is straightforward: investors get meaningful dividend growth from a broad slice of the U.S. market outside the S&P 500, but the starting yield is too low to serve as a primary income source.
| Payment Date | Amount per Share |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-24 | $0.5554 |
| 2026-03-24 | $0.6546 |
| 2025-12-22 | $0.6564 |
| 2025-09-24 | $0.5765 |
| 2025-06-26 | $0.5341 |
| 2025-03-25 | $0.6125 |
| 2024-12-23 | $0.5764 |
| 2024-09-27 | $0.4869 |
| 2024-06-28 | $0.5521 |
| 2024-03-22 | $0.4610 |
| Year | Total Dividends |
|---|---|
| 2026 | $1.2100 |
| 2025 | $2.3795 |
| 2024 | $2.0764 |
| 2023 | $2.0808 |
| 2022 | $1.5250 |
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