Distribution history · one payment a year since 2019
The annual payout.
VEQT pays once a year, in late December, and the money lands in early January. Every payment since 2019, the one that’s still coming, and what each one worked out to per unit.
The one still coming.
Vanguard declares the date and amount in November.
Next ex-date, estimated
89days · late December 2026
High confidence. Paid in early January.
Estimated from the annual pattern. Until Vanguard declares, the date and the amount are only an estimate.
Every confirmed payment.
Newest first, confirmed payments only. Each bar is that year’s payment per unit.
- 2025Ex-dividend Dec 30, 2025Paid Jan 7, 2026$0.7602 per unit1.41% yield+6.6% on 2024
- 2024Ex-dividend Dec 30, 2024Paid Jan 7, 2025$0.7130 per unit1.58% yield+3.0% on 2023
- 2023Ex-dividend Dec 28, 2023Paid Jan 8, 2024$0.6923 per unit1.88% yield+2.9% on 2022
- 2022Ex-dividend Dec 29, 2022Paid Jan 9, 2023$0.6725 per unit2.09% yield+30.8% on 2021
- 2021Ex-dividend Dec 30, 2021Paid Jan 10, 2022$0.5140 per unit1.39% yield+11.4% on 2020
- 2020Ex-dividend Dec 30, 2020Paid Jan 8, 2021$0.4616 per unit1.48% yield+14.3% on 2019
- 2019Ex-dividend Dec 30, 2019Paid Jan 8, 2020$0.4038 per unit1.42% yieldFirst payout
Yield is the payment divided by that day’s closing price: the fund’s full-year yield at the moment it paid. The 2026 payment is still an estimate, so it sits in 01, above.
What the payment is.
Where the money comes from, what it doesn’t tell you, and what most holders do with it.
Where it comes from
A distribution is a payment from the fund to its holders. VEQT’s is mostly dividends, earned by the 13,743 stocks the fund holds through its 4 underlying ETFs. When Apple, Royal Bank, and Nestlé pay their shareholders, that income flows through to you.
What it doesn’t tell you
Yield is not return. A fund with a 2% distribution yield and 8% price appreciation beats a fund with a 4% yield and 4% appreciation. Distribution size, on its own, tells you nothing about total return.
What to do with it
Most long-term holders DRIP (dividend reinvestment plan) through their brokerage. The December payment buys more units automatically, with no fees and no decisions to make.
One payout a year. Reinvest it and forget it.
Estimates firm up when Vanguard declares.
Source: Vanguard Canada. Holdings as of the Jun 30, 2026 factsheet. Distribution data is updated after each declaration.
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