Fund · VanEck Semiconductor ETF · measured from SEC filings
SMH holdings
SMH reports 25 holdings and behaves like 13.9 equally weighted ones, computed from its SEC Form N-PORT filing for 2026-06-30. The fact sheet publishes the first number; this page computes the second, and traces it across 28 quarters of filings.
Measured concentration
as of 2026-06-30Computed by this site from the fund's SEC Form N-PORT filing; what the measure does not tell you · every fund in one table · hold it with other funds? X-ray the mix. Pricing: 100% at a quoted market price (level 1), 4 issuer countries.
What stands out
as of 2026-06-30SMH's largest investment is Nvidia Corp at 17.55% of net assets. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd and Applied Materials Inc follow; the three together are 32.58%. Ten companies are 70.27% of the fund; the other 15 share the rest. Among the 721 equity funds measured here, SMH behaves like 13.9 holdings against a median of 42.4 — 3.0 times more concentrated than the median. Across 28 quarterly filings SMH has held roughly steady since 2019-09-30 (16.5 then, 13.9 now). the United States is the largest country at 82.09% of the portfolio, across 4 countries in the filing.
Each sentence is read from the fund's own SEC filing; the class median is computed across the comparable equity funds on this site. Nothing here is a view on the fund.
Every filing since 2019
28Between 2019-09-30 and 2026-06-30, SMH went from behaving like 16.5 equally weighted positions to 13.9 — 16% fewer, while its top ten went from 64.21% to 70.27% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 25 | 13.9 | 70.27% | 17.56% |
| 2026-03-31 | 25 | 12.2 | 72.24% | 19.66% |
| 2025-12-31 | 25 | 11.6 | 73.17% | 21.06% |
| 2025-09-30 | 25 | 12.5 | 72.81% | 19.3% |
| 2025-06-30 | 25 | 11.6 | 73.32% | 20.77% |
| 2025-03-31 | 25 | 12.3 | 71.7% | 19.56% |
| 2024-12-31 | 25 | 11.8 | 72.65% | 19.54% |
| 2024-09-30 | 25 | 12.2 | 71.45% | 19.78% |
Earlier filings (20 more, back to 2019-09-30)
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-06-30 | 25 | 11.8 | 72.78% | 19.95% |
| 2024-03-31 | 25 | 11.8 | 71.97% | 20.55% |
| 2023-12-31 | 25 | 13.2 | 68.62% | 19.5% |
| 2023-09-30 | 25 | 12.2 | 72.01% | 19.75% |
| 2023-06-30 | 25 | 13.2 | 68.51% | 19.01% |
| 2023-03-31 | 25 | 16.1 | 64.77% | 13.66% |
| 2022-12-31 | 25 | 18.9 | 59.02% | 10.89% |
| 2022-09-30 | 25 | 18.9 | 58.38% | 11.26% |
| 2022-06-30 | 25 | 18.7 | 59.63% | 11.36% |
| 2022-03-31 | 25 | 18.8 | 59.09% | 10.54% |
| 2021-12-31 | 25 | 19.3 | 59.21% | 9.72% |
| 2021-09-30 | 25 | 14.9 | 67.62% | 15.54% |
| 2021-06-30 | 25 | 16.7 | 63.62% | 14.1% |
| 2021-03-31 | 25 | 16.6 | 63.37% | 15.23% |
| 2020-12-31 | 25 | 18.5 | 59.09% | 13.34% |
| 2020-09-30 | 25 | 19.3 | 59.14% | 11.02% |
| 2020-06-30 | 25 | 17.8 | 63.53% | 11.33% |
| 2020-03-31 | 25 | 16.8 | 64.48% | 12.4% |
| 2019-12-31 | 25 | 16.7 | 63.59% | 13.28% |
| 2019-09-30 | 26 | 16.5 | 64.21% | 12.94% |
One row per filed reporting period, newest first, read from EDGAR. Quarterly because that is the public filing cadence. Rows marked * are published but held out of the comparison above; the methodology page says when and why.
Compared with, in the essays
2Overlap with other funds
21Measured against every other fund on this site, from the same filings. Combined effective holdings is how the pair behaves held in equal size.
| With | Overlap | Shared | Combined effective |
|---|---|---|---|
| SMH vs SOXX | 73.96% | 23 | 18 |
| SMH vs SOXQ | 64.92% | 20 | 17.5 |
| SMH vs XLK | 50.64% | 20 | 18.1 |
| SMH vs VGT | 40.51% | 20 | 18.2 |
| SMH vs QQQ | 36.4% | 19 | 25.6 |
| SMH vs QQQM | 32.62% | 17 | 25.6 |
| SMH vs VUG | 26.75% | 14 | 22.1 |
| SMH vs IVV | 19.33% | 20 | 30.9 |
| SMH vs VOO | 19.21% | 19 | 30.9 |
| SMH vs ITOT | 17.15% | 21 | 33.1 |
11 more pairs, down to 0% overlap
| With | Overlap | Shared | Combined effective |
|---|---|---|---|
| SMH vs VTI | 16.76% | 20 | 33.4 |
| SMH vs VIG | 10.79% | 7 | 40.4 |
| SMH vs VT | 9.2% | 20 | 40.7 |
| SMH vs VTV | 8.18% | 7 | 44.3 |
| SMH vs SCHD | 8.07% | 3 | 35.4 |
| SMH vs AGG | 0% | 0 | 54.3 |
| SMH vs BND | 0% | 0 | 54.8 |
| SMH vs SGOV | 0% | 0 | 30.7 |
| SMH vs VEA | 0% | 0 | 52.6 |
| SMH vs VWO | 0% | 0 | 41.5 |
| SMH vs VXUS | 0% | 0 | 53 |
Largest positions, as filed
as of 2026-06-30The 15 largest of 25 positions in SMH's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: SMH.csv.gz.
| # | Position | Weight | Cumulative |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp | 17.56% | 17.6% |
| 2 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd | 9.29% | 26.9% |
| 3 | Applied Materials Inc | 5.74% | 32.6% |
| 4 | Micron Technology Inc | 5.68% | 38.3% |
| 5 | Advanced Micro Devices Inc | 5.63% | 43.9% |
| 6 | KLA Corp | 5.58% | 49.5% |
| 7 | Lam Research Corp | 5.32% | 54.8% |
| 8 | Broadcom Inc | 5.28% | 60.1% |
| 9 | Intel Corp | 5.15% | 65.2% |
| 10 | ASML Holding NV | 5.04% | 70.3% |
| 11 | Marvell Technology Inc | 4.67% | 74.9% |
| 12 | Texas Instruments Inc | 4.17% | 79.1% |
| 13 | Analog Devices Inc | 4.00% | 83.1% |
| 14 | QUALCOMM Inc | 3.74% | 86.9% |
| 15 | Cadence Design Systems Inc | 2.15% | 89.0% |
By country of issuer
as of 2026-06-30Share of SMH's own investments by the issuer country the filer reported (incorporation, not revenue). Each country links to every fund that holds it.
| Country | Share |
|---|---|
| United States | 82.09% |
| Taiwan | 9.29% |
| Netherlands° | 7.45% |
| United Kingdom | 1.17% |
Returns the fund reported
2019-07 – 2026-06Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of SMH's own filings, 84 months on record. Not computed here and not from a price feed.
Cross-checked against a series computed separately from prices: median difference 0.06 percentage points over 84 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: SMH.json · all funds.
Who borrows SMH's shares
2026-06-30The fund lends its holdings, and Item B.4.a of the filing names every firm holding them. At 2026-06-30, $88m was out to 3 borrowers, 0.11% of net assets. The largest, BNP PARIBAS PRIME BROKERAGE INTERNATIONAL LIMITED, held 97% of it.
| Borrower | On loan | Share of the loan |
|---|---|---|
| BNP PARIBAS PRIME BROKERAGE INTERNATIONAL LIMITED | $86m | 97.0% |
| Jefferies LLC | $3m | 3.0% |
| Wedbush Securities Inc. | $52,423 | 0.1% |
The filing reports no cash collateral position against this loan. Collateral taken in a form the fund does not hold as a position does not appear in N-PORT, so this is silence rather than absence. What the collateral figure can and cannot show. Every quarter SMH has filed, with each borrower: SMH.json · all funds.
Since the previous filing
2026-03-31 → 2026-06-3025 positions became 25: 0 added (0.0% of the fund at the later date), 0 dropped (0.0% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 9.9%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of SMH compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.
| Largest increases | 2026-03-31 | 2026-06-30 | Largest decreases | 2026-03-31 | 2026-06-30 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marvell Technology Inc | 2.36% | 4.67% | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd | 11.85% | 9.29% |
| Micron Technology Inc | 4.23% | 5.68% | Broadcom Inc | 7.80% | 5.28% |
| Applied Materials Inc | 4.59% | 5.74% | NVIDIA Corp | 19.66% | 17.56% |
| Advanced Micro Devices Inc | 4.69% | 5.63% | Synopsys Inc | 2.50% | 1.79% |
| KLA Corp | 4.74% | 5.58% | Analog Devices Inc | 4.70% | 4.00% |
| Astera Labs Inc | 0.44% | 1.27% | Texas Instruments Inc | 4.61% | 4.17% |
Asset categories and pricing
as of 2026-06-30100.00% equity as filed; 100.0% carried at a quoted market price (fair-value level 1). Categories and levels are the filer's; what a low level-1 share does and does not mean is in the measure's page.
Neighbours by effective holdings, equity funds
10Every measured equity fund lined up by how many holdings it behaves like; these sit either side of SMH (13.9). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.
| Fund | Reports | Behaves like | Top ten | As of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| URA Global X Uranium ETF | 66 | 13.1 | 63.33% | 2026-07-31 |
| LSGR Natixis Loomis Sayles Focused Growth ETF | 22 | 13.2 | 73.33% | 2026-06-30 |
| FTEC Fidelity MSCI Information Technology Index ETF | 282 | 13.4 | 62.26% | 2026-07-31 |
| TOPT iShares Top 20 U.S. Stocks ETF | 23 | 13.8 | 69.28% | 2026-06-30 |
| IEO iShares U.S. Oil & Gas Exploration & Production ETF | 47 | 13.9 | 71.25% | 2026-06-30 |
| EWL iShares MSCI Switzerland ETF | 45 | 14.1 | 68.01% | 2026-05-31 |
| IAT iShares U.S. Regional Banks ETF | 33 | 14.1 | 69.48% | 2026-06-30 |
| EPOL iShares MSCI Poland ETF | 37 | 14.2 | 67.97% | 2026-05-31 |
| EWM iShares MSCI Malaysia ETF | 30 | 14.2 | 68.97% | 2026-05-31 |
| UPRO ProShares UltraPro S&P500 | 523 | 14.3 * | 51.33% | 2026-05-31 |
Measures applied in the essays
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Essays that examine SMH
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QQQ Holdings: All 105 Positions, the Top 10 at 45%, and Why It Behaves Like 34 Stocks
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Berkshire Hathaway Holdings, Q2 2026: 29 Stocks That Behave Like 8.6
The document behind every search for "Warren Buffett's portfolio" is Berkshire Hathaway's Form 13F. The one for 30 June 2026, filed 14 August, lists 29 US-listed positions worth $299.3 billion. Weighted by value they behave like 8.6 equal holdings; the top ten are 88.5%. What changed against the March filing, share by share, and what a 13F cannot tell you.
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SOXL Holdings: What the 3x Semiconductor ETF Actually Owns
SOXL's SEC filing lists 42 positions: 30 semiconductor stocks worth 57% of net assets, eight index swaps with a notional of $41 billion (243% of net assets), and 39% in Treasury money funds. The stocks and the swap notional add to exactly 300%. Here is what the 3x semiconductor ETF holds, where the leverage comes from, who the counterparties are, and why its holdings count cannot be read like SOXX's.
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Minimum Variance vs Maximum Diversification: Two Optimizers, Two Very Different Portfolios
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Memory, Logic, and Equipment: What's Actually Inside a Semiconductor ETF
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The 2026 Semiconductor Selloff, Part 2 — SOXX vs SMH vs SOXQ: Which Chip ETF Actually Fits a Long-Term Portfolio
The three funds look nearly identical on realized volatility and five-year max drawdown, but SMH's 5Y CAGR beat SOXX by roughly 4.9 percentage points a year...
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The 2026 Semiconductor Selloff: How the Most Crowded Trade Cracked, and Why Korea Fell Harder Than U.S. Chips
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XLV vs VHT: Two Ways to Own Healthcare — Concentration, Fees, and Defensive Behavior
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SMH vs SOXX: Two Semiconductor ETFs, Two Very Different Concentration Profiles
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