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VAW holdings

VAW reports 111 holdings and behaves like 21.2 equally weighted ones, computed from its SEC Form N-PORT filing for 2026-05-31. The fact sheet publishes the first number; this page computes the second, and traces it across 27 quarters of filings.

Measured concentration

as of 2026-05-31
111 Positions reported
21.2 Effective holdings
5.2× Concentration multiple
55.5% Top ten weight

Computed 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), one issuer country.

What stands out

as of 2026-05-31

VAW's largest investment is Linde PLC at 14.92% of net assets. Newmont Corp and Freeport-mcmoran follow; the three together are 28.67%. Ten companies are 55.5% of the fund; the other 101 share the rest. Among the 721 equity funds measured here, VAW behaves like 21.2 holdings against a median of 42.4 — 2.0 times more concentrated than the median. Across 27 quarterly filings VAW has held roughly steady since 2019-11-30 (25.9 then, 21.2 now). Between the 2026-02-28 and 2026-05-31 filings 0 positions were added and 2 dropped; 6.0% of the weight moved.

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

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Between 2019-11-30 and 2026-05-31, VAW went from behaving like 25.9 equally weighted positions to 21.2 — 18% fewer, while its top ten went from 50.84% to 55.5% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
2026-05-31 111 21.2 55.5% 14.94%
2026-02-28 113 20.8 56.13% 14.55%
2025-11-30 116 21.7 56.19% 14.14%
2025-08-31 112 19.7 57.17% 16.21%
2025-05-31 115 18.9 56.48% 17.23%
2025-02-28 117 20.2 54% 16.46%
2024-11-30 124 22.5 51.61% 15.1%
2024-08-31 121 21.1 52.49% 16.16%
Earlier filings (19 more, back to 2019-11-30)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
2024-05-31 120 21.8 51.55% 15.9%
2024-02-29 119 20.3 51.75% 17.15%
2023-11-30 114 20.3 52.58% 17.03%
2023-08-31 115 21.8 51.43% 15.92%
2023-05-31 114 21.6 51.27% 16.17%
2023-02-28 116 24.7 49% 14.37%
2022-11-30 116 24.9 49.04% 13.95%
2022-08-31 116 27.2 46.92% 12.93%
2022-05-31 116 26.5 48.05% 13.1%
2022-02-28 119 28 47.74% 12.09%
2021-11-30 118 25.3 49.45% 13.18%
2021-08-31 118 26.4 48.53% 12.86%
2021-05-31 120 27.5 49.3% 11.99%
2021-02-28 116 27.7 49.09% 11.79%
2020-11-30 118 24.3 53.17% 13.09%
2020-08-31 118 21.5 55.76% 14.57%
2020-05-31 116 22.6 55.09% 13.39%
2020-02-29 116 24.5 52.05% 13.2%
2019-11-30 118 25.9 50.84% 12.43%

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.

Largest positions, as filed

as of 2026-05-31

The 15 largest of 111 positions in VAW's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: VAW.csv.gz.

#PositionWeightCumulative
1Linde PLC14.94%14.9%
2Newmont Corp7.70%22.6%
3Freeport-McMoRan Inc6.07%28.7%
4CRH PLC4.69%33.4%
5Sherwin-Williams Co/The4.60%38.0%
6Ecolab Inc4.20%42.2%
7Air Products and Chemicals Inc3.82%46.0%
8Nucor Corp3.68%49.7%
9Corteva Inc3.40%53.1%
10Vulcan Materials Co2.40%55.5%
11Steel Dynamics Inc2.32%57.8%
12Martin Marietta Materials Inc2.26%60.1%
13Amrize Ltd1.74%61.8%
14PPG Industries Inc1.63%63.4%
15Dow Inc1.54%65.0%

Returns the fund reported

2019-09 – 2026-05

Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of VAW's own filings, 81 months on record. Not computed here and not from a price feed.

23.9%Last twelve months filed
114%Whole series, compounded
15.3%Best month
-15.3%Worst month

Cross-checked against a series computed separately from prices: median difference 0.06 percentage points over 81 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: VAW.json · all funds.

Who borrows VAW's shares

2026-05-31

The fund lends its holdings, and Item B.4.a of the filing names every firm holding them. At 2026-05-31, $24m was out to 8 borrowers, 0.52% of net assets. The largest, BofA Securities, Inc., held 53.5% of it.

BorrowerOn loanShare of the loan
BofA Securities, Inc. $13m 53.5%
National Financial Services LLC $3m 14.2%
BARCLAYS BANK PLC $3m 10.8%
Wells Fargo Securities LLC $2m 10.2%
MORGAN STANLEY & CO LLC $1m 4.8%

Cash collateral reported against the loan: 0.57% of net assets, 109.6% of the amount lent. That is a floor on the collateral, not the whole of it — collateral the fund does not hold as a position is not in this filing, so a figure under 100% is not evidence of under-collateralisation. How that figure behaves across all funds. Every quarter VAW has filed, with each borrower: VAW.json · all funds.

Since the previous filing

2026-02-28 → 2026-05-31

113 positions became 111: 0 added (0.0% of the fund at the later date), 2 dropped (0.4% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 6.0%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of VAW compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.

Largest increases2026-02-282026-05-31Largest decreases2026-02-282026-05-31
Nucor Corp2.48%3.68% Newmont Corp8.72%7.70%
Steel Dynamics Inc1.65%2.32% Sherwin-Williams Co/The5.25%4.60%
Alcoa Corp0.73%1.29% Ecolab Inc4.81%4.20%
Linde PLC14.55%14.94% Royal Gold Inc1.54%1.22%
Reliance Inc1.01%1.28% Vanguard Cmt Funds-Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund0.31%0.03%
Air Products and Chemicals Inc3.59%3.82% International Paper Co1.33%1.08%

Gone: Sealed Air Corp (0.38%), Eightco Holdings Inc (0.01%).

Asset categories and pricing

as of 2026-05-31

99.40% equity, 0.60% short-term investment 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.

Derivative exposure and counterparties

as of 2026-05-31

A position count cannot describe a fund that uses derivatives, because a swap is filed at its unrealised gain, not its exposure. These are the notionals the fund itself reported, against net assets of $4.52B. Notional of an interest-rate or currency swap is not equity exposure.

99.81%Stocks held directly
0.17%Swap notional (1)
0%Futures notional (0)
100%Sum, % of net assets
Swap counterpartyNotional% of net assets
Bank of America NA$8M0.17%

Financing leg as filed: the fund pays OBFR01 + 0% on $8M of long swap notional . Issuers fill the spread field differently (some file the all-in rate), so compare within an issuer, not across.

Full detail for every fund that files derivatives: leverage.json (CC BY 4.0).

Neighbours by effective holdings, equity funds

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Every measured equity fund lined up by how many holdings it behaves like; these sit either side of VAW (21.2). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs of
GTOP Goldman Sachs Technology Opportunities ETF 38 21.1 55.26% 2026-05-31
CIBR First Trust Nasdaq Cybersecurity ETF 43 21.2 58.04% 2026-06-30
VLUE iShares MSCI USA Value Factor ETF 153 21.2 42.55% 2026-07-31
BOTZ Global X Robotics & Artificial Intelligence ETF 62 21.2 58.73% 2026-05-31
ARKG ARK Genomic Revolution ETF 33 21.2 59.16% 2026-07-31
IGV iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF 110 21.3 60.65% 2026-06-30
IOO iShares Global 100 ETF 113 21.3 57.41% 2026-06-30
SHLD Global X Defense Tech ETF 50 21.3 59.46% 2026-05-31
IGPT Invesco AI and Next Gen Software ETF 101 21.3 59.58% 2026-07-31
MOO VanEck Agribusiness ETF 46 21.3 60.2% 2026-06-30

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