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VCLT holdings

VCLT reports 2,778 holdings and behaves like 1211.8 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
2,778 Positions reported
1211.8 Effective holdings
2.3× Concentration multiple
3.25% 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: 0.75% at a quoted market price (level 1), 19 issuer countries, 0.91% restricted securities.

What stands out

as of 2026-05-31

VCLT's largest investment is Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund at 0.74% of net assets. Anheuser-busch and CVS Health Corp follow; the three together are 1.45%. Ten companies are 3.25% of the fund; the other 2,768 share the rest. Among the 192 bond funds measured here, VCLT behaves like 1211.8 holdings against a median of 236.4 — 5.1 times the median. Across 27 quarterly filings VCLT has held roughly steady since 2019-11-30 (1063.6 then, 1211.8 now). Between the 2026-02-28 and 2026-05-31 filings 418 positions were added and 215 dropped; 21.2% of the weight moved.

Each sentence is read from the fund's own SEC filing; the class median is computed across the comparable bond 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, VCLT went from behaving like 1063.6 equally weighted positions to 1211.8 — 14% more, while its top ten went from 4.09% to 3.25% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
2026-05-31 2,778 1211.8 3.25% 0.75%
2026-02-28 2,575 1161.8 3.43% 0.65%
2025-11-30 2,399 1137.6 3.15% 0.55%
2025-08-31 1,842 1101.6 3.19% 0.44%
2025-05-31 2,449 1324.3 3.01% 0.44%
2025-02-28 2,984 1557.6 2.77% 0.43%
2024-11-30 3,009 1660.4 2.55% 0.36%
2024-08-31 2,948 1616.7 2.73% 0.46%
Earlier filings (19 more, back to 2019-11-30)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
2024-05-31 2,915 1593.3 2.7% 0.38%
2024-02-29 2,873 1508.5 2.98% 0.44%
2023-11-30 2,833 1448.3 3.15% 0.46%
2023-08-31 2,795 1459.8 3% 0.43%
2023-05-31 2,772 1480.6 3.02% 0.46%
2023-02-28 2,721 1362.6 3.4% 0.65%
2022-11-30 2,674 1398.5 3.19% 0.43%
2022-08-31 2,666 1427.4 3.17% 0.43%
2022-05-31 2,637 1317.4 3.63% 0.72%
2022-02-28 2,597 1387.6 3.24% 0.46%
2021-11-30 2,565 1360.1 3.31% 0.52%
2021-08-31 2,487 1336.2 3.39% 0.52%
2021-05-31 2,476 1318.2 3.36% 0.52%
2021-02-28 2,448 1347.1 3.14% 0.5%
2020-11-30 2,429 1269.3 3.32% 0.49%
2020-08-31 2,361 1203.1 3.73% 0.52%
2020-05-31 2,267 1180.1 3.38% 0.5%
2020-02-29 2,087 1121 3.59% 0.57%
2019-11-30 2,079 1063.6 4.09% 0.62%

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 2,778 positions in VCLT's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: listed with the point-in-time files, available on request.

#PositionWeightCumulative
1Vanguard Cmt Funds-Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund0.75%0.8%
2Anheuser-Busch Cos LLC / Anheuser-Busch InBev Worldwide Inc0.37%1.1%
3CVS Health Corp0.34%1.5%
4Meta Platforms Inc0.29%1.7%
5Boeing Co/The0.27%2.0%
6Pfizer Investment Enterprises Pte Ltd0.27%2.3%
7Amazon.com Inc0.26%2.5%
8Oracle Corp0.24%2.8%
9AT&T Inc0.24%3.0%
10AT&T Inc0.23%3.2%
11CVS Health Corp0.23%3.5%
12Bank of America Corp0.22%3.7%
13Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The0.21%3.9%
14Meta Platforms Inc0.21%4.1%
15Meta Platforms Inc0.20%4.3%

By country of issuer

as of 2026-05-31

Share of VCLT's own investments by the issuer country the filer reported (incorporation, not revenue). Each country links to every fund that holds it.

CountryShare
United States 91.49%
Canada 2.10%
United Kingdom 1.77%
Netherlands° 0.88%
Singapore 0.68%
Japan 0.53%
France 0.41%
Australia 0.38%

Returns the fund reported

2019-09 – 2026-05

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

7.7%Last twelve months filed
-2%Whole series, compounded
10.9%Best month
-10.0%Worst month

Cross-checked against a series computed separately from prices: median difference 0.21 percentage points over 81 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: VCLT.json · all funds.

Since the previous filing

2026-02-28 → 2026-05-31

2,574 positions became 2,777: 418 added (6.5% of the fund at the later date), 215 dropped (3.6% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 21.2%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of VCLT compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.

Largest increases2026-02-282026-05-31Largest decreases2026-02-282026-05-31
Alphabet Inc0.10%0.20% United States Treasury Note/Bond0.56%0.08%
Vanguard Cmt Funds-Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund0.65%0.75% AbbVie Inc0.22%0.06%
JPMorgan Chase & Co0.00%0.08% Altria Group Inc0.14%0.01%
Lockheed Martin Corp0.00%0.08% Amazon.com Inc0.13%0.02%
Cigna Group/The0.00%0.07% Energy Transfer LP0.12%0.01%
Pfizer Inc0.00%0.07% Wyeth LLC0.13%0.03%

New: Amazon.com Inc (0.26%), Meta Platforms Inc (0.16%), Amazon.com Inc (0.15%), United States Treasury Note/Bond (0.13%), Amazon.com Inc (0.13%), Baker Hughes Holdings LLC / Baker Hughes Co-Obligor Inc (0.12%). Gone: JPMorgan Chase & Co (0.13%), Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The (0.12%), Honeywell International Inc (0.11%), Berkshire Hathaway Energy Co (0.09%), Amphenol Corp (0.09%), Verizon Communications Inc (0.08%).

Asset categories and pricing

as of 2026-05-31

99.25% debt, 0.75% short-term investment as filed; 0.8% 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 $9.22B. Notional of an interest-rate or currency swap is not equity exposure.

0%Stocks held directly
0.7%Swap notional (1)
-0.17%Futures notional (3)
0.5%Sum, % of net assets
Swap counterpartyNotional% of net assets
BARCLAYS PLC$65M0.7%

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

Neighbours by effective holdings, debt funds

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Every measured debt fund lined up by how many holdings it behaves like; these sit either side of VCLT (1211.8). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs of
BWX State Street(R) SPDR(R) Bloomberg International Treasury Bond ETF 1,372 911.5 2.77% 2026-06-30
IBMP iShares iBonds Dec 2027 Term Muni Bond ETF 1,846 957 3.65% 2026-07-31
IBMQ iShares iBonds Dec 2028 Term Muni Bond ETF 2,777 999.7 4.23% 2026-07-31
BNDX Vanguard Total International Bond Index Fund 6,999 1088.6 4.54% 2026-07-31
SPHY State Street(R) SPDR(R) Portfolio High Yield Bond ETF 1,935 1127.1 3.17% 2026-06-30
VCIT Vanguard Intermediate-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund 2,304 1226.6 2.69% 2026-05-31
SCYB Schwab High Yield Bond ETF 1,834 1248.1 3.11% 2026-05-31
SUB iShares Short-Term National Muni Bond ETF 2,917 1283.4 3.11% 2026-05-31
SCHI Schwab 5-10 Year Corporate Bond ETF 2,346 1447.7 2.46% 2026-06-30
TFI State Street(R) SPDR Nuveen ICE Municipal Bond ETF 1,889 1471.4 2.03% 2026-06-30

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