Fund · Vanguard Core Tax-Exempt Bond ETF · measured from SEC filings
VCRM holdings
VCRM reports 2,404 holdings and behaves like 571.2 equally weighted ones, computed from its SEC Form N-PORT filing for 2026-07-31. The fact sheet publishes the first number; this page computes the second, and traces it across 6 quarters of filings.
Measured concentration
as of 2026-07-31Computed 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: 1.62% at a quoted market price (level 1), one issuer country, 2.82% restricted securities.
What stands out
as of 2026-07-31VCRM's largest investment is Vanguard Municipal Cash Management Fund at 2.52% of net assets. Massachusetts St-a and Great Lakes MI WTR AU follow; the three together are 3.96%. Ten companies are 7.13% of the fund; the other 2,394 share the rest. Among the 192 bond funds measured here, VCRM behaves like 571.2 holdings against a median of 236.4 — 2.4 times the median. Across 6 quarterly filings VCRM has become less concentrated: it behaved like 232 at 2025-01-31 and 466.1 at 2026-04-30. Between the 2026-01-31 and 2026-04-30 filings 447 positions were added and 145 dropped; 32.8% 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 2025
6Between 2025-01-31 and 2026-04-30, VCRM went from behaving like 232 equally weighted positions to 466.1 — 101% more, while its top ten went from 9.7% to 7.69% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-30 | 2,130 | 466.1 | 7.69% | 2.45% |
| 2026-01-31 | 1,827 | 382.8 | 8.63% | 3.16% |
| 2025-10-31 | 1,510 | 526.7 | 6.66% | 0.89% |
| 2025-07-31 | 1,192 | 320.6 | 8.46% | 3.86% |
| 2025-04-30 | 967 | 281.4 | 8.92% | 4.26% |
| 2025-01-31 | 563 | 232 | 9.7% | 4.41% |
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 2026-04-30The 15 largest of 2,404 positions in VCRM's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: VCRM.csv.gz.
| # | Position | Weight | Cumulative |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vanguard Cmt Funds-Vanguard Municipal Cash Management Fund | 2.45% | 2.4% |
| 2 | Commonwealth of Massachusetts Transportation Fund Revenue | 0.77% | 3.2% |
| 3 | Great Lakes Water Authority Water Supply System Revenue | 0.64% | 3.9% |
| 4 | Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority Sales Tax Revenue | 0.63% | 4.5% |
| 5 | Public Finance Authority | 0.61% | 5.1% |
| 6 | University of California | 0.58% | 5.7% |
| 7 | Texas Municipal Gas Acquisition & Supply Corp IV | 0.52% | 6.2% |
| 8 | Grand Parkway Transportation Corp | 0.50% | 6.7% |
| 9 | California Community Choice Financing Authority | 0.50% | 7.2% |
| 10 | MARYLAND CMNTY DEV ADMIN HSG & | 0.49% | 7.7% |
| 11 | New York State Environmental Facilities Corp | 0.48% | 8.2% |
| 12 | State of California | 0.48% | 8.7% |
| 13 | Southeast Energy Authority A Cooperative District | 0.48% | 9.1% |
| 14 | Omaha Public Facilities Corp | 0.48% | 9.6% |
| 15 | Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission | 0.47% | 10.1% |
Returns the fund reported
2024-11 – 2026-04Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of VCRM's own filings, 18 months on record. Not computed here and not from a price feed.
Cross-checked against a series computed separately from prices: median difference — percentage points over 0 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: VCRM.json · all funds.
Since the previous filing
2026-01-31 → 2026-04-301,825 positions became 2,127: 447 added (30.2% of the fund at the later date), 145 dropped (10.1% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 32.8%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of VCRM compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.
| Largest increases | 2026-01-31 | 2026-04-30 | Largest decreases | 2026-01-31 | 2026-04-30 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority Sales Tax Revenue | 0.32% | 0.63% | Vanguard Cmt Funds-Vanguard Municipal Cash Management Fund | 3.16% | 2.45% |
| North Texas Tollway Authority | 0.09% | 0.30% | California Community Choice Financing Authority | 0.30% | 0.06% |
| Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission | 0.26% | 0.47% | Great Lakes Water Authority Water Supply System Revenue | 0.86% | 0.64% |
| Southeast Energy Authority A Cooperative District | 0.11% | 0.29% | Southern California Public Power Authority | 0.27% | 0.08% |
| California Community Choice Financing Authority | 0.11% | 0.28% | Texas Municipal Gas Acquisition & Supply Corp IV | 0.71% | 0.52% |
| Maricopa County Industrial Development Authority | 0.07% | 0.24% | State of Illinois Sales Tax Revenue | 0.34% | 0.16% |
New: Commonwealth of Massachusetts Transportation Fund Revenue (0.77%), Public Finance Authority (0.61%), University of California (0.58%), Grand Parkway Transportation Corp (0.50%), MARYLAND CMNTY DEV ADMIN HSG & (0.49%), New York State Environmental Facilities Corp (0.48%). Gone: North Texas Tollway Authority (0.62%), New York State Dormitory Authority (0.53%), New Mexico Mortgage Finance Authority (0.45%), Oklahoma Water Resources Board (0.45%), Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Dedicated Rev (0.43%), Colorado Health Facilities Authority (0.36%).
Asset categories and pricing
as of 2026-07-31| Asset category (as filed) | Share of investments |
|---|---|
| debt DBT | 97.73% |
| short-term investment STIV | 1.62% |
| mortgage-backed ABS-MBS | 0.62% |
| DIR DIR | 0.03% |
1.6% of VCRM is carried at a quoted market price (fair-value level 1). Categories and levels are the filer's, from Form N-PORT; what a low level-1 share does and does not mean is in the measure's page.
Derivative exposure and counterparties
as of 2026-04-30A 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 $1.28B. Notional of an interest-rate or currency swap is not equity exposure.
| Swap counterparty | Notional | % of net assets |
|---|---|---|
| ROYAL BANK OF CANADA | $0M | 0.02% |
| MORGAN STANLEY & CO. LLC | $0M | 0.01% |
Full detail for every fund that files derivatives: leverage.json (CC BY 4.0).
Neighbours by effective holdings, debt funds
10Every measured debt fund lined up by how many holdings it behaves like; these sit either side of VCRM (571.2). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.
| Fund | Reports | Behaves like | Top ten | As of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MLN VanEck Long Muni ETF | 654 | 485.5 | 5.4% | 2026-07-31 |
| VCRB Vanguard Core Bond ETF | 3,486 | 501.4 | 8.36% | 2026-06-30 |
| VWOB Vanguard Emerging Markets Government Bond Index Fund | 935 | 532.4 | 6.58% | 2026-07-31 |
| DFNM Dimensional National Municipal Bond ETF | 1,200 | 538 | 6.03% | 2026-07-31 |
| AGG iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF | 13,268 | 562.7 | 6.3% | 2026-05-31 |
| AGGY WisdomTree Yield Enhanced U.S. Aggregate Bond Fund | 2,140 | 582.6 | 8.16% | 2026-05-31 |
| SHM State Street(R) SPDR Nuveen ICE Short Term Municipal Bond ETF | 1,045 | 604 | 5.36% | 2026-06-30 |
| PWZ Invesco California AMT-Free Municipal Bond ETF | 1,158 | 608.2 | 5.92% | 2026-05-31 |
| HYD VanEck High Yield Muni ETF | 2,103 | 636.8 | 6.55% | 2026-07-31 |
| NXUS Nuveen International Aggregate Bond ETF | 3,226 | 637.5 | 6.6% | 2026-06-30 |
Essays that examine VCRM
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