Fund index
VDE
5 articles on this site analyse VDE — 2 of them head-on.
Measured concentration
as of 2026-05-31VDE reports 107 positions, but the weights make it behave like about 12.4 equally weighted ones. Computed by this site from the fund's SEC Form N-PORT filing — see what this measure does not tell you and the full table.
The same filing says what kind of price those positions carry: 100% of VDE is held at a quoted market price, from a single issuer country . Comparisons across every fund are in the valuation table, and what a low share does and does not mean is worth reading before drawing a conclusion from it.
Every filing since 2019
27Between 2019-11-30 and 2026-05-31, VDE went from behaving like 10.2 equally weighted positions to 12.4 — 22% more, while its top ten went from 69.41% to 63.68% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-31 | 107 | 12.4 | 63.68% | 21.26% |
| 2026-02-28 | 110 | 11 | 64.5% | 23.51% |
| 2025-11-30 | 114 | 11.7 | 63.88% | 22.12% |
| 2025-08-31 | 117 | 10.9 | 66.27% | 22.8% |
| 2025-05-31 | 115 | 11.4 | 65% | 23.41% |
| 2025-02-28 | 115 | 12.2 | 64.01% | 21.53% |
| 2024-11-30 | 117 | 12.5 | 63.16% | 21.61% |
| 2024-08-31 | 115 | 11.7 | 64.29% | 23.23% |
| 2024-05-31 | 117 | 10.1 | 66.72% | 25.7% |
| 2024-02-29 | 120 | 11.9 | 65.2% | 21.74% |
| 2023-11-30 | 111 | 11.9 | 65.29% | 21.94% |
| 2023-08-31 | 115 | 12.4 | 65.12% | 20.85% |
| 2023-05-31 | 114 | 10.7 | 67.37% | 22.85% |
| 2023-02-28 | 114 | 11 | 66.29% | 23.33% |
| 2022-11-30 | 109 | 10.8 | 67.76% | 22.4% |
| 2022-08-31 | 112 | 11.3 | 67% | 21.47% |
| 2022-05-31 | 106 | 11.8 | 66.35% | 20.23% |
| 2022-02-28 | 107 | 11.2 | 67.17% | 20.61% |
| 2021-11-30 | 101 | 11.6 | 66.1% | 20.1% |
| 2021-08-31 | 99 | 11.2 | 67.22% | 21.27% |
| 2021-05-31 | 105 | 11.1 | 67.58% | 21.27% |
| 2021-02-28 | 104 | 10.6 | 68.41% | 21.73% |
| 2020-11-30 | 116 | 10.2 | 68.88% | 21.3% |
| 2020-08-31 | 120 | 9.9 | 69.51% | 21.26% |
| 2020-05-31 | 133 | 8.9 | 73.61% | 23.01% |
| 2020-02-29 | 133 | 10.7 | 68.3% | 21.62% |
| 2019-11-30 | 142 | 10.2 | 69.41% | 22.78% |
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.
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