Fund · Vanguard Energy Index Fund · measured from SEC filings
VDE holdings
VDE reports 106 holdings and behaves like 12.3 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 2026-05-31Computed 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: 100% at a quoted market price (level 1), one issuer country.
What stands out
as of 2026-05-31VDE's largest investment is Exxon Mobil Corp at 21.26% of net assets. Chevron Corp and Conocophillips follow; the three together are 41.48%. Ten companies are 63.95% of the fund; the other 96 share the rest. Among the 721 equity funds measured here, VDE behaves like 12.3 holdings against a median of 42.4 — 3.4 times more concentrated than the median. Across 27 quarterly filings VDE has held roughly steady since 2019-11-30 (10 then, 12.3 now). Between the 2026-02-28 and 2026-05-31 filings 0 positions were added and 2 dropped; 5.6% 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
27Between 2019-11-30 and 2026-05-31, VDE went from behaving like 10 equally weighted positions to 12.3 — 23% more, while its top ten went from 69.83% to 63.95% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-31 | 106 | 12.3 | 63.95% | 21.36% |
| 2026-02-28 | 109 | 10.9 | 64.81% | 23.62% |
| 2025-11-30 | 113 | 11.6 | 64.22% | 22.23% |
| 2025-08-31 | 116 | 10.8 | 66.64% | 22.93% |
| 2025-05-31 | 114 | 11.3 | 65.34% | 23.54% |
| 2025-02-28 | 114 | 12.1 | 64.32% | 21.64% |
| 2024-11-30 | 116 | 12.4 | 63.47% | 21.71% |
| 2024-08-31 | 114 | 11.6 | 64.57% | 23.33% |
Earlier filings (19 more, back to 2019-11-30)
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-05-31 | 116 | 10 | 67.03% | 25.82% |
| 2024-02-29 | 119 | 11.8 | 65.52% | 21.85% |
| 2023-11-30 | 110 | 11.8 | 65.62% | 22.05% |
| 2023-08-31 | 114 | 12.3 | 65.37% | 20.93% |
| 2023-05-31 | 113 | 10.6 | 67.68% | 22.95% |
| 2023-02-28 | 113 | 10.9 | 66.55% | 23.42% |
| 2022-11-30 | 108 | 10.7 | 68.08% | 22.51% |
| 2022-08-31 | 111 | 11.2 | 67.35% | 21.58% |
| 2022-05-31 | 105 | 11.7 | 66.63% | 20.32% |
| 2022-02-28 | 106 | 11.1 | 67.44% | 20.69% |
| 2021-11-30 | 100 | 11.5 | 66.38% | 20.18% |
| 2021-08-31 | 99 | 11.1 | 67.52% | 21.37% |
| 2021-05-31 | 104 | 11 | 67.91% | 21.37% |
| 2021-02-28 | 103 | 10.5 | 68.75% | 21.83% |
| 2020-11-30 | 115 | 10.1 | 69.24% | 21.41% |
| 2020-08-31 | 119 | 9.8 | 69.93% | 21.39% |
| 2020-05-31 | 132 | 8.8 | 74.07% | 23.15% |
| 2020-02-29 | 132 | 10.5 | 68.86% | 21.79% |
| 2019-11-30 | 141 | 10 | 69.83% | 22.91% |
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
1Overlap with other funds
1Measured 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VDE vs XLE | 81.55% | 21 | 11.1 |
Largest positions, as filed
as of 2026-05-31The 15 largest of 106 positions in VDE's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: VDE.csv.gz.
| # | Position | Weight | Cumulative |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Exxon Mobil Corp | 21.36% | 21.4% |
| 2 | Chevron Corp | 14.52% | 35.9% |
| 3 | ConocoPhillips | 5.79% | 41.7% |
| 4 | Williams Cos Inc/The | 3.65% | 45.3% |
| 5 | SLB Ltd | 3.49% | 48.8% |
| 6 | Marathon Petroleum Corp | 3.28% | 52.1% |
| 7 | Valero Energy Corp | 3.19% | 55.3% |
| 8 | EOG Resources Inc | 3.06% | 58.3% |
| 9 | Phillips 66 | 2.98% | 61.3% |
| 10 | Baker Hughes Co | 2.65% | 64.0% |
| 11 | Kinder Morgan Inc | 2.61% | 66.6% |
| 12 | Targa Resources Corp | 2.31% | 68.9% |
| 13 | ONEOK Inc | 2.22% | 71.1% |
| 14 | Devon Energy Corp | 2.12% | 73.2% |
| 15 | Cheniere Energy Inc | 2.07% | 75.3% |
Returns the fund reported
2019-09 – 2026-05Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of VDE's own filings, 81 months on record. Not computed here and not from a price feed.
Cross-checked against a series computed separately from prices: median difference 0.04 percentage points over 81 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: VDE.json · all funds.
Who borrows VDE's shares
2026-05-31The fund lends its holdings, and Item B.4.a of the filing names every firm holding them. At 2026-05-31, $9m was out to 10 borrowers, 0.07% of net assets. The largest, MORGAN STANLEY & CO LLC, held 41.9% of it.
| Borrower | On loan | Share of the loan |
|---|---|---|
| MORGAN STANLEY & CO LLC | $4m | 41.9% |
| CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS INC. | $2m | 19.6% |
| JP MORGAN SECURITIES LLC | $2m | 18.5% |
| BARCLAYS BANK PLC | $907,210 | 10.3% |
| GOLDMAN SACHS & CO. | $278,774 | 3.2% |
Cash collateral reported against the loan: 0.09% of net assets, 121.1% 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 VDE has filed, with each borrower: VDE.json · all funds.
Since the previous filing
2026-02-28 → 2026-05-31108 positions became 106: 0 added (0.0% of the fund at the later date), 2 dropped (1.0% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 5.6%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of VDE compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.
| Largest increases | 2026-02-28 | 2026-05-31 | Largest decreases | 2026-02-28 | 2026-05-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Devon Energy Corp | 1.14% | 2.12% | Exxon Mobil Corp | 23.62% | 21.36% |
| Marathon Petroleum Corp | 2.64% | 3.28% | Chevron Corp | 15.00% | 14.52% |
| SLB Ltd | 2.87% | 3.49% | Texas Pacific Land Corp | 1.31% | 0.85% |
| Valero Energy Corp | 2.69% | 3.19% | Vanguard Cmt Funds-Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund | 0.28% | 0.06% |
| Phillips 66 | 2.64% | 2.98% | Kinder Morgan Inc | 2.79% | 2.61% |
| EOG Resources Inc | 2.87% | 3.06% | Williams Cos Inc/The | 3.82% | 3.65% |
Gone: Coterra Energy Inc (0.99%), N/A (0.01%).
Asset categories and pricing
as of 2026-05-3199.84% equity, 0.16% 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 2026-05-31A 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 $11.79B. Notional of an interest-rate or currency swap is not equity exposure.
| Swap counterparty | Notional | % of net assets |
|---|---|---|
| Bank of America NA | $61M | 0.52% |
Financing leg as filed: the fund pays OBFR01 + 0% on $61M 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
10Every measured equity fund lined up by how many holdings it behaves like; these sit either side of VDE (12.3). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.
| Fund | Reports | Behaves like | Top ten | As of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SOXL Direxion Daily Semiconductor Bull 3X Shares | 38 | 12.1 * | 63.99% | 2026-07-31 |
| EWH iShares MSCI Hong Kong ETF | 31 | 12.1 | 66.65% | 2026-05-31 |
| EPHE iShares MSCI Philippines ETF | 38 | 12.1 | 61.95% | 2026-05-31 |
| LIT Global X Lithium and Battery Tech ETF | 41 | 12.3 | 66.07% | 2026-07-31 |
| EWN iShares MSCI Netherlands ETF | 57 | 12.3 | 60.63% | 2026-05-31 |
| EDEN iShares MSCI Denmark ETF | 44 | 12.4 | 66.39% | 2026-05-31 |
| AKRE Akre Focus ETF | 18 | 12.7 | 80.84% | 2026-07-31 |
| OIH VanEck Oil Services ETF | 25 | 12.8 | 70.6% | 2026-06-30 |
| FDIS Fidelity MSCI Consumer Discretionary Index ETF | 247 | 13 | 54.83% | 2026-07-31 |
| EWI iShares MSCI Italy ETF | 28 | 13 | 71.25% | 2026-05-31 |
Measures applied in the essays
7Essays that examine VDE
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XLE vs VDE: A Five-Year Audit of the Two Largest US Energy ETFs
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