VEA holdings

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: 11.9% at a quoted market price (level 1), 25 issuer countries, 1% restricted securities.

VEA's largest investment is ASML Holding NV at 2.36% of net assets. SK Hynix Inc and Samsung Electron follow; the three together are 5.6%. Ten companies are 13.15% of the fund; the other 3,880 share the rest. Among the 721 equity funds measured here, VEA behaves like 268.9 holdings against a median of 42.4 — 6.3 times the median. Across 28 quarterly filings VEA has become more concentrated: it behaved like 414.5 at 2019-09-30 and 268.9 at 2026-06-30. Between the 2026-03-31 and 2026-06-30 filings 27 positions were added and 46 dropped; 10.1% of the weight moved. Japan is the largest country at 20.66% of the portfolio, across 25 countries in the filing.

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.

Between 2019-09-30 and 2026-06-30, VEA went from behaving like 414.5 equally weighted positions to 268.9 — 35% fewer, while its top ten went from 9.25% to 13.15% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.

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.

Measured against every other fund on this site, from the same filings. Combined effective holdings is how the pair behaves held in equal size.

VEA's filing lists 3,891 positions including 1.32% of net assets in securities-lending cash collateral. Counted as filed the fund reads 258.3 effective holdings with a top ten of 13.56%; on its own investments — the figure above — it reads 268.9 with a top ten of 13.15%. The collateral is matched by a liability and is not a holding the fund chose; since 2026-09-18 every figure on this site sets it aside (methodology). Both numbers are in the data.

The 15 largest of 3,890 positions in VEA'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.

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

Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of VEA's own filings, 84 months on record. Not computed here and not from a price feed.

Cross-checked against a series computed separately from prices: median difference 0.11 percentage points over 84 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: VEA.json · all funds.

The fund lends its holdings, and Item B.4.a of the filing names every firm holding them. At 2026-06-30, $3.6bn was out to 19 borrowers, 1.13% of net assets. The largest, J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES PLC, held 22.7% of it.

Cash collateral reported against the loan: 1.32% of net assets, 116.7% 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 VEA has filed, with each borrower: VEA.json · all funds.

3,880 positions became 3,861: 27 added (0.2% of the fund at the later date), 46 dropped (0.3% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 10.1%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of VEA compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.

New: Telecom Italia SpA/Milano (0.05%), Thomson Reuters Corp (0.03%), Wise Group PLC (0.03%), Swissquote Group Holding SA (0.02%), Taseko Mines Ltd (0.01%), Seabridge Gold Inc (0.01%). Gone: Thomson Reuters Corp (0.04%), Wise PLC (0.03%), Telecom Italia SpA/Milano (0.03%), Swissquote Group Holding SA (0.02%), Telecom Italia SpA/Milano (0.02%), Atco Ltd/Canada (0.01%).

11.9% of VEA 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.

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 $316.42B. Notional of an interest-rate or currency swap is not equity exposure.

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

Every measured equity fund lined up by how many holdings it behaves like; these sit either side of VEA (268.9). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.

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