Fund · Vanguard FTSE All-World Ex-US Index Fund · measured from SEC filings
VEU holdings
VEU reports 3,890 holdings and behaves like 216 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 27 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: 11.58% at a quoted market price (level 1), 48 issuer countries, 1.87% restricted securities.
What stands out
as of 2026-07-31VEU's largest investment is TSMC at 4.28% of net assets. Samsung Electron and ASML Holding NV follow; the three together are 7.52%. Ten companies are 14.39% of the fund; the other 3,880 share the rest. Among the 721 equity funds measured here, VEU behaves like 216 holdings against a median of 42.4 — 5.1 times the median. Across 27 quarterly filings VEU has become more concentrated: it behaved like 472.7 at 2019-10-31 and 235.9 at 2026-04-30. Between the 2026-01-31 and 2026-04-30 filings 107 positions were added and 93 dropped; 8.4% of the weight moved. Japan is the largest country at 15.18% of the portfolio, across 48 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.
Every filing since 2019
27Between 2019-10-31 and 2026-04-30, VEU went from behaving like 472.7 equally weighted positions to 235.9 — 50% fewer, while its top ten went from 8.7% to 13.52% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-30 | 3,878 | 235.9 | 13.52% | 4.31% |
| 2026-01-31 | 3,886 | 274.2 | 12.81% | 3.55% |
| 2025-10-31 | 3,892 | 295.9 | 11.69% | 3.38% |
| 2025-07-31 | 3,839 | 331.6 | 10.57% | 2.98% |
| 2025-04-30 | 3,846 | 367.9 | 10.25% | 2.29% |
| 2025-01-31 | 3,850 | 337 | 10.68% | 2.8% |
| 2024-10-31 | 3,851 | 351.5 | 10.7% | 2.64% |
| 2024-07-31 | 3,863 | 343.8 | 11.45% | 2.45% |
Earlier filings (19 more, back to 2019-10-31)
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-04-30 | 3,870 | 373.2 | 10.99% | 1.85% |
| 2024-01-31 | 3,843 | 394.9 | 10.21% | 1.36% |
| 2023-10-31 | 3,823 | 411 | 10.05% | 1.29% |
| 2023-07-31 | 3,724 | 425.5 | 9.77% | 1.24% |
| 2023-04-30 | 3,740 | 424.2 | 9.92% | 1.37% |
| 2023-01-31 | 3,722 | 433.8 | 9.49% | 1.29% |
| 2022-10-31 | 3,744 | 456.7 | 9.07% | 1.38% |
| 2022-07-31 | 3,672 | 447.8 | 9.33% | 1.41% |
| 2022-04-30 | 3,686 | 441.2 | 9.46% | 1.43% |
| 2022-01-31 | 3,616 | 435.3 | 9.79% | 1.36% |
| 2021-10-31 | 3,621 | 447.6 | 9.62% | 1.3% |
| 2021-07-31 | 3,551 | 443.1 | 9.89% | 1.28% |
| 2021-04-30 | 3,545 | 427.8 | 9.93% | 1.69% |
| 2021-01-31 | 3,496 | 390.7 | 10.62% | 1.92% |
| 2020-10-31 | 3,501 | 355 | 11.28% | 2.42% |
| 2020-07-31 | 3,476 | 371.2 | 11.08% | 2.01% |
| 2020-04-30 | 3,455 | 384.2 | 10.57% | 1.82% |
| 2020-01-31 | 3,349 | 440.2 | 9.33% | 1.57% |
| 2019-10-31 | 3,407 | 472.7 | 8.7% | 1.39% |
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 3,890 positions in VEU'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.
| # | Position | Weight | Cumulative |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd | 4.31% | 4.3% |
| 2 | Samsung Electronics Co Ltd | 1.82% | 6.1% |
| 3 | ASML Holding NV | 1.44% | 7.6% |
| 4 | SK hynix Inc | 1.24% | 8.8% |
| 5 | Tencent Holdings Ltd | 0.96% | 9.8% |
| 6 | HSBC Holdings PLC | 0.81% | 10.6% |
| 7 | Alibaba Group Holding Ltd | 0.76% | 11.3% |
| 8 | Roche Holding AG | 0.73% | 12.1% |
| 9 | AstraZeneca PLC | 0.73% | 12.8% |
| 10 | Novartis AG | 0.73% | 13.5% |
| 11 | Nestle SA | 0.67% | 14.2% |
| 12 | Shell PLC | 0.66% | 14.9% |
| 13 | Royal Bank of Canada | 0.64% | 15.5% |
| 14 | Siemens AG | 0.56% | 16.1% |
| 15 | Commonwealth Bank of Australia | 0.54% | 16.6% |
By country of issuer
as of 2026-04-30Share of VEU's own investments by the issuer country the filer reported (incorporation, not revenue). Each country links to every fund that holds it.
| Country | Share |
|---|---|
| Japan | 15.02% |
| United Kingdom | 8.55% |
| Canada | 7.84% |
| Taiwan | 7.80% |
| Hong Kong SAR China | 7.10% |
| South Korea | 5.84% |
| France | 5.41% |
| Switzerland | 5.23% |
Returns the fund reported
2019-08 – 2026-04Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of VEU'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 0.11 percentage points over 81 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: VEU.json · all funds.
Who borrows VEU's shares
2026-07-31The fund lends its holdings, and Item B.4.a of the filing names every firm holding them. At 2026-07-31, $909m was out to 19 borrowers. The largest, J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES PLC, held 28.4% of it.
| Borrower | On loan | Share of the loan |
|---|---|---|
| J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES PLC | $258m | 28.4% |
| MORGAN STANLEY & CO. INTERNATIONAL PLC | $169m | 18.6% |
| GOLDMAN SACHS & CO. | $147m | 16.2% |
| MORGAN STANLEY & CO LLC | $84m | 9.2% |
| JP MORGAN SECURITIES LLC | $53m | 5.9% |
The filing reports no cash collateral position against this loan. Collateral taken in a form the fund does not hold as a position does not appear in N-PORT, so this is silence rather than absence. What the collateral figure can and cannot show. Every quarter VEU has filed, with each borrower: VEU.json · all funds.
Since the previous filing
2026-01-31 → 2026-04-303,816 positions became 3,830: 107 added (1.5% of the fund at the later date), 93 dropped (1.2% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 8.4%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of VEU 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd | 3.55% | 4.31% | Vanguard Cmt Funds-Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund | 0.83% | 0.43% |
| Samsung Electronics Co Ltd | 1.37% | 1.82% | Tencent Holdings Ltd | 1.26% | 0.96% |
| SK hynix Inc | 0.89% | 1.24% | Alibaba Group Holding Ltd | 1.01% | 0.76% |
| Delta Electronics Inc | 0.19% | 0.35% | Novo Nordisk A/S | 0.50% | 0.35% |
| MediaTek Inc | 0.21% | 0.31% | Toyota Motor Corp | 0.64% | 0.52% |
| Nokia Oyj | 0.09% | 0.17% | SAP SE | 0.54% | 0.44% |
New: Roche Holding AG (0.73%), Sunbelt Rentals Holdings Inc (0.08%), MPI Corp (0.04%), Toromont Industries Ltd (0.03%), Phison Electronics Corp (0.03%), Equinox Gold Corp (0.03%). Gone: Roche Holding AG (0.85%), Ashtead Group PLC (0.07%), Toyota Industries Corp (0.06%), JDE Peet's NV (0.02%), WPP PLC (0.01%), Alpha Dhabi Holding PJSC (0.01%).
Asset categories and pricing
as of 2026-07-31| Asset category (as filed) | Share of investments |
|---|---|
| equity EC | 97.88% |
| short-term investment STIV | 1.48% |
| preferred equity EP | 0.63% |
11.6% of VEU is carried at a quoted market price (fair-value level 1); 0.0% at level 3, priced from the filer's own inputs. 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 $90.68B. 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).
Neighbours by effective holdings, equity funds
10Every measured equity fund lined up by how many holdings it behaves like; these sit either side of VEU (216). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.
| Fund | Reports | Behaves like | Top ten | As of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IJJ iShares S&P Mid-Cap 400 Value ETF | 303 | 208.8 | 10.09% | 2026-06-30 |
| MDYV State Street(R) SPDR(R) S & P 400(TM) Mid Cap Value ETF | 302 | 209.2 | 10.07% | 2026-06-30 |
| IVOV Vanguard S&P Mid-Cap 400 Value Index Fund | 304 | 210.1 | 10.2% | 2026-05-31 |
| GSID Goldman Sachs MarketBeta International Equity ETF | 894 | 213.3 | 13.31% | 2026-05-31 |
| FYC First Trust Small Cap Growth AlphaDEX Fund | 263 | 214.2 | 7.5% | 2026-07-31 |
| VYMI Vanguard International High Dividend Yield Index Fund | 1,580 | 217.9 | 13.89% | 2026-07-31 |
| SMIN iShares MSCI India Small-Cap ETF | 475 | 220.2 | 13.3% | 2026-05-31 |
| NUSC Nuveen ESG Small-Cap ETF | 405 | 222.4 | 10.19% | 2026-07-31 |
| SPDW State Street(R) SPDR(R) Portfolio Developed World ex-US ETF | 2,444 | 227.8 | 14.04% | 2026-06-30 |
| JHMD John Hancock Multifactor Developed International ETF | 580 | 233.4 | 11.72% | 2026-06-30 |
Essays that examine VEU
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