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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 2026-07-31
3,890 Positions reported
216 Effective holdings
18× Concentration multiple
14.39% Top ten weight

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: 11.58% at a quoted market price (level 1), 48 issuer countries, 1.87% restricted securities.

What stands out

as of 2026-07-31

VEU'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

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Between 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.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
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)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
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 2026-04-30

The 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.

#PositionWeightCumulative
1Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd4.31%4.3%
2Samsung Electronics Co Ltd1.82%6.1%
3ASML Holding NV1.44%7.6%
4SK hynix Inc1.24%8.8%
5Tencent Holdings Ltd0.96%9.8%
6HSBC Holdings PLC0.81%10.6%
7Alibaba Group Holding Ltd0.76%11.3%
8Roche Holding AG0.73%12.1%
9AstraZeneca PLC0.73%12.8%
10Novartis AG0.73%13.5%
11Nestle SA0.67%14.2%
12Shell PLC0.66%14.9%
13Royal Bank of Canada0.64%15.5%
14Siemens AG0.56%16.1%
15Commonwealth Bank of Australia0.54%16.6%

By country of issuer

as of 2026-04-30

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

CountryShare
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 – 2026-04

Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of VEU's own filings, 81 months on record. Not computed here and not from a price feed.

33.5%Last twelve months filed
98%Whole series, compounded
13.7%Best month
-15.5%Worst month

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

2026-07-31

The 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.

BorrowerOn loanShare 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 → 2026-04-30

3,816 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 increases2026-01-312026-04-30Largest decreases2026-01-312026-04-30
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd3.55%4.31% Vanguard Cmt Funds-Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund0.83%0.43%
Samsung Electronics Co Ltd1.37%1.82% Tencent Holdings Ltd1.26%0.96%
SK hynix Inc0.89%1.24% Alibaba Group Holding Ltd1.01%0.76%
Delta Electronics Inc0.19%0.35% Novo Nordisk A/S0.50%0.35%
MediaTek Inc0.21%0.31% Toyota Motor Corp0.64%0.52%
Nokia Oyj0.09%0.17% SAP SE0.54%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 EC97.88%
short-term investment STIV1.48%
preferred equity EP0.63%

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 2026-04-30

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 $90.68B. Notional of an interest-rate or currency swap is not equity exposure.

98.19%Stocks held directly
0%Swap notional (0)
1.13%Futures notional (4)
99.3%Sum, % of net assets

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

Neighbours by effective holdings, equity funds

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Every 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.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs 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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