Fund · Vanguard Financials Index Fund · measured from SEC filings
VFH holdings
VFH reports 417 holdings and behaves like 33.9 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: 99.99% at a quoted market price (level 1), one issuer country.
What stands out
as of 2026-05-31VFH's largest investment is Jpmorgan Chase at 9.15% of net assets. Berkshire Hath-b and Mastercard Inc-a follow; the three together are 22.03%. Ten companies are 46.07% of the fund; the other 407 share the rest. Among the 721 equity funds measured here, VFH behaves like 33.9 holdings against a median of 42.4 — close to the median. Across 27 quarterly filings VFH has held roughly steady since 2019-11-30 (33.5 then, 33.9 now). Between the 2026-02-28 and 2026-05-31 filings 2 positions were added and 5 dropped; 4.2% 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, VFH went from behaving like 33.5 equally weighted positions to 33.9 — 1% more, while its top ten went from 42.85% to 46.07% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-31 | 417 | 33.9 | 46.07% | 9.15% |
| 2026-02-28 | 416 | 33.2 | 45.22% | 9.33% |
| 2025-11-30 | 420 | 32.1 | 45.31% | 10% |
| 2025-08-31 | 417 | 33.8 | 43.89% | 9.56% |
| 2025-05-31 | 405 | 33.5 | 44.01% | 9.15% |
| 2025-02-28 | 410 | 34.4 | 43.37% | 9.02% |
| 2024-11-30 | 411 | 37.3 | 41.47% | 8.54% |
| 2024-08-31 | 406 | 35.3 | 42.33% | 8.83% |
Earlier filings (19 more, back to 2019-11-30)
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-05-31 | 394 | 34.2 | 43.8% | 8.8% |
| 2024-02-29 | 397 | 34 | 43.84% | 8.31% |
| 2023-11-30 | 393 | 34.9 | 43.17% | 8.08% |
| 2023-08-31 | 396 | 34.4 | 43.46% | 8.42% |
| 2023-05-31 | 370 | 31.5 | 43.5% | 10.16% |
| 2023-02-28 | 380 | 36.9 | 40.88% | 8.9% |
| 2022-11-30 | 372 | 36.8 | 41.2% | 8.53% |
| 2022-08-31 | 374 | 39.9 | 39.69% | 8.16% |
| 2022-05-31 | 376 | 37.1 | 40.51% | 8.65% |
| 2022-02-28 | 395 | 37.2 | 40.93% | 8.18% |
| 2021-11-30 | 393 | 36.6 | 41.21% | 9.25% |
| 2021-08-31 | 399 | 36 | 42% | 9.33% |
| 2021-05-31 | 426 | 34.9 | 42.44% | 9.71% |
| 2021-02-28 | 412 | 35 | 41.58% | 10.15% |
| 2020-11-30 | 415 | 35.1 | 41.2% | 9.55% |
| 2020-08-31 | 417 | 34.8 | 41.36% | 9.14% |
| 2020-05-31 | 426 | 35.2 | 41.54% | 9.6% |
| 2020-02-29 | 427 | 33.8 | 42.26% | 10.06% |
| 2019-11-30 | 434 | 33.5 | 42.85% | 10.08% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VFH vs XLF | 78.89% | 70 | 26.7 |
Largest positions, as filed
as of 2026-05-31The 15 largest of 417 positions in VFH's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: VFH.csv.gz.
| # | Position | Weight | Cumulative |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 9.15% | 9.2% |
| 2 | Berkshire Hathaway Inc | 7.85% | 17.0% |
| 3 | Mastercard Inc | 5.03% | 22.0% |
| 4 | Bank of America Corp | 4.25% | 26.3% |
| 5 | Visa Inc | 4.17% | 30.4% |
| 6 | Vanguard Cmt Funds-Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund | 3.66% | 34.1% |
| 7 | Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The | 3.51% | 37.6% |
| 8 | Morgan Stanley | 2.97% | 40.6% |
| 9 | Wells Fargo & Co | 2.93% | 43.5% |
| 10 | Citigroup Inc | 2.56% | 46.1% |
| 11 | American Express Co | 2.10% | 48.2% |
| 12 | BlackRock Funding Inc/DE | 1.86% | 50.0% |
| 13 | Charles Schwab Corp/The | 1.77% | 51.8% |
| 14 | S&P Global Inc | 1.58% | 53.4% |
| 15 | Capital One Financial Corp | 1.44% | 54.8% |
Returns the fund reported
2019-09 – 2026-05Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of VFH'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 0.05 percentage points over 81 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: VFH.json · all funds.
Who borrows VFH'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, $6m was out to 7 borrowers, 0.05% of net assets. The largest, BARCLAYS BANK PLC, held 49.6% of it.
| Borrower | On loan | Share of the loan |
|---|---|---|
| BARCLAYS BANK PLC | $3m | 49.6% |
| National Financial Services LLC | $1m | 16.8% |
| GOLDMAN SACHS & CO. | $941,407 | 15.2% |
| Velocity Clearing LLC | $425,784 | 6.9% |
| JP MORGAN SECURITIES LLC | $282,949 | 4.6% |
Cash collateral reported against the loan: 0.04% of net assets, 86.8% 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 VFH has filed, with each borrower: VFH.json · all funds.
Since the previous filing
2026-02-28 → 2026-05-31416 positions became 413: 2 added (0.1% of the fund at the later date), 5 dropped (0.1% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 4.2%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of VFH 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Morgan Stanley | 2.40% | 2.97% | Berkshire Hathaway Inc | 8.39% | 7.85% |
| Vanguard Cmt Funds-Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund | 3.12% | 3.66% | Mastercard Inc | 5.31% | 5.03% |
| Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The | 2.98% | 3.51% | Wells Fargo & Co | 3.14% | 2.93% |
| Citigroup Inc | 2.30% | 2.56% | Charles Schwab Corp/The | 1.98% | 1.77% |
| Bank of America Corp | 4.03% | 4.25% | CME Group Inc | 1.39% | 1.19% |
| Robinhood Markets Inc | 0.67% | 0.85% | PayPal Holdings Inc | 0.47% | 0.29% |
New: Piper Sandler Cos (0.07%), N/A (0.01%). Gone: Piper Sandler Cos (0.06%), Heritage Commerce Corp (0.01%), Cantaloupe Inc (0.01%), Diamond Hill Investment Group Inc (0.01%), First Foundation Inc (0.01%).
Asset categories and pricing
as of 2026-05-3196.30% equity, 3.69% 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 $13.45B. Notional of an interest-rate or currency swap is not equity exposure.
| Swap counterparty | Notional | % of net assets |
|---|---|---|
| CITIBANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION | $345M | 2.57% |
| Bank of America NA | $146M | 1.09% |
| Goldman Sachs International | $6M | 0.05% |
Financing leg as filed: the fund pays OBFR01 + 0% on $498M 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 VFH (33.9). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.
| Fund | Reports | Behaves like | Top ten | As of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PTNQ Pacer Trendpilot 100 ETF | 104 | 32.9 | 46.39% | 2026-07-31 |
| JDVI John Hancock Disciplined Value International Select ETF | 38 | 33 | 40.38% | 2026-06-30 |
| BRES Burney U.S. Equity Select ETF | 72 | 33 | 46.19% | 2026-07-31 |
| SEIQ SEI Enhanced U.S. Large Cap Quality Factor ETF | 65 | 33.1 | 42.97% | 2026-06-30 |
| ARTY iShares Future AI & Tech ETF | 63 | 33.8 | 42.81% | 2026-06-30 |
| IGE iShares North American Natural Resources ETF | 153 | 34 | 40.02% | 2026-06-30 |
| QQQ Invesco QQQ Trust, Series 1 | 103 | 34.1 | 45.03% | 2026-06-30 |
| FDEM Fidelity Emerging Markets Multifactor ETF | 208 | 34.2 | 36.71% | 2026-07-31 |
| QRFT QRAFT AI-Enhanced U.S. Large Cap ETF | 299 | 34.2 | 43.96% | 2026-04-30 |
| QQQI NEOS Nasdaq-100(R) High Income ETF | 103 | 34.3 | 45% | 2026-06-30 |
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