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VGK holdings

VGK reports 1,241 holdings and behaves like 139.5 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
1,241 Positions reported
139.5 Effective holdings
8.9× Concentration multiple
18.6% 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: 0.77% at a quoted market price (level 1), 17 issuer countries, 1.84% restricted securities.

What stands out

as of 2026-07-31

VGK's largest investment is ASML Holding NV at 3.61% of net assets. HSBC Holdings PL and Roche Holding Ag-genusschein - Part.certificates follow; the three together are 7.49%. Ten companies are 18.6% of the fund; the other 1,231 share the rest. Among the 721 equity funds measured here, VGK behaves like 139.5 holdings against a median of 42.4 — 3.3 times the median. Across 27 quarterly filings VGK has held roughly steady since 2019-10-31 (182.4 then, 147.4 now). Between the 2026-01-31 and 2026-04-30 filings 18 positions were added and 35 dropped; 7.6% of the weight moved. the United Kingdom is the largest country at 22.9% of the portfolio, across 17 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, VGK went from behaving like 182.4 equally weighted positions to 147.4 — 19% fewer, while its top ten went from 15.76% to 18.12% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
2026-04-30 1,255 147.4 18.12% 3.63%
2026-01-31 1,254 147.9 18% 3.61%
2025-10-31 1,252 158.9 17.32% 2.93%
2025-07-31 1,253 171.4 16.29% 2.19%
2025-04-30 1,269 163.1 17.41% 2.45%
2025-01-31 1,282 154.9 18.38% 2.46%
2024-10-31 1,280 153 18.75% 2.84%
2024-07-31 1,306 141.6 20.17% 3.25%
Earlier filings (19 more, back to 2019-10-31)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
2024-04-30 1,307 141.6 19.94% 3.33%
2024-01-31 1,323 142 20.13% 3.07%
2023-10-31 1,324 144.1 20% 2.94%
2023-07-31 1,338 154.3 19.28% 2.82%
2023-04-30 1,363 152.9 19.27% 2.99%
2023-01-31 1,366 157.9 18.82% 2.94%
2022-10-31 1,379 151.2 19.46% 3.17%
2022-07-31 1,385 158.4 18.95% 3.26%
2022-04-30 1,385 161.1 18.42% 3.26%
2022-01-31 1,377 178.9 16.92% 2.89%
2021-10-31 1,360 185.5 16.44% 2.9%
2021-07-31 1,347 192.6 15.88% 2.81%
2021-04-30 1,330 201.1 15.18% 2.71%
2021-01-31 1,297 193.6 15.62% 2.82%
2020-10-31 1,317 178.3 16.53% 3.43%
2020-07-31 1,324 167.2 17.19% 3.56%
2020-04-30 1,326 158.7 17.85% 3.59%
2020-01-31 1,346 183.8 15.61% 3.07%
2019-10-31 1,361 182.4 15.76% 3.06%

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 1,241 positions in VGK'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
1ASML Holding NV3.63%3.6%
2HSBC Holdings PLC2.05%5.7%
3Roche Holding AG1.85%7.5%
4AstraZeneca PLC1.84%9.4%
5Novartis AG1.84%11.2%
6Nestle SA1.69%12.9%
7Shell PLC1.67%14.6%
8Siemens AG1.41%16.0%
9Banco Santander SA1.16%17.1%
10Allianz SE1.13%18.3%
11SAP SE1.12%19.4%
12Schneider Electric SE1.12%20.5%
13TotalEnergies SE1.09%21.6%
14Siemens Energy AG1.02%22.6%
15ABB Ltd1.02%23.6%

By country of issuer

as of 2026-04-30

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

CountryShare
United Kingdom 23.27%
France 14.63%
Switzerland 13.99%
Germany 13.25%
Netherlands° 7.57%
Sweden 5.90%
Spain 5.71%
Italy 5.35%

Returns the fund reported

2019-08 – 2026-04

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

23.3%Last twelve months filed
101%Whole series, compounded
16.7%Best month
-17.0%Worst month

Cross-checked against a series computed separately from prices: median difference 0.17 percentage points over 81 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: VGK.json · all funds.

Who borrows VGK'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, $259m was out to 13 borrowers. The largest, GOLDMAN SACHS & CO., held 34.9% of it.

BorrowerOn loanShare of the loan
GOLDMAN SACHS & CO. $90m 34.9%
MORGAN STANLEY & CO LLC $44m 17.0%
BofA Securities, Inc. $21m 7.9%
Jefferies LLC $20m 7.9%
BNP PARIBAS SECURITIES CORP $20m 7.6%

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 VGK has filed, with each borrower: VGK.json · all funds.

Since the previous filing

2026-01-31 → 2026-04-30

1,240 positions became 1,223: 18 added (2.3% of the fund at the later date), 35 dropped (2.4% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 7.6%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of VGK compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.

Largest increases2026-01-312026-04-30Largest decreases2026-01-312026-04-30
Shell PLC1.42%1.67% Novo Nordisk A/S1.21%0.88%
TotalEnergies SE0.85%1.09% SAP SE1.31%1.12%
Nokia Oyj0.21%0.43% Vanguard Cmt Funds-Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund0.19%0.02%
Siemens Energy AG0.81%1.02% LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE1.05%0.88%
BP PLC0.64%0.80% EssilorLuxottica SA0.56%0.39%
Infineon Technologies AG0.41%0.57% Rheinmetall AG0.61%0.47%

New: Roche Holding AG (1.85%), Sunbelt Rentals Holdings Inc (0.20%), Abivax SA (0.05%), Zegona Communications plc (0.03%), HAL Trust (0.02%), Kongsberg Maritime AS (0.02%). Gone: Roche Holding AG (2.04%), Ashtead Group PLC (0.17%), JDE Peet's NV (0.04%), N/A (0.02%), Just Group PLC (0.02%), B&M European Value Retail SA (0.02%).

Asset categories and pricing

as of 2026-07-31
Asset category (as filed)Share of investments
equity EC98.98%
short-term investment STIV0.76%
preferred equity EP0.24%
derivative DE0.01%

0.8% of VGK 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.

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 $37.80B. Notional of an interest-rate or currency swap is not equity exposure.

99.09%Stocks held directly
0%Swap notional (0)
0.78%Futures notional (3)
99.9%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 VGK (139.5). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs of
VOE Vanguard Mid-Cap Value Index Fund 180 133.8 12.62% 2026-06-30
IVOG Vanguard S&P Mid-Cap 400 Growth Index Fund 245 134 15.93% 2026-05-31
DWAS Invesco Dorsey Wright SmallCap Momentum ETF 200 135.4 16.66% 2026-05-31
IEUR iShares Core MSCI Europe ETF 1,019 135.9 18.84% 2026-07-31
EFAV iShares MSCI EAFE Min Vol Factor ETF 269 139.2 14.65% 2026-07-31
SDVY First Trust SMID Cap Rising Dividend Achievers ETF 174 139.6 11.12% 2026-06-30
FFSM Fidelity Fundamental Small-Mid Cap ETF 216 139.8 14.07% 2026-07-31
SDVD FT Vest SMID Rising Dividend Achievers Target Income ETF 174 140.5 10.64% 2026-07-31
FLQM Franklin U.S. Mid Cap Multifactor Index ETF 205 140.7 11.28% 2026-06-30
ONEY State Street(R) SPDR(R) Russell 1000 Yield Focus ETF 301 142 16.91% 2026-06-30

Essays that examine VGK

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