Fund · Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index Fund · measured from SEC filings
VGSH holdings
VGSH reports 92 holdings and behaves like 88.2 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: 0.11% at a quoted market price (level 1), one issuer country.
What stands out
as of 2026-05-31VGSH's largest investment is US Treasury N/B at 2.24% of net assets. US Treasury N/B and US Treasury N/B follow; the three together are 4.98%. Ten companies are 14% of the fund; the other 82 share the rest. Among the 192 bond funds measured here, VGSH behaves like 88.2 holdings against a median of 236.4 — 2.7 times more concentrated than the median. Across 27 quarterly filings VGSH has become less concentrated: it behaved like 67.1 at 2019-11-30 and 88.2 at 2026-05-31. Between the 2026-02-28 and 2026-05-31 filings 13 positions were added and 17 dropped; 15.1% of the weight moved.
Each sentence is read from the fund's own SEC filing; the class median is computed across the comparable bond funds on this site. Nothing here is a view on the fund.
Every filing since 2019
27Between 2019-11-30 and 2026-05-31, VGSH went from behaving like 67.1 equally weighted positions to 88.2 — 31% more, while its top ten went from 24.16% to 14% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-31 | 92 | 88.2 | 14% | 2.25% |
| 2026-02-28 | 96 | 87.8 | 13.9% | 2.24% |
| 2025-11-30 | 93 | 88.1 | 13.65% | 1.66% |
| 2025-08-31 | 96 | 86.5 | 14.35% | 1.66% |
| 2025-05-31 | 97 | 85.5 | 14.86% | 1.65% |
| 2025-02-28 | 98 | 84 | 15.29% | 1.75% |
| 2024-11-30 | 97 | 83.1 | 15.6% | 1.78% |
| 2024-08-31 | 97 | 83.8 | 15.69% | 1.92% |
Earlier filings (19 more, back to 2019-11-30)
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-05-31 | 97 | 83.3 | 15.56% | 1.91% |
| 2024-02-29 | 97 | 84.1 | 15.51% | 1.91% |
| 2023-11-30 | 98 | 84.9 | 15.42% | 1.62% |
| 2023-08-31 | 97 | 83.9 | 16.17% | 1.75% |
| 2023-05-31 | 96 | 79.6 | 18.34% | 2.2% |
| 2023-02-28 | 94 | 75.1 | 20.44% | 2.65% |
| 2022-11-30 | 96 | 73.4 | 20.82% | 2.69% |
| 2022-08-31 | 96 | 71.5 | 21.48% | 2.8% |
| 2022-05-31 | 96 | 69.2 | 22.26% | 2.88% |
| 2022-02-28 | 95 | 69.3 | 22.24% | 2.93% |
| 2021-11-30 | 92 | 69.5 | 21.41% | 2.95% |
| 2021-08-31 | 93 | 70 | 20.88% | 2.33% |
| 2021-05-31 | 93 | 71.6 | 20.22% | 2.15% |
| 2021-02-28 | 92 | 52.8 | 28.99% | 6.71% |
| 2020-11-30 | 94 | 49.6 | 30.28% | 7.03% |
| 2020-08-31 | 94 | 48.9 | 30.36% | 7.22% |
| 2020-05-31 | 93 | 47.1 | 31.12% | 7.58% |
| 2020-02-29 | 95 | 67.8 | 23.7% | 2.64% |
| 2019-11-30 | 93 | 67.1 | 24.16% | 2.82% |
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 2026-05-31The 15 largest of 92 positions in VGSH's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: VGSH.csv.gz.
| # | Position | Weight | Cumulative |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 2.25% | 2.3% |
| 2 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.41% | 3.7% |
| 3 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.36% | 5.0% |
| 4 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.32% | 6.3% |
| 5 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.31% | 7.6% |
| 6 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.30% | 8.9% |
| 7 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.27% | 10.2% |
| 8 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.27% | 11.5% |
| 9 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.27% | 12.7% |
| 10 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.26% | 14.0% |
| 11 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.26% | 15.3% |
| 12 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.26% | 16.5% |
| 13 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.25% | 17.8% |
| 14 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.24% | 19.0% |
| 15 | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.24% | 20.3% |
Returns the fund reported
2019-09 – 2026-05Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of VGSH'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 0.02 percentage points over 81 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: VGSH.json · all funds.
Since the previous filing
2026-02-28 → 2026-05-3196 positions became 92: 13 added (14.5% of the fund at the later date), 17 dropped (12.9% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 15.1%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of VGSH 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.02% | 1.23% | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.86% | 0.70% |
| United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.10% | 1.12% | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.75% | 0.59% |
| United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.81% | 0.83% | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 0.99% | 0.83% |
| United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.09% | 1.11% | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.30% | 1.16% |
| United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.13% | 1.15% | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.31% | 1.19% |
| United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.20% | 1.21% | United States Treasury Note/Bond | 1.28% | 1.17% |
New: United States Treasury Note/Bond (1.41%), United States Treasury Note/Bond (1.32%), United States Treasury Note/Bond (1.31%), United States Treasury Note/Bond (1.25%), United States Treasury Note/Bond (1.18%), United States Treasury Note/Bond (1.15%). Gone: United States Treasury Note/Bond (1.28%), United States Treasury Note/Bond (1.26%), United States Treasury Note/Bond (1.25%), United States Treasury Note/Bond (1.24%), United States Treasury Note/Bond (1.23%), United States Treasury Note/Bond (1.10%).
Asset categories and pricing
as of 2026-05-3199.89% debt, 0.11% short-term investment as filed; 0.1% 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.
Neighbours by effective holdings, debt funds
10Every measured debt fund lined up by how many holdings it behaves like; these sit either side of VGSH (88.2). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.
| Fund | Reports | Behaves like | Top ten | As of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SHY iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF | 90 | 83.2 | 16.11% | 2026-05-31 |
| VGIT Vanguard Intermediate-Term Treasury Index Fund | 104 | 84 | 18.93% | 2026-05-31 |
| CGCP Capital Group Core Plus Income ETF | 1,476 | 84.5 * | 25.35% | 2026-06-30 |
| ANGL VanEck Fallen Angel High Yield Bond ETF | 129 | 86.1 | 22.76% | 2026-07-31 |
| APLU Allspring Core Plus ETF | 543 | 86.2 | 26.63% | 2026-05-31 |
| SCHO Schwab Short-Term U.S. Treasury ETF | 97 | 89 | 14.49% | 2026-06-30 |
| GOVT iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF | 215 | 92.9 | 21.91% | 2026-07-31 |
| THYF T. Rowe Price U.S. High Yield ETF | 110 | 93.9 | 16.34% | 2026-05-31 |
| YLD Principal Active High Yield ETF | 149 | 94.3 | 17.92% | 2026-06-30 |
| PCY Invesco Emerging Markets Sovereign Debt ETF | 103 | 101.5 | 11.64% | 2026-07-31 |
Essays that examine VGSH
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