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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 2026-05-31
92 Positions reported
88.2 Effective holdings
1× Concentration multiple
14% 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: 0.11% at a quoted market price (level 1), one issuer country.

What stands out

as of 2026-05-31

VGSH'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

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Between 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.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
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)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
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 2026-05-31

The 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.

#PositionWeightCumulative
1United States Treasury Note/Bond2.25%2.3%
2United States Treasury Note/Bond1.41%3.7%
3United States Treasury Note/Bond1.36%5.0%
4United States Treasury Note/Bond1.32%6.3%
5United States Treasury Note/Bond1.31%7.6%
6United States Treasury Note/Bond1.30%8.9%
7United States Treasury Note/Bond1.27%10.2%
8United States Treasury Note/Bond1.27%11.5%
9United States Treasury Note/Bond1.27%12.7%
10United States Treasury Note/Bond1.26%14.0%
11United States Treasury Note/Bond1.26%15.3%
12United States Treasury Note/Bond1.26%16.5%
13United States Treasury Note/Bond1.25%17.8%
14United States Treasury Note/Bond1.24%19.0%
15United States Treasury Note/Bond1.24%20.3%

Returns the fund reported

2019-09 – 2026-05

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

3.5%Last twelve months filed
13%Whole series, compounded
1.6%Best month
-1.4%Worst month

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 → 2026-05-31

96 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 increases2026-02-282026-05-31Largest decreases2026-02-282026-05-31
United States Treasury Note/Bond1.02%1.23% United States Treasury Note/Bond0.86%0.70%
United States Treasury Note/Bond1.10%1.12% United States Treasury Note/Bond0.75%0.59%
United States Treasury Note/Bond0.81%0.83% United States Treasury Note/Bond0.99%0.83%
United States Treasury Note/Bond1.09%1.11% United States Treasury Note/Bond1.30%1.16%
United States Treasury Note/Bond1.13%1.15% United States Treasury Note/Bond1.31%1.19%
United States Treasury Note/Bond1.20%1.21% United States Treasury Note/Bond1.28%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 2026-05-31

99.89% 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

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Every 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.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs 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

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