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VLUE holdings

VLUE reports 153 holdings and behaves like 21.2 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
153 Positions reported
21.2 Effective holdings
7.2× Concentration multiple
42.55% 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: 100% at a quoted market price (level 1), 8 issuer countries.

What stands out

as of 2026-07-31

VLUE's largest investment is Micron Technology Inc at 11.6% of net assets. Intel Corp and Cisco Systems Inc follow; the three together are 25.82%. Ten companies are 42.55% of the fund; the other 143 share the rest. Among the 721 equity funds measured here, VLUE behaves like 21.2 holdings against a median of 42.4 — 2.0 times more concentrated than the median. Across 27 quarterly filings VLUE has held roughly steady since 2019-10-31 (36.9 then, 29.8 now). Between the 2026-01-31 and 2026-04-30 filings 4 positions were added and 5 dropped; 8.5% 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

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Between 2019-10-31 and 2026-04-30, VLUE went from behaving like 36.9 equally weighted positions to 29.8 — 19% fewer, while its top ten went from 40.33% to 43.55% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
2026-04-30 151 29.8 43.55% 11.61%
2026-01-31 152 37.6 39.79% 10.53%
2025-10-31 148 44.5 37.77% 6.53%
2025-07-31 151 54.4 33.24% 6.98%
2025-04-30 143 47.8 36.42% 6.52%
2025-01-31 152 53.4 34.16% 6.29%
2024-10-31 150 49.9 35.16% 6.31%
2024-07-31 152 52.2 34.67% 5.59%
Earlier filings (19 more, back to 2019-10-31)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
2024-04-30 151 56.1 32.95% 4.87%
2024-01-31 153 50.2 34.72% 6.67%
2023-10-31 148 50.4 34.91% 6.17%
2023-07-31 153 55.8 33.22% 5.42%
2023-04-30 149 59.1 31.21% 4.89%
2023-01-31 153 61.2 30.78% 5.22%
2022-10-31 152 61.6 30.81% 5.11%
2022-07-31 153 60.3 31.58% 5.08%
2022-04-30 150 53.6 33.66% 6.06%
2022-01-31 150 47.1 36.62% 7.53%
2021-10-31 151 53.5 33.45% 6.49%
2021-07-31 151 50 34.53% 7.13%
2021-04-30 150 48.1 34.87% 7.15%
2021-01-31 150 44.2 36.23% 8.01%
2020-10-31 151 46.3 36.04% 7.58%
2020-07-31 153 43.3 35.92% 8.28%
2020-04-30 150 34.1 41.45% 10.55%
2020-01-31 149 38.8 38.68% 9.12%
2019-10-31 151 36.9 40.33% 9.57%

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 153 positions in VLUE's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: VLUE.csv.gz.

#PositionWeightCumulative
1MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.11.61%11.6%
2INTEL CORPORATION9.27%20.9%
3CISCO SYSTEMS, INC.4.96%25.8%
4APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.3.67%29.5%
5GENERAL MOTORS COMPANY3.15%32.7%
6VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC.2.66%35.3%
7AT&T INC.2.53%37.9%
8CITIGROUP INC.1.94%39.8%
9WESTERN DIGITAL CORPORATION1.88%41.7%
10BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION1.88%43.6%
11QUALCOMM INCORPORATED1.80%45.4%
12FEDEX CORPORATION1.69%47.0%
13MERCK & CO., INC.1.57%48.6%
14COMCAST CORPORATION1.50%50.1%
15FORD MOTOR COMPANY1.50%51.6%

By country of issuer

as of 2026-04-30

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

CountryShare
United States 95.00%
Ireland° 1.70%
Netherlands° 1.31%
Switzerland 0.52%
Jersey° 0.37%
Panama° 0.33%
Bermuda° 0.28%
Singapore 0.25%

Returns the fund reported

2019-08 – 2026-04

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

66.5%Last twelve months filed
143%Whole series, compounded
17.5%Best month
-18.5%Worst month

Cross-checked against a series computed separately from prices: median difference 0.04 percentage points over 81 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: VLUE.json · all funds.

Who borrows VLUE'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, $47m was out to 7 borrowers. The largest, BNP PARIBAS PRIME BROKERAGE INTERNATIONAL LIMITED, held 37.7% of it.

BorrowerOn loanShare of the loan
BNP PARIBAS PRIME BROKERAGE INTERNATIONAL LIMITED $18m 37.7%
GOLDMAN SACHS INTERNATIONAL $8m 16.3%
UBS AG $7m 15.0%
MORGAN STANLEY & CO LLC $7m 14.9%
Wells Fargo Bank, National Association $5m 10.1%

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

Since the previous filing

2026-01-31 → 2026-04-30

152 positions became 151: 4 added (0.1% of the fund at the later date), 5 dropped (0.4% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 8.5%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of VLUE compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.

Largest increases2026-01-312026-04-30Largest decreases2026-01-312026-04-30
INTEL CORPORATION5.15%9.27% GENERAL MOTORS COMPANY3.89%3.15%
MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.10.53%11.61% FORD MOTOR COMPANY1.94%1.50%
WESTERN DIGITAL CORPORATION1.22%1.88% ACCENTURE PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY1.08%0.65%
DELL TECHNOLOGIES INC.0.53%0.86% COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS CORPORATION0.90%0.52%
APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.3.37%3.67% COMCAST CORPORATION1.86%1.50%
ON SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION0.52%0.78% AT&T INC.2.86%2.53%

New: WATERS CORPORATION (0.05%), COREBRIDGE FINANCIAL, INC. (0.02%), S P500 EMINI FUT JUN26 (0.01%), E MINI RUSS 2000 JUN26 (0.01%). Gone: THE J. M. SMUCKER COMPANY (0.23%), BAXTER INTERNATIONAL INC. (0.07%), BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON HOLDING CORPORATION (0.07%), E MINI RUSS 2000 MAR26 (0.00%), S P500 EMINI FUT MAR26 (0.00%).

Asset categories and pricing

as of 2026-07-31

99.39% equity, 0.61% 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 2026-04-30

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 $12.05B. Notional of an interest-rate or currency swap is not equity exposure.

99.76%Stocks held directly
0%Swap notional (0)
0.17%Futures notional (2)
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

10

Every measured equity fund lined up by how many holdings it behaves like; these sit either side of VLUE (21.2). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs of
GTOP Goldman Sachs Technology Opportunities ETF 38 21.1 55.26% 2026-05-31
CIBR First Trust Nasdaq Cybersecurity ETF 43 21.2 58.04% 2026-06-30
VAW Vanguard Materials Index Fund 111 21.2 55.5% 2026-05-31
BOTZ Global X Robotics & Artificial Intelligence ETF 62 21.2 58.73% 2026-05-31
ARKG ARK Genomic Revolution ETF 33 21.2 59.16% 2026-07-31
IGV iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF 110 21.3 60.65% 2026-06-30
IOO iShares Global 100 ETF 113 21.3 57.41% 2026-06-30
SHLD Global X Defense Tech ETF 50 21.3 59.46% 2026-05-31
IGPT Invesco AI and Next Gen Software ETF 101 21.3 59.58% 2026-07-31
MOO VanEck Agribusiness ETF 46 21.3 60.2% 2026-06-30

Essays that examine VLUE

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