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Fund · Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Securities Index Fund · measured from SEC filings

VMBS holdings

VMBS reports 5,113 holdings and behaves like 326.7 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
5,113 Positions reported
326.7 Effective holdings
15.7× Concentration multiple
7.69% 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: 4.87% at a quoted market price (level 1), one issuer country.

What stands out

as of 2026-05-31

VMBS's largest investment is Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund at 5.08% of net assets. Fncl 2 6/26 and G2sf 5.5 7/26 follow; the three together are 5.97%. Ten companies are 7.69% of the fund; the other 5,103 share the rest. Among the 15 mortgage-backed funds measured here, VMBS behaves like 326.7 holdings against a median of 157.5 — 2.1 times the median. Across 27 quarterly filings VMBS has become less concentrated: it behaved like 84.8 at 2019-11-30 and 326.7 at 2026-05-31. Between the 2026-02-28 and 2026-05-31 filings 139 positions were added and 37 dropped; 10.7% of the weight moved.

Each sentence is read from the fund's own SEC filing; the class median is computed across the comparable mortgage-backed 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, VMBS went from behaving like 84.8 equally weighted positions to 326.7 — 285% more, while its top ten went from 17.04% to 7.69% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
2026-05-31 5,113 326.7 7.69% 4.87%
2026-02-28 5,013 374.6 7.25% 4.43%
2025-11-30 5,074 620.2 5.3% 3.02%
2025-08-31 5,189 820.4 4.6% 2.24%
2025-05-31 5,139 510 6.34% 3.48%
2025-02-28 5,181 650.6 5.68% 2.79%
2024-11-30 5,068 563.2 6.2% 3.12%
2024-08-31 5,045 596.1 6.13% 2.9%
Earlier filings (19 more, back to 2019-11-30)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
2024-05-31 5,005 728 5.28% 2.3%
2024-02-29 4,983 891.4 4.54% 1.59%
2023-11-30 5,075 567.3 6.14% 2.92%
2023-08-31 4,918 530 6.48% 3.03%
2023-05-31 4,774 814.6 5.03% 0.98%
2023-02-28 4,615 665 5.89% 1.48%
2022-11-30 4,429 397.2 8.02% 3.32%
2022-08-31 4,303 447.4 7.91% 2.39%
2022-05-31 4,240 332.4 8.62% 3.64%
2022-02-28 4,304 326.3 9.51% 3.55%
2021-11-30 4,349 100.9 15.92% 8.98%
2021-08-31 4,233 139 14.42% 7.29%
2021-05-31 4,130 51.7 22.83% 12.98%
2021-02-28 3,834 47.4 23.18% 13.71%
2020-11-30 3,535 44.2 24.01% 14.16%
2020-08-31 3,299 39.5 25.39% 15.18%
2020-05-31 3,187 110.9 15.8% 8.49%
2020-02-29 3,199 88.3 17.62% 9.75%
2019-11-30 3,103 84.8 17.04% 10.09%

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 5,113 positions in VMBS'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
1Vanguard Cmt Funds-Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund4.87%4.9%
2Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac0.50%5.4%
3Ginnie Mae II Pool0.35%5.7%
4Ginnie Mae II Pool0.31%6.0%
5Ginnie Mae II Pool0.30%6.3%
6Fannie Mae Pool0.28%6.6%
7Ginnie Mae II Pool0.28%6.9%
8Ginnie Mae II Pool0.28%7.2%
9Ginnie Mae II Pool0.27%7.4%
10Freddie Mac Pool0.26%7.7%
11Freddie Mac Pool0.26%7.9%
12Freddie Mac Pool0.25%8.2%
13Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac0.24%8.4%
14Freddie Mac Pool0.23%8.7%
15Freddie Mac Pool0.23%8.9%

Returns the fund reported

2019-09 – 2026-05

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

6.8%Last twelve months filed
7%Whole series, compounded
5.3%Best month
-5.0%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: VMBS.json · all funds.

Since the previous filing

2026-02-28 → 2026-05-31

5,009 positions became 5,111: 139 added (8.9% of the fund at the later date), 37 dropped (3.4% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 10.7%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of VMBS compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.

Largest increases2026-02-282026-05-31Largest decreases2026-02-282026-05-31
Vanguard Cmt Funds-Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund4.43%4.87% Ginnie Mae II Pool0.14%0.10%
Freddie Mac Pool0.05%0.23% Ginnie Mae II Pool0.11%0.08%
Freddie Mac Pool0.06%0.23% Ginnie Mae II Pool0.18%0.15%
Fannie Mae Pool0.06%0.18% Freddie Mac Pool0.19%0.16%
Ginnie Mae II Pool0.03%0.14% Ginnie Mae II Pool0.09%0.06%
Ginnie Mae II Pool0.08%0.17% Fannie Mae Pool0.12%0.10%

New: Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac (0.50%), Ginnie Mae II Pool (0.35%), Ginnie Mae II Pool (0.30%), Fannie Mae Pool (0.28%), Ginnie Mae II Pool (0.28%), Freddie Mac Pool (0.26%). Gone: Ginnie Mae II Pool (0.43%), Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac (0.42%), Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac (0.33%), Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac (0.31%), Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac (0.25%), Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac (0.21%).

Asset categories and pricing

as of 2026-05-31

95.13% mortgage-backed, 4.87% short-term investment as filed; 4.9% 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, mortgage-backed funds

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Every measured mortgage-backed fund lined up by how many holdings it behaves like; these sit either side of VMBS (326.7). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs of
EVMO Eaton Vance Mortgage Opportunities ETF 717 173.4 13.88% 2026-06-30
MBB iShares MBS ETF 11,146 187.7 12.45% 2026-05-31
JMTG JPMorgan Mortgage-Backed Securities ETF 2,556 295.6 11.54% 2026-05-31
CARY Angel Oak Income ETF 794 296.5 11.07% 2026-07-31
JPIE JPMorgan Income ETF 2,539 306.4 12.99% 2026-05-31
SMBS Schwab Mortgage-Backed Securities ETF 4,197 984.5 4.35% 2026-05-31

Essays that examine VMBS

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