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 2026-05-31Computed 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: 4.87% at a quoted market price (level 1), one issuer country.
What stands out
as of 2026-05-31VMBS'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
27Between 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.
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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)
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 2026-05-31The 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.
| # | Position | Weight | Cumulative |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vanguard Cmt Funds-Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund | 4.87% | 4.9% |
| 2 | Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac | 0.50% | 5.4% |
| 3 | Ginnie Mae II Pool | 0.35% | 5.7% |
| 4 | Ginnie Mae II Pool | 0.31% | 6.0% |
| 5 | Ginnie Mae II Pool | 0.30% | 6.3% |
| 6 | Fannie Mae Pool | 0.28% | 6.6% |
| 7 | Ginnie Mae II Pool | 0.28% | 6.9% |
| 8 | Ginnie Mae II Pool | 0.28% | 7.2% |
| 9 | Ginnie Mae II Pool | 0.27% | 7.4% |
| 10 | Freddie Mac Pool | 0.26% | 7.7% |
| 11 | Freddie Mac Pool | 0.26% | 7.9% |
| 12 | Freddie Mac Pool | 0.25% | 8.2% |
| 13 | Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac | 0.24% | 8.4% |
| 14 | Freddie Mac Pool | 0.23% | 8.7% |
| 15 | Freddie Mac Pool | 0.23% | 8.9% |
Returns the fund reported
2019-09 – 2026-05Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of VMBS'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 0.04 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 → 2026-05-315,009 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 increases | 2026-02-28 | 2026-05-31 | Largest decreases | 2026-02-28 | 2026-05-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vanguard Cmt Funds-Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund | 4.43% | 4.87% | Ginnie Mae II Pool | 0.14% | 0.10% |
| Freddie Mac Pool | 0.05% | 0.23% | Ginnie Mae II Pool | 0.11% | 0.08% |
| Freddie Mac Pool | 0.06% | 0.23% | Ginnie Mae II Pool | 0.18% | 0.15% |
| Fannie Mae Pool | 0.06% | 0.18% | Freddie Mac Pool | 0.19% | 0.16% |
| Ginnie Mae II Pool | 0.03% | 0.14% | Ginnie Mae II Pool | 0.09% | 0.06% |
| Ginnie Mae II Pool | 0.08% | 0.17% | Fannie Mae Pool | 0.12% | 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 2026-05-3195.13% 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
6Every 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.
| Fund | Reports | Behaves like | Top ten | As 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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