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VNQ holdings

VNQ reports 144 holdings and behaves like 21.6 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
144 Positions reported
21.6 Effective holdings
6.7× Concentration multiple
54.95% 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), one issuer country.

What stands out

as of 2026-07-31

VNQ's largest investment is Vang-rl Es2-ins+ at 14.63% of net assets. Welltower Inc and Prologis Inc follow; the three together are 29.47%. Ten companies are 54.95% of the fund; the other 134 share the rest. Among the 721 equity funds measured here, VNQ behaves like 21.6 holdings against a median of 42.4 — 2.0 times more concentrated than the median. Across 27 quarterly filings VNQ has become more concentrated: it behaved like 34.8 at 2019-10-31 and 21.6 at 2026-04-30. Between the 2026-01-31 and 2026-04-30 filings 0 positions were added and 3 dropped; 4.2% 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, VNQ went from behaving like 34.8 equally weighted positions to 21.6 — 38% fewer, while its top ten went from 41.53% to 54.77% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
2026-04-30 154 21.6 54.77% 14.63%
2026-01-31 152 22.7 53.1% 14.53%
2025-10-31 156 22.9 52.65% 14.52%
2025-07-31 163 23.6 51.41% 14.44%
2025-04-30 163 23.8 51.29% 14.31%
2025-01-31 163 24.9 50% 13.95%
2024-10-31 159 25.5 49.75% 13.68%
2024-07-31 160 25.5 49.27% 13.47%
Earlier filings (19 more, back to 2019-10-31)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
2024-04-30 161 26.8 47.9% 13.15%
2024-01-31 163 25.5 49.27% 13.23%
2023-10-31 166 26.2 48.33% 12.96%
2023-07-31 173 27.1 47.09% 12.63%
2023-04-30 174 26.1 48.74% 12.48%
2023-01-31 177 27.4 47.52% 12.18%
2022-10-31 174 28.4 46.32% 11.94%
2022-07-31 187 29.3 45.7% 11.71%
2022-04-30 166 30 45.45% 11.31%
2022-01-31 170 30.8 44.76% 11.27%
2021-10-31 176 30.3 45.19% 11.5%
2021-07-31 177 30.4 45.09% 11.57%
2021-04-30 182 30.1 45.07% 11.93%
2021-01-31 176 28.9 46.18% 12.07%
2020-10-31 184 26.4 49.1% 12.17%
2020-07-31 190 26 49.22% 12.02%
2020-04-30 193 27.1 48.62% 11.74%
2020-01-31 187 34.2 41.76% 11.02%
2019-10-31 189 34.8 41.53% 11.04%

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.

Compared with, in the essays

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Overlap with other funds

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Measured against every other fund on this site, from the same filings. Combined effective holdings is how the pair behaves held in equal size.

WithOverlapSharedCombined effective
VNQ vs SCHH 78.17% 117 28.8

Largest positions, as filed

as of 2026-04-30

The 15 largest of 144 positions in VNQ's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: VNQ.csv.gz.

#PositionWeightCumulative
1Vanguard Real Estate II Index Fund14.63%14.6%
2Welltower Inc7.84%22.5%
3Prologis Inc7.00%29.5%
4Equinix Inc5.65%35.1%
5American Tower Corp4.54%39.7%
6Digital Realty Trust Inc3.67%43.3%
7Simon Property Group Inc3.53%46.9%
8Realty Income Corp3.11%50.0%
9Public Storage2.54%52.5%
10CBRE Group Inc2.26%54.8%
11Ventas Inc2.19%57.0%
12Crown Castle Inc2.05%59.0%
13Iron Mountain Inc1.98%61.0%
14Extra Space Storage Inc1.62%62.6%
15VICI Properties Inc1.58%64.2%

Returns the fund reported

2019-08 – 2026-04

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

13.2%Last twelve months filed
40%Whole series, compounded
12.0%Best month
-19.3%Worst month

Cross-checked against a series computed separately from prices: median difference 0.05 percentage points over 81 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: VNQ.json · all funds.

Who borrows VNQ'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, $214m was out to 13 borrowers. The largest, BofA Securities, Inc., held 48% of it.

BorrowerOn loanShare of the loan
BofA Securities, Inc. $103m 48.0%
Wells Fargo Securities LLC $43m 20.1%
BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON $29m 13.7%
Jefferies LLC $11m 5.0%
MORGAN STANLEY & CO LLC $8m 3.8%

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

Since the previous filing

2026-01-31 → 2026-04-30

151 positions became 148: 0 added (0.0% of the fund at the later date), 3 dropped (0.3% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 4.2%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of VNQ compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.

Largest increases2026-01-312026-04-30Largest decreases2026-01-312026-04-30
Equinix Inc4.56%5.65% CoStar Group Inc1.47%0.78%
Welltower Inc7.08%7.84% CBRE Group Inc2.88%2.26%
Digital Realty Trust Inc3.22%3.67% American Tower Corp4.77%4.54%
Iron Mountain Inc1.55%1.98% Zillow Group Inc0.60%0.40%
Ventas Inc2.01%2.19% Compass Inc0.45%0.26%
SBA Communications Corp1.12%1.25% Jones Lang LaSalle Inc0.96%0.80%

Gone: PotlatchDeltic Corp (0.17%), Alexander & Baldwin Inc (0.09%), NET Lease Office Properties (0.02%).

Asset categories and pricing

as of 2026-07-31

99.43% equity, 0.57% 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 $69.95B. Notional of an interest-rate or currency swap is not equity exposure.

99.7%Stocks held directly
0.28%Swap notional (10)
0%Futures notional (0)
100%Sum, % of net assets
Swap counterpartyNotional% of net assets
Bank of America NA$157M0.22%
Goldman Sachs International$33M0.05%
CITIBANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION$3M0%

Financing leg as filed: the fund pays OBFR01 + 0% on $192M of long swap notional . Issuers fill the spread field differently (some file the all-in rate), so compare within an issuer, not across.

Full detail for every fund that files derivatives: leverage.json (CC BY 4.0).

Neighbours by effective holdings, equity funds

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Every measured equity fund lined up by how many holdings it behaves like; these sit either side of VNQ (21.6). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs of
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
FLBR Franklin FTSE Brazil ETF 68 21.4 56.04% 2026-06-30
ICF iShares Select U.S. REIT ETF 32 21.5 59.05% 2026-07-31
GDX VanEck Gold Miners ETF 61 21.6 58.67% 2026-06-30
FXI iShares China Large-Cap ETF 54 21.7 58.83% 2026-07-31
PHO Invesco Water Resources ETF 41 21.8 57.42% 2026-07-31
QCLN First Trust NASDAQ Clean Edge Green Energy Index Fund 53 21.8 58.64% 2026-06-30
EWD iShares MSCI Sweden ETF 51 21.8 58.28% 2026-05-31
TPYP Tortoise North American Pipeline ETF 45 21.9 59.15% 2026-05-31

Measures applied in the essays

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Essays that examine VNQ

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