Fund · Vanguard Real Estate Index Fund · measured from SEC filings
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 2026-07-31Computed 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: 100% at a quoted market price (level 1), one issuer country.
What stands out
as of 2026-07-31VNQ'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
27Between 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.
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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)
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
2Overlap with other funds
1Measured against every other fund on this site, from the same filings. Combined effective holdings is how the pair behaves held in equal size.
| With | Overlap | Shared | Combined effective |
|---|---|---|---|
| VNQ vs SCHH | 78.17% | 117 | 28.8 |
Largest positions, as filed
as of 2026-04-30The 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.
| # | Position | Weight | Cumulative |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vanguard Real Estate II Index Fund | 14.63% | 14.6% |
| 2 | Welltower Inc | 7.84% | 22.5% |
| 3 | Prologis Inc | 7.00% | 29.5% |
| 4 | Equinix Inc | 5.65% | 35.1% |
| 5 | American Tower Corp | 4.54% | 39.7% |
| 6 | Digital Realty Trust Inc | 3.67% | 43.3% |
| 7 | Simon Property Group Inc | 3.53% | 46.9% |
| 8 | Realty Income Corp | 3.11% | 50.0% |
| 9 | Public Storage | 2.54% | 52.5% |
| 10 | CBRE Group Inc | 2.26% | 54.8% |
| 11 | Ventas Inc | 2.19% | 57.0% |
| 12 | Crown Castle Inc | 2.05% | 59.0% |
| 13 | Iron Mountain Inc | 1.98% | 61.0% |
| 14 | Extra Space Storage Inc | 1.62% | 62.6% |
| 15 | VICI Properties Inc | 1.58% | 64.2% |
Returns the fund reported
2019-08 – 2026-04Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of VNQ'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 0.05 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
2026-07-31The 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.
| Borrower | On loan | Share 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 → 2026-04-30151 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 increases | 2026-01-31 | 2026-04-30 | Largest decreases | 2026-01-31 | 2026-04-30 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Equinix Inc | 4.56% | 5.65% | CoStar Group Inc | 1.47% | 0.78% |
| Welltower Inc | 7.08% | 7.84% | CBRE Group Inc | 2.88% | 2.26% |
| Digital Realty Trust Inc | 3.22% | 3.67% | American Tower Corp | 4.77% | 4.54% |
| Iron Mountain Inc | 1.55% | 1.98% | Zillow Group Inc | 0.60% | 0.40% |
| Ventas Inc | 2.01% | 2.19% | Compass Inc | 0.45% | 0.26% |
| SBA Communications Corp | 1.12% | 1.25% | Jones Lang LaSalle Inc | 0.96% | 0.80% |
Gone: PotlatchDeltic Corp (0.17%), Alexander & Baldwin Inc (0.09%), NET Lease Office Properties (0.02%).
Asset categories and pricing
as of 2026-07-3199.43% 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 2026-04-30A 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.
| Swap counterparty | Notional | % of net assets |
|---|---|---|
| Bank of America NA | $157M | 0.22% |
| Goldman Sachs International | $33M | 0.05% |
| CITIBANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION | $3M | 0% |
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
10Every 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.
| Fund | Reports | Behaves like | Top ten | As 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
4Essays that examine VNQ
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