Fund · Vanguard Communication Services Index Fund · measured from SEC filings
VOX holdings
VOX reports 116 holdings and behaves like 10.8 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: 99.97% at a quoted market price (level 1), one issuer country.
What stands out
as of 2026-05-31VOX's largest investment is Meta Platforms-a at 21.05% of net assets. Alphabet Inc-a and Alphabet Inc-c follow; the three together are 47.71%. Ten companies are 71.85% of the fund; the other 106 share the rest. Among the 721 equity funds measured here, VOX behaves like 10.8 holdings against a median of 42.4 — 4.0 times more concentrated than the median. Across 27 quarterly filings VOX has become more concentrated: it behaved like 15.7 at 2019-11-30 and 10.8 at 2026-05-31. Between the 2026-02-28 and 2026-05-31 filings 2 positions were added and 4 dropped; 6.9% 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 2019-11-30 and 2026-05-31, VOX went from behaving like 15.7 equally weighted positions to 10.8 — 31% fewer, while its top ten went from 67.52% to 71.85% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-31 | 116 | 10.8 | 71.85% | 21.06% |
| 2026-02-28 | 118 | 10.4 | 72.71% | 23.23% |
| 2025-11-30 | 124 | 10.5 | 71.26% | 23.1% |
| 2025-08-31 | 125 | 11.8 | 70.2% | 21.09% |
| 2025-05-31 | 117 | 11.7 | 71.55% | 21.5% |
| 2025-02-28 | 118 | 10.3 | 72.03% | 25% |
| 2024-11-30 | 120 | 11.8 | 70.09% | 22.17% |
| 2024-08-31 | 119 | 10.9 | 70.01% | 24.26% |
Earlier filings (19 more, back to 2019-11-30)
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-05-31 | 120 | 11.6 | 71% | 20.48% |
| 2024-02-29 | 117 | 9.1 | 73.85% | 27.89% |
| 2023-11-30 | 118 | 11.8 | 71.06% | 21.28% |
| 2023-08-31 | 120 | 13.1 | 68.88% | 19.2% |
| 2023-05-31 | 117 | 12.1 | 71.75% | 18.51% |
| 2023-02-28 | 116 | 17.5 | 65% | 13.47% |
| 2022-11-30 | 115 | 18.7 | 64.65% | 12.12% |
| 2022-08-31 | 113 | 17.6 | 64% | 12.68% |
| 2022-05-31 | 108 | 16.8 | 64.69% | 13.71% |
| 2022-02-28 | 114 | 16.8 | 65.18% | 12.4% |
| 2021-11-30 | 115 | 13.9 | 68.46% | 17.4% |
| 2021-08-31 | 118 | 13.1 | 69.59% | 17.69% |
| 2021-05-31 | 125 | 14.8 | 67.15% | 16.63% |
| 2021-02-28 | 113 | 15.4 | 66.82% | 14.22% |
| 2020-11-30 | 114 | 15 | 66.83% | 16.15% |
| 2020-08-31 | 114 | 13.5 | 68.95% | 18.58% |
| 2020-05-31 | 115 | 14 | 70.86% | 16.85% |
| 2020-02-29 | 114 | 15.2 | 68.22% | 14.62% |
| 2019-11-30 | 119 | 15.7 | 67.52% | 14.87% |
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
1Overlap 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VOX vs XLC | 79.99% | 23 | 11.1 |
Largest positions, as filed
as of 2026-05-31The 15 largest of 116 positions in VOX's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: VOX.csv.gz.
| # | Position | Weight | Cumulative |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Meta Platforms Inc | 21.06% | 21.1% |
| 2 | Alphabet Inc | 16.09% | 37.1% |
| 3 | Alphabet Inc | 10.58% | 47.7% |
| 4 | Netflix Inc | 4.76% | 52.5% |
| 5 | Verizon Communications Inc | 4.16% | 56.6% |
| 6 | Walt Disney Co/The | 3.95% | 60.6% |
| 7 | AT&T Inc | 3.68% | 64.3% |
| 8 | Warner Bros Discovery Inc | 2.73% | 67.0% |
| 9 | T-Mobile US Inc | 2.49% | 69.5% |
| 10 | Comcast Corp | 2.35% | 71.8% |
| 11 | Take-Two Interactive Software Inc | 2.08% | 73.9% |
| 12 | Electronic Arts Inc | 2.00% | 75.9% |
| 13 | Live Nation Entertainment Inc | 1.64% | 77.6% |
| 14 | AST SpaceMobile Inc | 1.42% | 79.0% |
| 15 | Omnicom Group Inc | 1.37% | 80.4% |
By country of issuer
as of 2026-05-31Share of VOX's own investments by the issuer country the filer reported (incorporation, not revenue). Each country links to every fund that holds it.
| Country | Share |
|---|---|
| United States | 99.97% |
| Not stated in filing | 0.03% |
Returns the fund reported
2019-09 – 2026-05Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of VOX'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: VOX.json · all funds.
Who borrows VOX's shares
2026-05-31The fund lends its holdings, and Item B.4.a of the filing names every firm holding them. At 2026-05-31, $26m was out to 10 borrowers, 0.39% of net assets. The largest, Wells Fargo Securities LLC, held 25.6% of it.
| Borrower | On loan | Share of the loan |
|---|---|---|
| Wells Fargo Securities LLC | $7m | 25.6% |
| TD SECURITIES (USA), LLC | $6m | 23.7% |
| BofA Securities, Inc. | $5m | 20.4% |
| JP MORGAN SECURITIES LLC | $4m | 16.0% |
| BNP PARIBAS SECURITIES CORP | $2m | 7.5% |
Cash collateral reported against the loan: 0.28% of net assets, 71.7% of the amount lent. That is a floor on the collateral, not the whole of it — collateral the fund does not hold as a position is not in this filing, so a figure under 100% is not evidence of under-collateralisation. How that figure behaves across all funds. Every quarter VOX has filed, with each borrower: VOX.json · all funds.
Since the previous filing
2026-02-28 → 2026-05-31118 positions became 116: 2 added (0.0% of the fund at the later date), 4 dropped (0.3% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 6.9%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of VOX 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alphabet Inc | 14.26% | 16.09% | Meta Platforms Inc | 23.23% | 21.06% |
| Netflix Inc | 3.67% | 4.76% | AT&T Inc | 4.33% | 3.68% |
| Alphabet Inc | 9.72% | 10.58% | Comcast Corp | 2.99% | 2.35% |
| Take-Two Interactive Software Inc | 1.56% | 2.08% | Charter Communications Inc | 1.31% | 0.73% |
| AST SpaceMobile Inc | 1.00% | 1.42% | Verizon Communications Inc | 4.65% | 4.16% |
| Versant Media Group Inc | 0.13% | 0.37% | Omnicom Group Inc | 1.71% | 1.37% |
New: fuboTV Inc (0.02%), Advantage Solutions Inc (0.01%). Gone: TEGNA Inc (0.21%), fuboTV Inc (0.03%), Eventbrite Inc (0.02%), Advantage Solutions Inc (0.00%).
Asset categories and pricing
as of 2026-05-31| Asset category (as filed) | Share of investments |
|---|---|
| equity EC | 99.41% |
| short-term investment STIV | 0.56% |
| derivative DE | 0.03% |
100.0% of VOX is carried at a quoted market price (fair-value level 1). Categories and levels are the filer's, from Form N-PORT; what a low level-1 share does and does not mean is in the measure's page.
Derivative exposure and counterparties
as of 2026-05-31A 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 $6.59B. Notional of an interest-rate or currency swap is not equity exposure.
| Swap counterparty | Notional | % of net assets |
|---|---|---|
| Bank of America NA | $13M | 0.2% |
| Goldman Sachs International | $5M | 0.08% |
Financing leg as filed: the fund pays OBFR01 + 0% on $19M 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 VOX (10.8). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.
| Fund | Reports | Behaves like | Top ten | As of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IAI iShares U.S. Broker-Dealers & Securities Exchanges ETF | 37 | 10.3 | 76.16% | 2026-06-30 |
| EFNL iShares MSCI Finland ETF | 38 | 10.3 | 73.89% | 2026-05-31 |
| BIZD VanEck BDC Income ETF | 34 | 10.4 | 77.58% | 2026-06-30 |
| IYE iShares U.S. Energy ETF | 42 | 10.5 | 70.37% | 2026-07-31 |
| SLVR Sprott Silver Miners & Physical Silver ETF | 78 | 10.5 | 74% | 2026-06-30 |
| IYZ iShares U.S. Telecommunications ETF | 25 | 10.9 | 69.49% | 2026-06-30 |
| EWO iShares MSCI Austria ETF | 23 | 10.9 | 77.52% | 2026-05-31 |
| IHF iShares U.S. Healthcare Providers ETF | 63 | 11.1 | 72.12% | 2026-06-30 |
| XLC State Street(R) Communication Services Select Sector SPDR(R) ETF | 26 | 11.2 | 76.18% | 2026-06-30 |
| AMZA InfraCap MLP ETF | 30 | 11.3 | 83.27% | 2026-07-31 |
Essays that examine VOX
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