Fund · Vanguard Utilities Index Fund · measured from SEC filings
VPU holdings
VPU reports 68 holdings and behaves like 23.9 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: 99.98% at a quoted market price (level 1), one issuer country.
What stands out
as of 2026-05-31VPU's largest investment is Nextera Energy at 11.79% of net assets. Southern Co and Duke Energy Corp follow; the three together are 24.74%. Ten companies are 52.69% of the fund; the other 58 share the rest. Among the 721 equity funds measured here, VPU behaves like 23.9 holdings against a median of 42.4 — 1.8 times more concentrated than the median. Across 27 quarterly filings VPU has held roughly steady since 2019-11-30 (24 then, 23.9 now). Between the 2026-02-28 and 2026-05-31 filings 0 positions were added and 1 dropped; 2.3% 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, VPU went from behaving like 24 equally weighted positions to 23.9 — 0% fewer, while its top ten went from 53.12% to 52.69% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-31 | 68 | 23.9 | 52.69% | 11.84% |
| 2026-02-28 | 70 | 23.8 | 52.38% | 11.97% |
| 2025-11-30 | 71 | 23.7 | 53.36% | 11.53% |
| 2025-08-31 | 71 | 24.8 | 52.48% | 10.36% |
| 2025-05-31 | 70 | 24.3 | 52.4% | 10.6% |
| 2025-02-28 | 72 | 24.2 | 51.95% | 10.92% |
| 2024-11-30 | 71 | 23.7 | 53.14% | 11.71% |
| 2024-08-31 | 68 | 22.1 | 53.66% | 13.13% |
Earlier filings (19 more, back to 2019-11-30)
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-05-31 | 68 | 21.5 | 54.34% | 13.7% |
| 2024-02-29 | 66 | 24.2 | 52.62% | 11.08% |
| 2023-11-30 | 67 | 23.8 | 52.3% | 11.6% |
| 2023-08-31 | 68 | 22.6 | 52.41% | 13.15% |
| 2023-05-31 | 65 | 21.9 | 53.07% | 13.87% |
| 2023-02-28 | 65 | 22.8 | 52.68% | 13.21% |
| 2022-11-30 | 69 | 21.8 | 52.77% | 14.36% |
| 2022-08-31 | 67 | 21.5 | 54.34% | 13.95% |
| 2022-05-31 | 68 | 22.9 | 53.83% | 12.42% |
| 2022-02-28 | 68 | 21.8 | 53.97% | 13.94% |
| 2021-11-30 | 66 | 19.5 | 55.49% | 15.96% |
| 2021-08-31 | 66 | 20.4 | 55.45% | 14.91% |
| 2021-05-31 | 68 | 21.7 | 54.56% | 13.58% |
| 2021-02-28 | 68 | 20.2 | 54.87% | 15.3% |
| 2020-11-30 | 68 | 20.1 | 56.28% | 14.65% |
| 2020-08-31 | 67 | 20.2 | 56.23% | 14.77% |
| 2020-05-31 | 70 | 21.2 | 55.84% | 13.41% |
| 2020-02-29 | 69 | 22.5 | 54.45% | 12.53% |
| 2019-11-30 | 71 | 24 | 53.12% | 11.32% |
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
4Overlap with other funds
4Measured 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VPU vs XLU | 89.74% | 31 | 21.9 |
| VPU vs IFRA | 40% | 54 | 42.9 |
| VPU vs PAVE | 3.13% | 2 | 62.6 |
| VPU vs GRID | 0.04% | 1 | 46.7 |
Largest positions, as filed
as of 2026-05-31The 15 largest of 68 positions in VPU's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: VPU.csv.gz.
| # | Position | Weight | Cumulative |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NextEra Energy Inc | 11.84% | 11.8% |
| 2 | Southern Co/The | 6.70% | 18.5% |
| 3 | Duke Energy Corp | 6.30% | 24.8% |
| 4 | Constellation Energy Corp | 5.85% | 30.7% |
| 5 | American Electric Power Co Inc | 4.47% | 35.2% |
| 6 | Sempra | 3.84% | 39.0% |
| 7 | Dominion Energy Inc | 3.78% | 42.8% |
| 8 | Vistra Corp | 3.59% | 46.4% |
| 9 | Entergy Corp | 3.22% | 49.6% |
| 10 | Xcel Energy Inc | 3.11% | 52.7% |
| 11 | Exelon Corp | 3.05% | 55.7% |
| 12 | Public Service Enterprise Group Inc | 2.59% | 58.3% |
| 13 | Consolidated Edison Inc | 2.52% | 60.8% |
| 14 | WEC Energy Group Inc | 2.39% | 63.2% |
| 15 | PG&E Corp | 2.37% | 65.6% |
By country of issuer
as of 2026-05-31Share of VPU'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 | 99.98% |
| Not stated in filing | 0.02% |
Returns the fund reported
2019-09 – 2026-05Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of VPU'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: VPU.json · all funds.
Who borrows VPU'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, $31m was out to 6 borrowers, 0.29% of net assets. The largest, Wells Fargo Securities LLC, held 45.6% of it.
| Borrower | On loan | Share of the loan |
|---|---|---|
| Wells Fargo Securities LLC | $14m | 45.6% |
| The Bank of Nova Scotia | $9m | 29.7% |
| National Financial Services LLC | $3m | 11.2% |
| Scotia Capital (USA) Inc | $2m | 6.9% |
| UBS SECURITIES LLC | $2m | 6.0% |
Cash collateral reported against the loan: 0.24% of net assets, 82.6% 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 VPU has filed, with each borrower: VPU.json · all funds.
Since the previous filing
2026-02-28 → 2026-05-3169 positions became 68: 0 added (0.0% of the fund at the later date), 1 dropped (0.1% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 2.3%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of VPU 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dominion Energy Inc | 3.34% | 3.78% | Constellation Energy Corp | 6.39% | 5.85% |
| Southern Co/The | 6.38% | 6.70% | NRG Energy Inc | 2.15% | 1.79% |
| Entergy Corp | 2.96% | 3.22% | PG&E Corp | 2.59% | 2.37% |
| Exelon Corp | 2.83% | 3.05% | Vanguard Cmt Funds-Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund | 0.24% | 0.05% |
| Clearway Energy Inc | 0.20% | 0.32% | American Water Works Co Inc | 1.64% | 1.49% |
| Talen Energy Corp | 0.89% | 0.99% | NextEra Energy Inc | 11.97% | 11.84% |
Gone: Clearway Energy Inc (0.08%).
Asset categories and pricing
as of 2026-05-31| Asset category (as filed) | Share of investments |
|---|---|
| equity EC | 99.70% |
| short-term investment STIV | 0.29% |
| derivative DE | 0.02% |
100.0% of VPU 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 $10.58B. Notional of an interest-rate or currency swap is not equity exposure.
| Swap counterparty | Notional | % of net assets |
|---|---|---|
| Bank of America NA | $31M | 0.29% |
| Goldman Sachs International | $9M | 0.08% |
Financing leg as filed: the fund pays OBFR01 + 0% on $40M 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 VPU (23.9). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.
| Fund | Reports | Behaves like | Top ten | As of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AAXJ iShares MSCI All Country Asia ex Japan ETF | 953 | 23.5 | 42.1% | 2026-07-31 |
| FHLC Fidelity MSCI Health Care Index ETF | 336 | 23.5 | 52.01% | 2026-07-31 |
| IWF iShares Russell 1000 Growth ETF | 370 | 23.7 | 54.31% | 2026-06-30 |
| ARKF ARK Blockchain & Fintech Innovation ETF | 41 | 23.7 | 54.61% | 2026-07-31 |
| EWQ iShares MSCI France ETF | 58 | 23.9 | 57.1% | 2026-05-31 |
| FUTY Fidelity MSCI Utilities Index ETF | 63 | 24 | 52.33% | 2026-07-31 |
| ARKQ ARK Autonomous Technology & Robotics ETF | 41 | 24 | 53.95% | 2026-07-31 |
| ARKX ARK Space & Defense Innovation ETF | 36 | 24.1 | 54.25% | 2026-07-31 |
| VOLT Tema Electrification ETF | 33 | 24.2 | 50.86% | 2026-05-31 |
| USSG Xtrackers MSCI USA Selection Equity ETF | 269 | 24.2 | 48.26% | 2026-05-29 |
Measures applied in the essays
6Essays that examine VPU
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