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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 2026-05-31
68 Positions reported
23.9 Effective holdings
2.8× Concentration multiple
52.69% 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: 99.98% at a quoted market price (level 1), one issuer country.

What stands out

as of 2026-05-31

VPU'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

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Between 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.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
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)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
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

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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
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 2026-05-31

The 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.

#PositionWeightCumulative
1NextEra Energy Inc11.84%11.8%
2Southern Co/The6.70%18.5%
3Duke Energy Corp6.30%24.8%
4Constellation Energy Corp5.85%30.7%
5American Electric Power Co Inc4.47%35.2%
6Sempra3.84%39.0%
7Dominion Energy Inc3.78%42.8%
8Vistra Corp3.59%46.4%
9Entergy Corp3.22%49.6%
10Xcel Energy Inc3.11%52.7%
11Exelon Corp3.05%55.7%
12Public Service Enterprise Group Inc2.59%58.3%
13Consolidated Edison Inc2.52%60.8%
14WEC Energy Group Inc2.39%63.2%
15PG&E Corp2.37%65.6%

By country of issuer

as of 2026-05-31

Share of VPU's own investments by the issuer country the filer reported (incorporation, not revenue). Each country links to every fund that holds it.

CountryShare
United States 99.98%
Not stated in filing 0.02%

Returns the fund reported

2019-09 – 2026-05

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

11.9%Last twelve months filed
71%Whole series, compounded
10.2%Best month
-11.2%Worst month

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

2026-05-31

The 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.

BorrowerOn loanShare 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 → 2026-05-31

69 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 increases2026-02-282026-05-31Largest decreases2026-02-282026-05-31
Dominion Energy Inc3.34%3.78% Constellation Energy Corp6.39%5.85%
Southern Co/The6.38%6.70% NRG Energy Inc2.15%1.79%
Entergy Corp2.96%3.22% PG&E Corp2.59%2.37%
Exelon Corp2.83%3.05% Vanguard Cmt Funds-Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund0.24%0.05%
Clearway Energy Inc0.20%0.32% American Water Works Co Inc1.64%1.49%
Talen Energy Corp0.89%0.99% NextEra Energy Inc11.97%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 EC99.70%
short-term investment STIV0.29%
derivative DE0.02%

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 2026-05-31

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 $10.58B. Notional of an interest-rate or currency swap is not equity exposure.

99.56%Stocks held directly
0.38%Swap notional (4)
0%Futures notional (0)
99.9%Sum, % of net assets
Swap counterpartyNotional% of net assets
Bank of America NA$31M0.29%
Goldman Sachs International$9M0.08%

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

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Every 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.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs 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

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Essays that examine VPU

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