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VSS holdings

VSS reports 4,861 holdings and behaves like 1638.8 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

Read this figure with the following in mind

5.5% of net assets is securities-lending cash collateral, excluded from the figure; counted as filed the fund would read 271.8

The figure below is what the filing says, published unchanged. What it may not do is sit beside a plain long-only fund and be read as the same quantity. How comparability is decided.

4,861 Positions reported
1638.8 Effective holdings
3× Concentration multiple
2.57% 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: 17.3% at a quoted market price (level 1), 44 issuer countries, 3.46% restricted securities.

What stands out

as of 2026-07-31

VSS's largest investment is Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund at 0.3% of net assets. Aritzia Inc-sub and Accelleron Indus follow; the three together are 0.83%. Ten companies are 2.57% of the fund; the other 4,851 share the rest. Among the 721 equity funds measured here, VSS behaves like 1638.8 holdings against a median of 42.4 — 38.6 times the median. Across 27 quarterly filings VSS has held roughly steady since 2019-10-31 (1460.2 then, 1675.2 now). Between the 2026-01-31 and 2026-04-30 filings 258 positions were added and 284 dropped; 15.1% of the weight moved. Japan is the largest country at 14.15% of the portfolio, across 44 countries in the filing.

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, VSS went from behaving like 1460.2 equally weighted positions to 1675.2 — 15% more, while its top ten went from 3.09% to 2.5% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
2026-04-30 4,840 1675.2 2.5% 0.3%
2026-01-31 4,862 1580.4 2.93% 0.49%
2025-10-31 4,871 1741.5 2.43% 0.37%
2025-07-31 4,856 1159 4.81% 0.79%
2025-04-30 4,811 1301.2 4.33% 0.71%
2025-01-31 4,794 1322.5 4.14% 0.7%
2024-10-31 4,828 1316.5 4.17% 0.72%
2024-07-31 4,781 1334.7 3.88% 0.68%
Earlier filings (19 more, back to 2019-10-31)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
2024-04-30 4,758 1458.8 3.56% 0.61%
2024-01-31 4,707 1337.5 4.21% 0.73%
2023-10-31 4,635 1411.8 4.04% 0.7%
2023-07-31 4,310 1263.7 4.64% 0.64%
2023-04-30 4,280 1363.1 4.04% 0.57%
2023-01-31 4,234 1385.3 3.87% 0.58%
2022-10-31 4,275 1375.4 3.9% 0.62%
2022-07-31 4,212 1307.2 4.27% 0.68%
2022-04-30 4,290 1366.2 4.03% 0.57%
2022-01-31 4,147 1374.4 3.67% 0.51%
2021-10-31 4,162 1206.2 4.31% 1.1%
2021-07-31 4,104 1358.1 3.5% 0.51%
2021-04-30 4,141 1400.2 3.32% 0.41%
2021-01-31 3,946 1253.5 4.19% 0.87%
2020-10-31 4,045 1400.8 3.61% 0.53%
2020-07-31 3,913 1222 4.18% 0.65%
2020-04-30 3,968 1301.8 3.91% 0.55%
2020-01-31 3,957 1332.3 3.56% 0.59%
2019-10-31 3,974 1460.2 3.09% 0.44%

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.

As filed, collateral included

5.54% collateral

VSS's filing lists 4,862 positions including 5.54% of net assets in securities-lending cash collateral. Counted as filed the fund reads 271.8 effective holdings with a top ten of 7.89%; on its own investments — the figure above — it reads 1638.8 with a top ten of 2.57%. The collateral is matched by a liability and is not a holding the fund chose; since 2026-09-18 every figure on this site sets it aside (methodology). Both numbers are in the data.

Largest positions, as filed

as of 2026-04-30

The 15 largest of 4,861 positions in VSS's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: listed with the point-in-time files, available on request.

#PositionWeightCumulative
1Vanguard Cmt Funds-Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund0.30%0.3%
2Aritzia Inc0.27%0.6%
3Accelleron Industries AG0.27%0.8%
4Finning International Inc0.26%1.1%
5Gaztransport Et Technigaz SA0.24%1.3%
6Macronix International Co Ltd0.24%1.6%
7Hudbay Minerals Inc0.24%1.8%
8Games Workshop Group PLC0.23%2.0%
9WinWay Technology Co Ltd0.23%2.3%
10Taiwan Union Technology Corp0.22%2.5%
11Subsea 7 SA0.22%2.7%
12NKT A/S0.21%2.9%
13Storebrand ASA0.21%3.1%
14Compeq Manufacturing Co Ltd0.21%3.3%
15NexGen Energy Ltd0.21%3.6%

By country of issuer

as of 2026-04-30

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

CountryShare
Japan 14.03%
Canada 10.60%
Taiwan 8.39%
United Kingdom 7.45%
India 6.18%
South Korea 5.90%
Australia 4.73%
China 4.29%

Returns the fund reported

2019-08 – 2026-04

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

35.8%Last twelve months filed
86%Whole series, compounded
13.1%Best month
-20.5%Worst month

Cross-checked against a series computed separately from prices: median difference 0.21 percentage points over 81 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: VSS.json · all funds.

Who borrows VSS'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, $721m was out to 18 borrowers. The largest, J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES PLC, held 22.1% of it.

BorrowerOn loanShare of the loan
J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES PLC $159m 22.1%
GOLDMAN SACHS & CO. $146m 20.2%
MORGAN STANLEY & CO. INTERNATIONAL PLC $102m 14.2%
MORGAN STANLEY & CO LLC $63m 8.7%
CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS INC. $58m 8.1%

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

Since the previous filing

2026-01-31 → 2026-04-30

4,808 positions became 4,782: 258 added (4.5% of the fund at the later date), 284 dropped (7.3% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 15.1%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of VSS compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.

Largest increases2026-01-312026-04-30Largest decreases2026-01-312026-04-30
WinWay Technology Co Ltd0.09%0.23% Vanguard Cmt Funds-Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund0.49%0.30%
Taiwan Union Technology Corp0.11%0.22% Cofinimmo SA0.11%0.02%
Daewoo Engineering & Construction Co Ltd0.02%0.13% Hesai Group0.07%0.00%
LandMark Optoelectronics Corp0.06%0.17% Capstone Copper Corp0.20%0.15%
Macronix International Co Ltd0.14%0.24% TUI AG0.13%0.09%
AIXTRON SE0.07%0.17% Colliers International Group Inc0.17%0.12%

New: Arkema SA (0.11%), WPP PLC (0.11%), Almonty Industries Inc (0.10%), Adecco Group AG (0.10%), Teleperformance SE (0.10%), UNITE Group PLC/The (0.08%). Gone: Phison Electronics Corp (0.35%), Equinox Gold Corp (0.29%), IAMGOLD Corp (0.29%), Toromont Industries Ltd (0.29%), First Majestic Silver Corp (0.27%), MPI Corp (0.18%).

Asset categories and pricing

as of 2026-07-31
Asset category (as filed)Share of investments
equity EC94.10%
short-term investment STIV5.63%
preferred equity EP0.26%

17.3% of VSS is carried at a quoted market price (fair-value level 1); 0.1% at level 3, priced from the filer's own inputs. 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 2026-04-30

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 $13.88B. Notional of an interest-rate or currency swap is not equity exposure.

98.76%Stocks held directly
0%Swap notional (0)
0.96%Futures notional (4)
99.7%Sum, % of net assets

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 VSS (1638.8). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs of
DFIS Dimensional International Small Cap ETF 3,513 951.3 3.6% 2026-07-31
FNDC Schwab Fundamental International Small Equity ETF 1,582 971 3.66% 2026-05-31
SCZ iShares MSCI EAFE Small-Cap ETF 2,073 1093 2.7% 2026-07-31
GWX State Street(R) SPDR(R) S&P(R) International Small Cap ETF 2,045 1099.2 3% 2026-06-30
EWX State Street(R) SPDR(R) S&P(R) Emerging Markets Small Cap ETF 3,358 1201 4.67% 2026-06-30

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