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VT holdings

VT reports 10,083 holdings and behaves like 143.6 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 2026-07-31
10,083 Positions reported
143.6 Effective holdings
70.2× Concentration multiple
21.52% 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: 66.32% at a quoted market price (level 1), 46 issuer countries, 0.76% restricted securities.

What stands out

as of 2026-07-31

VT's largest investment is Nvidia Corp at 4.19% of net assets. Apple Inc and Microsoft Corp follow; the three together are 10.4%. Ten companies are 21.52% of the fund; the other 10,073 share the rest. Among the 721 equity funds measured here, VT behaves like 143.6 holdings against a median of 42.4 — 3.4 times the median. Across 27 quarterly filings VT has become more concentrated: it behaved like 419.2 at 2019-10-31 and 148.7 at 2026-04-30. Between the 2026-01-31 and 2026-04-30 filings 233 positions were added and 178 dropped; 7.1% of the weight moved. the United States is the largest country at 62.59% of the portfolio, across 46 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, VT went from behaving like 419.2 equally weighted positions to 148.7 — 65% fewer, while its top ten went from 10.19% to 21.73% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
2026-04-30 10,057 148.7 21.73% 4.19%
2026-01-31 10,012 151.2 21.36% 4.16%
2025-10-31 9,963 131.1 22.66% 4.59%
2025-07-31 9,995 140 21.26% 4.36%
2025-04-30 9,817 180.1 18.25% 3.62%
2025-01-31 9,819 160.4 20.19% 3.76%
2024-10-31 9,860 163.6 19.09% 3.81%
2024-07-31 9,927 166.7 18.76% 3.82%
Earlier filings (19 more, back to 2019-10-31)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
2024-04-30 9,866 194.1 17.37% 3.7%
2024-01-31 9,844 194.7 16.64% 3.91%
2023-10-31 9,704 198.6 16.33% 3.84%
2023-07-31 9,584 211.4 15.84% 3.98%
2023-04-30 9,567 235.4 14.11% 3.74%
2023-01-31 9,535 295.7 12.33% 3.18%
2022-10-31 9,568 251 13.83% 3.8%
2022-07-31 9,458 238.2 14.5% 3.71%
2022-04-30 9,551 253.3 13.89% 3.54%
2022-01-31 9,370 244.5 14.47% 3.58%
2021-10-31 9,310 262.5 14.34% 3.18%
2021-07-31 9,124 281.3 13.49% 3.03%
2021-04-30 9,076 301.8 12.99% 2.84%
2021-01-31 8,871 283 13.3% 3.18%
2020-10-31 8,841 271.5 13.77% 3.09%
2020-07-31 8,716 266 13.7% 3.1%
2020-04-30 8,466 300.5 12.69% 2.75%
2020-01-31 8,471 366.6 11.16% 2.42%
2019-10-31 8,199 419.2 10.19% 2.07%

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
VT vs VTI 60.65% 1,433 98.3
VT vs ITOT 58.62% 1,370 97.6
VT vs VOO 55.1% 498 83.7
VT vs IVV 53.19% 469 83.7
VT vs VXUS 36.77% 3,356 305.5
VT vs VUG 32.31% 145 44.1
VT vs QQQM 29.95% 96 63.9
VT vs QQQ 29.9% 96 68.1
VT vs VEA 27.18% 2,083 311.9
VT vs VIG 25.65% 295 115.5
9 more pairs, down to 0% overlap
WithOverlapSharedCombined effective
VT vs VTV 24.53% 305 186.9
VT vs VGT 20.29% 209 37.8
VT vs XLK 18.81% 69 40.6
VT vs VWO 9.77% 1,276 110
VT vs SMH 9.2% 20 40.7
VT vs SCHD 4.49% 76 97.8
VT vs BND 0.55% 1 502.2
VT vs AGG 0% 0 470.4
VT vs SGOV 0% 0 61.5

Largest positions, as filed

as of 2026-04-30

The 15 largest of 10,083 positions in VT'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
1NVIDIA Corp4.28%4.3%
2Apple Inc3.58%7.9%
3Microsoft Corp2.77%10.6%
4Amazon.com Inc2.33%12.9%
5Alphabet Inc2.07%15.0%
6Broadcom Inc1.76%16.8%
7Alphabet Inc1.63%18.4%
8Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd1.55%20.0%
9Meta Platforms Inc1.22%21.2%
10Tesla Inc0.99%22.2%
11JPMorgan Chase & Co0.73%22.9%
12Berkshire Hathaway Inc0.70%23.6%
13Eli Lilly & Co0.69%24.3%
14Samsung Electronics Co Ltd0.65%24.9%
15Exxon Mobil Corp0.60%25.5%

By country of issuer

as of 2026-04-30

Share of VT'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 61.97%
Japan 5.73%
United Kingdom 3.28%
Canada 3.10%
Taiwan 3.02%
Hong Kong SAR China 2.60%
South Korea 2.26%
France 1.99%

Returns the fund reported

2019-08 – 2026-04

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

31.9%Last twelve months filed
131%Whole series, compounded
12.5%Best month
-14.7%Worst month

Cross-checked against a series computed separately from prices: median difference 0.07 percentage points over 81 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: VT.json · all funds.

Who borrows VT'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, $494m was out to 26 borrowers. The largest, J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES PLC, held 20.4% of it.

BorrowerOn loanShare of the loan
J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES PLC $101m 20.4%
MORGAN STANLEY & CO. INTERNATIONAL PLC $73m 14.8%
GOLDMAN SACHS & CO. $57m 11.5%
MORGAN STANLEY & CO LLC $43m 8.6%
BARCLAYS CAPITAL INC. $32m 6.4%

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

Since the previous filing

2026-01-31 → 2026-04-30

9,946 positions became 10,001: 233 added (0.6% of the fund at the later date), 178 dropped (0.6% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 7.1%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of VT compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.

Largest increases2026-01-312026-04-30Largest decreases2026-01-312026-04-30
Broadcom Inc1.42%1.73% Meta Platforms Inc1.45%1.20%
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd1.25%1.52% Microsoft Corp2.97%2.71%
Alphabet Inc1.83%2.03% Tesla Inc1.13%0.97%
Intel Corp0.19%0.38% Vanguard Cmt Funds-Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund0.69%0.55%
Advanced Micro Devices Inc0.35%0.51% Tencent Holdings Ltd0.44%0.34%
Samsung Electronics Co Ltd0.48%0.64% Eli Lilly & Co0.77%0.67%

New: Roche Holding AG (0.23%), Coreweave Inc (0.03%), Sunbelt Rentals Holdings Inc (0.03%), Nebius Group NV (0.03%), EchoStar Corp (0.01%), Iris Energy Ltd (0.01%). Gone: Roche Holding AG (0.26%), Ashtead Group PLC (0.03%), CyberArk Software Ltd (0.02%), Toyota Industries Corp (0.02%), Exact Sciences Corp (0.02%), Hologic Inc (0.02%).

Asset categories and pricing

as of 2026-07-31
Asset category (as filed)Share of investments
equity EC98.75%
short-term investment STIV0.98%
preferred equity EP0.26%

66.3% of VT is carried at a quoted market price (fair-value level 1); 0.0% 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 $89.90B. Notional of an interest-rate or currency swap is not equity exposure.

99.06%Stocks held directly
0.08%Swap notional (9)
0.56%Futures notional (5)
99.7%Sum, % of net assets
Swap counterpartyNotional% of net assets
Bank of America NA$71M0.08%
CITIBANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION$8M0.01%
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION$2M0%

Financing leg as filed: the fund pays OBFR01 + 0% on $80M 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 VT (143.6). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs of
SDVY First Trust SMID Cap Rising Dividend Achievers ETF 174 139.6 11.12% 2026-06-30
FFSM Fidelity Fundamental Small-Mid Cap ETF 216 139.8 14.07% 2026-07-31
SDVD FT Vest SMID Rising Dividend Achievers Target Income ETF 174 140.5 10.64% 2026-07-31
FLQM Franklin U.S. Mid Cap Multifactor Index ETF 205 140.7 11.28% 2026-06-30
ONEY State Street(R) SPDR(R) Russell 1000 Yield Focus ETF 301 142 16.91% 2026-06-30
SPGM State Street(R) SPDR(R) Portfolio MSCI Global Stock Market ETF 2,945 143.9 20.69% 2026-06-30
MDYG State Street(R) SPDR(R) S & P 400(TM) Mid Cap Growth ETF 245 144.6 14.43% 2026-06-30
AVMV Avantis U.S. Mid Cap Value ETF 305 148.8 13.49% 2026-05-31
FNDF Schwab Fundamental International Equity ETF 891 149.8 17.1% 2026-05-31
IPAC iShares Core MSCI Pacific ETF 1,380 149.9 18.4% 2026-07-31

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Essays that examine VT

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