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VTI
34 articles on this site analyse VTI — 6 of them head-on.
Measured concentration
as of 2026-06-30VTI reports 3,540 positions, but the weights make it behave like about 66.9 equally weighted ones. Computed by this site from the fund's SEC Form N-PORT filing — see what this measure does not tell you and the full table.
The same filing says what kind of price those positions carry: 100% of VTI is held at a quoted market price, from a single issuer country . Comparisons across every fund are in the valuation table, and what a low share does and does not mean is worth reading before drawing a conclusion from it.
Every filing since 2019
28Between 2019-09-30 and 2026-06-30, VTI went from behaving like 160.5 equally weighted positions to 66.9 — 58% fewer, while its top ten went from 17.83% to 32.03% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 3,540 | 66.9 | 32.03% | 6.36% |
| 2026-03-31 | 3,517 | 66.5 | 32.1% | 6.42% |
| 2025-12-31 | 3,514 | 59.1 | 34.6% | 6.57% |
| 2025-09-30 | 3,553 | 59 | 34.09% | 6.72% |
| 2025-06-30 | 3,577 | 64.3 | 31.99% | 6.23% |
| 2025-03-31 | 3,607 | 73.8 | 29.28% | 6.19% |
| 2024-12-31 | 3,613 | 63.7 | 32.41% | 6.67% |
| 2024-09-30 | 3,665 | 70.3 | 29.96% | 6.09% |
| 2024-06-30 | 3,684 | 65.1 | 31.45% | 6.38% |
| 2024-03-31 | 3,728 | 80.3 | 27.9% | 6.14% |
| 2023-12-31 | 3,775 | 82.1 | 26.51% | 6.12% |
| 2023-09-30 | 3,827 | 85.8 | 26.17% | 6.08% |
| 2023-06-30 | 3,877 | 81.6 | 25.99% | 6.68% |
| 2023-03-31 | 3,919 | 95.6 | 23.15% | 6.15% |
| 2022-12-31 | 4,003 | 117.5 | 20.55% | 5.18% |
| 2022-09-30 | 4,067 | 100.3 | 23.32% | 5.91% |
| 2022-06-30 | 4,104 | 103 | 22.69% | 5.58% |
| 2022-03-31 | 4,131 | 95.2 | 24.48% | 5.95% |
| 2021-12-31 | 4,152 | 97.2 | 24.22% | 5.73% |
| 2021-09-30 | 4,029 | 110.2 | 22.84% | 4.99% |
| 2021-06-30 | 3,916 | 113.9 | 22.21% | 4.87% |
| 2021-03-31 | 3,780 | 122.7 | 21.29% | 4.51% |
| 2020-12-31 | 3,652 | 108.7 | 22.22% | 5.29% |
| 2020-09-30 | 3,578 | 99.9 | 22.93% | 5.33% |
| 2020-06-30 | 3,537 | 106.2 | 22.32% | 5.04% |
| 2020-03-31 | 3,555 | 117.1 | 21.38% | 4.79% |
| 2019-12-31 | 3,594 | 148.4 | 18.77% | 3.77% |
| 2019-09-30 | 3,639 | 160.5 | 17.83% | 3.6% |
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.
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