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VWOB holdings

VWOB reports 935 holdings and behaves like 532.4 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
935 Positions reported
532.4 Effective holdings
1.8× Concentration multiple
6.58% 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: 1.03% at a quoted market price (level 1), 75 issuer countries, 10.92% restricted securities.

What stands out

as of 2026-07-31

VWOB's largest investment is Argentina at 1.14% of net assets. Argentina and Argentina follow; the three together are 2.56%. Ten companies are 6.58% of the fund; the other 925 share the rest. Among the 192 bond funds measured here, VWOB behaves like 532.4 holdings against a median of 236.4 — 2.3 times the median. Across 27 quarterly filings VWOB has become less concentrated: it behaved like 434.1 at 2019-10-31 and 550.7 at 2026-04-30. Between the 2026-01-31 and 2026-04-30 filings 39 positions were added and 23 dropped; 7.4% of the weight moved. Mexico is the largest country at 9.85% of the portfolio, across 75 countries in the filing.

Each sentence is read from the fund's own SEC filing; the class median is computed across the comparable bond 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, VWOB went from behaving like 434.1 equally weighted positions to 550.7 — 27% more, while its top ten went from 6.14% to 6.1% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
2026-04-30 917 550.7 6.1% 1.16%
2026-01-31 901 518.8 6.89% 1.22%
2025-10-31 840 502.5 6.84% 1.13%
2025-07-31 793 483.5 6.92% 1.11%
2025-04-30 777 481.6 6.68% 1.18%
2025-01-31 742 449.7 7.43% 1.36%
2024-10-31 734 482.1 6.34% 1.01%
2024-07-31 731 490.2 5.92% 0.79%
Earlier filings (19 more, back to 2019-10-31)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
2024-04-30 739 480.1 6.19% 0.89%
2024-01-31 727 483.9 5.75% 0.68%
2023-10-31 700 475.6 5.41% 0.61%
2023-07-31 700 473 5.7% 0.67%
2023-04-30 767 477.3 5.62% 0.66%
2023-01-31 755 452.2 6.2% 0.83%
2022-10-31 745 448.9 5.81% 0.63%
2022-07-31 740 445.1 5.92% 0.7%
2022-04-30 744 451.7 6% 0.67%
2022-01-31 766 472.6 6.02% 0.72%
2021-10-31 750 471.8 5.88% 0.75%
2021-07-31 739 461 5.95% 0.74%
2021-04-30 719 444.3 6.34% 0.99%
2021-01-31 764 449.3 6.29% 0.72%
2020-10-31 722 439.5 6.22% 0.76%
2020-07-31 710 440.9 6.38% 0.8%
2020-04-30 705 427.9 6.11% 0.8%
2020-01-31 695 430.8 6.52% 0.97%
2019-10-31 686 434.1 6.14% 0.83%

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.

Largest positions, as filed

as of 2026-04-30

The 15 largest of 935 positions in VWOB's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: VWOB.csv.gz.

#PositionWeightCumulative
1Argentine Republic Government International Bond1.16%1.2%
2Argentine Republic Government International Bond0.77%1.9%
3Argentine Republic Government International Bond0.67%2.6%
4Petroleos Mexicanos0.56%3.2%
5Argentine Republic Government International Bond0.55%3.7%
6Petroleos Mexicanos0.52%4.2%
7Vanguard Cmt Funds-Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund0.52%4.8%
8Eagle Funding Luxco Sarl0.50%5.3%
9Eagle Funding Luxco Sarl0.43%5.7%
10Ecuador Government International Bond0.41%6.1%
11Qatar Government International Bond0.41%6.5%
12Saudi Government International Bond0.41%6.9%
13Qatar Government International Bond0.39%7.3%
14Saudi Government International Bond0.38%7.7%
15Saudi Government International Bond0.37%8.1%

By country of issuer

as of 2026-04-30

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

CountryShare
Mexico 9.96%
Saudi Arabia 8.32%
Cayman Islands° 5.96%
Türkiye 5.95%
Indonesia 5.90%
United Arab Emirates 4.61%
Argentina 3.84%
Brazil 3.73%

Returns the fund reported

2019-08 – 2026-04

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

11.3%Last twelve months filed
17%Whole series, compounded
7.5%Best month
-13.2%Worst month

Cross-checked against a series computed separately from prices: median difference 0.24 percentage points over 81 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: VWOB.json · all funds.

Since the previous filing

2026-01-31 → 2026-04-30

900 positions became 916: 39 added (2.7% of the fund at the later date), 23 dropped (2.2% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 7.4%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of VWOB compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.

Largest increases2026-01-312026-04-30Largest decreases2026-01-312026-04-30
Mexico Government International Bond0.09%0.30% Vanguard Cmt Funds-Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund1.10%0.52%
Mexico Government International Bond0.07%0.23% KSA Ijarah Sukuk Ltd0.12%0.01%
Saudi Government International Bond0.10%0.23% Dominican Republic International Bond0.12%0.01%
Ukraine Government International Bond0.09%0.20% Global Sukuk Ventures0.25%0.15%
Philippine Government International Bond0.02%0.12% Eagle Funding Luxco Sarl0.58%0.50%
Colombia Government International Bond0.07%0.16% Kuwait International Government Bond0.38%0.31%

New: Brazilian Government International Bond (0.27%), United States Treasury Note/Bond (0.22%), Saudi Government International Bond (0.18%), Suci Second Investment Co (0.16%), Abu Dhabi Government International Bond (0.13%), Romanian Government International Bond (0.12%). Gone: KSA Sukuk Ltd (0.33%), Kuwait International Government Bond (0.29%), Turkiye Government International Bond (0.24%), Hazine Mustesarligi Varlik Kiralama AS (0.21%), Mexico Government International Bond (0.13%), Perusahaan Penerbit SBSN Indonesia III (0.13%).

Asset categories and pricing

as of 2026-07-31

98.97% debt, 1.03% short-term investment as filed; 1.0% carried at a quoted market price (fair-value level 1). Categories and levels are the filer's; 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 $6.48B. Notional of an interest-rate or currency swap is not equity exposure.

0%Stocks held directly
0%Swap notional (0)
0%Futures notional (3)
0%Sum, % of net assets

Full detail for every fund that files derivatives: leverage.json (CC BY 4.0).

Neighbours by effective holdings, debt funds

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Every measured debt fund lined up by how many holdings it behaves like; these sit either side of VWOB (532.4). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs of
HYMB State Street(R) SPDR Nuveen ICE High Yield Municipal Bond ETF 1,870 456.2 9.2% 2026-06-30
SPSB State Street(R) SPDR(R) Portfolio Short Term Corporate Bond ETF 1,601 463.5 6.92% 2026-06-30
EUSB iShares ESG Advanced Universal USD Bond ETF 4,233 479.3 6.99% 2026-05-31
MLN VanEck Long Muni ETF 654 485.5 5.4% 2026-07-31
VCRB Vanguard Core Bond ETF 3,486 501.4 8.36% 2026-06-30
DFNM Dimensional National Municipal Bond ETF 1,200 538 6.03% 2026-07-31
AGG iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 13,268 562.7 6.3% 2026-05-31
VCRM Vanguard Core Tax-Exempt Bond ETF 2,404 571.2 7.13% 2026-07-31
AGGY WisdomTree Yield Enhanced U.S. Aggregate Bond Fund 2,140 582.6 8.16% 2026-05-31
SHM State Street(R) SPDR Nuveen ICE Short Term Municipal Bond ETF 1,045 604 5.36% 2026-06-30

Essays that examine VWOB

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