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VXUS holdings

VXUS reports 8,832 holdings and behaves like 253.6 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

Read this figure with the following in mind

1.7% of net assets is securities-lending cash collateral, excluded from the figure; counted as filed the fund would read 238.5

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.

8,832 Positions reported
253.6 Effective holdings
34.8× Concentration multiple
13.32% 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: 12.5% at a quoted market price (level 1), 48 issuer countries, 1.99% restricted securities.

What stands out

as of 2026-07-31

VXUS's largest investment is TSMC at 3.93% of net assets. Samsung Electron and ASML Holding NV follow; the three together are 6.89%. Ten companies are 13.32% of the fund; the other 8,822 share the rest. Among the 721 equity funds measured here, VXUS behaves like 253.6 holdings against a median of 42.4 — 6.0 times the median. Across 27 quarterly filings VXUS has become more concentrated: it behaved like 550.4 at 2019-10-31 and 280.1 at 2026-04-30. Between the 2026-01-31 and 2026-04-30 filings 215 positions were added and 126 dropped; 8.4% of the weight moved. Japan is the largest country at 15.01% of the portfolio, across 48 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, VXUS went from behaving like 550.4 equally weighted positions to 280.1 — 49% fewer, while its top ten went from 8.42% to 12.41% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
2026-04-30 8,824 280.1 12.41% 3.94%
2026-01-31 8,720 330.6 11.66% 3.25%
2025-10-31 8,704 350.7 10.76% 3.08%
2025-07-31 8,648 402.1 9.71% 2.68%
2025-04-30 8,622 445.1 9.28% 2.07%
2025-01-31 8,599 403.6 9.94% 2.53%
2024-10-31 8,656 420.7 9.86% 2.38%
2024-07-31 8,670 412.6 10.43% 2.21%
Earlier filings (19 more, back to 2019-10-31)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
2024-04-30 8,656 436.2 10.2% 1.92%
2024-01-31 8,622 452.9 9.86% 1.65%
2023-10-31 8,586 467.9 9.7% 1.51%
2023-07-31 8,030 480.2 9.47% 1.48%
2023-04-30 8,026 490.7 9.41% 1.4%
2023-01-31 7,948 490.2 9.25% 1.5%
2022-10-31 8,017 502.8 9.12% 1.23%
2022-07-31 7,871 489.3 9.42% 1.54%
2022-04-30 7,915 484.5 9.6% 1.55%
2022-01-31 7,754 476 9.65% 1.8%
2021-10-31 7,781 492.2 9.74% 1.59%
2021-07-31 7,613 481.3 10.1% 1.58%
2021-04-30 7,571 473.7 10% 1.6%
2021-01-31 7,376 436.2 10.65% 1.75%
2020-10-31 7,746 407.3 11.05% 2.18%
2020-07-31 7,374 423.7 10.82% 1.8%
2020-04-30 7,501 447.3 10.39% 1.66%
2020-01-31 7,469 503.6 9.4% 1.41%
2019-10-31 7,476 550.4 8.42% 1.24%

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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VOO · 3 AVUV · 3 SCHD · 2 BND · 1 VTI · 1 IQIN · 1

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
VXUS vs VEA 71.67% 2,996 313.8
VXUS vs VT 36.77% 3,356 305.5
VXUS vs VWO 26.3% 2,318 96.7
VXUS vs VTV 0.79% 3 285.6
VXUS vs BND 0.73% 1 824.2
VXUS vs VIG 0.7% 4 196
VXUS vs QQQ 0.42% 3 121.5
VXUS vs VTI 0.4% 5 215.7
VXUS vs QQQM 0.37% 2 114.7
VXUS vs VOO 0.34% 1 173.8
10 more pairs, down to 0% overlap
WithOverlapSharedCombined effective
VXUS vs VUG 0.25% 4 73.9
VXUS vs VGT 0.12% 2 57.2
VXUS vs ITOT 0.11% 4 213.4
VXUS vs AGG 0% 0 746.5
VXUS vs IVV 0% 1 173.9
VXUS vs SCHD 0% 0 114.9
VXUS vs SGOV 0% 0 64.6
VXUS vs SMH 0% 0 53
VXUS vs XLK 0% 0 61.6
VXUS vs AVUV 0% 0 551.4

As filed, collateral included

1.66% collateral

VXUS's filing lists 8,833 positions including 1.66% of net assets in securities-lending cash collateral. Counted as filed the fund reads 238.5 effective holdings with a top ten of 14.27%; on its own investments — the figure above — it reads 253.6 with a top ten of 13.32%. 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 8,832 positions in VXUS'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
1Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd4.01%4.0%
2Samsung Electronics Co Ltd1.69%5.7%
3ASML Holding NV1.33%7.0%
4SK hynix Inc1.15%8.2%
5Tencent Holdings Ltd0.89%9.1%
6HSBC Holdings PLC0.75%9.8%
7Vanguard Cmt Funds-Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund0.75%10.6%
8Alibaba Group Holding Ltd0.70%11.3%
9Roche Holding AG0.68%11.9%
10AstraZeneca PLC0.68%12.6%
11Novartis AG0.67%13.3%
12Nestle SA0.62%13.9%
13Shell PLC0.61%14.5%
14Royal Bank of Canada0.60%15.1%
15Siemens AG0.52%15.6%

By country of issuer

as of 2026-04-30

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

CountryShare
Japan 14.90%
United Kingdom 8.69%
Canada 8.03%
Taiwan 7.88%
Hong Kong SAR China 6.74%
South Korea 5.91%
France 5.18%
Switzerland 5.05%

Returns the fund reported

2019-08 – 2026-04

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

33.8%Last twelve months filed
97%Whole series, compounded
13.4%Best month
-16.1%Worst month

Cross-checked against a series computed separately from prices: median difference 0.11 percentage points over 81 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: VXUS.json · all funds.

Who borrows VXUS'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, $10.3bn was out to 24 borrowers. The largest, J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES PLC, held 25.5% of it.

BorrowerOn loanShare of the loan
J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES PLC $2.6bn 25.5%
MORGAN STANLEY & CO. INTERNATIONAL PLC $1.7bn 16.8%
GOLDMAN SACHS & CO. $1.5bn 14.3%
MORGAN STANLEY & CO LLC $967m 9.4%
JP MORGAN SECURITIES LLC $784m 7.6%

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

Since the previous filing

2026-01-31 → 2026-04-30

8,614 positions became 8,703: 215 added (1.1% of the fund at the later date), 126 dropped (1.1% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 8.4%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of VXUS compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.

Largest increases2026-01-312026-04-30Largest decreases2026-01-312026-04-30
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd3.25%3.94% Tencent Holdings Ltd1.15%0.88%
Samsung Electronics Co Ltd1.26%1.66% Alibaba Group Holding Ltd0.92%0.69%
Vanguard Cmt Funds-Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund0.36%0.73% Novo Nordisk A/S0.46%0.32%
SK hynix Inc0.82%1.13% Toyota Motor Corp0.58%0.48%
Delta Electronics Inc0.18%0.32% SAP SE0.50%0.40%
MediaTek Inc0.20%0.29% LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE0.40%0.32%

New: Roche Holding AG (0.67%), Sunbelt Rentals Holdings Inc (0.07%), KE Holdings Inc (0.02%), Abivax SA (0.02%), Vedanta Ltd (0.01%), Zijin Gold International Co Ltd (0.01%). Gone: Roche Holding AG (0.78%), Ashtead Group PLC (0.07%), Toyota Industries Corp (0.05%), KE Holdings Inc (0.03%), JDE Peet's NV (0.01%), New Gold Inc (0.01%).

Asset categories and pricing

as of 2026-07-31
Asset category (as filed)Share of investments
equity EC96.92%
short-term investment STIV2.36%
preferred equity EP0.71%
derivative DE0.01%

12.5% of VXUS 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 $629.12B. Notional of an interest-rate or currency swap is not equity exposure.

98.09%Stocks held directly
0.15%Swap notional (32)
0.9%Futures notional (7)
99.1%Sum, % of net assets
Swap counterpartyNotional% of net assets
Goldman Sachs$425M0.07%
MORGAN STANLEY & CO. LLC$386M0.06%
Bank of America NA$275M0.04%
Goldman Sachs International$74M0.01%
CITIBANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION$8M0%
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION$2M0%

Financing leg as filed: the fund pays OBFR01 + 0% on $1.17B 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 VXUS (253.6). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs of
PSC Principal U.S. Small-Cap ETF 507 239.5 11.25% 2026-06-30
SCHA Schwab U.S. Small-Cap ETF 1,707 240.7 10.53% 2026-05-31
BKIE BNY Mellon International Equity ETF 978 243.1 12.21% 2026-07-31
USVM VictoryShares US Small Mid Cap Value Momentum ETF 289 246.9 6.92% 2026-06-30
AVES Avantis Emerging Markets Value ETF 1,883 252.9 12.26% 2026-05-31
IEFA iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF 2,630 267.8 11.97% 2026-07-31
VEA Vanguard Developed Markets Index Fund 3,890 268.9 13.15% 2026-06-30
AVUV Avantis U.S. Small Cap Value ETF 797 272.3 8.67% 2026-05-31
KOMP State Street(R) SPDR(R) S&P Kensho New Economies Composite ETF 505 272.8 9.91% 2026-06-30
IVOO Vanguard S&P Mid-Cap 400 Index Fund 403 276.9 8.32% 2026-05-31

Measures applied in the essays

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On video

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Essays that examine VXUS

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