Fund · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund · measured from SEC filings
VYM holdings
VYM reports 609 holdings and behaves like 74.1 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 2026-07-31Computed 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: 100% at a quoted market price (level 1), one issuer country.
What stands out
as of 2026-07-31VYM's largest investment is Broadcom Inc at 8.03% of net assets. Jpmorgan Chase and Exxon Mobil Corp follow; the three together are 14.09%. Ten companies are 26.16% of the fund; the other 599 share the rest. Among the 721 equity funds measured here, VYM behaves like 74.1 holdings against a median of 42.4 — 1.8 times the median. Across 27 quarterly filings VYM has held roughly steady since 2019-10-31 (76.3 then, 71.5 now). Between the 2026-01-31 and 2026-04-30 filings 79 positions were added and 33 dropped; 11.6% of the weight moved.
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
27Between 2019-10-31 and 2026-04-30, VYM went from behaving like 76.3 equally weighted positions to 71.5 — 6% fewer, while its top ten went from 26.87% to 25.6% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-30 | 616 | 71.5 | 25.6% | 8.04% |
| 2026-01-31 | 568 | 73.9 | 26.39% | 6.97% |
| 2025-10-31 | 569 | 64.5 | 27.77% | 8.25% |
| 2025-07-31 | 584 | 75.4 | 26.02% | 6.85% |
| 2025-04-30 | 589 | 89.6 | 24.76% | 4.78% |
| 2025-01-31 | 533 | 80.5 | 26% | 5.53% |
| 2024-10-31 | 540 | 89.6 | 24.74% | 4.38% |
| 2024-07-31 | 558 | 91.9 | 24.28% | 4.24% |
Earlier filings (19 more, back to 2019-10-31)
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-04-30 | 559 | 97 | 23.48% | 3.47% |
| 2024-01-31 | 454 | 83.6 | 25.51% | 3.59% |
| 2023-10-31 | 454 | 85.6 | 25.05% | 3.36% |
| 2023-07-31 | 467 | 86.5 | 24.94% | 3.31% |
| 2023-04-30 | 470 | 85.5 | 25.01% | 3.59% |
| 2023-01-31 | 444 | 90.3 | 23.52% | 3.31% |
| 2022-10-31 | 445 | 88.6 | 24.05% | 3.31% |
| 2022-07-31 | 445 | 92.1 | 23.12% | 3.28% |
| 2022-04-30 | 446 | 92.6 | 22.75% | 3.35% |
| 2022-01-31 | 411 | 85.1 | 23.91% | 3.24% |
| 2021-10-31 | 413 | 84.6 | 23.74% | 3.69% |
| 2021-07-31 | 414 | 85.3 | 23.43% | 3.43% |
| 2021-04-30 | 419 | 86.9 | 23.53% | 3.56% |
| 2021-01-31 | 412 | 81.6 | 23.89% | 3.89% |
| 2020-10-31 | 418 | 80.2 | 24.62% | 3.74% |
| 2020-07-31 | 432 | 78.8 | 24.89% | 3.89% |
| 2020-04-30 | 398 | 69.7 | 27.9% | 4.45% |
| 2020-01-31 | 403 | 75.3 | 26.82% | 3.91% |
| 2019-10-31 | 409 | 76.3 | 26.87% | 3.84% |
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
1Overlap with other funds
1Measured against every other fund on this site, from the same filings. Combined effective holdings is how the pair behaves held in equal size.
| With | Overlap | Shared | Combined effective |
|---|---|---|---|
| VYM vs SCHD | 20.85% | 79 | 67.9 |
Largest positions, as filed
as of 2026-04-30The 15 largest of 609 positions in VYM's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: VYM.csv.gz.
| # | Position | Weight | Cumulative |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Broadcom Inc | 8.04% | 8.0% |
| 2 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 3.35% | 11.4% |
| 3 | Exxon Mobil Corp | 2.72% | 14.1% |
| 4 | Johnson & Johnson | 2.31% | 16.4% |
| 5 | Caterpillar Inc | 1.72% | 18.1% |
| 6 | AbbVie Inc | 1.56% | 19.7% |
| 7 | Cisco Systems Inc | 1.52% | 21.2% |
| 8 | Chevron Corp | 1.51% | 22.7% |
| 9 | Bank of America Corp | 1.44% | 24.2% |
| 10 | Procter & Gamble Co/The | 1.44% | 25.6% |
| 11 | UnitedHealth Group Inc | 1.41% | 27.0% |
| 12 | Home Depot Inc/The | 1.37% | 28.4% |
| 13 | Coca-Cola Co/The | 1.28% | 29.7% |
| 14 | Oracle Corp | 1.13% | 30.8% |
| 15 | Merck & Co Inc | 1.13% | 31.9% |
Returns the fund reported
2019-08 – 2026-04Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of VYM's own filings, 81 months on record. Not computed here and not from a price feed.
Cross-checked against a series computed separately from prices: median difference 0.04 percentage points over 81 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: VYM.json · all funds.
Who borrows VYM's shares
2026-07-31The fund lends its holdings, and Item B.4.a of the filing names every firm holding them. At 2026-07-31, $11m was out to 3 borrowers. The largest, BARCLAYS BANK PLC, held 74.8% of it.
| Borrower | On loan | Share of the loan |
|---|---|---|
| BARCLAYS BANK PLC | $8m | 74.8% |
| JP MORGAN SECURITIES LLC | $2m | 17.5% |
| MORGAN STANLEY & CO LLC | $844,192 | 7.7% |
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 VYM has filed, with each borrower: VYM.json · all funds.
Since the previous filing
2026-01-31 → 2026-04-30564 positions became 610: 79 added (7.8% of the fund at the later date), 33 dropped (3.8% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 11.6%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of VYM compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.
| Largest increases | 2026-01-31 | 2026-04-30 | Largest decreases | 2026-01-31 | 2026-04-30 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Broadcom Inc | 6.97% | 8.04% | International Business Machines Corp | 1.30% | 0.90% |
| Caterpillar Inc | 1.39% | 1.72% | Home Depot Inc/The | 1.70% | 1.37% |
| UnitedHealth Group Inc | 1.19% | 1.41% | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 3.64% | 3.35% |
| Texas Instruments Inc | 0.89% | 1.07% | Accenture PLC | 0.75% | 0.46% |
| Analog Devices Inc | 0.70% | 0.82% | RTX Corp | 1.22% | 0.98% |
| Dell Technologies Inc | 0.17% | 0.27% | AbbVie Inc | 1.80% | 1.56% |
New: Oracle Corp (1.13%), Linde PLC (0.98%), Walt Disney Co/The (0.77%), Capital One Financial Corp (0.49%), T-Mobile US Inc (0.39%), Marsh & McLennan Cos Inc (0.34%). Gone: Walmart Inc (2.36%), Seagate Technology Holdings PLC (0.39%), Corning Inc (0.37%), FTAI Aviation Ltd (0.13%), Qnity Electronics Inc (0.09%), nVent Electric PLC (0.08%).
Asset categories and pricing
as of 2026-07-3199.84% equity, 0.16% short-term investment as filed; 100.0% 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 2026-04-30A 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 $94.63B. Notional of an interest-rate or currency swap is not equity exposure.
| Swap counterparty | Notional | % of net assets |
|---|---|---|
| Bank of America NA | $334M | 0.35% |
| CITIBANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION | $32M | 0.03% |
| Goldman Sachs International | $15M | 0.02% |
Financing leg as filed: the fund pays OBFR01 + 0% on $380M 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
10Every measured equity fund lined up by how many holdings it behaves like; these sit either side of VYM (74.1). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.
| Fund | Reports | Behaves like | Top ten | As of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IHDG WisdomTree International Hedged Quality Dividend Growth Fund | 336 | 71.6 | 28.94% | 2026-06-30 |
| CSM ProShares Large Cap Core Plus | 305 | 71.7 * | 31.19% | 2026-05-31 |
| COWZ Pacer US Cash Cows 100 ETF | 101 | 73.2 | 20.44% | 2026-07-31 |
| ROBO ROBO Global Robotics and Automation Index ETF | 80 | 73.7 | 17.7% | 2026-07-31 |
| VUSE Vident U.S. Equity Strategy ETF | 127 | 73.8 | 25.32% | 2026-05-31 |
| DXJ WisdomTree Japan Hedged Equity Fund | 435 | 74.9 | 28.99% | 2026-06-30 |
| AVLC Avantis U.S. Large Cap Equity ETF | 889 | 75.7 | 30.43% | 2026-05-31 |
| JAVA JPMorgan Active Value ETF | 160 | 76.2 | 24.52% | 2026-06-30 |
| QQQJ Invesco NASDAQ Next Gen 100 ETF | 102 | 76.3 | 23% | 2026-05-31 |
| XMLV Invesco S&P MidCap Low Volatility ETF | 81 | 76.6 | 17.2% | 2026-05-31 |
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