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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 2026-07-31
609 Positions reported
74.1 Effective holdings
8.2× Concentration multiple
26.16% 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: 100% at a quoted market price (level 1), one issuer country.

What stands out

as of 2026-07-31

VYM'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

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Between 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.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
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)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
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

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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
VYM vs SCHD 20.85% 79 67.9

Largest positions, as filed

as of 2026-04-30

The 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.

#PositionWeightCumulative
1Broadcom Inc8.04%8.0%
2JPMorgan Chase & Co3.35%11.4%
3Exxon Mobil Corp2.72%14.1%
4Johnson & Johnson2.31%16.4%
5Caterpillar Inc1.72%18.1%
6AbbVie Inc1.56%19.7%
7Cisco Systems Inc1.52%21.2%
8Chevron Corp1.51%22.7%
9Bank of America Corp1.44%24.2%
10Procter & Gamble Co/The1.44%25.6%
11UnitedHealth Group Inc1.41%27.0%
12Home Depot Inc/The1.37%28.4%
13Coca-Cola Co/The1.28%29.7%
14Oracle Corp1.13%30.8%
15Merck & Co Inc1.13%31.9%

Returns the fund reported

2019-08 – 2026-04

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

29.5%Last twelve months filed
119%Whole series, compounded
12.3%Best month
-13.6%Worst month

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

2026-07-31

The 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.

BorrowerOn loanShare 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 → 2026-04-30

564 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 increases2026-01-312026-04-30Largest decreases2026-01-312026-04-30
Broadcom Inc6.97%8.04% International Business Machines Corp1.30%0.90%
Caterpillar Inc1.39%1.72% Home Depot Inc/The1.70%1.37%
UnitedHealth Group Inc1.19%1.41% JPMorgan Chase & Co3.64%3.35%
Texas Instruments Inc0.89%1.07% Accenture PLC0.75%0.46%
Analog Devices Inc0.70%0.82% RTX Corp1.22%0.98%
Dell Technologies Inc0.17%0.27% AbbVie Inc1.80%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 2026-07-31

99.84% 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 2026-04-30

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 $94.63B. Notional of an interest-rate or currency swap is not equity exposure.

99.52%Stocks held directly
0.41%Swap notional (9)
0.07%Futures notional (2)
100%Sum, % of net assets
Swap counterpartyNotional% of net assets
Bank of America NA$334M0.35%
CITIBANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION$32M0.03%
Goldman Sachs International$15M0.02%

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

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Every 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.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs 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

Essays that examine VYM

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