VANGUARD WELLINGTON FUND

VANGUARD WELLINGTON FUND · Series S000004406 · 2 share classes

Equity fund · 65% stocks· rate + credit risk filed
One fund, 2 share classes:VWELXVWENX
$119.83B NAV
1,664 positions · as of 2026-02-28 · filed 2026-04-28
data updated 2026-08-10

Fund profile

As filed in the prospectus · 2026 Q1

Vanguard Wellington Fund (the Fund) seeks to provide long-term capital appreciation and moderate current income.

Strategy · summarised

The fund pursues active management, allocating 60%-70% to undervalued large-cap stocks with improving prospects and 30%-40% to investment-grade fixed income securities selected for moderate current income. Because security selection drives returns, performance depends on the advisor's ability to identify undervalued equities and suitable bonds.

Expenses
0.16% 0.24%across 2 share classes
Share classExpense ratio
VWELX0.24%
VWENX0.16%

Portfolio turnover 62.00% · as of 2026 Q1

Allocation

Asset groups · long / short shown separately, never netted · 2026 Q1

99.74%
of net assets
Stocks64.82%
Bonds32.34%
Securitized1.53%
Cash & short-term1.07%
Derivatives-0.02%

The outer band is exposure held short — written against the portfolio rather than part of it, which is why it sits outside the ring and why the two are never netted into one figure.

Derivatives are shown at market value, not notional exposure.

Latest quarter

What changed since the fund's previous filing

vs 2025Q4: 136 new110 exited

Largest new: NOC, CDNS, DIS, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd, DRI, HON, Unilever PLC, D

Largest exited: ABBV, WMB, DUK, AXP, Unilever PLC, NEE, INTU, TSCO

Return profile

Chart:

Total return as filed — price change plus distributions reinvested · trailing figures to Feb 2026

Share class1-year3-year5-yearVolWorst fall
Cumulative return· Mar 2023 – Feb 2026

Debt profile

What this fund holds — value-weighted across its bond and securitized long positions · as of 2026-02-28

Avg coupon
4.45%
Avg maturity
10.71 yr
Coupon type

Share of the fund's debt by how its coupon behaves — the fact that decides whether a rate move reaches this portfolio at all.

16%
floating
Fixed rate83.5%
Floating rate16.5%
Maturity ladder

Share of the fund's debt value in each maturity band, shortest first.

<1y10y+
<1y0.6%
1-3y18.1%
3-5y21.0%
5-10y25.4%
10y+34.9%
Flagged holdings
Defaulted: none reported
In arrears: none reported
Paid in kind: none reported

Based on what filers reported; a filer that never reported a flag also reads as none.

Risk profile

Interest-rate and credit-spread sensitivity, both in years · as of 2026Q1

Most of this fund’s sensitivity is to interest rates, with credit spreads carrying nearly as much.

Interest-rate duration
2.19 yr
approx. move per 100bp
Credit-spread duration
1.77 yr
approx. move per 100bp
If rates and spreads both rise 100bp

Where the loss would come from. The two shocks are the same size, so this is the balance of the fund's two sensitivities rather than a bet on one moving more.

≈ -4.0%
of value
Interest rates55%
Credit spreads45%

Filers report the impact of a 0.01% move only, so the total is our own scaling of that one number and overstates the loss on most bonds — read it as approximate, never as precise. The two sensitivities overlap rather than add up: they measure the same positions against different shocks, which is why the durations above are shown side by side and never summed.

Credit risk by quality

Share of the fund's spread duration carried by each credit tier.

+1.77
yrs total
Investment grade+1.76 yr
High yield+0.01 yr
Where the risk sits on the curve

Share of duration at each point, shortest first. A positive figure loses value when spreads widen; a negative one offsets — a credit hedge.

Interest rate2.19 yr total
3 mo30 yr
3 mo0.01 yr0%
1 yr0.20 yr9%
5 yr0.58 yr26%
10 yr0.88 yr40%
30 yr0.54 yr24%
Credit spread1.77 yr total
3 mo30 yr
3 mo0.00 yr0%
1 yr0.13 yr7%
5 yr0.47 yr26%
10 yr0.74 yr42%
30 yr0.43 yr24%

The two bands measure the same positions against different shocks and do not add — a Treasury carries rate duration and no spread duration, a floating-rate credit the reverse. Rate tenors are also summed across every currency the fund discloses.

Show the numbers
TenorRate yrsIG yrsHY yrsIG $/bpHY $/bp
3 mo+0.01+0.00+0.00$48.6k$103
1 yr+0.20+0.13+0.00$1.56m$3.4k
5 yr+0.58+0.46+0.00$5.56m$16.1k
10 yr+0.88+0.73+0.00$8.80m$54.0k
30 yr+0.54+0.43+0.00$5.13m$13.2k

Dollar change per 1bp of spread movement, as filed and sign-anchored. A blank cell was not filed; a zero was.

Holdings

By % of NAV · equity positions carry filed share counts · every resolvable issuer links to its company page

Issuer%NAVValue
NVIDIA CorpNVDA5.40%$6.47B
Alphabet IncGOOGL4.19%$5.02B
Apple IncAAPL4.05%$4.85B
Microsoft CorpMSFT3.92%$4.70B
Amazon.com IncAMZN2.84%$3.40B
Wells Fargo & CoWFC1.68%$2.01B
Broadcom IncAVGO1.64%$1.96B
Meta Platforms IncMETA1.59%$1.91B
Eli Lilly & CoLLY1.24%$1.48B
Merck & Co IncMRK1.17%$1.41B
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Top 10 positions are 27.72% of net assets, top 25 41.02%, across 526 issuers.

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