VANGUARD UTILITIES INDEX FUND

VANGUARD WORLD FUND · Series S000004445 · 2 share classes

Equity fund · 99% stocks
One fund, 2 share classes:VUIAXVPU
$11.03B NAV
70 positions · as of 2026-02-28 · filed 2026-04-28
data updated 2026-08-10

Fund profile

As filed in the prospectus · 2026 Q2

Vanguard Utilities Index Fund (the Fund) seeks to track the performance of a benchmark index that measures the investment return of utilities stocks.

Strategy · summarised

The fund employs an indexing approach to track the MSCI US Investable Market Index (IMI)/Utilities 25/50, which comprises large, mid-size, and small U.S. utilities stocks including electric, gas, and water utilities, independent power producers, and renewable energy generators. It invests substantially all its assets in the stocks of the Target Index, holding each in approximately the same proportion as its weighting in the index. The fund is nondiversified, meaning it may invest a greater percentage of its assets in particular issuers than diversified funds do.

Expenses
0.09% 0.09%across 2 share classes
Share classExpense ratio
VUIAX0.09%
VPU0.09%

Portfolio turnover 6.00% · as of 2026 Q2

Allocation

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

99.57%
of net assets
Stocks99.32%
Cash & short-term0.25%
Derivatives0.01%

Derivatives are shown at market value, not notional exposure.

Latest quarter

What changed since the fund's previous filing

vs 2025Q4: 1 new3 exited

Largest exited: ALLETE Inc, MNTK

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

Holdings

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

Issuer%NAVValue
NextEra Energy IncNEE11.92%$1.31B
Constellation Energy CorpCEG6.36%$701.39M
The Southern CoSO6.36%$701.11M
Duke Energy CorpDUK6.28%$692.51M
American Electric Power Co IncAEP4.42%$487.07M
SempraSRE3.88%$427.50M
Vistra CorpVST3.64%$400.98M
Dominion Energy IncD3.32%$366.55M
Xcel Energy IncXEL3.04%$335.54M
Entergy CorpETR2.95%$325.42M
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Top 10 positions are 52.16% of net assets, top 25 83.22%, across 68 issuers.

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