VANGUARD UTILITIES INDEX FUND
U.S. stock index ETF · tracks MSCI US Investable Market Index (IMI)/Utilities 25/50
As of its 2026 Q2 report, VANGUARD UTILITIES INDEX FUND held 71 positions with $10.58B in net assets. Its ten largest holdings made up 52.5% of the fund. The VPU share class costs 0.09% a year. Over the 12 months to May 2026, VPU returned 11.9%, with dividends reinvested. In 2026 Q2 it added 4 new positions and exited 3.
Vanguard Utilities Index Fund (the Fund) seeks to track the performance of a benchmark index that measures the investment return of utilities stocks.
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.
What you own
| Company | Weight | Value | Shares | Reported price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
11.79% | $1.25B | 14.3M | $87.01 | |
6.67% | $705.50M | 7.7M | $92.05 | |
6.28% | $664.34M | 5.4M | $122.73 | |
5.83% | $616.90M | 2.1M | $287.75 | |
4.45% | $470.91M | 3.7M | $126.67 | |
SRESempra | 3.83% | $404.92M | 4.5M | $89.13 |
3.76% | $397.87M | 5.9M | $66.94 | |
VSTVistra Corp | 3.57% | $377.89M | 2.4M | $160.23 |
ETREntergy Corp | 3.21% | $338.99M | 3.1M | $109.05 |
3.10% | $327.34M | 4.1M | $79.50 |
Reported price is the fund's own reported value divided by its own reported shares at 2026-05-31 — not a live quote, and not what the fund paid.
All 71 holdings, with the share counts as filed, open with a free account.
What the fund is made of
Percentages are of fund net assets. Rounding, liabilities and short positions can make totals differ from 100%.
| Stocks | 99.56% |
| Cash & short-term | 0.28% |
| Derivatives | 0.01% |
Derivatives are shown at market value, not notional exposure.
By sector
- Utilities
- 99.7%
- Cash
- 0.3%
- International
- 0.0%
How it has done
VPU share class · total returns with dividends reinvested
Volatility over the last 12 months: 14.64%. Past returns are a record, not a forecast.
The 2 share classes hold the same portfolio
| Share class | Expense ratio | 1 year | 3 years | 5 years | Worst fall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.09% | +11.87% | +49.72% | +57.94% | -11.59% | |
| 0.09% | +11.87% | +49.73% | +57.84% | -11.58% |
These classes hold the same portfolio, so the 0.10pp spread over 5 years is the cost difference between them — roughly 0.02pp a year — not a difference in what they own.
Fees & fund details
VANGUARD UTILITIES INDEX FUND is a U.S. equity index ETF that tracks the MSCI US Investable Market Index (IMI)/Utilities 25/50. 0% of VPU’s stock holdings are in companies whose revenue grew in the top quartile of U.S. companies over the last five fiscal years (covering 99% of the fund’s equity).
- Asset class
- Equity
- Region
- United States
- Management
- Index (passive)
- Fund type
- ETF
- Features
- Non-diversified
- Expense ratio, by class
- 0.09% – 0.09%· VPU 0.09%
- Portfolio turnover
- 6.00% a year · as of 2026 Q2
Turnover is how much of the portfolio was replaced in a year.
Classified from what the fund holds, not from its name · 2026 Q2. The summary is a paraphrase of the prospectus; the objective is verbatim.
What changed this quarter
Positions that entered or left the fund since its previous filing. Positions that were only resized are not listed.
4 new· not itemized for this fund
3 exited· the largest 1
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