VANGUARD UTILITIES INDEX FUND
VANGUARD WORLD FUND · Series S000004445 · 2 share classes
data updated 2026-09-08
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.
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.
| Share class | Expense ratio |
|---|---|
| VUIAX | 0.09% |
| VPU | 0.09% |
Portfolio turnover 6.00% · as of 2026 Q2
Allocation
Asset groups · long / short shown separately, never netted · 2026 Q2
| Stocks | 99.56% |
| Cash & short-term | 0.28% |
| Derivatives | 0.01% |
Derivatives are shown at market value, not notional exposure.
Latest quarter
What changed since the fund's previous filing
Largest exited: Clearway Energy Inc
Return profile
Total return as filed — price change plus distributions reinvested · trailing figures to Apr 2026
| Share class | 1-year | 3-year | 5-year | Vol | Worst fall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| +21.71% | +48.44% | +61.98% | 13.35% | -13.38% | |
| +21.71% | +48.46% | +61.87% | 13.35% | -13.37% |
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.
May 2026 has been filed since the trailing figures were struck, so it is not in the table above or the curve — every figure here shares one cut-off, which is what makes them comparable with other funds.
Holdings
By % of NAV · equity positions carry filed share counts · every resolvable issuer links to its company page
| Ticker | Issuer | %NAV | Reported price | Value | Shares |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NEE | NextEra Energy IncNEE | 11.79% | $87.01 | $1.25B | 14.3M |
| SO | The Southern CoSO | 6.67% | $92.05 | $705.50M | 7.7M |
| DUK | Duke Energy CorpDUK | 6.28% | $122.73 | $664.34M | 5.4M |
| CEG | Constellation Energy CorpCEG | 5.83% | $287.75 | $616.90M | 2.1M |
| AEP | American Electric Power Co IncAEP | 4.45% | $126.67 | $470.91M | 3.7M |
| SRE | SempraSRE | 3.83% | $89.13 | $404.92M | 4.5M |
| D | Dominion Energy IncD | 3.76% | $66.94 | $397.87M | 5.9M |
| VST | Vistra CorpVST | 3.57% | $160.23 | $377.89M | 2.4M |
| ETR | Entergy CorpETR | 3.21% | $109.05 | $338.99M | 3.1M |
| XEL | Xcel Energy IncXEL | 3.10% | $79.50 | $327.34M | 4.1M |
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.
Top 10 positions are 52.49% of net assets, top 25 82.97%, across 68 issuers.
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