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ETF NYSE Arca USD

Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF VYM

Issuer: Vanguard SEC registrant: VANGUARD WHITEHALL FUNDS Equity · US
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Last price 161.15 USD Change: Up +1.70 Percent change: Up +1.07%

Source: Yahoo Finance (opens in a new tab) Observed · 1 day ago Quotes may be delayed

Expense ratio
0.04%
Prospectus 27 Feb 2026
Net assets
$99.2B
As of 31 Jul 2026
Holdings
616
As of 31 Jul 2026
12-month distribution yield
2.28%
Quarterly
Asset class
Equity
From holdings

Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF (VYM) is an exchange-traded fund listed on NYSE Arca in the United States, issued by Vanguard. Its category is Equity · US (equity). Its last price was US$161.15 on 20 Oct 2026. Its expense ratio is 0.04% a year, from its prospectus dated 27 Feb 2026. It reported net assets of US$99.19 billion as of 31 Jul 2026. Its latest holdings report lists 616 holdings as of 31 Jul 2026. Over the last 12 months it paid distributions of US$3.68 a unit, a 12-month distribution yield of 2.28%, paid quarterly.

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Fees

Total annual operating expenses (gross)
0.04%
Net, after fee waivers or reimbursements
No waiver stated
Management fee
0.03%
Prospectus date
27 Feb 2026
Filed with the SEC
27 Feb 2026

Source: SEC prospectus risk/return data sets (opens in a new tab) Filed

Size and reporting

Net assets
$99,194,157,093
Total assets
$99,196,193,339
Holdings as of
31 Jul 2026
Report made public
28 Sep 2026 (59 days after the month end)

Net assets are for the whole fund series, which for some funds (Vanguard's, for example) also includes mutual fund share classes.

Source: SEC Form N-PORT (opens in a new tab) Filed

Top holdings

Largest 25 of 616 positions, as of 31 Jul 2026. Weight is the percent of net assets the fund reported.

VYM top holdings as of 31 Jul 2026
# Holding Identifier Weight Value (USD) Type Country Currency
1 Broadcom Inc US11135F1012 7.35% $7.3B Equity (common) United States USD
2 JPMorgan Chase & Co US46625H1005 3.82% $3.8B Equity (common) United States USD
3 ExxonMobil Holdings Corp US30233Q1085 2.63% $2.6B Equity (common) United States USD
4 Johnson & Johnson US4781601046 2.51% $2.5B Equity (common) United States USD
5 Cisco Systems Inc US17275R1023 1.86% $1.8B Equity (common) United States USD
6 AbbVie Inc US00287Y1091 1.80% $1.8B Equity (common) United States USD
7 Bank of America Corp US0605051046 1.66% $1.6B Equity (common) United States USD
8 UnitedHealth Group Inc UNITEDHEALTH GRP US91324P1021 1.52% $1.5B Equity (common) United States USD
9 Caterpillar Inc US1491231015 1.50% $1.5B Equity (common) United States USD
10 Chevron Corp US1667641005 1.48% $1.5B Equity (common) United States USD
11 Coca-Cola Co/The US1912161007 1.38% $1.4B Equity (common) United States USD
12 Procter & Gamble Co/The US7427181091 1.37% $1.4B Equity (common) United States USD
13 Home Depot Inc/The US4370761029 1.34% $1.3B Equity (common) United States USD
14 Merck & Co Inc US58933Y1055 1.31% $1.3B Equity (common) United States USD
15 Philip Morris International Inc US7181721090 1.21% $1.2B Equity (common) United States USD
16 RTX Corp US75513E1010 1.18% $1.2B Equity (common) United States USD
17 Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The GOLDMAN SACHS GP US38141G1040 1.13% $1.1B Equity (common) United States USD
18 Wells Fargo & Co US9497461015 1.07% $1.1B Equity (common) United States USD
19 Texas Instruments Inc US8825081040 1.02% $1.0B Equity (common) United States USD
20 Morgan Stanley US6174464486 0.96% $949.6M Equity (common) United States USD
21 Oracle Corp US68389X1054 0.90% $896.2M Equity (common) United States USD
22 Linde PLC IE000S9YS762 0.90% $888.3M Equity (common) United States USD
23 Citigroup Inc US1729674242 0.89% $883.7M Equity (common) United States USD
24 International Business Machines Corp IBM US4592001014 0.85% $847.2M Equity (common) United States USD
25 Verizon Communications Inc US92343V1044 0.80% $789.5M Equity (common) United States USD

Source: SEC Form N-PORT (opens in a new tab) Made public Holdings as of 31 Jul 2026

All 616 stored holdings

Breakdowns

Sums of reported weights over every position in the report. Totals can differ from 100% because of derivatives, borrowing and cash.

Asset type

Asset type by weight
TypeWeightBar
Equity (common) 99.73%
Short-term investment vehicles (cash funds) 0.16%
Equity derivatives −<0.01%

Country

Country by weight
CountryWeightBar
United States 99.88%
Not stated −<0.01%

The country each issuer is assigned to in the report.

Currency exposure

Currency exposure by weight
CurrencyWeightBar
US dollar (USD) 99.88%

The currency each holding is denominated in. Currency hedges are not netted off, so a hedged fund still shows its holdings' currencies.

Sector

Sector weights for holdings matched to listed stocks
SectorWeightBar
Finance 20.55%
Technology 15.41%
Health Care 14.65%
Consumer Discretionary 11.95%
Industrials 10.40%
Energy 7.84%
Utilities 6.62%
Consumer Staples 4.27%
Telecommunications 4.02%
Basic Materials 1.78%
Financial Services 0.81%
Miscellaneous 0.20%
Unknown 0.06%
Consumer Cyclical <0.01%
Consumer Defensive <0.01%

Partial coverage: sectors are known for 98.6% of net assets (99% of the fund's equity weight), the holdings matched by CUSIP or ticker to US stocks listed on this site. The rest is not assigned a sector.

Source: SEC Form N-PORT (opens in a new tab) Holdings as of

Distributions

Paid in the last 12 months
$3.6760
4 payments per unit
12-month yield
2.28%
Distributions only, not total return
Frequency
Quarterly
From the gaps between ex-dates
Latest ex-date
18 Sep 2026

12-month yield = distributions per unit with an ex-date in the last 12 months ($3.6760) ÷ latest price ($161.15) × 100 = 2.28%. It looks back, so it is not a forecast; special distributions in the window are included.

Why a distribution yield is not the fund's return: yield vs total return

Distribution history table (20 payments)
VYM distributions per unit by ex-date
Ex-dateAmount per unit
18 Sep 2026$0.8870
18 Jun 2026$0.9800
20 Mar 2026$0.8620
19 Dec 2025$0.9470
19 Sep 2025$0.8420
20 Jun 2025$0.8620
21 Mar 2025$0.8500
20 Dec 2024$0.9640
20 Sep 2024$0.8510
21 Jun 2024$1.0240
15 Mar 2024$0.6560
18 Dec 2023$1.1000
18 Sep 2023$0.7850
20 Jun 2023$0.8770
20 Mar 2023$0.7170
19 Dec 2022$0.9750
19 Sep 2022$0.7670
21 Jun 2022$0.8480
21 Mar 2022$0.6620
20 Dec 2021$0.9390

Source: Yahoo Finance (opens in a new tab) Checked · 2 days ago Amounts are adjusted for later unit splits

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