Small Company Growth Portfolio
Data updated: 2026-08-28
C000012150 — Small Company Growth Portfolio. United States Small Cap Growth Equity · $1.69B AUM. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
C000012150 Fund Overview
Small Company Growth Portfolio is a US mutual fund managed by Vanguard Variable Insurance Funds, categorised as United States Small Cap Growth Equity. ABC INVEST provides holdings, performance, costs, cashflows, risk data, prospectus documents and SEC filings, sourced from SEC filings.
- Type: US mutual fund
- Manager: Vanguard Variable Insurance Funds
- Category: United States Small Cap Growth Equity
- Assets under management: $1.69B
- 1-year return: 29.0%
- SEC CIK: 0000857490
- SEC series ID: S000004394
- Share class ID: C000012150
C000012150 Investment Objective and Strategy
Small Company Growth Portfolio describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Vanguard Variable Insurance Funds.
Investment objective
Vanguard Variable Insurance Funds Small Company Growth Portfolio (the Fund) seeks to provide long-term capital appreciation.
Principal investment strategy
The Fund employs an active management approach, investing mainly in the stocks of small and mid-size companies and choosing stocks considered by the Funds advisors to have superior growth potential. These companies often provide little or no dividend income. The Fund has multiple advisors, each of which independently selects and maintains a portfolio of common stocks for the Fund. Under normal circumstances, the Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets, plus the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes, in common stocks of small companies, choosing stocks considered by the Funds advisors to have superior growth potential.
C000012150 Holdings
Top 10 holdings of Small Company Growth Portfolio by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| Vanguard Cmt Funds-Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund | 2.76% |
| Carpenter Technology Corp | 1.11% |
| ATI Inc | 1.05% |
| Sterling Infrastructure Inc | 0.98% |
| MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings Inc | 0.85% |
| Neurocrine Biosciences Inc | 0.78% |
| Ionis Pharmaceuticals Inc | 0.77% |
| Moog Inc | 0.76% |
| Vicor Corp | 0.75% |
| Medpace Holdings Inc | 0.72% |
C000012150 Portfolio Allocation
Asset-class allocation of Small Company Growth Portfolio by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Asset class | Allocation |
|---|---|
| Equity | 97.3% |
| Cash & Equivalents | 2.8% |
| Derivatives | 0.1% |
C000012150 Performance
Total returns for C000012150 (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| YTD | 19.4% |
| 1 year | 29.0% |
| 3 years (annualised) | 13.6% |
| 5 years (annualised) | 4.6% |
C000012150 Risk Information
Risk metrics for C000012150, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 15.6%
C000012150 Costs and Fees
C000012150 costs about $29 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 0.29%
- Gross expense ratio: 0.29%
- Portfolio turnover: 60%
- Brokerage commissions: 6.25 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
C000012150 Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2026-06, Small Company Growth Portfolio had net outflows of $97.36M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2026-06 | −$13.87M |
| 2026-05 | −$3.66M |
| 2026-04 | −$12.88M |
| 2026-03 | $39.05M |
| 2026-02 | −$2.97M |
| 2026-01 | −$17.31M |
C000012150 Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in Small Company Growth Portfolio's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
C000012150 Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official Small Company Growth Portfolio filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2026-04-28
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2025-04-29
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2024-04-26
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-08-28
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-05-28
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-02-26
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2026-03-12
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2025-03-13
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Data Sources
ABC INVEST compiles this page from public filings made to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) through EDGAR: portfolio holdings and monthly cashflows from Form N-PORT, expenses and returns from fund prospectuses (Form 485BPOS) and the SEC DERA Risk/Return Summary data sets, annual data from Form N-CEN, and shareholder reports from Form N-CSR.