Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund
Data updated: 2026-09-28
C000038294 — Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund. United States Large Cap Value Equity · $99.19B AUM. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
C000038294 Fund Overview
Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund is a US ETF managed by Vanguard Whitehall Funds, categorised as United States Large Cap Value Equity. ABC INVEST provides holdings, performance, costs, cashflows, risk data, prospectus documents and SEC filings, sourced from SEC filings.
- Type: US ETF
- Manager: Vanguard Whitehall Funds
- Category: United States Large Cap Value Equity
- Assets under management: $99.19B
- SEC CIK: 0001004655
- SEC series ID: S000014011
- Share class ID: C000038294
C000038294 Investment Objective and Strategy
Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Vanguard Whitehall Funds.
Investment objective
The Fund seeks to track the performance of a benchmark index that measures the investment return of common stocks of companies that are characterized by high dividend yield.
Principal investment strategy
The Fund employs an indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the FTSE High Dividend Yield Index, which consists of common stocks of companies that pay dividends that generally are higher than average. The Fund attempts to replicate the target index by investing all, or substantially all, of its assets in the stocks that make up the Index, holding each stock in approximately the same proportion as its weighting in the Index.
C000038294 Holdings
Top 10 holdings of Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| Broadcom Inc | 7.35% |
| JPMorgan Chase & Co | 3.82% |
| ExxonMobil Holdings Corp | 2.63% |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2.51% |
| Cisco Systems Inc | 1.86% |
| AbbVie Inc | 1.80% |
| Bank of America Corp | 1.66% |
| UnitedHealth Group Inc | 1.52% |
| Caterpillar Inc | 1.50% |
| Chevron Corp | 1.48% |
C000038294 Portfolio Allocation
Asset-class allocation of Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Asset class | Allocation |
|---|---|
| Equity | 99.7% |
| Cash & Equivalents | 0.2% |
C000038294 Costs and Fees
C000038294 costs about $14 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 0.14%
- Gross expense ratio: 0.14%
- Portfolio turnover: 11%
- Brokerage commissions: 0.22 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
C000038294 Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2026-07, Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund had net inflows of $6.63B, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2026-07 | $697.25M |
| 2026-06 | $693.03M |
| 2026-05 | $298.89M |
| 2026-04 | $464.22M |
| 2026-03 | $630.15M |
| 2026-02 | $817.65M |
C000038294 Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
C000038294 Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2026-02-27
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2025-02-28
- Prospectus supplement (497) — filed 2026-02-02
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-09-28
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-06-26
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-03-31
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2026-01-12
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2025-01-13
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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.