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Vanguard® Materials Index Fund
Schedule of Investments (unaudited)
As of November 30, 2024
The fund files its complete schedule of portfolio holdings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for the first and third quarters of each fiscal year as an exhibit to its reports on Form N-PORT. The fund’s Form N-PORT reports are available on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov.
    Shares Market
Value
($000)
Common Stocks (99.7%)
Chemicals (55.9%)
  Linde plc 1,433,127   660,657
  Sherwin-Williams Co.   719,234   285,824
  Air Products & Chemicals Inc.   667,227   223,074
  Ecolab Inc.   768,599   191,204
  Corteva Inc. 2,077,588   129,309
  DuPont de Nemours Inc. 1,253,009   104,739
  Dow Inc. 2,103,798    93,009
  PPG Industries Inc.   699,579    87,007
  International Flavors & Fragrances Inc.   767,405    70,110
  LyondellBasell Industries NV Class A   780,644    65,059
  RPM International Inc.   386,275    53,607
  CF Industries Holdings Inc.   541,463    48,548
  Eastman Chemical Co.   350,612    36,716
  Albemarle Corp.   305,546    32,907
* Axalta Coating Systems Ltd.   658,113    26,627
  Mosaic Co.   956,323    25,304
  Celanese Corp.   327,966    24,010
  FMC Corp.   374,695    22,141
  Element Solutions Inc.   690,773    19,811
  Cabot Corp.   164,634    18,047
  Balchem Corp.    97,448    17,591
* Arcadium Lithium plc 3,231,109    16,963
  Olin Corp.   352,267    15,003
  Westlake Corp.   115,948    14,888
  Avient Corp.   273,649    14,025
  NewMarket Corp.    24,509    13,077
  HB Fuller Co.   163,719    12,588
  Ashland Inc.   138,992    10,850
  Scotts Miracle-Gro Co.   127,805     9,853
  Chemours Co.   447,395     9,726
  Huntsman Corp.   492,773     9,649
  Innospec Inc.    74,817     8,874
  Sensient Technologies Corp.   108,284     8,407
  Hawkins Inc.    59,605     8,018
  Minerals Technologies Inc.    96,406     7,864
  Quaker Chemical Corp.    43,137     6,803
* Perimeter Solutions Inc.   415,041     5,313
* Ingevity Corp.   109,000     5,294
  Stepan Co.    67,779     5,212
*,1 PureCycle Technologies Inc.   363,839     4,837
  Tronox Holdings plc   357,199     4,322
  Orion SA   174,640     3,217
* Aspen Aerogels Inc.   196,431     2,907
* Ecovyst Inc.   331,929     2,639
  AdvanSix Inc.    80,208     2,604
  Koppers Holdings Inc.    61,544     2,367
  Mativ Holdings Inc.   163,344     2,148
* LSB Industries Inc.   148,723     1,313
* Intrepid Potash Inc.    31,949       866
  Kronos Worldwide Inc.    69,068       781
*,1 Ginkgo Bioworks Holdings Inc.    87,780       764
* Origin Materials Inc.   412,995       512
  American Vanguard Corp.    74,851       450
  Trinseo plc    74,615       323
*,1 Danimer Scientific Inc.     7,696        50
            2,447,808
Construction Materials (11.5%)
  CRH plc 2,049,066   209,558
  Vulcan Materials Co.   396,280   114,180

Vanguard® Materials Index Fund
    Shares Market
Value
($000)
  Martin Marietta Materials Inc.   183,396   110,038
  Eagle Materials Inc.   100,867    31,160
* Summit Materials Inc. Class A   369,190    18,806
* Knife River Corp.   161,573    16,723
  United States Lime & Minerals Inc.    34,447     5,270
              505,735
Containers & Packaging (12.5%)
  Smurfit WestRock plc 1,560,491    85,858
  Packaging Corp. of America   269,610    67,093
  International Paper Co.   990,059    58,245
  Ball Corp.   910,176    56,577
  Avery Dennison Corp.   241,690    49,776
  Amcor plc 4,338,428    46,161
  AptarGroup Inc.   199,347    34,479
  Crown Holdings Inc.   362,362    33,370
  Graphic Packaging Holding Co.   900,638    27,100
  Berry Global Group Inc.   343,950    24,871
  Sealed Air Corp.   437,777    16,023
  Sonoco Products Co.   295,236    15,317
  Silgan Holdings Inc.   256,663    14,766
* O-I Glass Inc.   465,111     5,860
  Greif Inc. Class A    73,646     5,231
  TriMas Corp.   103,592     2,737
  Pactiv Evergreen Inc.   134,003     1,818
  Myers Industries Inc.    94,077     1,091
* Ranpak Holdings Corp.   131,578     1,025
              547,398
Metals & Mining (19.0%)
  Freeport-McMoRan Inc. 4,312,239   190,601
  Newmont Corp. (XNYS) 3,432,520   143,960
  Nucor Corp.   712,284   110,183
  Steel Dynamics Inc.   439,898    63,904
  Reliance Inc.   165,103    53,038
  Alcoa Corp.   774,835    35,976
  Carpenter Technology Corp.   142,349    27,621
  United States Steel Corp.   674,956    27,518
* ATI Inc.   373,517    22,475
  Royal Gold Inc.   147,157    21,523
  Commercial Metals Co.   345,044    21,286
* Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. 1,480,362    18,431
  Warrior Met Coal Inc.   156,949    11,037
  Hecla Mining Co. 1,792,285     9,893
  Arch Resources Inc.    54,454     9,362
  Alpha Metallurgical Resources Inc.    33,271     8,170
*,1 MP Materials Corp.   372,670     7,852
* Coeur Mining Inc. 1,200,782     7,757
  Materion Corp.    62,294     7,202
  Worthington Steel Inc.    98,083     4,398
  Kaiser Aluminum Corp.    48,254     3,922
* Century Aluminum Co.   166,719     3,806
  SunCoke Energy Inc.   253,246     3,155
  Ryerson Holding Corp.    89,434     2,299
* Ivanhoe Electric Inc.   234,635     2,231
* Metallus Inc.   117,034     1,951
* Gatos Silver Inc.   125,255     1,936
  Compass Minerals International Inc.   106,173     1,638
  Radius Recycling Inc.    80,052     1,587
  Olympic Steel Inc.    30,249     1,279
* Perpetua Resources Corp.   125,720     1,198
* McEwen Mining Inc.   134,871     1,128
  Ramaco Resources Inc. Class A    85,802     1,094
*,1 Piedmont Lithium Inc.    55,783       701
* 5e Advanced Materials Inc.    33,701        15
              830,127
Paper & Forest Products (0.8%)
  Louisiana-Pacific Corp.   189,881    22,444
  Sylvamo Corp.   104,816     9,674
* Magnera Corp.   104,630     2,143
* Clearwater Paper Corp.    49,715     1,348

Vanguard® Materials Index Fund
    Shares Market
Value
($000)
  Mercer International Inc.   119,807       739
               36,348
Total Common Stocks (Cost $3,732,232) 4,367,416
Temporary Cash Investments (0.4%)
Money Market Fund (0.4%)
2,3 Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund, 4.651% (Cost$14,893)   148,951          14,894
Total Investments (100.1%) (Cost $3,747,125) 4,382,310
Other Assets and Liabilities—Net (-0.1%) (2,585)
Net Assets (100.0%) 4,379,725
Cost is in $000.
* Non-income-producing security.
1 Includes partial security positions on loan to broker-dealers. The total value of securities on loan is $6,600,000.
2 Affiliated money market fund available only to Vanguard funds and certain trusts and accounts managed by Vanguard. Rate shown is the 7-day yield.
3 Collateral of $6,917,000 was received for securities on loan.
  

Derivative Financial Instruments Outstanding as of Period End

Over-the-Counter Total Return Swaps
Reference Entity Termination
Date
Counterparty Notional
Amount
($000)
Floating
Interest Rate
Received
(Paid)1
(%)
Value and
Unrealized
Appreciation
($000)
Value and
Unrealized
(Depreciation)
($000)
Albemarle Corp. 1/31/25 CITNA 5,062 (4.648) (17)
Royal Gold Inc. 8/29/25 BANA 7,313 (4.648) (27)
          (44)
1 Based on Overnight Bank Funding Rate as of the most recent reset date. Floating interest payment received/paid monthly.
  BANA—Bank of America, N.A.
  CITNA—Citibank, N.A.
At November 30, 2024, the counterparties had deposited in segregated accounts securities with a value of $708,000 in connection with open over-the-counter swap contracts.
A. Security Valuation: Securities are valued as of the close of trading on the New York Stock Exchange (generally 4 p.m., Eastern time) on the valuation date. Equity securities are valued at the latest quoted sales prices or official closing prices taken from the primary market in which each security trades; such securities not traded on the valuation date are valued at the mean of the latest quoted bid and asked prices. Securities for which market quotations are not readily available, or whose values have been affected by events occurring before the fund’s pricing time but after the close of the securities’ primary markets, are valued by methods deemed by the valuation designee to represent fair value and subject to oversight by the board of trustees. Investments in Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund are valued at that fund's net asset value.
B. Swap Contracts: The fund has entered into equity swap contracts to earn the total return on selected reference stocks or indexes in the fund’s target index. Under the terms of the swaps, the fund receives the total return on the referenced stock (i.e., receiving the increase or paying the decrease in value of the selected reference stock and receiving the equivalent of any dividends in respect of the selected referenced stock) over a specified period of time, applied to a notional amount that represents the value of a designated number of shares of the selected reference stock at the beginning of the equity swap contract. The fund also pays a floating rate that is based on short-term interest rates, applied to the notional amount. At the same time, the fund generally invests an amount approximating the notional amount of the swap in high-quality temporary cash investments.
A risk associated with all types of swaps is the possibility that a counterparty may default on its obligation to pay net amounts due to the fund. The fund’s maximum amount subject to counterparty risk is the unrealized appreciation on the swap contract. The fund mitigates its counterparty risk by entering into swaps only with a diverse group of prequalified counterparties, monitoring their financial strength, entering into master netting arrangements with its counterparties, and requiring its counterparties to transfer collateral as security for their performance. In the absence of a default, the collateral pledged or received by the fund cannot be repledged, resold, or rehypothecated. In the event of a counterparty’s default (including bankruptcy), the fund may terminate any swap contracts with that counterparty, determine the net amount owed by either party in accordance with its master netting arrangements, and sell or retain any collateral held up to the net amount owed to the fund under the master netting arrangements. The swap contracts contain provisions whereby a counterparty may terminate open contracts if the fund’s net assets decline below a certain level, triggering a payment by the fund if the fund is in a net liability position at the time of the termination. The payment amount would be reduced by any collateral the fund has pledged. Any securities pledged as collateral for open contracts are noted in the Schedule of Investments. The value of collateral received or pledged is compared daily to the value of the swap contracts exposure with each counterparty, and any difference, if in excess of a specified minimum transfer amount, is adjusted and settled within two business days.

Vanguard® Materials Index Fund
Swaps are valued daily based on market quotations received from independent pricing services or recognized dealers and the change in value is recorded as an asset (liability) and as unrealized appreciation (depreciation) until periodic payments are made or the termination of the swap, at which time realized gain (loss) is recorded.
C. Various inputs may be used to determine the value of the fund’s investments and derivatives. These inputs are summarized in three broad levels for financial statement purposes. The inputs or methodologies used to value securities are not necessarily an indication of the risk associated with investing in those securities.
Level 1—Quoted prices in active markets for identical securities.
Level 2—Other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar securities, interest rates, prepayment speeds, credit risk, etc.).
Level 3—Significant unobservable inputs (including the fund’s own assumptions used to determine the fair value of investments). Any investments and derivatives valued with significant unobservable inputs are noted on the Schedule of Investments.
The following table summarizes the market value of the fund’s investments and derivatives as of November 30, 2024, based on the inputs used to value them:
  Level 1
($000)
Level 2
($000)
Level 3
($000)
Total
($000)
Investments        
Assets        
Common Stocks 4,367,416 4,367,416
Temporary Cash Investments 14,894 14,894
Total 4,382,310 4,382,310
Derivative Financial Instruments        
Liabilities        
Swap Contracts (44) (44)