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VCMDX

Material Change

Vanguard Commodity Strategy Fund

Expense Ratio
0.16%
AUM
$2.8B
Inception
6/25/2019
1Y Return
+30.9%56th %ilevs 113 asset-class peers
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The fund invests in commodity-linked investments backed by a portfolio of inflation-linked investments and other fixed income securities. It primarily gains exposure through a wholly owned subsidiary, investing in derivatives such as total return swaps, futures contracts, and options, while generally not exceeding 25% of its assets in the subsidiary. The remainder is allocated to inflation-indexed bonds and other investment-grade fixed income securities, which may provide liquidity or serve as collateral for its commodity-linked investments.

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Performance

NameCumulative ReturnAnn. ReturnAnn. VolSharpeMax DD
VCMDX
Vanguard Commodity Strategy Fund
30.9%30.9%15.6%1.74-13.4%
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ETF performance based on market prices. Drag on chart to select period. Sharpe Ratio uses the one-month T-bill as the risk-free rate. From 10/7/2025 to 10/7/2026.

Trailing Returns

Name
YTD1D5D1M3M6M1Y2Y3Y5YMAX
VCMDX
Vanguard Commodity Strategy Fund
26.7%-0.1%1.1%-0.3%11.1%6.3%30.9%20.4%16.3%10.4%12.9%
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ETF performance based on market prices. Returns for periods greater than one year are annualized. As of 10/7/2026.

Annual Returns

Name
2019202020212022202320242025YTD
VCMDX
Vanguard Commodity Strategy Fund
3.0%*5.1%34.8%13.8%-7.4%5.3%18.2%26.7%
ⓘ Methodology

* partial year — the series ran for only part of it (its first year, or the year it closed); the figure is the return over the part it did run. ETF performance based on market prices. As of 10/7/2026.

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Factor Regression

Name
Ann. αβ MKTβ SMBβ HMLβ RMWβ CMAβ UMDβ iHMLR²Obs
VCMDXUS
Vanguard Commodity Strategy Fund
33.1%*0.04-0.53**0.27*-0.31**0.04-0.22**-0.38**0.15226
ⓘ Methodology

ETF performance based on market prices. US factor set. Daily OLS of excess return (fund − T-bill) on factor spread returns over the selected date range, intersected with each series' history. Bold with * |t| ≥ 1.96, ** |t| ≥ 2.58. Cell shading tracks each loading's t-stat. Betas are returns-based — compare with the holdings-based factor scores below. Factor returns are long-short spread returns (© Ken French, Dartmouth). From 10/7/2025 to 8/31/2026.

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Fund ProfileMaterial Change

Fund Documents(opens the fund company’s site in a new tab)
Family
Registrant
Type
Mutual Fund
Asset Class
Peer Asset Class
Commodities
Region
Peer Group Benchmark
Prospectus Benchmark
Dow Jones U.S. Total Stock Market Float Adjusted Index
Peer Group
Commodities - Broad (52 peers)
1Y Peer Percentile
22
3Y Peer Percentile
40
Expense Ratio
0.16%
5Y Tax Drag
5.07%/yr
AUM
$2.8B
3Y Flow
+36.0%
Yield
12.14%
Inception
6/25/2019
Holdings (Reported)
48
Turnover
25%
Equity
0%
Derivatives
-1%
Net Equity Exposure
0%
Strategy Summary

The fund invests in commodity-linked investments backed by a portfolio of inflation-linked investments and other fixed income securities. It primarily gains exposure through a wholly owned subsidiary, investing in derivatives such as total return swaps, futures contracts, and options, while generally not exceeding 25% of its assets in the subsidiary. The remainder is allocated to inflation-indexed bonds and other investment-grade fixed income securities, which may provide liquidity or serve as collateral for its commodity-linked investments.

ⓘ Methodology

Expense ratio and its components from the fund's prospectus fee table; tax drag from its after-tax return table. Turnover from the SEC annual report (12/30/2025). Yield as of 10/6/2026, AUM 9/30/2026. Holdings, asset class, style, peer group and exposures as of 7/31/2026. Strategy summary from the fund's prospectus.

Factor DetailsRef: Commodities Funds

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ⓘ Methodology

Hover or click for factor definitions. Weighted average of underlying company-level values with weights equal to position size. Solid blue dots mark the fund's position within the clean equity fund universe (5th–95th percentile scale); the shaded band spans the fund's broad class (Commodities Funds) 25th–75th percentile, notched at the median. Holdings as of 7/31/2026. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026. Expense ratio, yield, and turnover as of 10/6/2026. AUM as of 9/30/2026.

Country Exposure

Level
100.0%
100.0%
ⓘ Methodology

Shares are percentages of the holdings that carry a country, not portfolio weights. Based on N-PORT domicile; ADRs list under their exchange. Holdings as of 7/31/2026. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026.

Holdings

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48 positions (top 10 shown, create for full holdings)

#NameWeight %Country
1Vanguard Cmt Funds-Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund
9.95
USA
2United States Treasury Bill
4.03
USA
3United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds
3.98
USA
4United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds
3.94
USA
5United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds
3.91
USA
6United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds
3.83
USA
7United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds
3.70
USA
8United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds
3.68
USA
9United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds
3.58
USA
10United States Treasury Inflation Indexed Bonds
3.52
USA
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Sector, country and factor detail need a security match; the share of weight that matched is a member figure, so the rows without one appear here with those columns blank. Holdings as of 7/31/2026. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026.

ConcentrationRef: Commodities Funds

Total Holdings48
Effective Holdings25.8
Top 10 Weight44.1%
Max Position9.9%
Top Sector (of Net Assets)96%
Top Country (of Net Assets)96%
ⓘ Methodology

Hover or click for definitions. Solid blue dots mark the fund: percentage rows on a 0–100% scale, holdings counts log-scaled across the clean-universe 5th–95th percentile range. The shaded band spans the fund's broad class (Commodities Funds) 25th–75th percentile, notched at the median. Holdings as of 7/31/2026.

Peer Group Rank

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Metric
VCMDX
Vanguard Commodity Strategy Fund
Peer Group
52 funds
Peer Asset Class
113 funds
YTD Return
26.68%32.67%3219.73%62
1Y Return
30.95%38.87%2224.77%56
3Y Return (Ann.)
16.34%16.83%4017.14%38
5Y Return (Ann.)
10.44%11.60%2811.86%34
Expense Ratiohigher = cheaper
0.16%0.70%960.71%96
ⓘ Methodology

Sparkline's own holdings-based peer taxonomy (115 share classes across 52 funds). One share class shown per fund — the exchange-listed class where the SEC series has one, else its longest-history class; percentile ranks and medians are computed against the same deduped set. Quartile chips fill the layer the fund's rank falls in (top layer = best quartile). Funds without a full return history rank only on the horizons they cover.

Similar Funds

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Nearest funds across the whole universe, by holdings and behavior — the peer taxonomy is ignored, so matches can come from any category.

Top Similarity64
Top Overlap
Top Active Tilt
Top Return Corr
FundPeer Group
1VTAPX
VANGUARD SHORT-TERM INFLATION-PROTECTED SECURITIES INDEX FUND
Fixed Income - Inflation-Protected Short
Fixed Income - Inflation-Protected Short
64---
2STIP
iShares 0-5 Year TIPS Bond ETF
Fixed Income - Inflation-Protected Short
Fixed Income - Inflation-Protected Short
63---
3PCRAX
PIMCO CommodityRealReturn Strategy Fund
Commodities - Broad
Commodities - Broad
63---
4PBTP
Invesco 0-5 Yr US TIPS ETF
Fixed Income - Inflation-Protected Short
Fixed Income - Inflation-Protected Short
63---
5FSTZX
Fidelity Series 0-5 Year Inflation-Protected Bond Index Fund
Fixed Income - Inflation-Protected Short
Fixed Income - Inflation-Protected Short
63---
6BAIPX
iShares Short-Term TIPS Bond Index Fund
Fixed Income - Inflation-Protected Short
Fixed Income - Inflation-Protected Short
63---
7LDRI
iShares iBonds 1-5 Year TIPS Ladder ETF
Fixed Income - Inflation-Protected Intermediate/Long
Fixed Income - Inflation-Protected Intermediate/Long
62---
8SRAAX
SIMT Real Return Fund
Fixed Income - Inflation-Protected Intermediate/Long
Fixed Income - Inflation-Protected Intermediate/Long
61---
9RRPAX
SIIT REAL RETURN FUND
Fixed Income - Inflation-Protected Intermediate/Long
Fixed Income - Inflation-Protected Intermediate/Long
60---
10ALMIX
Invesco Short Duration Inflation Protected Fund
Fixed Income - Inflation-Protected Short
Fixed Income - Inflation-Protected Short
60---

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ⓘ Methodology

Rows are the consensus top matches (a fund must place in at least two methods' top 250 to qualify, and matches missing more than one of this fund's own methods are not ranked — a row scored on fewer methods is a noisier estimate, not a better match). Click a method column to see that method's own top matches across the whole universe instead. Gray (N) beside each method's metric is that fund's rank in the whole universe on that method. Similarity is a percentile among match-grade fund pairs, 0–100 — 87 means the pair is closer than 87% of the strongest matches in the universe, averaged across the methods — so it compares across funds: index clones tie at the top with thousands of other clone pairs, so scores top out in the high 80s to 90s, while a one-of-a-kind fund's best match can score in the 30s. Rows are ordered by the Consensus Rank — the geometric mean of those universe ranks, shown in each cell's tooltip — and the score is held down the list to the level of the closest match above it, so equal scores mean equally close and the number reads as a floor. A dash means that method has no figure for the pair at all (one of them lacks the holdings or return history it needs). Hover a column header for each method's definition. The “Top…” strips above compare against every fund's own top match across the whole universe (they deliberately don't follow the Peer Universe selector); Top Similarity is simply the best match's score, with no reference band; the Holdings and Active Tilt strips carry no reference band because computing every fund's best book overlap would require a full holdings scan per fund — the dot stands alone on its natural 0–100% scale. One share class shown per fund, and a fund's own sister share classes are excluded from its Top-match strips. Holdings as of 7/31/2026. Consensus Rank is the geometric mean of the match's universe-wide rank across the methods (#1.0 = top match on every one). Holdings Overlap = common-holdings weight (sum of the minimum weight across shared positions, long only). Active Tilt Overlap = the same statistic on active weights (holdings minus the fund's own default benchmark, floored at 0), which strips the benchmark ballast that dominates raw overlap. Return Correlation = correlation of market-hedged daily returns over the trailing two years (CAPM residuals), so only market-beta co-movement is removed; requires ~18 months of daily history (378 of the window's 504 trading days).