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Vanguard® U.S. Minimum Volatility ETF
Schedule of Investments (unaudited)
As of February 28, 2022
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 (99.6%)
Basic Materials (1.3%)
  Newmont Corp. 8,236 545
  Balchem Corp. 786 109
  Fastenal Co. 556 29
      683
Consumer Discretionary (10.0%)
  Service Corp. International 11,426 695
  Dollar General Corp. 3,200 635
  Costco Wholesale Corp. 1,208 627
* Amazon.com Inc. 175 538
  H&R Block Inc. 14,884 369
  Electronic Arts Inc. 2,721 354
  Hasbro Inc. 2,351 228
  Walmart Inc. 1,665 225
  Laureate Education Inc. Class A 20,018 217
  McDonald's Corp. 878 215
  Target Corp. 937 187
  World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. Class A 3,134 186
  Domino's Pizza Inc. 389 168
* Sportsman's Warehouse Holdings Inc. 12,931 148
1 Sirius XM Holdings Inc. 20,019 123
* frontdoor Inc. 3,768 113
* Madison Square Garden Sports Corp. 545 94
* QuinStreet Inc. 6,132 69
* Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc. 266 35
      5,226
Consumer Staples (8.2%)
  Procter & Gamble Co. 5,059 789
  Church & Dwight Co. Inc. 7,674 751
  Hershey Co. 3,645 737
  Flowers Foods Inc. 24,762 679
  Colgate-Palmolive Co. 7,088 546
  Mondelez International Inc. Class A 5,089 333
  Hormel Foods Corp. 5,462 260
  Lancaster Colony Corp. 375 63
  PepsiCo Inc. 381 62
  Kimberly-Clark Corp. 427 56
  John B Sanfilippo & Son Inc. 117 9
      4,285
Energy (3.8%)
  Williams Cos. Inc. 28,567 893
  Chevron Corp. 4,331 624

    Shares Market
Value
($000)
  Kinder Morgan Inc. 17,370 302
  Cheniere Energy Inc. 1,270 169
      1,988
Financials (11.4%)
  Intercontinental Exchange Inc. 5,945 762
  Marsh & McLennan Cos. Inc. 4,750 738
  Waterstone Financial Inc. 35,240 689
  First Financial Corp. 13,012 605
* Columbia Financial Inc. 26,692 567
  Northwest Bancshares Inc. 35,115 495
  Broadridge Financial Solutions Inc. 3,094 452
  CME Group Inc. 1,847 437
  Stock Yards Bancorp Inc. 4,179 224
* Blue Foundry Bancorp 15,170 211
  Arthur J Gallagher & Co. 916 145
  Progressive Corp. 1,323 140
  Westamerica BanCorp. 2,276 135
  HarborOne Bancorp Inc. 7,498 111
  TFS Financial Corp. 6,193 106
  Bank First Corp. 700 49
  Bank of Marin Bancorp 1,114 39
  Hingham Institution for Savings 108 39
  Macatawa Bank Corp. 3,740 34
      5,978
Health Care (17.0%)
  Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. 12,395 851
  Becton Dickinson and Co. 2,967 805
  Amgen Inc. 3,500 793
  Johnson & Johnson 4,597 756
  Eli Lilly & Co. 3,013 753
  Gilead Sciences Inc. 12,145 734
  Baxter International Inc. 8,416 715
  Merck & Co. Inc. 8,606 659
  AbbVie Inc. 3,908 577
* Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. 2,384 548
  Abbott Laboratories 4,461 538
* HealthStream Inc. 22,486 461
  Danaher Corp. 578 159
  Pfizer Inc. 2,976 140
  Zoetis Inc. 474 92
* Veeva Systems Inc. Class A 357 82
* Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. 126 78
  ResMed Inc. 260 64
* Computer Programs and Systems Inc. 1,991 61
* 2seventy bio Inc. 622 9
      8,875
Industrials (7.3%)
  Sonoco Products Co. 12,985 762
* FTI Consulting Inc. 5,197 759
  Accenture plc Class A 1,553 491
  Lockheed Martin Corp. 891 387
  Illinois Tool Works Inc. 1,721 372
  Jack Henry & Associates Inc. 1,965 347
  Landstar System Inc. 1,483 229
  3M Co. 1,511 225
  AptarGroup Inc. 867 106
* OSI Systems Inc. 1,317 106

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Value
($000)
  Ball Corp. 329 30
  Verisk Analytics Inc. Class A 137 24
      3,838
Real Estate (1.6%)
* Equity Commonwealth 31,557 838
Technology (21.3%)
  Apple Inc. 4,957 818
* Verint Systems Inc. 15,548 781
* Alphabet Inc. Class A 277 748
  NortonLifeLock Inc. 25,340 734
  Microsoft Corp. 2,432 727
  Oracle Corp. 8,616 655
  Texas Instruments Inc. 3,828 651
* TTM Technologies Inc. 51,610 649
* Tyler Technologies Inc. 1,501 643
* Adobe Inc. 1,221 571
  CDK Global Inc. 9,891 448
  Intuit Inc. 817 388
* Cadence Design Systems Inc. 2,376 360
* Altair Engineering Inc. Class A 5,252 349
* Super Micro Computer Inc. 7,808 307
* Cirrus Logic Inc. 3,398 295
* Black Knight Inc. 5,037 283
* Envestnet Inc. 3,710 278
* Meta Platforms Inc. Class A 953 201
  Amdocs Ltd. 2,344 184
  Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. 11,178 178
  NetApp Inc. 2,226 174
  Shutterstock Inc. 1,150 104
* PDF Solutions Inc. 3,630 99
* Rambus Inc. 3,414 92
  SS&C Technologies Holdings Inc. 1,096 82
  Dolby Laboratories Inc. Class A 856 64
  Analog Devices Inc. 361 58
  VMware Inc. Class A 493 58
  Dell Technologies Inc. Class C 1,121 57
* Allscripts Healthcare Solutions Inc. 2,514 49
  Broadcom Inc. 35 21
  Intel Corp. 246 12
      11,118
Telecommunications (9.4%)
  Verizon Communications Inc. 15,024 806
* T-Mobile US Inc. 6,313 778
  AT&T Inc. 32,480 769
* Liberty Broadband Corp. Class A 3,930 569
* Charter Communications Inc. Class A 872 525
  Cable One Inc. 219 314
  Comcast Corp. Class A 6,576 308
  Shenandoah Telecommunications Co. 11,557 258
* Anterix Inc. 4,112 219
  Cisco Systems Inc. 3,774 210
* Liberty Broadband Corp. Class C 654 96
  Motorola Solutions Inc. 85 19
  Cogent Communications Holdings Inc. 223 14
      4,885

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Value
($000)
Utilities (8.3%)
  Consolidated Edison Inc. 9,156 785
  Republic Services Inc. Class A 5,931 714
  PPL Corp. 26,634 697
  WEC Energy Group Inc. 5,431 494
  Duke Energy Corp. 4,820 484
  American Water Works Co. Inc. 1,660 251
  Waste Management Inc. 1,726 249
  American Electric Power Co. Inc. 1,613 146
  Eversource Energy 1,342 110
  NextEra Energy Inc. 1,339 105
  Xcel Energy Inc. 1,474 99
  CMS Energy Corp. 1,052 67
  Ameren Corp. 770 66
  DTE Energy Co. 513 62
  American States Water Co. 305 26
      4,355
Total Common Stocks (Cost $46,716) 52,069
Temporary Cash Investments (0.5%)
Money Market Fund (0.5%)
2,3 Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund, 0.138% (Cost $287) 2,870 287
Total Investments (100.1%) (Cost $47,003) 52,356
Other Assets and Liabilities—Net (-0.1%) (51)
Net Assets (100%) 52,305
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 $117,000.
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 $133,000 was received for securities on loan.

Derivative Financial Instruments Outstanding as of Period End

Futures Contracts
      ($000)
  Expiration Number of
Long (Short)
Contracts
Notional
Amount
Value and
Unrealized
Appreciation
(Depreciation)
Long Futures Contracts        
Micro E-mini S&P 500 Index March 2022 8 175 (10)
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 materially 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 board of trustees to represent fair value. Investments in Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund are valued at that fund's net asset value.

B. Futures Contracts: The fund uses index futures contracts to a limited extent, with the objective of maintaining full exposure to the stock market while maintaining liquidity. The fund may purchase or sell futures contracts to achieve a desired level of investment, whether to accommodate portfolio turnover or cash flows from capital share transactions. The primary risks associated with the use of futures contracts are imperfect correlation between changes in market values of stocks held by the fund and the prices of futures contracts, and the possibility of an illiquid market. Counterparty risk involving futures is mitigated because a regulated clearinghouse is the counterparty instead of the clearing broker. To further mitigate counterparty risk, the fund trades futures contracts on an exchange, monitors the financial strength of its clearing brokers and clearinghouse, and has entered into clearing agreements with its clearing brokers. The clearinghouse imposes initial margin requirements to secure the fund’s performance and requires daily settlement of variation margin representing changes in the market value of each contract. Any securities pledged as initial margin for open contracts are noted in the Schedule of Investments.
Futures contracts are valued at their quoted daily settlement prices. Fluctuations in the value of the contracts are recorded as an asset (liability).
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.
At February 28, 2022, 100% of the market value of the fund’s investments and derivatives was determined based on Level 1 inputs.