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Vanguard® Dividend Growth Fund
Schedule of Investments (unaudited)
As of April 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 (98.2%)
Consumer Discretionary (10.1%)
  McDonald's Corp. 5,455,899 1,489,679
  TJX Cos. Inc. 15,790,723 1,485,749
  NIKE Inc. Class B 13,970,248 1,288,895
  Home Depot Inc. 2,766,834 924,731
      5,189,054
Consumer Staples (15.1%)
  Colgate-Palmolive Co. 16,591,106 1,525,055
  Procter & Gamble Co. 8,895,300 1,451,713
  PepsiCo Inc. 8,081,898 1,421,687
  Diageo plc 36,955,571 1,277,172
  Coca-Cola Co. 19,633,259 1,212,746
  Costco Wholesale Corp. 1,217,888 880,411
      7,768,784
Financials (14.5%)
  Visa Inc. Class A 6,043,711 1,623,401
  Mastercard Inc. Class A 3,274,607 1,477,503
  Marsh & McLennan Cos. Inc. 7,211,646 1,438,218
  American Express Co. 5,205,066 1,218,142
  Chubb Ltd. 4,690,942 1,166,356
  PNC Financial Services Group Inc. 3,510,805 538,066
      7,461,686
Health Care (18.6%)
  Stryker Corp. 5,519,573 1,857,336
  Danaher Corp. 7,011,772 1,729,243
  UnitedHealth Group Inc. 3,491,508 1,688,842
  Abbott Laboratories 11,670,458 1,236,719
  Johnson & Johnson 7,597,773 1,098,562
  Medtronic plc 11,128,631 892,961
  Merck & Co. Inc. 6,286,719 812,370
  Pfizer Inc. 9,694,607 248,376
      9,564,409
Industrials (20.2%)
  Northrop Grumman Corp. 3,124,583 1,515,516
  Honeywell International Inc. 7,791,697 1,501,694
  Canadian National Railway Co. 10,169,084 1,234,266
  Union Pacific Corp. 5,020,030 1,190,550
  General Dynamics Corp. 3,875,333 1,112,569
  Automatic Data Processing Inc. 4,485,014 1,084,880
  United Parcel Service Inc. Class B (XNYS) 5,813,946 857,441
  Lockheed Martin Corp. 1,600,223 743,992
  RTX Corp. 6,727,616 682,988

    Shares Market
Value
($000)
  Deere & Co. 1,243,987 486,909
      10,410,805
Information Technology (11.9%)
  Microsoft Corp. 5,121,832 1,994,083
  Accenture plc Class A 4,638,841 1,395,874
  Texas Instruments Inc. 7,655,285 1,350,545
  Apple Inc. 4,633,079 789,152
  Intuit Inc. 966,458 604,636
      6,134,290
Materials (5.1%)
  Linde plc 3,641,248 1,605,645
  Ecolab Inc. 4,509,957 1,019,927
      2,625,572
Real Estate (2.7%)
  American Tower Corp. 4,504,406 772,776
  Public Storage 2,447,678 635,050
      1,407,826
Total Common Stocks (Cost $25,917,543) 50,562,426
Temporary Cash Investments (1.6%)
Money Market Fund (0.0%)
1 Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund, 5.394% 262 26
    Face
Amount
($000)
 
Repurchase Agreements (1.6%)
  Credit Agricole Securities 5.310%, 5/1/24
(Dated 4/30/24, Repurchase Value $172,725,000, collateralized by U.S. Treasury Note/Bond 2.625%–5.000%, 10/31/25–7/31/29, with a value of $176,154,000)
172,700 172,700
  JP Morgan Securities LLC 5.310%, 5/1/24
(Dated 4/30/24, Repurchase Value $49,007,000, collateralized by U.S. Treasury Note/Bond 2.250%–6.000%, 4/30/25–2/15/54, with a value of $49,980,000)
49,000 49,000
  Natixis SA 5.310%, 5/1/24
(Dated 4/30/24, Repurchase Value $312,346,000, collateralized by Federal Home Loan Bank 4.000%– 4.080%, 10/24/29– 5/25/33, Freddie Mac 2.150%, 7/13/40, U.S. Treasury Inflation Indexed Note/Bond 0.125%– 2.125%, 7/15/26–2/15/53, and U.S. Treasury Note/Bond 0.375%–4.875%, 8/15/24–11/15/53, with a value of $318,546,000)  
312,300 312,300
  NatWest Markets plc 5.310%, 5/1/24
(Dated 4/30/24, Repurchase Value $142,321,000, collateralized by U.S. Treasury Note/Bond 4.625%–5.000%, 9/30/25–4/30/31, with a value of $145,146,000)
142,300 142,300

    Face
Amount
($000)
Market
Value
($000)
  Societe Generale 5.300%, 5/1/24
(Dated 4/30/24, Repurchase Value $144,121,000, collateralized by U.S. Treasury Note/Bond 4.625%, 4/30/31, with a value of $146,982,000)
144,100 144,100
      820,400
Total Temporary Cash Investments (Cost $820,426) 820,426
Total Investments (99.8%) (Cost $26,737,969) 51,382,852
Other Assets and Liabilities—Net (0.2%) 111,855
Net Assets (100%) 51,494,707
Cost is in $000.
1 Affiliated money market fund available only to Vanguard funds and certain trusts and accounts managed by Vanguard. Rate shown is the 7-day yield.
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. These procedures include obtaining quotations from an independent pricing service, monitoring news to identify significant market- or security-specific events, and evaluating changes in the values of foreign market proxies (for example, ADRs, futures contracts, or exchange-traded funds), between the time the foreign markets close and the fund’s pricing time. When fair-value pricing is employed, the prices of securities used by a fund to calculate its net asset value may differ from quoted or published prices for the same securities. Investments in Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund are valued at that fund's net asset value. Other temporary cash investments are valued using the latest bid prices or using valuations based on a matrix system (which considers such factors as security prices, yields, maturities, and ratings), both as furnished by independent pricing services.
B. Foreign Currency: Securities and other assets and liabilities denominated in foreign currencies are translated into U.S. dollars using exchange rates obtained from an independent third party as of the fund’s pricing time on the valuation date. Realized gains (losses) and unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investment securities include the effects of changes in exchange rates since the securities were purchased, combined with the effects of changes in security prices. Fluctuations in the value of other assets and liabilities resulting from changes in exchange rates are recorded as unrealized foreign currency gains (losses) until the assets or liabilities are settled in cash, at which time they are recorded as realized foreign currency gains (losses).
C. Repurchase Agreements: The fund enters into repurchase agreements with institutional counterparties. Securities pledged as collateral to the fund under repurchase agreements are held by a custodian bank until the agreements mature, and in the absence of a default, such collateral cannot be repledged, resold, or rehypothecated. Each agreement requires that the market value of the collateral be sufficient to cover payments of interest and principal. The fund further mitigates its counterparty risk by entering into repurchase agreements only with a diverse group of prequalified counterparties, monitoring their financial strength, and entering into master repurchase agreements with its counterparties. The master repurchase agreements provide that, in the event of a counterparty's default (including bankruptcy), the fund may terminate any repurchase agreements with that counterparty, determine the net amount owed, and sell or retain the collateral up to the net amount owed to the fund. Such action may be subject to legal proceedings, which may delay or limit the disposition of collateral.

D.  Various inputs may be used to determine the value of the fund’s investments. 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 valued with significant unobservable inputs are noted on the Schedule of Investments.
The following table summarizes the market value of the fund’s investments as of April 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 49,285,254 1,277,172 50,562,426
Temporary Cash Investments 26 820,400 820,426
Total 49,285,280 2,097,572 51,382,852