VAW
MaterialsVanguard Materials Index Fund ETF Shares
Vanguard · Tracks MSCI US Investable Market Materials 25/50 Index · Inception Feb 11, 2004
Composite score
Based on a 0.090% expense ratio.
Based on $4.49B in net assets.
Top-10 holdings represent 56.1% of net assets.
Materials base · ETF wrapper · 1.41% TTM yield.
The composite is a weighted average of the four core sub-scores above (cost, tax efficiency, liquidity, concentration). Missing sub-scores fall back to the per-category median when the category has at least 50% data coverage, so funds without (e.g.) parsed N-PORT holdings aren't accidentally boosted by renormalization. Tracking quality is shown where computable but isn't currently part of the composite weighting. See methodology for formulas, the tracking-quality partial-coverage rationale, and the dimensions we deliberately don't score (methodology v0.5.1).
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Top holdings
| # | Holding | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Linde PLC | 14.53% |
| 2 | Newmont Corp | 8.71% |
| 3 | Freeport-McMoRan Inc | 5.96% |
| 4 | Sherwin-Williams Co/The | 5.24% |
| 5 | CRH PLC | 4.92% |
| 6 | Ecolab Inc | 4.80% |
| 7 | Air Products and Chemicals Inc | 3.58% |
| 8 | Corteva Inc | 3.32% |
| 9 | Vulcan Materials Co | 2.50% |
| 10 | Martin Marietta Materials Inc | 2.49% |
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