UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM N-CSR
CERTIFIED SHAREHOLDER REPORT
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REGISTERED MANAGEMENT COMPANY
Investment Company Act file number: | 811-834 |
Name of Registrant: | Vanguard Windsor Funds |
Address of Registrant: | P.O. Box 2600 Valley Forge, PA 19482 |
Name and address of agent for service: | Heidi Stam, Esquire P.O. Box 876 Valley Forge, PA 19482 |
Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (610) 669-1000
Date of fiscal year end: | October 31 |
Date of reporting period: | November 1, 2005 - October 31, 2006 |
Item 1: | Reports to Shareholders |
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> | The Windsor Fund’s Investor Shares gained 19.7% with the help of a late-summer stock market rally. The fund slightly lagged its benchmark but finished ahead of the average return among peer funds. |
> | The fund achieved strong gains among airline companies, banking conglomerates, energy firms, and technology leaders. |
> | The fund has produced an average annual return of nearly 10% over the past decade. |
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Your Fund’s Total Returns | 1 |
Chairman’s Letter | 2 |
Advisors’ Report | 7 |
Fund Profile | 10 |
Performance Summary | 11 |
Financial Statements | 13 |
Your Fund’s After-Tax Returns | 27 |
About Your Fund’s Expenses | 28 |
Glossary | 30 |
Please note: The opinions expressed in this report are just that—informed opinions. They should not be considered promises or advice. Also, please keep in mind that the information and opinions cover the period through the date on the cover of this report. Of course, the risks of investing in your fund are spelled out in the prospectus.
Your Fund’s Total Returns
Fiscal Year Ended October 31, 2006 |
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Investor Shares | 19.7% |
Admiral™ Shares1 | 19.9 |
Russell 1000 Value Index | 21.5 |
Average Multi-Cap Value Fund2 | 17.8 |
Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 Index | 16.6 |
Your Fund’s Performance at a Glance |
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Investor Shares | $17.81 | $19.27 | $0.265 | $1.559 |
Admiral Shares | 60.12 | 65.04 | 0.970 | 5.260 |
1 A lower-cost class of shares available to many longtime shareholders and to those with significant investments in the fund.
2 Derived from data provided by Lipper Inc.
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Chairman’s Letter
Dear Shareholder,
A stock market rally late in the fiscal year helped drive Vanguard Windsor Fund’s Investor Shares to a 19.7% gain (19.9% for Admiral Shares). The performance put the fund ahead of the broad market and the average return for its peer group. The fund slightly lagged its benchmark, the Russell 1000 Value Index, which measures the return of value stocks and bears no investment or trading costs.
The fund’s best performers came from two formerly high-flying sectors: information technology and consumer discretionary, where valuations have dropped to more humble levels. The fund’s managers were successful in selecting many “fallen angels” that have rebounded strongly as the economy has remained on more solid footing than expected.
If you hold the Windsor Fund in a taxable account, you may wish to review our report on the fund’s after-tax returns on page 27.
Stocks produced fitful rallies and familiar patterns
U.S. stock prices advanced in fits and starts during the year ended October 31, 2006, reflecting the uncertainty that pervaded the market for much of the period. The broad market rallied at the start of the fiscal year, buoyed by strong corporate earnings growth and vigorous economic expansion. In mid-May, as investors responded to increasingly pungent whiffs of inflation, anxiety moved to the fore, and
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market indexes pulled back sharply. In late summer, optimism regained the upper hand. The broad market staged a powerful rally to post a 12-month return of 16.6%.
As has been the case for much of the past five years, smaller-capitalization stocks outperformed large-caps, and value-oriented stocks bested their growth-oriented counterparts. International stocks were especially strong performers; European and emerging-markets stocks led the way.
Rate hikes and inflation concerns drove the bond market
The fixed income markets reflected some of these same uncertainties, with the back-and-forth pattern most pronounced among the longest-maturity bonds. The Federal Reserve Board tightened monetary policy by raising its target for the federal funds rate six times during the fiscal year, to 5.25%, and the yields of short-term issues followed closely behind. The yields of longer-term securities, by contrast, dipped early in the year, rose sharply on inflation worries in May, then finished the period a bit above their starting point. The broad taxable bond market returned 5.2%. Corporate bonds generally outperformed government issues. Municipal bonds did better still.
Former growth stocks helped drive fund gains
Windsor Fund’s approach of investing in high-quality companies that trade at prices substantially below their estimated values was a winning strategy during the period. All of the fund’s industry segments but
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Russell 1000 Index (Large-caps) | 16.0% | 11.9% | 7.9% |
Russell 2000 Index (Small-caps) | 20.0 | 14.5 | 13.8 |
Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 Index (Entire market) | 16.6 | 12.4 | 8.9 |
MSCI All Country World Index ex USA (International) | 28.9 | 23.0 | 16.7 |
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Lehman Aggregate Bond Index (Broad taxable market) | 5.2% | 3.9% | 4.5% |
Lehman Municipal Bond Index | 5.7 | 4.8 | 5.1 |
Citigroup 3-Month Treasury Bill Index | 4.5 | 2.8 | 2.3 |
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Consumer Price Index | 1.3% | 2.9% | 2.6% |
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one (telecommunication services) enjoyed double-digit gains, reflecting the breadth of the late-summer stock market rally. The fund achieved strong gains among airline companies, banking conglomerates, energy firms, and technology giants. Citigroup and Bank of America, two of the fund’s weaker holdings a year ago, were both on the top-ten list of individual contributors.
Also among the top ten were some of the market’s largest IT companies, not traditionally the fare of a value portfolio. The largest single contributor to the fund’s returns was Cisco Systems, which has seen strong demand for its networking services. Not far behind was another tech company—Microsoft—whose once-lofty valuation has been pulled down by a maturing business and market skepticism.
The fund was well-positioned within the consumer discretionary sector, which has been a difficult place to make headway as consumers struggle with heavy debt burdens and energy costs. The fund had a large position in cable company Comcast, which has successfully marketed a broad menu of entertainment and communication services. The fund also dodged poorly performing consumer-related companies whose fortunes are tied to homebuilding.
There were a few missteps. Boston Scientific struggled amid regulatory concerns over some of its medical products that address heart disease. Like Boston Scientific, Sprint Nextel is undergoing a protracted merger that dampened returns.
Expense Ratios1 |
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Your fund compared with its peer group |
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Windsor Fund | 0.36% | 0.25% | 1.38% |
1 Fund expense ratios reflect the 12 months ended October 31, 2006. Peer-group expense ratio is derived from data provided by Lipper Inc. and captures information through year-end 2005.
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The fund slightly lagged its benchmark because of relatively weaker stock selection in telecommunication services, health care, and financial services. More than a third of the index is made up of financials stocks; the fund’s weighting is closer to one-fifth. During the fiscal year, the fund’s selections in this area failed to keep pace with those in the index.
For more information on the fund’s positioning during the fiscal year, see the Advisors’ Report on page 7.
Fund’s performance withstands rotation in market cycles
The past ten years have shown that investment strategies focused primarily on one segment of the market can be a Jekyll-and-Hyde affair. In the late 1990s, investors bet heavily that only growth stocks would advance in the so-called New Economy. When the bear market began in 2000, value stocks roared back. Large-cap value stocks outperformed large-cap growth stocks in 2000 and have done so every calendar year since.
Averaged over ten years, these two cycles translate to an annual return of nearly 10% for the Windsor Fund’s investors. That performance puts the fund slightly ahead of the average among multi-cap value funds that have remained in existence for ten years. It also puts the fund a full percentage point ahead of the broad market and behind its value index by about the same amount.
A hypothetical investment of $10,000 made at the beginning of the ten years ended October 31 would have grown to $25,741 in Windsor’s Investor Shares, or
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Windsor Fund Investor Shares | 9.9% | $25,741 |
Russell 1000 Value Index | 11.1 | 28,744 |
Average Multi-Cap Value Fund | 9.4 | 24,587 |
Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 Index | 8.9 | 23,395 |
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$1,154 more than the average result that would have been obtained from a similar investment in competing funds.
A long-term perspective and diversification are important
The market’s split personality over the past decade highlights the importance of sticking with an investment for the long term. This is especially true for Vanguard Windsor Fund, which stays true to its contrarian ideas—sometimes investing heavily in stocks that have fallen out of favor with investors. This approach requires that investors have the patience to remain in the fund long enough for the managers’ convictions to play out.
The risk inherent in such an approach is ameliorated by employing two managers. The different, yet complementary, investment strategies of Wellington Management Company, LLP, and AllianceBernstein L.P. (Wellington Management has advised the fund since its inception and AllianceBernstein has done so since 1999) have provided competitive performance over much of the past decade at a very modest cost. (For more about fund costs, please see page 28.) Central to the advisors’ approach is the search for attractive valuations and for companies with the potential for long-term growth.
Sticking with a carefully considered, balanced portfolio of stock, bond, and money market mutual funds suited to your unique circumstances is key to your long-term investing success. By providing you with exposure to talented advisors plying their skills among mid- and large-cap value stocks, the Windsor Fund can play an important role in such a diversified portfolio.
Thank you for investing your assets with Vanguard.
Sincerely,
John J. Brennan
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
November 10, 2006
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Advisors’ Report
During the 12 months ended October 31, 2006, Investor Shares of Vanguard Windsor Fund returned 19.7%, and the lower-cost Admiral Shares returned 19.9%. This performance reflected the combined efforts of your fund’s two independent advisors. The use of two advisors provides exposure to distinct, yet complementary, investment approaches, enhancing the fund’s diversification.
The advisors, the percentage of fund assets each manages, and brief descriptions of their investment strategies are presented in the table below. The advisors have also prepared a discussion of the investment environment that existed during the 2006 fiscal year and of how their portfolio positioning reflects this assessment.
Wellington Management Company, LLP
Portfolio Manager:
David R. Fassnacht, CFA, Senior Vice President and Partner
After a strong first half of fiscal 2006, the combination of Iranian nuclear ambitions, accelerating inflation, a deteriorating housing market, and fears of a recession caused a summertime “flight to safety” in the market. During such periods, our performance typically suffers; however, we seek to opportunistically capitalize on this volatility. From mid-August onward, our performance rebounded strongly as recession fears abated.
Among the largest contributors to performance over the past year was our package of four major airlines, which benefited from an improved industry
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Wellington Management | 68 | 15,704 | An opportunistic, contrarian investment approach that |
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AllianceBernstein L.P. | 29 | 6,771 | A value focus that couples rigorous fundamental |
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Cash Investments1 | 3 | 652 | — |
1 These short-term reserves are invested by Vanguard in equity index products to simulate investment in stocks. Each advisor may also maintain a modest cash position.
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structure. Cable industry leader Comcast, one of our largest holdings, was the biggest contributor to performance in our portion of the portfolio this year, as the market finally came around to our view that Comcast’s ability to offer many new services over the same infrastructure was a winning strategy. Our investments within information technology also bore fruit, driven by a strong contribution from our largest holding, Cisco Systems, along with assists from LAM Research, Symantec, and Sun Microsystems. Among the largest detractors from performance were Boston Scientific and Sprint Nextel. In both cases we bought the stocks too early and suffered the consequences as both companies fumbled the execution of mergers.
For 2007 we anticipate decelerating economic growth, though we do not look for a recession. Currently, global capital markets are awash in liquidity, and until there is a shock to the system, we expect continued upward pressure on equity valuations. In addition to a number of material geopolitical and economic risks, the extreme underpricing of credit risk has the potential to destabilize capital markets at some point in the future. In preparation for such a time, we have increased our focus on companies with strong free cash flow, good liquidity, and no near-term need to access capital markets.
AllianceBernstein L.P.
Portfolio Managers:
Marilyn G. Fedak, CFA, Chief Investment Officer and Chair of the U.S. Equity Investment Policy Group
John D. Phillips, Jr., CFA, Senior Portfolio Manager
The U.S. equity market remains unusually calm, reflecting the relative stability of global economic and corporate profit growth over the past several years—and the belief that these conditions will continue. This complacency has led investors to downplay the risks inherent in owning companies with peak cyclical earnings and has made them less willing to pay the normal premium for companies with more stable earnings and higher long-term growth potential. As a result, valuation spreads between the least expensive and the most expensive stocks have become extremely compressed, limiting value opportunities.
A central tenet of our investment process is to align our risk-taking with the overall value opportunity we see in the market. Hence, in the current environment, our portfolio risk remains low and we expect our portfolio’s performance to be driven primarily by the value opportunities our research has uncovered in individual stocks across diverse industries.
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We’ve identified an overarching value theme in mega-capitalization stocks; consequently, we own more of them than usual. Despite solid fundamentals, these stocks have lagged in recent years as investors have found much stronger earnings growth among smaller-cap, more cyclical companies. Thus, the best values as we define them, based on the relationship between share prices and our estimates of free cash flows available for return to investors, have shifted from the smaller- to the larger-cap stocks. The mega-cap bargains we own include blue-chip companies such as Boeing, General Electric, Microsoft, and PepsiCo.
Within the financial sector, we have largely shifted from smaller-cap consumer-oriented banks to the three largest U.S. banks—Citigroup, Bank of America, and JPMorgan Chase. All three offer large, diversified earnings streams at attractive valuations, and are trading at a significant discount to the financials-group average and the market.
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Fund Profile
As of October 31, 2006
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Number of Stocks | 138 | 610 | 4,956 |
Median Market Cap | $59.1B | $48.7B | $28.7B |
Price/Earnings Ratio | 18.2x | 14.6x | 17.7x |
Price/Book Ratio | 2.3x | 2.2x | 2.6x |
Yield |
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Investor Shares | 1.4% |
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Return on Equity | 13.7% | 17.3% | 15.4% |
Earnings Growth Rate | 16.7% | 16.2% | 15.5% |
Foreign Holdings | 10.3% | 0.0% | 1.1% |
Turnover Rate | 38% | — | — |
Expense Ratio |
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Investor Shares | 0.36% |
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Short-Term Reserves | 3% | — | — |
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Consumer Discretionary | 13% | 9% | 12% |
Consumer Staples | 5 | 8 | 9 |
Energy | 5 | 13 | 9 |
Financials | 22 | 36 | 22 |
Health Care | 12 | 7 | 12 |
Industrials | 12 | 7 | 11 |
Information Technology | 17 | 4 | 16 |
Materials | 5 | 4 | 3 |
Telecommunication Services | 5 | 6 | 3 |
Utilities | 1 | 6 | 3 |
Short-Term Reserves | 3% | — | — |
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R-Squared | 0.84 | 0.93 |
Beta | 1.05 | 1.01 |
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Cisco Systems, Inc. | communications equipment | 4.5% |
Comcast Corp. | broadcasting and cable TV | 4.1 |
Bank of America Corp. | diversified financial services | 3.9 |
Sanofi-Aventis | pharmaceuticals | 3.4 |
Citigroup, Inc. | diversified financial services | 3.4 |
Microsoft Corp. | systems software | 3.3 |
Wyeth | pharmaceuticals | 3.1 |
Tyco International Ltd. | industrial conglomerates | 2.8 |
Sprint Nextel Corp. | wireless telecommunication services | 2.8 |
Alcoa Inc. | aluminum | 2.2 |
Top Ten |
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Investment Focus
1 Russell 1000 Value Index.
2 Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 Index.
3 For an explanation of R-squared, beta, and other terms used here, see the Glossary on page 30.
4 “Ten Largest Holdings” excludes any temporary cash investments and equity index products.
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Performance Summary
All of the returns in this report represent past performance, which is not a guarantee of future results that may be achieved by the fund. (Current performance may be lower or higher than the performance data cited. For performance data current to the most recent month-end, visit our website at www.vanguard.com.) Note, too, that both investment returns and principal value can fluctuate widely, so an investor’s shares, when sold, could be worth more or less than their original cost. The returns shown do not reflect taxes that a shareholder would pay on fund distributions or on the sale of fund shares.
Cumulative Performance: October 31, 1996–October 31, 2006
Initial Investment of $10,000
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Windsor Fund Investor Shares | 19.72% | 10.06% | 9.92% | $25,741 |
Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 Index | 16.61 | 8.89 | 8.87 | 23,395 |
Russell 1000 Value Index | 21.46 | 11.64 | 11.14 | 28,744 |
Average Multi-Cap Value Fund1 | 17.77 | 9.94 | 9.41 | 24,587 |
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Windsor Fund Admiral Shares | 19.85% | 9.41% | $156,290 |
Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 Index | 16.61 | 7.87 | 145,682 |
Russell 1000 Value Index | 21.46 | 10.83 | 166,692 |
1 Derived from data provided by Lipper Inc.
2 November 12, 2001.
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Fiscal-Year Total Returns (%): October 31, 1996–October 31, 2006
Average Annual Total Returns: Periods Ended September 30, 2006
This table presents average annual total returns through the latest calendar quarter—rather than through the end of the fiscal period. Securities and Exchange Commission rules require that we provide this information.
| Inception Date | One Year | Five Years | Ten Years |
Investor Shares | 10/23/1958 | 11.56% | 9.43% | 9.89% |
Admiral Shares | 11/12/2001 | 11.69 | 8.571 | — |
1 Return since inception.
Note: See Financial Highlights tables on pages 19 and 20 for dividend and capital gains information.
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Financial Statements
Statement of Net Assets
As of October 31, 2006
The fund provides a complete list of its holdings four times in each fiscal year, at the quarter-ends. For the second and fourth fiscal quarters, the lists appear in the fund’s semiannual and annual reports to shareholders. For the first and third fiscal quarters, the fund files the lists with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Form N-Q. Shareholders can look up the fund’s Forms N-Q on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. Forms N-Q may also be reviewed and copied at the SEC’s Public Reference Room (see the back cover of this report for further information).
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Common Stocks (96.0%)1 |
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* | Comcast Corp. Special Class A | 16,684,600 | 675,393 |
* 2 | R.H. Donnelley Corp. | 5,776,600 | 347,867 |
* | Comcast Corp. Class A | 6,761,183 | 274,977 |
| Time Warner, Inc. | 12,837,500 | 256,878 |
* | Viacom Inc. Class B | 5,724,500 | 222,798 |
2 | Lear Corp. | 6,170,100 | 186,399 |
| McDonald’s Corp. | 2,765,000 | 115,909 |
| CBS Corp. | 3,801,000 | 110,001 |
| Clear Channel Communications, Inc. | 2,601,600 | 90,666 |
| Compagnie Generale des Etablissements Michelin SA | 1,100,209 | 89,681 |
* | Toyota Motor Corp. ADR | 585,000 | 69,030 |
* | Liberty Global, Inc. Series C | 2,227,005 | 56,633 |
^ | DaimlerChrysler AG | 930,000 | 52,945 |
| Target Corp. | 885,000 | 52,374 |
* | Office Depot, Inc. | 1,233,722 | 51,804 |
* | Interpublic Group of Cos., Inc. | 3,970,000 | 43,313 |
| Limited Brands, Inc. | 1,270,000 | 37,427 |
| Cablevision Systems NY Group Class A | 1,218,800 | 33,870 |
| BorgWarner, Inc. | 468,800 | 26,956 |
* | Liberty Global, Inc. Class A | 1,020,500 | 26,778 |
| Black & Decker Corp. | 223,988 | 18,788 |
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| Unilever NV | 8,612,773 | 212,399 |
| Bunge Ltd. | 2,926,200 | 187,599 |
| Altria Group, Inc. | 2,049,800 | 166,710 |
| The Procter & Gamble Co. | 1,704,000 | 108,017 |
| Safeway, Inc. | 2,891,600 | 84,897 |
| The Coca-Cola Co. | 1,805,000 | 84,330 |
| The Clorox Co. | 1,280,000 | 82,637 |
| The Kroger Co. | 3,291,350 | 74,022 |
| PepsiCo, Inc. | 1,090,000 | 69,150 |
| Kellogg Co. | 1,060,000 | 53,329 |
| Unilever NV ADR | 1,700,000 | 41,140 |
| Sara Lee Corp. | 2,000,000 | 34,200 |
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Energy (5.2%) |
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| ExxonMobil Corp. | 5,269,008 | 376,312 |
| Chevron Corp. | 2,683,478 | 180,330 |
| GlobalSantaFe Corp. | 2,684,200 | 139,310 |
| Total SA ADR | 1,590,800 | 108,397 |
| EnCana Corp. | 2,030,638 | 96,435 |
| Petro Canada | 1,724,400 | 73,442 |
| Petroleo Brasileiro Series A ADR | 865,200 | 70,047 |
| ConocoPhillips Co. | 1,158,798 | 69,806 |
| Petroleo Brasileiro ADR | 585,700 | 51,987 |
| ENSCO International, Inc. | 533,700 | 26,135 |
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| UBS AG (New York Shares) | 3,425,600 | 204,988 |
| Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. | 1,800,000 | 157,356 |
* | E*TRADE Financial Corp. | 6,096,100 | 141,917 |
| The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. | 335,000 | 63,580 |
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| Wachovia Corp. | 2,087,162 | 115,837 |
| National City Corp. | 2,362,600 | 88,007 |
| SunTrust Banks, Inc. | 830,000 | 65,562 |
| Wells Fargo & Co. | 1,020,000 | 37,016 |
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| Capital One Financial Corp. | 2,749,300 | 218,102 |
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| Bank of America Corp. | 16,635,498 | 896,154 |
| Citigroup, Inc. | 15,517,846 | 778,375 |
| JPMorgan Chase & Co. | 4,903,100 | 232,603 |
| CIT Group Inc. | 3,371,600 | 175,492 |
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| Insurance (6.5%) |
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| American International Group, Inc. | 5,917,200 | 397,458 |
| ACE Ltd. | 4,827,100 | 276,351 |
| The Allstate Corp. | 2,925,400 | 179,502 |
| MetLife, Inc. | 1,773,100 | 101,297 |
| PartnerRe Ltd. | 1,445,700 | 101,083 |
| The St. Paul Travelers, Cos. Inc. | 1,416,917 | 72,447 |
| XL Capital Ltd. Class A | 980,000 | 69,139 |
| The Chubb Corp. | 1,282,893 | 68,186 |
| Genworth Financial Inc. | 1,910,000 | 63,870 |
| The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. | 566,200 | 49,356 |
| Everest Re Group, Ltd. | 455,800 | 45,206 |
| IPC Holdings Ltd. | 1,443,400 | 43,360 |
| RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. | 657,250 | 35,754 |
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| Fannie Mae | 2,319,000 | 137,424 |
| Freddie Mac | 1,650,000 | 113,833 |
* | Dime Bancorp Inc.–Litigation Tracking Warrants | 7,457,300 | 820 |
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Health Care (11.4%) |
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| Wyeth | 14,257,800 | 727,576 |
| Sanofi-Aventis ADR | 10,887,700 | 464,796 |
| Sanofi-Aventis | 3,704,373 | 315,445 |
| Astellas Pharma Inc. | 6,224,900 | 279,883 |
* | Boston Scientific Corp. | 15,781,559 | 251,085 |
| Pfizer Inc. | 7,380,000 | 196,677 |
| Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. | 7,019,300 | 173,728 |
| Aetna Inc. | 2,235,200 | 92,135 |
| Merck & Co., Inc. | 1,447,300 | 65,736 |
| AmerisourceBergen Corp. | 862,573 | 40,713 |
| Eli Lilly & Co. | 582,000 | 32,598 |
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| Tyco International Ltd. | 22,395,500 | 659,100 |
2 | Goodrich Corp. | 8,183,700 | 360,819 |
* 2 | UAL Corp. | 8,561,100 | 307,686 |
| General Electric Co. | 7,330,000 | 257,356 |
| Deere & Co. | 2,283,100 | 194,360 |
* | US Airways Group Inc. | 5,908,675 | 294,607 |
| American Standard Cos., Inc. | 2,800,900 | 124,052 |
| The Boeing Co. | 1,145,000 | 91,440 |
* | AMR Corp. | 2,118,000 | 60,024 |
| Northrop Grumman Corp. | 850,000 | 56,431 |
| Textron, Inc. | 504,450 | 45,870 |
| Norfolk Southern Corp. | 756,652 | 39,777 |
| Eaton Corp. | 537,800 | 38,953 |
| CSX Corp. | 929,800 | 33,166 |
| SPX Corp. | 564,012 | 32,442 |
| Cooper Industries, Inc. Class A | 191,000 | 17,085 |
|
|
| 2,613,168 |
Information Technology (17.0%) |
|
| |
* | Cisco Systems, Inc. | 43,452,600 | 1,048,511 |
| Microsoft Corp. | 26,530,100 | 761,679 |
* 2 | Arrow Electronics, Inc. | 12,460,617 | 371,949 |
* | Sun Microsystems, Inc. | 59,523,800 | 323,214 |
* | Flextronics International Ltd. | 22,161,200 | 257,070 |
| Applied Materials, Inc. | 14,224,900 | 247,371 |
| LM Ericsson Telephone Co. ADR Class B | 6,014,900 | 227,483 |
* | Symantec Corp. | 8,018,800 | 159,093 |
* | Avnet, Inc. | 4,841,600 | 114,649 |
* | NCR Corp. | 2,200,600 | 91,369 |
| International Business Machines Corp. | 980,000 | 90,483 |
| Electronic Data Systems Corp. | 2,990,000 | 75,737 |
* | Unisys Corp. | 5,676,300 | 37,123 |
* | Solectron Corp. | 10,387,300 | 34,694 |
* | Sanmina-SCI Corp. | 8,423,608 | 33,273 |
| Hewlett-Packard Co. | 858,100 | 33,243 |
| Nokia Corp. ADR | 1,550,000 | 30,814 |
* | Tellabs, Inc. | 5,893 | 62 |
|
|
| 3,937,817 |
Materials (5.0%) |
|
| |
| Alcoa Inc. | 17,727,868 | 512,513 |
| E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. | 7,547,900 | 345,694 |
* | Smurfit-Stone Container Corp. | 10,981,363 | 117,061 |
| Chemtura Corp. | 7,924,900 | 67,996 |
* | Owens-Illinois, Inc. | 2,797,200 | 46,434 |
| Temple-Inland Inc. | 936,200 | 36,924 |
| Mittal Steel Co. NV NYS | 800,505 | 34,222 |
* | Arkema ADR | 15,920 | 774 |
|
|
| 1,161,618 |
Telecommunication Services (5.3%) |
|
| |
| Sprint Nextel Corp. | 34,400,182 | 642,939 |
| Verizon Communications Inc. | 7,456,642 | 275,896 |
| AT&T Inc. | 4,751,670 | 162,745 |
| Embarq Corp. | 1,451,441 | 70,177 |
* | American Tower Corp. Class A | 938,250 | 33,796 |
* | Crown Castle International Corp. | 850,100 | 28,606 |
| BellSouth Corp. | 330,300 | 14,896 |
|
|
| 1,229,055 |
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|
|
| Market |
|
|
| Value• |
|
| Shares | ($000) |
Utilities (1.0%) |
|
| |
| Entergy Corp. | 1,009,600 | 86,654 |
| Constellation Energy Group, Inc. | 831,425 | 51,881 |
| American Electric Power Co., Inc. | 1,055,300 | 43,721 |
* | Allegheny Energy, Inc. | 800,000 | 34,424 |
|
|
| 216,680 |
Other (0.1%) |
|
| |
3 | Miscellaneous |
| 26,913 |
|
|
|
|
Exchange-Traded Funds (0.9%) |
|
| |
4 | Vanguard Value ETF | 1,689,100 | 110,873 |
4 | Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF | 696,000 | 94,656 |
|
|
| 205,529 |
Total Common Stocks |
|
| |
(Cost $17,590,522) |
| 22,192,345 | |
Temporary Cash Investments (5.5%)1 |
|
| |
Money Market Fund (2.5%) |
|
| |
5 | Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund, 5.289% | 528,457,456 | 528,457 |
5 | Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund, 5.289%—Note G | 43,793,100 | 43,793 |
|
|
|
|
|
| Face |
|
|
| Amount |
|
|
| ($000) |
|
Repurchase Agreement (2.9%) |
|
| |
| SBC Warburg Dillon Read |
|
|
| 5.310%, 11/1/06 (Dated 10/31/06,Repurchase Value |
|
|
| $669,998,000, collateralized by Federal Home Loan |
|
|
| Mortgage Corp.4.000%–8.000%,7/1/08–7/1/33, and |
|
|
| Federal National Mortgage Assn.,5.000%–7.500%, |
|
|
| 1/1/18–10/1/36) | 669,900 | 669,900 |
| Face | Market |
| Amount | Value• |
| ($000) | ($000) |
U.S Agency Obligation (0.1%) |
|
|
6 Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. |
|
|
7 5.150%, 12/26/06 | 30,000 | 29,767 |
Total Temporary Cash Investments |
|
|
(Cost $1,271,917) |
| 1,271,917 |
Total Investments (101.5%) |
|
|
(Cost $18,862,439) |
| 23,464,262 |
Other Assets and Liabilities—Net (–1.5%) |
| (337,465) |
Net Assets (100%) |
| 23,126,797 |
|
|
|
Statement of Assets and Liabilities |
|
|
Assets |
|
|
Investments in Securities, at Value |
| 23,464,262 |
Receivables for Investment Securities Sold |
| 72,489 |
Receivables for Capital Shares Issued |
| 13,322 |
Other Assets—Note C |
| 21,086 |
Total Assets |
| 23,571,159 |
Liabilities |
|
|
Payables for Investment Securities Purchased |
| 345,270 |
Security Lending Collateral Payable to Brokers—Note G |
| 43,793 |
Payables for Capital Shares Redeemed |
| 12,833 |
Other Liabilities |
| 42,466 |
Total Liabilities |
| 444,362 |
Net Assets |
| 23,126,797 |
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At October 31, 2006, net assets consisted of:8 | |
| Amount |
| ($000) |
Paid-in Capital | 16,627,276 |
Undistributed Net Investment Income | 69,817 |
Accumulated Net Realized Gains | 1,807,661 |
Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) |
|
Investment Securities | 4,601,823 |
Futures Contracts | 20,247 |
Foreign Currencies | (27) |
Net Assets | 23,126,797 |
|
|
Investor Shares—Net Assets |
|
Applicable to 733,790,134 outstanding $.001par value shares of beneficial |
|
interest (unlimited authorization) | 14,140,102 |
Net Asset Value Per Share— |
|
Investor Shares | $19.27 |
|
|
Admiral Shares—Net Assets |
|
Applicable to 138,173,640 outstanding $.001par value shares of beneficial |
|
interest (unlimited authorization) | 8,986,695 |
Net Asset Value Per Share— |
|
Admiral Shares | $65.04 |
• See Note A in Notes to Financial Statements.
* Non-income-producing security.
^ Part of security position is on loan to broker-dealers. See Note G in Notes to Financial Statements.
1 The fund invests a portion of its cash reserves in equity markets through the use of index futures contracts. After giving effect to futures investments, the fund’s effective common stock and temporary cash investment positions represent 97.9% and 3.6%, respectively, of net assets. See Note E in Notes to Financial Statements.
2 Considered an affiliated company of the fund as the fund owns more than 5% of the outstanding voting securities of such company. See Note I in Notes to Financial Statements.
3 Securities representing up to 5% of the market value of unaffiliated securities are permitted to be combined and reported as “miscellaneous securities” provided that they have been held for less than one year and not previously reported by name.
4 Considered an affiliated company of the fund as the issuer is another member of The Vanguard Group.
5 Affiliated money market fund available only to Vanguard funds and certain trusts and accounts managed by Vanguard. Rate shown is the 7-day yield.
6 The issuer operates under a congressional charter; its securities are neither issued nor guaranteed by the U.S. government. If needed, access to additional funding from the U.S. Treasury (beyond the issuer’s line of credit) would require congressional action.
7 Securities with a value of $29,767,000 have been segregated as initial margin for open futures contracts.
8 See Note E in Notes to Financial Statements for the tax-basis components of net assets.
ADR—American Depositary Receipt.
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Statement of Operations
| Year Ended |
| October 31, 2006 |
| ($000) |
Investment Income |
|
Income |
|
Dividends1,2 | 364,002 |
Interest2 | 39,523 |
Security Lending | 1,343 |
Total Income | 404,868 |
Expenses |
|
Investment Advisory Fees—Note B |
|
Basic Fee | 26,763 |
Performance Adjustment | 5,243 |
The Vanguard Group—Note C |
|
Management and Administrative—Investor Shares | 25,201 |
Management and Administrative—Admiral Shares | 7,436 |
Marketing and Distribution—Investor Shares | 2,623 |
Marketing and Distribution—Admiral Shares | 1,319 |
Custodian Fees | 185 |
Auditing Fees | 23 |
Shareholders’ Reports—Investor Shares | 388 |
Shareholders’ Reports—Admiral Shares | 39 |
Trustees’ Fees and Expenses | 23 |
Total Expenses | 69,243 |
Expenses Paid Indirectly—Note D | (1,728) |
Net Expenses | 67,515 |
Net Investment Income | 337,353 |
Realized Net Gain (Loss) |
|
Investment Securities Sold2 | 1,961,278 |
Futures Contracts | 19,365 |
Foreign Currencies | (346) |
Realized Net Gain (Loss) | 1,980,297 |
Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) |
|
Investment Securities | 1,582,367 |
Futures Contracts | 21,840 |
Foreign Currencies | (21) |
Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) | 1,604,186 |
Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations | 3,921,836 |
1 Dividends are net of foreign withholding taxes of $5,328,000.
2 Dividend income, interest income and realized net gain (loss) from affiliated companies of the fund were $14,245,000, $24,879,000, and ($54,085,000), respectively.
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Statement of Changes in Net Assets
| Year Ended October 31, | |
| 2006 | 2005 |
| ($000) | ($000) |
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets |
|
|
Operations |
|
|
Net Investment Income | 337,353 | 311,976 |
Realized Net Gain (Loss) | 1,980,297 | 1,879,945 |
Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) | 1,604,186 | (541,252) |
Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations | 3,921,836 | 1,650,669 |
Distributions |
|
|
Net Investment Income |
|
|
Investor Shares | (192,991) | (248,991) |
Admiral Shares | (128,970) | (77,990) |
Realized Capital Gain1 |
|
|
Investor Shares | (1,113,365) | (78,917) |
Admiral Shares | (659,656) | (22,180) |
Total Distributions | (2,094,982) | (428,078) |
Capital Share Transactions—Note H |
|
|
Investor Shares | 147,757 | (3,291,361) |
Admiral Shares | 730,142 | 3,166,211 |
Net Increase (Decrease) from Capital Share Transactions | 877,899 | (125,150) |
Total Increase (Decrease) | 2,704,753 | 1,097,441 |
Net Assets |
|
|
Beginning of Period | 20,422,044 | 19,324,603 |
End of Period2 | 23,126,797 | 20,422,044 |
1 Includes fiscal 2006 and 2005 short-term gain distributions totaling $226,319,000 and $0, respectively. Short-term gain distributions are treated as ordinary income dividends for tax purposes.
2 Net Assets—End of Period includes undistributed net investment income of $69,817,000 and $54,771,000.
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Financial Highlights
Windsor Fund Investor Shares |
|
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|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
For a Share Outstanding | Year Ended October 31, | |||||
Throughout Each Period | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | |
Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period | $17.81 | $16.75 | $15.23 | $11.81 | $14.27 | |
Investment Operations |
|
|
|
|
| |
Net Investment Income | .277 | .2651 | .214 | .17 | .164 | |
Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) |
|
|
|
|
| |
on Investments | 3.007 | 1.163 | 1.501 | 3.42 | (2.143) | |
Total from Investment Operations | 3.284 | 1.428 | 1.715 | 3.59 | (1.979) | |
Distributions |
|
|
|
|
| |
Dividends from Net Investment Income | (.265) | (.280) | (.195) | (.17) | (.169) | |
Distributions from Realized Capital Gains | (1.559) | (.088) | — | — | (.312) | |
Total Distributions | (1.824) | (.368) | (.195) | (.17) | (.481) | |
Net Asset Value, End of Period | $19.27 | $17.81 | $16.75 | $15.23 | $11.81 | |
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|
| |
Total Return | 19.72% | 8.54% | 11.30% | 30.66% | –14.55% | |
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|
| |
Ratios/Supplemental Data |
|
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|
| |
Net Assets, End of Period (Millions) | $14,140 | $12,871 | $15,130 | $13,733 | $11,012 | |
Ratio of Total Expenses to |
|
|
|
|
| |
Average Net Assets2 | 0.36% | 0.37% | 0.39% | 0.48% | 0.45% | |
Ratio of Net Investment Income to |
|
|
|
|
| |
Average Net Assets | 1.50% | 1.47%1 | 1.32% | 1.27% | 1.16% | |
Portfolio Turnover Rate | 38% | 32% | 28% | 23% | 30% | |
1 Net investment income per share and the ratio of net investment income to average net assets include $0.03 and 0.17%, respectively, resulting from a special dividend from Microsoft Corp. in November 2004.
2 Includes performance-based investment advisory fee increases (decreases) of 0.02%, 0.04%, 0.04%, 0.08%, and 0.08%.
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Windsor Fund Admiral Shares |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Nov. 12, |
|
|
|
| 20011 to | |
For a Share Outstanding | Year Ended October 31, | Oct. 31, | |||
Throughout Each Period | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 |
Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period | $60.12 | $56.56 | $51.41 | $39.88 | $50.00 |
Investment Operations |
|
|
|
|
|
Net Investment Income | 1.00 | .9682 | .787 | .605 | .556 |
Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) |
|
|
|
|
|
on Investments | 10.15 | 3.896 | 5.082 | 11.537 | (9.030) |
Total from Investment Operations | 11.15 | 4.864 | 5.869 | 12.142 | (8.474) |
Distributions |
|
|
|
|
|
Dividends from Net Investment Income | (.97) | (1.007) | (.719) | (.612) | (.592) |
Distributions from Realized Capital Gains | (5.26) | (.297) | — | — | (1.054) |
Total Distributions | (6.23) | (1.304) | (.719) | (.612) | (1.646) |
Net Asset Value, End of Period | $65.04 | $60.12 | $56.56 | $51.41 | $39.88 |
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|
|
|
Total Return | 19.85% | 8.62% | 11.46% | 30.72% | –17.61% |
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Ratios/Supplemental Data |
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Net Assets, End of Period (Millions) | $8,987 | $7,551 | $4,195 | $3,321 | $2,214 |
Ratio of Total Expenses to Average Net Assets3 | 0.25% | 0.27% | 0.28% | 0.37% | 0.40%* |
Ratio of Net Investment Income to |
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|
|
|
|
Average Net Assets | 1.61% | 1.57%2 | 1.43% | 1.36% | 1.22%* |
Portfolio Turnover Rate | 38% | 32% | 28% | 23% | 30% |
1 Inception.
2 Net investment income per share and the ratio of net investment income to average net assets include $0.110 and 0.17%, respectively, resulting from a special dividend from Microsoft Corp. in November 2004.
3 Includes performance-based investment advisory fee increases (decreases) of 0.02%, 0.04%, 0.04%, 0.08%, and 0.08%.
* | Annualized. |
See accompanying Notes, which are an integral part of the Financial Statements.
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Notes to Financial Statements
Vanguard Windsor Fund is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 as an open-end investment company, or mutual fund. The fund files reports with the SEC under the company name Vanguard Windsor Funds. The fund offers two classes of shares, Investor Shares and Admiral Shares. Investor Shares are available to any investor who meets the fund’s minimum purchase requirements. Admiral Shares are designed for investors who meet certain administrative, servicing, tenure, and account-size criteria.
A. The following significant accounting policies conform to generally accepted accounting principles for U.S. mutual funds. The fund consistently follows such policies in preparing its financial statements.
1. Security Valuation: Securities are valued as of the close of trading on the New York Stock Exchange (generally 4:00 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 at their fair values calculated according to procedures adopted 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. Temporary cash investments acquired over 60 days to maturity 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. Other temporary cash investments are valued at amortized cost, which approximates market value.
2. Foreign Currency: Securities and other assets and liabilities denominated in foreign currencies are translated into U.S. dollars at the exchange rates on the valuation date as employed by Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) in the calculation of its indexes. As part of the fund’s fair-value procedures, exchange rates may be adjusted if they change significantly before the fund’s pricing time but after the time at which the MSCI rates are determined (generally 11:00 a.m. Eastern time).
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 asset or liability is settled in cash, when they are recorded as realized foreign currency gains (losses).
3. 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.
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Futures contracts are valued at their quoted daily settlement prices. The aggregate principal amounts of the contracts are not recorded in the Statement of Net Assets. Fluctuations in the value of the contracts are recorded in the Statement of Net Assets as an asset (liability) and in the Statement of Operations as unrealized appreciation (depreciation) until the contracts are closed, when they are recorded as realized futures gains (losses).
4. Repurchase Agreements: The fund may invest in repurchase agreements. Securities pledged as collateral for repurchase agreements are held by a custodian bank until the agreements mature. Each agreement requires that the market value of the collateral be sufficient to cover payments of interest and principal; however, in the event of default or bankruptcy by the other party to the agreement, retention of the collateral may be subject to legal proceedings.
5. Federal Income Taxes: The fund intends to continue to qualify as a regulated investment company and distribute all of its taxable income. Accordingly, no provision for federal income taxes is required in the financial statements.
6. Distributions: Distributions to shareholders are recorded on the ex-dividend date.
7. Security Lending: The fund may lend its securities to qualified institutional borrowers to earn additional income. Security loans are required to be secured at all times by collateral at least equal to the market value of securities loaned. The fund invests cash collateral received in Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund, and records a liability for the return of the collateral, during the period the securities are on loan. Security lending income represents the income earned on investing cash collateral, less expenses associated with the loan.
8. Other: Dividend income is recorded on the ex-dividend date. Interest income includes income distributions received from Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund and is accrued daily. Security transactions are accounted for on the date securities are bought or sold. Costs used to determine realized gains (losses) on the sale of investment securities are those of the specific securities sold.
Each class of shares has equal rights as to assets and earnings, except that each class separately bears certain class-specific expenses related to maintenance of shareholder accounts (included in Management and Administrative expenses) and shareholder reporting. Marketing and distribution expenses are allocated to each class of shares based on a method approved by the board of trustees. Income, other non-class-specific expenses, and gains and losses on investments are allocated to each class of shares based on its relative net assets.
B. Wellington Management Company, LLP, and AllianceBernstein L.P. each provide investment advisory services to a portion of the fund for a fee calculated at an annual percentage rate of average net assets managed by the advisor. The basic fees of each advisor are subject to quarterly adjustments based on performance for the preceding three years relative to a designated market index: for Wellington Management Company, LLP, the S&P 500 Index; and for AllianceBernstein L.P., the Russell 1000 Value Index.
The Vanguard Group manages the cash reserves of the fund on an at-cost basis.
For the year ended October 31, 2006, the aggregate investment advisory fee represented an effective annual basic rate of 0.12% of the fund’s average net assets before an increase of $5,243,000 (0.02%) based on performance.
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C. The Vanguard Group furnishes at cost corporate management, administrative, marketing, and distribution services. The costs of such services are allocated to the fund under methods approved by the board of trustees. The fund has committed to provide up to 0.40% of its net assets in capital contributions to Vanguard. At October 31, 2006, the fund had contributed capital of $2,302,000 to Vanguard (included in Other Assets), representing 0.01% of the fund’s net assets and 2.30% of Vanguard’s capitalization. The fund’s trustees and officers are also directors and officers of Vanguard.
D. The fund has asked its investment advisors to direct certain security trades, subject to obtaining the best price and execution, to brokers who have agreed to rebate to the fund part of the commissions generated. Such rebates are used solely to reduce the fund’s management and administrative expenses. The fund’s custodian bank has also agreed to reduce its fees when the fund maintains cash on deposit in the non-interest-bearing custody account. For the year ended October 31, 2006, these arrangements reduced the fund’s management and administrative expenses by $1,728,000 (an annual rate of 0.01% of the fund’s average net assets).
E. Distributions are determined on a tax basis and may differ from net investment income and realized capital gains for financial reporting purposes. Differences may be permanent or temporary. Permanent differences are reclassified among capital accounts in the financial statements to reflect their tax character. Temporary differences arise when certain items of income, expense, gain, or loss are recognized in different periods for financial statement and tax purposes; these differences will reverse at some time in the future. Differences in classification may also result from the treatment of short-term gains as ordinary income for tax purposes.
During the year ended October 31, 2006, the fund realized net foreign currency losses of $346,000, which decreased distributable net income for tax purposes; accordingly, such losses have been reclassified from accumulated net realized gains to undistributed net investment income.
The fund used a tax accounting practice to treat a portion of the price of capital shares redeemed during the year as distributions from realized capital gains. Accordingly, the fund has reclassified $175,863,000 from accumulated net realized gains to paid-in capital.
For tax purposes, at October 31, 2006, the fund had $104,778,000 of ordinary income and $1,829,072,000 of long-term capital gains available for distribution.
At October 31, 2006, the cost of investment securities for tax purposes was $18,864,325,000. Net unrealized appreciation of investment securities for tax purposes was $4,599,937,000, consisting of unrealized gains of $4,909,517,000 on securities that had risen in value since their purchase and $309,580,000 in unrealized losses on securities that had fallen in value since their purchase.
At October 31, 2006, the aggregate settlement value of open futures contracts expiring in December 2006 and the related unrealized appreciation (depreciation) were:
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|
| ($000) |
| Number of | Aggregate | Unrealized |
| Long | Settlement | Appreciation |
Futures Contracts | Contracts | Value | (Depreciation) |
S&P 500 Index | 1,118 | 386,604 | 17,426 |
S&P MidCap 400 Index | 135 | 53,237 | 2,805 |
E-mini S&P 500 Index | 65 | 4,495 | 16 |
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Unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on open futures contracts is required to be treated as realized gain (loss) for tax purposes.
F. During the year ended October 31, 2006, the fund purchased $8,074,261,000 of investment securities and sold $9,088,429,000 of investment securities, other than temporary cash investments.
G. The market value of securities on loan to broker-dealers at October 31, 2006, was $43,739,000, for which the fund received cash collateral of $43,793,000.
H. Capital share transactions for each class of shares were:
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|
| Year Ended October 31, | |
|
| 2006 |
| 2005 |
| Amount | Shares | Amount | Shares |
| ($000) | (000) | ($000) | (000) |
Investor Shares |
|
|
|
|
Issued | 1,159,762 | 64,777 | 1,302,363 | 72,924 |
Issued in Lieu of Cash Distributions | 1,264,434 | 73,315 | 310,695 | 17,514 |
Redeemed | (2,276,439) | (126,975) | (4,904,419) | (270,761) |
Net Increase (Decrease)—Investor Shares | 147,757 | 11,117 | (3,291,361) | (180,323) |
Admiral Shares |
|
|
|
|
Issued | 1,018,466 | 16,817 | 3,586,842 | 58,389 |
Issued in Lieu of Cash Distributions | 716,143 | 12,308 | 91,937 | 1,535 |
Redeemed | (1,004,467) | (16,557) | (512,568) | (8,491) |
Net Increase (Decrease)—Admiral Shares | 730,142 | 12,568 | 3,166,211 | 51,433 |
I. Certain of the fund’s investments are in companies that are considered to be affiliated companies of the fund because the fund owns more than 5% of the outstanding voting securities of the company. Transactions during the period in securities of these companies were as follows:
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Arrow Electronics, Inc. | 293,571 | 86,556 | 21,216 | — | 371,949 |
Continental Airlines, Inc. Class B | 100,123 | — | 223,507 | — | — |
Goodrich Corp. | n/a1 | 201,352 | 47,443 | 6,363,940 | 360,819 |
Lear Corp. | 152,784 | 54,835 | 24,126 | 3,119,375 | 186,399 |
RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. | 168,858 | — | 144,883 | 545,518 | n/a2 |
R.H. Donnelley Corp. | n/a1 | 287,830 | — | 42,116 | 347,867 |
UAL Corp. | n/a1 | 270,730 | — | — | 307,686 |
YRC Worldwide, Inc.3 | 134,621 | 14,686 | 127,720 | — | — |
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1 At October 31, 2005, the issuer was not an affiliated company of the fund.
2 At October 31, 2006, the security is still held but the issuer is no longer an affiliated company of the fund.
3 Yellow Roadway Corp. underwent a name change to YRC Worldwide, Inc., in January 2006.
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J. In June 2006, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued Interpretation No. 48 (“FIN 48”), “Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes.” FIN 48 establishes the minimum threshold for recognizing, and a system for measuring, the benefits of tax-return positions in financial statements. FIN 48 will be effective for the fund’s fiscal year beginning November 1, 2007. Management is in the process of analyzing the fund’s tax positions for purposes of implementing FIN 48; based on the analysis completed to date, management does not believe the adoption of FIN 48 will result in any material impact to the fund’s financial statements.
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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
To the Trustees of Vanguard Windsor Funds and the Shareholders and Trustees of Vanguard Windsor Fund:
In our opinion, the accompanying statement of net assets and statement of assets and liabilities and the related statements of operations and of changes in net assets and the financial highlights present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Vanguard Windsor Fund (the “Fund”) at October 31, 2006, the results of its operations for the year then ended, the changes in its net assets for each of the two years in the period then ended and the financial highlights for each of the periods indicated, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. These financial statements and financial highlights (hereafter referred to as “financial statements”) are the responsibility of the Fund’s management; our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits. We conducted our audits of these financial statements in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, and evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits, which included confirmation of securities at October 31, 2006 by correspondence with the custodians and brokers, and by agreement to the underlying ownership records for Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund, provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
December 11, 2006
Special 2006 tax information (unaudited) for Vanguard Windsor Fund
This information for the fiscal year ended October 31, 2006, is included pursuant to provisions of the Internal Revenue Code.
The fund distributed $1,722,565,000 as capital gain dividends (from net long-term capital gains) to shareholders during the fiscal year.
The fund distributed $338,007,000 of qualified dividend income to shareholders during the fiscal year.
For corporate shareholders, 87.5% of investment income (dividend income plus short-term gains, if any) qualifies for the dividends-received deduction.
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Your Fund’s After-Tax Returns
This table presents returns for your fund both before and after taxes. The after-tax returns are shown in two ways: (1) assuming that an investor owned the fund during the entire period and paid taxes on the fund’s distributions, and (2) assuming that an investor paid taxes on the fund’s distributions and sold all shares at the end of each period.
Calculations are based on the highest individual federal income tax and capital gains tax rates in effect at the times of the distributions and the hypothetical sales. State and local taxes were not considered. After-tax returns reflect any qualified dividend income, using actual prior-year figures and estimates for 2006. (In the example, returns after the sale of fund shares may be higher than those assuming no sale. This occurs when the sale would have produced a capital loss. The calculation assumes that the investor received a tax deduction for the loss.)
The table shows returns for Investor Shares only; returns for other share classes will differ. Please note that your actual after-tax returns will depend on your tax situation and may differ from those shown. Also note that if you own the fund in a tax-deferred account, such as an individual retirement account or a 401(k) plan, this information does not apply to you. Such accounts are not subject to current taxes.
Finally, keep in mind that a fund’s performance—whether before or after taxes—does not guarantee future results.
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Returns After Taxes on Distributions | 17.75 | 9.32 | 7.76 |
Returns After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares | 14.53 | 8.47 | 7.50 |
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About Your Fund’s Expenses
As a shareholder of the fund, you incur ongoing costs, which include costs for portfolio management, administrative services, and shareholder reports (like this one), among others. Operating expenses, which are deducted from a fund’s gross income, directly reduce the investment return of the fund.
A fund’s expenses are expressed as a percentage of its average net assets. This figure is known as the expense ratio. The following examples are intended to help you understand the ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in your fund and to compare these costs with those of other mutual funds. The examples are based on an investment of $1,000 made at the beginning of the period shown and held for the entire period.
The table below illustrates your fund’s costs in two ways:
• Based on actual fund return. This section helps you to estimate the actual expenses that you paid over the period. The “Ending Account Value” shown is derived from the fund’s actual return, and the third column shows the dollar amount that would have been paid by an investor who started with $1,000 in the fund. You may use the information here, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over the period.
To do so, simply divide your account value by $1,000 (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number given for your fund under the heading “Expenses Paid During Period.”
• Based on hypothetical 5% yearly return. This section is intended to help you compare your fund’s costs with those of other mutual funds. It assumes that the fund had a yearly return of 5% before expenses, but that the expense ratio is unchanged. In this case—because the return used is not the fund’s actual return—the results do not apply to your investment. The example is useful in making comparisons because the Securities and Exchange Commission requires all mutual funds to calculate expenses based on a 5% return. You can assess your fund’s costs by comparing this hypothetical example with the hypothetical examples that appear in shareholder reports of other funds.
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Admiral Shares | 1,000.00 | 1,024.05 | 1.17 |
1 The calculations are based on expenses incurred in the most recent six-month period. The fund’s annualized six-month expense ratios for that period are 0.32% for Investor Shares and 0.23% for Admiral Shares. The dollar amounts shown as “Expenses Paid” are equal to the annualized expense ratio multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by the number of days in the most recent six-month period, then divided by the number of days in the most recent 12-month period.
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Note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight and help you compare ongoing costs only and do not reflect any transactional costs or account maintenance fees. They do not include your fund’s low-balance fee, which is described in the prospectus. If this fee were applied to your account, your costs would be higher. Your fund does not charge transaction fees, such as purchase or redemption fees, nor does it carry a “sales load.”
The calculations assume no shares were bought or sold during the period. Your actual costs may have been higher or lower, depending on the amount of your investment and the timing of any purchases or redemptions.
You can find more information about the fund’s expenses, including annual expense ratios, in the Financial Statements section of this report. For additional information on operating expenses and other shareholder costs, please refer to the appropriate fund prospectus.
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Glossary
Beta. A measure of the magnitude of a fund’s past share-price fluctuations in relation to the ups and downs of a given market index. The index is assigned a beta of 1.00. Compared with a given index, a fund with a beta of 1.20 typically would have seen its share price rise or fall by 12% when the index rose or fell by 10%. A fund’s beta should be reviewed in conjunction with its R-squared (see definition below). The lower the R-squared, the less correlation there is between the fund and the index, and the less reliable beta is as an indicator of volatility.
Earnings Growth Rate. The average annual rate of growth in earnings over the past five years for the stocks now in a fund.
Expense Ratio. The percentage of a fund’s average net assets used to pay its annual administrative and advisory expenses. These expenses directly reduce returns to investors.
Foreign Holdings. The percentage of a fund represented by stocks or depositary receipts of companies based outside the United States.
Median Market Cap. An indicator of the size of companies in which a fund invests; the midpoint of market capitalization (market price x shares outstanding) of a fund’s stocks, weighted by the proportion of the fund’s assets invested in each stock. Stocks representing half of the fund’s assets have market capitalizations above the median, and the rest are below it.
Price/Book Ratio. The share price of a stock divided by its net worth, or book value, per share. For a fund, the weighted average price/book ratio of the stocks it holds.
Price/Earnings Ratio. The ratio of a stock’s current price to its per-share earnings over the past year. For a fund, the weighted average P/E of the stocks it holds. P/E is an indicator of market expectations about corporate prospects; the higher the P/E, the greater the expectations for a company’s future growth.
R-Squared. A measure of how much of a fund’s past returns can be explained by the returns from the market in general, as measured by a given index. If a fund’s total returns were precisely synchronized with an index’s returns, its R-squared would be 1.00. If the fund’s returns bore no relationship to the index’s returns, its R-squared would be 0.
Return on Equity. The annual average rate of return generated by a company during the past five years for each dollar of shareholder’s equity (net income divided by shareholder’s equity). For a fund, the weighted average return on equity for the companies whose stocks it holds.
Short-Term Reserves. The percentage of a fund invested in highly liquid, short-term securities that can be readily converted to cash.
Turnover Rate. An indication of the fund’s trading activity. Funds with high turnover rates incur higher transaction costs and may be more likely to distribute capital gains (which may be taxable to investors). The turnover rate excludes in-kind transactions, which have minimal impact on costs.
Yield. A snapshot of a fund’s income from interest and dividends. The yield, expressed as a percentage of the fund’s net asset value, is based on income earned over the past 30 days and is annualized, or projected forward for the coming year. The index yield is based on the current annualized rate of income provided by securities in the index.
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The People Who Govern Your Fund
The trustees of your mutual fund are there to see that the fund is operated and managed in your best interests since, as a shareholder, you are a part owner of the fund. Your fund’s trustees also serve on the board of directors of The Vanguard Group, Inc., which is owned by the Vanguard funds and provides services to them on an at-cost basis.
A majority of Vanguard’s board members are independent, meaning that they have no affiliation with Vanguard or the funds they oversee, apart from the sizable personal investments they have made as private individuals.
Our independent board members bring distinguished backgrounds in business, academia, and public service to their task of working with Vanguard officers to establish the policies and oversee the activities of the funds. Among board members’ responsibilities are selecting investment advisors for the funds; monitoring fund operations, performance, and costs; reviewing contracts; nominating and selecting new trustees/directors; and electing Vanguard officers.
Each trustee serves a fund until its termination; or until the trustee’s retirement, resignation, or death; or otherwise as specified in the fund’s organizational documents. Any trustee may be removed at a shareholders’ meeting by a vote representing two-thirds of the net asset value of all shares of the fund together with shares of other Vanguard funds organized within the same trust. The table on these two pages shows information for each trustee and executive officer of the fund. The mailing address of the trustees and officers is P.O. Box 876, Valley Forge, PA 19482.
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Trustee since May 1987; | Executive Officer, and Director/Trustee of The Vanguard Group, Inc., and of each |
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Charles D. Ellis |
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Trustee since January 2001 | in education); Senior Advisor to Greenwich Associates (international business strategy |
144 Vanguard Funds Overseen | consulting); Successor Trustee of Yale University; Overseer of the Stern School of Business |
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Rajiv L. Gupta |
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Trustee since December 20012 | of Rohm and Haas Co. (chemicals); Board Member of the American Chemistry Council; |
144 Vanguard Funds Overseen | Director of Tyco International, Ltd. (diversified manufacturing and services) (since 2005); |
| Trustee of Drexel University and of the Chemical Heritage Foundation. |
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Trustee since June 2006 | Pennsylvania since 2004; Professor in the School of Arts and Sciences, Annenberg School |
144 Vanguard Funds Overseen | for Communication, and Graduate School of Education of the University of Pennsylvania |
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| University Center for Human Values (1990–2004), Princeton University; Director of Carnegie |
| Corporation of New York and of Philadelphia 2016 (since 2005) and of Schuylkill River |
| Development Corporation and Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce (since 2004). |
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Trustee since July 1998 | Global Diversity Officer (since January 2006), Vice President and Chief Information | |
144 Vanguard Funds Overseen | Officer (1997–2005), and Member of the Executive Committee of Johnson & Johnson | |
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Trustee since December 2004 | Banking, Harvard Business School (since 2000); Senior Associate Dean, Director of Faculty | |
144 Vanguard Funds Overseen | Recruiting, and Chair of Finance Faculty, Harvard Business School; Director and Chairman | |
| of UNX, Inc. (equities trading firm) (since 2003); Director of registered investment | |
| companies advised by Merrill Lynch Investment Managers and affiliates (1985–2004), | |
| Genbel Securities Limited (South African financial services firm) (1999–2003), Gensec | |
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144 Vanguard Funds Overseen | Director of Goodrich Corporation (industrial products/aircraft systems and services). | |
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Trustee since April 1985 | Officer of Rohm and Haas Co. (chemicals); Director of Cummins Inc. (diesel engines), | |
144 Vanguard Funds Overseen | MeadWestvaco Corp. (packaging products), and AmerisourceBergen Corp. (pharmaceutical | |
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Secretary since July 2005 | since November 1997; General Counsel of The Vanguard Group since July 2005; | |
144 Vanguard Funds Overseen | Secretary of The Vanguard Group and of each of the investment companies served | |
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Mortimer J. Buckley | Paul A. Heller | Ralph K. Packard |
James H. Gately | F. William McNabb, III | George U. Sauter |
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1 Officers of the funds are “interested persons” as defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940.
2 December 2002 for Vanguard Equity Income Fund, Vanguard Growth Equity Fund, the Vanguard Municipal Bond Funds, and the Vanguard State Tax-Exempt Funds.
More information about the trustees is in the Statement of Additional Information, available from The Vanguard Group.
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> | During the fiscal year ended October 31, 2006, the Investor Shares of Vanguard Windsor II Fund returned a quite respectable 16.8% and the Admiral Shares returned 17.0%. The fund trailed the return of its benchmark index and the average return for peer funds. |
> | The broad U.S. stock market, as measured by the Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 Index, returned 16.6% in the 12-month period. Once again, value stocks outpaced growth issues. |
> | Windsor II underperformed the Russell 1000 Value Index in several sectors, but a number of the fund’s top-ten holdings posted strong gains to boost absolute performance. |
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Your Fund’s Total Returns | 1 |
Chairman’s Letter | 2 |
Advisors’ Report | 6 |
Fund Profile | 11 |
Performance Summary | 12 |
Financial Statements | 14 |
Your Fund’s After-Tax Returns | 29 |
About Your Fund’s Expenses | 30 |
Glossary | 32 |
Please note: The opinions expressed in this report are just that—informed opinions. They should not be considered promises or advice. Also, please keep in mind that the information and opinions cover the period through the date on the cover of this report. Of course, the risks of investing in your fund are spelled out in the prospectus.
Your Fund’s Total Returns
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Investor Shares | 16.8% |
AdmiralTM Shares1 | 17.0 |
Russell 1000 Value Index | 21.5 |
Average Large-Cap Value Fund2 | 17.7 |
Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 Index | 16.6 |
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Admiral Shares | 56.13 | 62.41 | 1.346 | 1.558 |
1 A lower-cost class of shares available to many longtime shareholders and to those with significant investments in the fund.
2 Derived from data provided by Lipper Inc.
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Chairman’s Letter
Dear Shareholder,
For the fiscal year ended October 31, 2006, the Investor Shares of Vanguard Windsor II Fund returned 16.8%, and the lower-cost Admiral Shares returned 17.0%. Though the fund’s performance was a bit above the return of the broad U.S. stock market, Windsor II underperformed its benchmark index and the average return of its peers.
In its three largest sectors—financials, consumer staples, and health care—the fund underperformed the index. However, many of Windsor II’s top-ten holdings posted strong results for the fiscal year, which helped to bolster the fund’s absolute return.
Stocks produced fitful rallies and familiar patterns
U.S. stock prices advanced in fits and starts during the past 12 months, reflecting the uncertainty that pervaded the market for much of the period. The broad market rallied at the start of the fiscal year, buoyed by strong corporate earnings growth and vigorous economic expansion. In mid-May, as investors responded to increasingly pungent whiffs of inflation, anxiety moved to the fore, and market indexes pulled back sharply. In late summer, optimism regained the upper hand. The broad market staged a powerful rally to post a 12-month return of 16.6%.
As has been the case for much of the past five years, smaller-capitalization stocks outperformed large-caps, and value-oriented stocks bested their growth-oriented counterparts. International stocks
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were especially strong performers; European and emerging-markets stocks led the way.
Rate hikes and inflation concerns drove the bond market
The fixed income markets reflected some of these same uncertainties, with the back-and-forth pattern most pronounced among the longest-maturity bonds. The Federal Reserve Board tightened monetary policy by raising its target for the federal funds rate six times during the fiscal year, to 5.25%, and the yields of short-term issues followed closely behind. The yields of longer-term securities, by contrast, dipped early in the year, rose sharply on inflation worries in May, then finished the period a bit above their starting point. The broad taxable bond market returned 5.2%. Corporate bonds generally outperformed government issues. Municipal bonds did better still.
Your fund’s major holdings produced healthy gains
Vanguard Windsor II Fund posted a hearty 16.8% return for Investor Shares in the 2006 fiscal year. The fund’s success was partly a result of the advisors’ ongoing mandate to invest in value-oriented stocks, a requirement that was especially beneficial since value issues outpaced growth-oriented equities during the period.
During the year, Windsor II kept pace with the broad U.S. stock market but underperformed both the benchmark index and the average peer fund. Windsor II held
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Russell 2000 Index (Small-caps) | 20.0 | 14.5 | 13.8 |
Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 Index (Entire market) | 16.6 | 12.4 | 8.9 |
MSCI All Country World Index ex USA (International) | 28.9 | 23.0 | 16.7 |
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Lehman Municipal Bond Index | 5.7 | 4.8 | 5.1 |
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large positions in the financials, consumer staples, and health care sectors. In each of these groups, the advisors’ stock selections underperformed the stocks in the index. The financials sector remains the single largest industry exposure in the fund, but the advisors significantly underweighted the sector compared with the index, whose weighting was 36% as of October 31. Both the fund’s relatively light exposure to the energy sector and subpar stock selection among energy stocks also muted performance.
Among the fund’s bright spots were several stocks not included in the index, notably Nokia and Imperial Tobacco. In addition, several top-ten holdings had excellent years: Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Verizon, and Pfizer all produced double-digit gains.
In early January, Windsor II’s board of trustees added Armstrong Shaw Associates Inc. to the fund’s investment advisory team, bringing the number of advisors to six. On April 20, the fund raised its minimum initial investment to $10,000 and implemented a $25,000 annual investment limit for existing shareholders. The annual limit was lifted on November 9, just after the close of the fund’s fiscal year.
Over time, your fund has continued to outpace the broad market
A hypothetical investment of $10,000 made in the Investor Shares of Windsor II Fund ten years ago would have grown to $26,918 by October 31, 2006—an average annual return of 10.4%. This result is more than a full percentage point better than the average yearly return of the fund’s
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Windsor II Fund | 0.34% | 0.23% | 1.39% |
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Windsor II Fund Investor Shares | 10.4% | $26,918 |
Russell 1000 Value Index | 11.1 | 28,744 |
Average Large-Cap Value Fund | 9.1 | 23,933 |
Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 Index | 8.9 | 23,395 |
1 Fund expense ratios reflect the 12 months ended October 31, 2006. Peer-group expense ratio is derived from data provided by Lipper Inc. and captures information through year-end 2005.
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competitors, though it trails slightly the result of the fund’s benchmark index for the period.
Windsor II has also outperformed the broad U.S. stock market over the ten-year period. This performance is a testament to the skill of the fund’s advisors, the long stretch of outperformance by value stocks, and the fund’s low costs, which help to put a larger share of its return in your pocket.
Diversification and a long-term perspective are important
The Windsor II Fund illustrates two benefits of a multimanager approach: the ability to diversify not only the fund’s portfolio of holdings but also its mix of investment strategies. Over time, the fund’s embrace of different, yet complementary, investment strategies has provided highly competitive performance at a very modest cost. Central to the advisors’ varied approaches is the search for attractive valuations and for companies with the potential for long-term growth.
Sticking with a carefully considered, balanced portfolio of stock, bond, and money market mutual funds suited to your unique circumstances is key to your long-term investing success. By providing you with exposure to large-cap value stocks, Windsor II Fund can play an important role in such a diversified portfolio.
Thank you for investing your assets with Vanguard.
Sincerely,
John J. Brennan
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
November 10, 2006
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Advisors’ Report
During the fiscal year ended October 31, 2006, the Investor Shares of Vanguard Windsor II Fund returned 16.8%, while the lower-cost Admiral Shares returned 17.0%. This performance reflects the combined efforts of your fund’s six independent advisors. The use of multiple advisors provides exposure to distinct, yet complementary, investment approaches, enhancing the fund’s diversification.
The advisors, the amount and percentage of fund assets each manages, and a brief description of their investment strategies are presented in the table below. Each advisor has also prepared a discussion of the investment environment that existed during the fiscal year and of how portfolio positioning reflects this assessment.
Barrow, Hanley, Mewhinney & Strauss, Inc.
Portfolio Manager:
James P. Barrow, Founding Partner
Bull markets climb a “wall of worry” and this one surely has, with the peaking of a housing boom, very high gasoline and natural gas prices, constantly higher short-
Vanguard Windsor II Fund Investment Advisors |
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Barrow, Hanley, | 60 | $27,437 | Conducts fundamental research on individual stocks | |
Mewhinney & Strauss, Inc. |
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| dividend yields above the market average. | |
Equinox Capital Management, LLC | 11 | 5,164 | Combines fundamental analysis with quantitative | |
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| valuation work to find undervalued companies that | |
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Vanguard Quantitative Equity Group | 11 | 5,120 | Employs a quantitative management approach, using | |
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Tukman Capital Management, Inc. | 9 | 4,285 | Focuses on large-cap, high-quality, cash-generating | |
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Hotchkis & Wiley | 5 | 2,548 | Uses a disciplined investment approach, focusing on | |
Capital Management, LLC |
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Armstrong Shaw Associates Inc. | 2 | 1,086 | Uses a bottom-up approach, employing fundamental | |
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Cash Investments1 | 2 | 1,084 | — | |
1 These short-term reserves are invested by Vanguard in equity index products to simulate investment in stocks. Each advisor may also maintain a modest cash position.
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term interest rates, indications of inflation, political scandals, fear of terrorists, severe weather, hedge fund blowups, and all sorts of threats to life and limb. This broad advance in equities for the past year was driven by robust corporate earnings and record profitability. Returns on assets and equity are at historic highs, and balance sheets are strong. If we exclude some of the ridiculously overpriced stocks of 2000, the market is at a new high. We feel it is important to recognize this fact and avoid exposure to risk.
While the average consumer seems low on spending power, there are very significant global investment balances looking to be employed. For instance, the average REIT had a 22% return in the past 12 months on lackluster operating results. For many REITs, a 30% correction would be required to bring dividend yields back into line with Treasuries. This is an example of a market excess to which we would not expose shareholders. We have a similar view on homebuilders.
Energy stocks were among the stellar performers in the past year. While our portion of the portfolio was overweighted in this sector, we were unrepresented in exploration and production companies and services. Companies in these sub-industries do not exhibit the characteristics we seek, namely earnings predictability or some consistent dividend policy. We have significantly reduced our petroleum exposure, after years of concentration, because the current return on equity is now much higher than the return on reinvested capital, so profitability should decline.
Overall, we are positive on the economic fundamentals, but cautious about some market excesses, a risky credit environment, and industries that could experience significant earnings declines.
Equinox Capital Management, LLC
Portfolio Manager:
Ronald J. Ulrich, President
The 12-month period was a positive one for the U.S. equity market, thanks to a strong economy and rising profitability in the corporate sector. Overall, the market was largely driven by big companies such as ExxonMobil, Merck, and AT&T. Industry groups that performed well were transportation, telephone, utilities, materials, and health care. In general, the market’s upward thrust was broadly based, with most economic sectors participating. More important, in recent months we began to see a revival of the relative performance of larger-capitalization companies versus the smaller- and mid-cap stocks that have outperformed the last six years.
Our shortfalls during the period included our decision not to hold some of the large companies that led the market, including ExxonMobil, Bank of America, Merck, and BellSouth. Generally, these stocks appeared expensive to us based on our valuation work. We also paid a price for the failure of a few holdings—Nortel, Triad, and Avis Budget Group (formerly Cendant)—to meet business benchmarks, and for our stake in a number of companies whose fundamentals are improving more slowly than the market (and we) would prefer.
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Despite these recent disappointments, our assessment of the return prospects for most of the portfolio companies is quite positive, both on an absolute basis and relative to value-oriented benchmarks.
Vanguard Quantitative Equity Group
Portfolio Manager:
James D. Troyer, Principal
Our investment process evaluates each stock in the benchmark for its performance potential based on market sentiment, valuation, and earnings quality relative to its peers. We believe that at least one of these three elements will capture the market’s tendency to overreact to short-term news. We attempt to capitalize on this tendency by buying and selling stocks within industry groups, in order to add incremental return relative to our large-cap, value-oriented benchmark. We keep our portfolio’s exposure to industry and other risk factors in line with that of its benchmark.
Thus, our largest sector is financial services, at 35% of our portfolio, not because of our view about financial stocks, but because they make up 36% of our stock universe, as represented in our benchmark index. Based on our research to date, we have concluded that attempting to add value by over- or underweighting sectors is not worth the additional risk. Chiefly, this is because we prefer to take many small positions as opposed to a few big ones. With only ten sectors to choose from, one wrong sector tilt can harm performance much more than one stock selection gone awry in a well-diversified portfolio. Similarly, we do not tilt toward or away from either the larger- or smaller-capitalization segments of the benchmark.
Over short periods, the different components of our quantitative model have differing levels of effectiveness. Over time, however, the fluctuations between these components offset one another, resulting in a signal that has served us well over the long term. During the past year, our valuation component added the most value; the sentiment component had a positive effect, and the earnings-quality component was slightly positive. Our two most successful positions were coincidentally in the steel industry: Nucor and United States Steel. Reynolds American, CSX, and Phelps Dodge also provided positive results. Our positions in Sunoco, AmeriCredit, and ConAgra Foods did not perform well.
Tukman Capital Management, Inc.
Portfolio Managers:
Melvin T. Tukman, President, Director, and Founder
Daniel L. Grossman, Vice President
During the past 12 months, the market was a tale of two radically different tapes, each lasting for about half of the year. The first half saw small-cap stocks outperforming mega-cap stocks by 12 percentage points, while the second half saw a reversal, with mega-caps outperforming small-caps by 9 percentage points. So while the year was still won by small-caps, momentum seems to be shifting.
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Valuations for speculative stocks (those rated B– or below) are still stretched to levels seen only a handful of times in the past 35 years. In the past, such valuations preceded large corrections in those stocks. Moreover, the ratio of the valuations of large U.S. quality stocks to the valuations of speculative stocks is the most attractive it has been in 35 years. In the past, this has preceded periods of significant outperformance by the quality stocks.
Our portfolio continues to be positioned for a return to quality. Over the past 12 months our investments in high-quality brokerage, entertainment, and bank stocks significantly outperformed the general market, but our investments in high-quality, cash-generating newspaper stocks, insurance stocks, and retailing stocks significantly lagged. We have continued to add to some of the lagging stocks and trimmed some positions in the outperformers.
We expect the environment for large quality stocks to revert to normal, a process that may have already begun. We think that a return to sound investment fundamentals is overdue, and that when market participants begin to take quality and valuations into account, it will benefit our strategy.
Hotchkis & Wiley Capital Management, LLC
Portfolio Managers:
George H. Davis, Jr., Chief Executive Officer
Sheldon J. Lieberman, Principal
The market surged during the 12 months ended October 31, 2006. Value-oriented stocks outperformed growth stocks by more than 1,000 basis points, and small-cap stocks outperformed large-cap stocks by almost 400 basis points.
Investors struggled with the Federal Reserve Board’s need to combat inflation through interest rate boosts that were expected to diminish economic growth and corporate profits. The market shunned economically sensitive consumer stocks, such as homebuilders (down –20%, with a year-end book value of 1.1x) but showed a continued affection for energy stocks (up 19%, 2.8x book value). Our disciplined focus on intrinsic value has led us to the former, rather than the latter.
Our weak spots included subpar stock selection within the financials and consumer discretionary sectors. In financials, the portfolio missed out on some of the gains in companies with strong capital-markets businesses, such as banks and brokerages, and had high exposure to more modestly performing insurance companies. In the consumer spending area, homebuilding positions (such as Centex and Pulte Homes) fell sharply. We expect that the coming downturn in the housing cycle will be less severe than most investors anticipate.
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Other factors that hindered our portfolio’s performance were an underweighting in the telecommunication services sector and weak stock selection in the information technology sector.
Bright spots included strong returns in the industrials sector, with double-digit gains from rail operator CSX and defense contractor Lockheed Martin. Credit-card services provider MasterCard and banker JPMorgan Chase were also standouts.
Armstrong Shaw Associates Inc.
Portfolio Manager:
Jeffrey M. Shaw, Chairman and Chief Investment Officer
The financial markets have shown tremendous resilience over the past year, despite the challenges of high energy costs, rising interest rates, the Iraq war, and a faltering housing market. With the exception of May, the market has posted monthly gains, with the Russell 1000 Value Index showing particular strength.
Our portfolio has started to benefit from a rotation into large-cap stocks and a sell-off in energy, though stock selection in the telecommunication services and industrials sectors cast a shadow on some of these bright spots. For example, Sprint Nextel, our only holding in telecommunication services, declined while the regional Bell telephone companies were producing strong results. Results at Sprint Nextel disappointed because of merger integration issues. In the industrials sector, United Technologies was a strong performer, up 30%, but its performance contribution was largely offset by Avis Budget Group’s decline.
Our strongest sector was consumer discretionary, with Comcast and Office Depot up 56% and 35%, respectively. Comcast rallied as its successful Voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP) rollout and its strong “triple-play” offerings led to increased unit growth. Office Depot rose on the strength of store and product-line execution. In financials, our brokerage stocks, Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley, were also solid performers.
We believe that the United States is entering the later stages of an economic cycle, in which growth is harder to come by and risks are rising. Our portfolio seems well-positioned for the opportunities ahead; it possesses a higher-than-median market capitalization of $51 billion, higher-than-market forecasted growth, and a below-market P/E ratio based on expected 2007 earnings.
Stocks such as General Electric, American International Group, and United Technologies are representative of the “Steady Eddy” companies that make up the core of our portfolio. They have produced consistent returns over the last few years and have strong prospects for the next 12 to 18 months, yet have been laggards in the market. As investors start to worry about risk, and begin to realize that earnings growth will be decelerating, they will pay more attention to high-quality businesses that generate large amounts of free cash flow and have stable business models.
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Fund Profile
As of October 31, 2006
Portfolio Characteristics |
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| Fund | Index1 | Index2 |
Number of Stocks | 292 | 610 | 4,956 |
Median Market Cap | $48.6B | $48.7B | $28.7B |
Price/Earnings Ratio | 15.0x | 14.6x | 17.7x |
Price/Book Ratio | 2.5x | 2.2x | 2.6x |
Yield |
| 2.4% | 1.6% |
Investor Shares | 2.3% |
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Admiral Shares | 2.4% |
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Return on Equity | 19.2% | 17.3% | 15.4% |
Earnings Growth Rate | 15.9% | 16.2% | 15.5% |
Foreign Holdings | 8.2% | 0.0% | 1.1% |
Turnover Rate | 34% | — | — |
Expense Ratio |
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Investor Shares | 0.34% |
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Admiral Shares | 0.23% |
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Short-Term Reserves | 2% | — | — |
Sector Diversification (% of portfolio) |
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| Fund | Index1 | Index2 |
Consumer Discretionary | 8% | 9% | 12% |
Consumer Staples | 11 | 8 | 9 |
Energy | 7 | 13 | 9 |
Financials | 26 | 36 | 22 |
Health Care | 12 | 7 | 12 |
Industrials | 10 | 7 | 11 |
Information Technology | 7 | 4 | 16 |
Materials | 4 | 4 | 3 |
Telecommunication Services | 5 | 6 | 3 |
Utilities | 8 | 6 | 3 |
Short-Term Reserves | 2% | — | — |
Volatility Measures3 |
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| Fund Versus | Fund Versus |
| Comparative Index1 | Broad Index2 |
R-Squared | 0.92 | 0.77 |
Beta | 0.90 | 0.75 |
Ten Largest Holdings4 (% of total net assets) |
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General Electric Co. | industrial conglomerates | 3.5% |
Altria Group, Inc. | tobacco | 2.7 |
Pfizer Inc. | pharmaceuticals | 2.7 |
Citigroup, Inc. | diversified financial services | 2.6 |
Wells Fargo & Co. | diversified banks | 2.5 |
Bank of America Corp. | diversified financial services | 2.5 |
ConocoPhillips Co. | integrated oil and gas | 2.1 |
Imperial Tobacco Group ADR | tobacco | 2.1 |
JPMorgan Chase & Co. | diversified financial services | 2.1 |
Verizon Communications Inc. | integrated telecommunication services | 2.0 |
Top Ten |
| 24.8% |
Investment Focus
1 Russell 1000 Value Index.
2 Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 Index.
3 For an explanation of R-squared, beta, and other terms used here, see the Glossary on page 32.
4 “Ten Largest Holdings” excludes any temporary cash investments and equity index products.
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Performance Summary
All of the returns in this report represent past performance, which is not a guarantee of future results that may be achieved by the fund. (Current performance may be lower or higher than the performance data cited. For performance data current to the most recent month-end, visit our website at www.vanguard.com.) Note, too, that both investment returns and principal value can fluctuate widely, so an investor’s shares, when sold, could be worth more or less than their original cost. The returns shown do not reflect taxes that a shareholder would pay on fund distributions or on the sale of fund shares.
Cumulative Performance: October 31, 1996–October 31, 2006
Initial Investment of $10,000
| Average Annual Total Returns | Final Value | ||
| Periods Ended October 31, 2006 | of a $10,000 | ||
| One Year | Five Years | Ten Years | Investment |
Windsor II Fund Investor Shares | 16.85% | 10.54% | 10.41% | $26,918 |
Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 Index | 16.61 | 8.89 | 8.87 | 23,395 |
Russell 1000 Value Index | 21.46 | 11.64 | 11.14 | 28,744 |
Average Large-Cap Value Fund1 | 17.73 | 8.40 | 9.12 | 23,933 |
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| One Year | Five Years | Inception2 | Investment |
Windsor II Fund Admiral Shares | 17.01% | 10.66% | 7.14% | $145,758 |
Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 Index | 16.61 | 8.89 | 5.08 | 131,078 |
Russell 1000 Value Index | 21.46 | 11.64 | 7.95 | 151,949 |
1 Derived from data provided by Lipper Inc.
2 May 14, 2001.
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Fiscal-Year Total Returns (%): October 31, 1996–October 31, 2006
Average Annual Total Returns: Periods Ended September 30, 2006
This table presents average annual total returns through the latest calendar quarter—rather than through the end of the fiscal period. Securities and Exchange Commission rules require that we provide this information.
| Inception Date | One Year | Five Years | Ten Years |
Investor Shares | 6/24/1985 | 10.99% | 9.88% | 10.51% |
Admiral Shares | 5/14/2001 | 11.12 | 10.00 | 6.801 |
1 Return since inception.
Note: See Financial Highlights tables on pages 21 and 22 for dividend and capital gains information.
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Financial Statements
Statement of Net Assets
As of October 31, 2006
The fund provides a complete list of its holdings four times in each fiscal year, at the quarter-ends. For the second and fourth fiscal quarters, the lists appear in the fund’s semiannual and annual reports to shareholders. For the first and third fiscal quarters, the fund files the lists with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Form N-Q. Shareholders can look up the fund’s Forms N-Q on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. Forms N-Q may also be reviewed and copied at the SEC’s Public Reference Room (see the back cover of this report for further information).
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Common Stocks (97.3%)1 |
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Consumer Discretionary (8.1%) |
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| Carnival Corp. | 13,219,800 | 645,391 |
2 | Sherwin-Williams Co. | 9,186,300 | 544,105 |
| Gannett Co., Inc. | 5,936,000 | 351,055 |
| Mattel, Inc. | 14,369,400 | 325,179 |
2 | Service Corp. International | 26,080,100 | 237,851 |
| Eastman Kodak Co. | 8,091,300 | 197,428 |
| Home Depot, Inc. | 4,389,700 | 163,868 |
| Federated Department Stores, Inc. | 3,490,800 | 153,281 |
| The Walt Disney Co. | 3,740,532 | 117,677 |
| Time Warner, Inc. | 5,536,999 | 110,795 |
| Centex Corp. | 2,049,300 | 107,178 |
| Fortune Brands, Inc. | 1,360,300 | 104,675 |
| The Gap, Inc. | 4,884,709 | 102,677 |
* | Comcast Corp. Special Class A | 1,611,470 | 65,232 |
* | Wyndham Worldwide Corp. | 2,209,104 | 65,169 |
* | Interpublic Group of Cos., Inc. | 4,867,700 | 53,107 |
| Pulte Homes, Inc. | 1,700,100 | 52,686 |
| McDonald’s Corp. | 1,248,306 | 52,329 |
| Harrah’s Entertainment, Inc. | 586,900 | 43,624 |
| Lowe’s Cos., Inc. | 892,600 | 26,903 |
| Yum! Brands, Inc. | 421,500 | 25,062 |
| Nordstrom, Inc. | 514,500 | 24,361 |
^ | Magna International, Inc.Class A | 319,900 | 23,928 |
| General Motors Corp. | 659,267 | 23,022 |
| VF Corp. | 277,200 | 21,070 |
| Newell Rubbermaid, Inc. | 602,348 | 17,335 |
| Royal Caribbean Cruises, Ltd. | 405,683 | 16,430 |
| Whirlpool Corp. | 173,800 | 15,108 |
| Limited Brands, Inc. | 501,800 | 14,788 |
| CBS Corp. | 486,883 | 14,090 |
| Liz Claiborne, Inc. | 288,400 | 12,162 |
| ServiceMaster Co. | 875,200 | 9,916 |
| Genuine Parts Co. | 215,000 | 9,787 |
* | AutoNation, Inc. | 485,862 | 9,741 |
* | Sears Holdings Corp. | 33,600 | 5,862 |
| Washington Post Co. Class B | 7,400 | 5,573 |
| New York Times Co. Class A | 219,024 | 5,294 |
| The McClatchy Co. Class A | 80,500 | 3,490 |
| Clear Channel Communications, Inc. | 97,800 | 3,408 |
| BorgWarner, Inc. | 41,200 | 2,369 |
* | R.H. Donnelley Corp. | 15,100 | 909 |
* | Mohawk Industries, Inc. | 5,700 | 414 |
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| Consumer Staples (11.0%) |
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| Altria Group, Inc. | 15,442,299 | 1,255,922 |
| Imperial Tobacco Group ADR | 13,840,000 | 987,346 |
| ConAgra Foods, Inc. | 23,383,100 | 611,468 |
| Diageo PLC ADR | 7,768,500 | 578,520 |
| Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. | 7,651,050 | 377,044 |
| The Coca-Cola Co. | 6,867,599 | 320,854 |
| PepsiCo, Inc. | 4,376,600 | 277,652 |
| Anheuser-Busch Cos., Inc. | 5,351,200 | 253,754 |
| The Procter & Gamble Co. | 2,592,700 | 164,351 |
| Unilever PLC ADR | 2,075,040 | 50,382 |
| Safeway, Inc. | 1,263,341 | 37,092 |
| SuperValu Inc. | 989,600 | 33,053 |
| CVS Corp. | 983,960 | 30,877 |
| Reynolds American Inc. | 374,000 | 23,622 |
| Kimberly-Clark Corp. | 341,200 | 22,697 |
| Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. | 583,200 | 22,453 |
| The Kroger Co. | 938,999 | 21,118 |
| Kraft Foods Inc. | 609,300 | 20,960 |
| Carolina Group | 247,200 | 14,293 |
| The Pepsi Bottling Group, Inc. | 370,700 | 11,722 |
| Sara Lee Corp. | 568,700 | 9,725 |
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| General Mills, Inc. | 164,000 | 9,318 |
| Coca-Cola Enterprises, Inc. | 273,000 | 5,468 |
| UST, Inc. | 52,400 | 2,807 |
| H.J. Heinz Co. | 44,000 | 1,855 |
| PepsiAmericas, Inc. | 47,473 | 971 |
* | Dean Foods Co. | 17,200 | 720 |
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Energy (6.4%) |
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| ConocoPhillips Co. | 16,541,557 | 996,463 |
| Occidental Petroleum Corp. | 19,921,500 | 935,115 |
| ExxonMobil Corp. | 4,346,194 | 310,405 |
| Chevron Corp. | 4,433,129 | 297,906 |
| Anadarko Petroleum Corp. | 2,804,700 | 130,194 |
| BP PLC ADR | 1,515,139 | 101,666 |
| Devon Energy Corp. | 822,862 | 55,000 |
| Marathon Oil Corp. | 334,000 | 28,858 |
| Sunoco, Inc. | 380,700 | 25,176 |
| Chesapeake Energy Corp. | 728,200 | 23,623 |
| Petro Canada | 550,000 | 23,425 |
| Valero Energy Corp. | 377,700 | 19,765 |
| Hess Corp. | 453,356 | 19,222 |
| Apache Corp. | 170,670 | 11,148 |
| Tesoro Petroleum Corp. | 170,600 | 10,908 |
| Cimarex Energy Co. | 287,100 | 10,341 |
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Financials (25.4%) |
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| The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. | 1,615,700 | 306,644 |
| Morgan Stanley | 1,302,685 | 99,564 |
| Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. | 968,200 | 84,640 |
| Legg Mason Inc. | 491,900 | 44,281 |
| Ameriprise Financial, Inc. | 439,892 | 22,654 |
| Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc. | 267,500 | 20,822 |
| Mellon Financial Corp. | 511,428 | 19,843 |
| Bear Stearns Co., Inc. | 128,400 | 19,433 |
| The Bank of New York Co., Inc. | 444,568 | 15,280 |
| A.G. Edwards & Sons, Inc. | 126,133 | 7,196 |
| Northern Trust Corp. | 7,900 | 464 |
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| Commercial Banks (3.7%) |
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| Wells Fargo & Co. | 32,809,323 | 1,190,650 |
| Wachovia Corp. | 4,870,184 | 270,295 |
| U.S. Bancorp | 1,468,522 | 49,695 |
| Comerica, Inc. | 754,794 | 43,921 |
| KeyCorp | 1,038,428 | 38,567 |
| PNC Financial Services Group | 423,600 | 29,665 |
| Regions Financial Corp. | 460,200 | 17,465 |
| SunTrust Banks, Inc. | 188,200 | 14,866 |
| Colonial BancGroup, Inc. | 550,860 | 13,132 |
| BB&T Corp. | 288,340 | 12,548 |
| UnionBanCal Corp. | 210,600 | 12,126 |
| National City Corp. | 316,500 | 11,790 |
| TCF Financial Corp. | 439,900 | 11,451 |
| Fifth Third Bancorp | 214,899 | 8,564 |
| M & T Bank Corp. | 55,700 | 6,785 |
| Huntington Bancshares Inc. | 181,809 | 4,438 |
| BOK Financial Corp. | 25,638 | 1,318 |
| Commerce Bancshares, Inc. | 16,229 | 804 |
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| Consumer Finance (2.6%) |
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| SLM Corp. | 15,640,400 | 761,375 |
| Capital One Financial Corp. | 5,866,640 | 465,401 |
* | AmeriCredit Corp. | 94,992 | 2,429 |
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| Diversified Financial Services (7.2%) |
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| Citigroup, Inc. | 23,928,941 | 1,200,276 |
| Bank of America Corp. | 22,098,741 | 1,190,459 |
| JPMorgan Chase & Co. | 20,346,197 | 965,224 |
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| The Allstate Corp. | 13,536,444 | 830,596 |
^ | Manulife Financial Corp. | 22,006,830 | 713,682 |
2 | XL Capital Ltd. Class A | 9,042,800 | 637,970 |
| American International Group, Inc. | 5,350,700 | 359,406 |
| The St. Paul Traveler Cos. Inc. | 6,679,808 | 341,539 |
| The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. | 1,907,476 | 166,275 |
| Loews Corp. | 4,178,100 | 162,612 |
| Genworth Financial Inc. | 2,919,700 | 97,635 |
| MetLife, Inc. | 1,642,600 | 93,842 |
* | Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Class B | 16,639 | 58,486 |
| UnumProvident Corp. | 2,197,100 | 43,459 |
| Assurant, Inc. | 534,000 | 28,120 |
| Prudential Financial, Inc. | 358,400 | 27,572 |
* | Conseco, Inc. | 1,256,600 | 25,559 |
| Ambac Financial Group, Inc. | 256,800 | 21,440 |
| Safeco Corp. | 344,988 | 20,075 |
| Nationwide Financial Services, Inc. | 353,300 | 17,990 |
| The Chubb Corp. | 296,604 | 15,764 |
| PartnerRe Ltd. | 182,300 | 12,746 |
| Torchmark Corp. | 193,580 | 11,940 |
| ACE Ltd. | 184,300 | 10,551 |
| W.R. Berkley Corp. | 168,150 | 6,198 |
| MBIA, Inc. | 85,100 | 5,278 |
^ | Fidelity National Title Group, Inc. Class A | 21,507 | 473 |
|
|
|
|
| Real Estate Investment Trusts (0.3%) |
|
|
| Simon Property Group, Inc. REIT | 251,700 | 24,440 |
| Equity Residential REIT | 368,400 | 20,118 |
| Archstone-Smith Trust REIT | 296,600 | 17,858 |
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|
| Market |
|
|
| Value• |
|
| Shares | ($000) |
| Avalonbay Communities,Inc. REIT | 117,900 | 15,452 |
| ProLogis REIT | 234,100 | 14,812 |
| United Dominion Realty Trust REIT | 327,300 | 10,595 |
| Host Marriott Corp. REIT | 428,999 | 9,893 |
| SL Green Realty Corp. REIT | 78,604 | 9,515 |
| Boston Properties, Inc. REIT | 83,023 | 8,869 |
| Apartment Investment &Management Co. Class A REIT | 151,500 | 8,684 |
| Plum Creek Timber Co. Inc. REIT | 206,500 | 7,422 |
| New Plan Excel Realty Trust REIT | 254,000 | 7,315 |
| iStar Financial Inc. REIT | 84,300 | 3,906 |
| Vornado Realty Trust REIT | 32,600 | 3,888 |
|
|
|
|
| Real Estate Management & Development (0.1%) |
|
|
^ | The St. Joe Co. | 607,000 | 32,644 |
* | Realogy Corp. | 1,054,800 | 27,193 |
| Forest City Enterprise Class A | 95,970 | 5,269 |
|
|
|
|
| Thrifts & Mortgage Finance (2.2%) |
|
|
| Washington Mutual, Inc. | 14,465,805 | 611,904 |
| Freddie Mac | 4,286,100 | 295,698 |
| Fannie Mae | 618,500 | 36,652 |
| Countrywide Financial Corp. | 556,228 | 21,203 |
| The PMI Group Inc. | 410,600 | 17,512 |
| Radian Group, Inc. | 312,810 | 16,673 |
| MGIC Investment Corp. | 226,100 | 13,286 |
|
|
| 11,914,074 |
Health Care (11.7%) |
|
| |
| Pfizer Inc. | 47,008,745 | 1,252,783 |
| Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. | 37,871,600 | 937,322 |
* | WellPoint Inc. | 10,634,900 | 811,656 |
| Wyeth | 15,881,600 | 810,438 |
| Baxter International, Inc. | 12,286,500 | 564,810 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5,489,800 | 370,013 |
| Cardinal Health, Inc. | 1,975,943 | 129,325 |
| Aetna Inc. | 2,548,600 | 105,053 |
* | Triad Hospitals, Inc. | 2,692,295 | 99,696 |
| Abbott Laboratories | 1,694,400 | 80,501 |
| Merck & Co., Inc. | 1,717,900 | 78,027 |
| Schering-Plough Corp. | 2,357,100 | 52,186 |
| Eli Lilly & Co. | 655,500 | 36,715 |
| HCA Inc. | 499,640 | 25,242 |
* | Boston Scientific Corp. | 1,530,000 | 24,342 |
* | Tenet Healthcare Corp. | 3,248,000 | 22,931 |
| CIGNA Corp. | 134,100 | 15,687 |
| AmerisourceBergen Corp. | 248,300 | 11,720 |
* | Thermo Electron Corp. | 231,308 | 9,916 |
* | King Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 513,900 | 8,598 |
| Applera Corp.–Applied Biosystems Group | 47,000 | 1,753 |
| Hillenbrand Industries, Inc. | 8,000 | 469 |
|
|
| 5,449,183 |
|
|
|
|
Industrials (10.1%) |
|
| |
| General Electric Co. | 46,580,600 | 1,635,445 |
| Honeywell International Inc. | 13,382,588 | 563,675 |
2 | Cooper Industries, Inc. Class A | 6,300,800 | 563,607 |
| ITT Industries, Inc. | 8,101,000 | 440,613 |
| Illinois Tool Works, Inc. | 8,928,200 | 427,929 |
| Tyco International Ltd. | 8,799,500 | 258,969 |
| Northrop Grumman Corp. | 3,503,221 | 232,579 |
| United Technologies Corp. | 2,248,100 | 147,745 |
| Union Pacific Corp. | 1,300,300 | 117,846 |
* | Flowserve Corp. | 887,400 | 47,032 |
| Waste Management, Inc. | 1,039,100 | 38,945 |
| Lockheed Martin Corp. | 402,800 | 35,015 |
| CSX Corp. | 650,400 | 23,200 |
| Parker Hannifin Corp. | 272,200 | 22,764 |
| Cummins Inc. | 161,500 | 20,507 |
| Raytheon Co. | 387,200 | 19,341 |
| Manpower Inc. | 276,020 | 18,706 |
| General Dynamics Corp. | 249,800 | 17,761 |
| PACCAR, Inc. | 247,030 | 14,627 |
| R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co. | 295,150 | 9,994 |
* | Terex Corp. | 190,000 | 9,834 |
* | Allied Waste Industries, Inc. | 637,362 | 7,744 |
* | USG Corp. | 139,600 | 6,825 |
| Avis Budget Group, Inc. | 344,210 | 6,812 |
| Masco Corp. | 187,471 | 5,184 |
| Emerson Electric Co. | 45,900 | 3,874 |
| Eaton Corp. | 53,000 | 3,839 |
| Dover Corp. | 65,000 | 3,087 |
| Republic Services, Inc.Class A | 35,400 | 1,452 |
| Ingersoll-Rand Co. | 38,900 | 1,428 |
* | Raytheon Co. Warrants Exp. 6/16/11 | 24,065 | 378 |
|
|
| 4,706,757 |
Information Technology (7.0%) |
|
| |
| Nokia Corp. ADR | 39,650,900 | 788,260 |
| International Business Machines Corp. | 7,256,100 | 669,956 |
| Hewlett-Packard Co. | 13,067,072 | 506,218 |
| Microsoft Corp. | 11,344,500 | 325,701 |
| Automatic Data Processing, Inc. | 6,160,000 | 304,550 |
| Electronic Data Systems Corp. | 11,178,022 | 283,139 |
| CA, Inc. | 5,243,728 | 129,835 |
| MasterCard, Inc. Class A | 614,300 | 45,520 |
* | Symantec Corp. | 2,144,100 | 42,539 |
* | Xerox Corp. | 2,089,400 | 35,520 |
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|
| Market |
|
|
| Value• |
|
| Shares | ($000) |
* | BMC Software, Inc. | 1,020,446 | 30,930 |
| First Data Corp. | 1,237,200 | 30,002 |
* | Lexmark International, Inc. | 280,800 | 17,856 |
| AVX Corp. | 749,000 | 11,804 |
* | Arrow Electronics, Inc. | 359,800 | 10,740 |
* | Computer Sciences Corp. | 134,200 | 7,092 |
* | Cadence Design Systems, Inc. | 360,700 | 6,442 |
* | Novellus Systems, Inc. | 203,399 | 5,624 |
* | Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. | 353,500 | 4,769 |
| Intersil Corp. | 106,600 | 2,500 |
* | Ceridian Corp. | 39,300 | 926 |
|
|
| 3,259,923 |
Materials (3.7%) |
|
| |
2 | Lyondell Chemical Co. | 22,292,100 | 572,238 |
2 | Hanson PLC ADR | 8,026,950 | 558,114 |
| Dow Chemical Co. | 3,563,711 | 145,364 |
| MeadWestvaco Corp. | 4,762,913 | 131,075 |
| Alcoa Inc. | 3,788,200 | 109,517 |
* | The Mosaic Co. | 2,841,200 | 53,187 |
| Weyerhaeuser Co. | 444,400 | 28,259 |
| E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. | 562,000 | 25,740 |
| Rohm & Haas Co. | 409,997 | 21,246 |
| United States Steel Corp. | 303,600 | 20,523 |
| Temple-Inland Inc. | 466,100 | 18,383 |
* | Cemex SAB de CV ADR | 519,050 | 15,955 |
| Nucor Corp. | 163,890 | 9,573 |
| Sonoco Products Co. | 147,800 | 5,244 |
| International Flavors &Fragrances, Inc. | 115,300 | 4,898 |
| PPG Industries, Inc. | 56,800 | 3,885 |
| Eastman Chemical Co. | 61,600 | 3,753 |
| Vulcan Materials Co. | 34,600 | 2,819 |
| Bemis Co., Inc. | 75,400 | 2,535 |
|
|
| 1,732,308 |
Telecommunication Services (4.8%) |
|
| |
| Verizon Communications Inc. | 25,854,854 | 956,630 |
| BellSouth Corp. | 18,543,800 | 836,325 |
| AT&T Inc. | 8,957,567 | 306,797 |
| Sprint Nextel Corp. | 5,484,200 | 102,500 |
| Alltel Corp. | 197,706 | 10,540 |
| Embarq Corp. | 193,300 | 9,346 |
| Telephone & Data Systems, Inc. | 110,718 | 5,409 |
| Citizens Communications Co. | 186,120 | 2,728 |
|
|
| 2,230,275 |
Utilities (7.8%) |
|
| |
| Exelon Corp. | 14,881,400 | 922,349 |
| Duke Energy Corp. | 27,969,000 | 884,939 |
| Entergy Corp. | 8,544,100 | 733,340 |
2 | CenterPoint Energy, Inc. | 23,761,047 | 367,821 |
| Dominion Resources, Inc. | 3,612,700 | 292,593 |
| FirstEnergy Corp. | 2,522,300 | 148,437 |
FPL Group, Inc. | 1,785,400 | 91,055 |
American Electric Power Co., Inc. | 689,425 | 28,563 |
Edison International | 572,500 | 25,442 |
TXU Corp. | 395,000 | 24,936 |
Xcel Energy, Inc. | 1,024,760 | 22,616 |
Pinnacle West Capital Corp. | 408,990 | 19,554 |
Wisconsin Energy Corp. | 331,550 | 15,231 |
Southern Co. | 391,600 | 14,254 |
Energy East Corp. | 461,800 | 11,226 |
PG&E Corp. | 257,200 | 11,096 |
PPL Corp. | 277,100 | 9,565 |
DTE Energy Co. | 160,513 | 7,292 |
ONEOK, Inc. | 128,646 | 5,356 |
NSTAR | 139,000 | 4,836 |
Pepco Holdings, Inc. | 138,639 | 3,524 |
MDU Resources Group, Inc. | 117,900 | 3,028 |
Alliant Energy Corp. | 64,500 | 2,474 |
|
| 3,649,527 |
Exchange-Traded Funds (1.3%) |
|
|
^3 Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF | 3,098,900 | 421,450 |
3 Vanguard Value ETF | 2,511,200 | 164,835 |
|
| 586,285 |
Total Common Stocks |
|
|
(Cost $32,875,571) |
| 45,457,920 |
Temporary Cash Investments (3.9%)1 |
|
|
Money Market Fund (3.8%) |
|
|
4 Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund,5.289% | 1,343,430,943 | 1,343,431 |
4 Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund,5.289%—Note G | 431,754,746 | 431,755 |
|
| 1,775,186 |
|
|
|
| Face |
|
| Amount |
|
| ($000) |
|
U.S. Agency Obligations (0.1%) |
|
|
5 Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. |
|
|
6 5.187%, 2/16/07 | 1,000 | 985 |
6 5.150%, 12/26/06 | 30,000 | 29,767 |
|
| 30,752 |
Total Temporary Cash Investments |
|
|
(Cost $1,805,938) |
| 1,805,938 |
Total Investments (101.2%) |
|
|
(Cost $34,681,509) |
| 47,263,858 |
Other Assets and Liabilities-Net (–1.2%) |
| (539,597) |
Net Assets (100%) |
| 46,724,261 |
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| Market |
| Value• |
| ($000) |
Statement of Assets and Liabilities |
|
Assets |
|
Investment in Securities, at Value | 47,263,858 |
Receivables for Investment Securities Sold | 78,142 |
Receivables for Capital Shares Issued | 35,758 |
Other Assets—Note C | 77,407 |
Total Assets | 47,455,165 |
Liabilities |
|
Payables for Investment Securities Purchased | 183,193 |
Security Lending Collateral Payable to Brokers—Note G | 431,755 |
Payables for Capital Shares Redeemed | 38,801 |
Other Liabilities | 77,155 |
Total Liabilities | 730,904 |
Net Assets (100%) | 46,724,261 |
At October 31, 2006, net assets consisted of:7 | |
| Amount |
| ($000) |
Paid-in Capital | 31,916,982 |
Undistributed Net Investment Income | 287,820 |
Accumulated Net Realized Gains | 1,918,546 |
Unrealized Appreciation |
|
Investment Securities | 12,582,349 |
Futures Contracts | 18,564 |
Net Assets | 46,724,261 |
|
|
Investor Shares—Net Assets |
|
Applicable to 876,127,399 outstanding $.001 |
|
par value shares of beneficial interest |
|
(unlimited authorization) | 30,790,036 |
Net Asset Value Per Share— |
|
Investor Shares | $35.14 |
|
|
Admiral Shares—Net Assets |
|
Applicable to 255,317,427 outstanding $.001 |
|
par value shares of beneficial interest |
|
(unlimited authorization) | 15,934,225 |
Net Asset Value Per Share— |
|
Admiral Shares | $62.41 |
• | See Note A in Notes to Financial Statements. |
* | Non-income-producing security. |
^ | Part of security position is on loan to broker-dealers. See Note G in Notes to Financial Statements. |
1 The fund invests a portion of its cash reserves in equity markets through the use of index futures contracts. After giving effect to futures investments, the fund’s effective common stock and temporary cash investment positions represent 98.4% and 2.8%, respectively, of net assets. See Note E in Notes to Financial Statements.
2 Considered an affiliated company of the fund as the fund owns more than 5% of the outstanding voting securities of such company. See Note I in Notes to Financial Statements.
3 Considered an affiliated company of the fund as the issuer is another member of The Vanguard Group.
4 Affiliated money market fund available only to Vanguard funds and certain trusts and accounts managed by Vanguard. Rate shown is the 7-day yield.
5 The issuer operates under a congressional charter; its securities are neither issued nor guaranteed by the U.S. government. If needed, access to additional funding from the U.S. Treasury (beyond the issuer’s line of credit) would require congressional action.
6 Securities with a value of $30,752,000 have been segregated as initial margin for open futures contracts.
7 See Note E in Notes to Financial Statements for the tax-basis components of net assets.
ADR—American Depositary Receipt.
REIT—Real Estate Investment Trust.
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Statement of Operations
| Year Ended |
| October 31, 2006 |
| ($000) |
Investment Income |
|
Income |
|
Dividends1 | 1,079,421 |
Interest1 | 55,972 |
Security Lending | 5,125 |
Total Income | 1,140,518 |
Expenses |
|
Investment Advisory Fees—Note B |
|
Basic Fee | 55,629 |
Performance Adjustment | 3,027 |
The Vanguard Group—Note C |
|
Management and Administrative |
|
Investor Shares | 53,801 |
Admiral Shares | 10,723 |
Marketing and Distribution |
|
Investor Shares | 6,602 |
Admiral Shares | 2,480 |
Custodian Fees | 395 |
Auditing Fees | 24 |
Shareholders’ Reports |
|
Investor Shares | 827 |
Admiral Shares | 95 |
Trustees’ Fees and Expenses | 46 |
Total Expenses | 133,649 |
Expenses Paid Indirectly—Note D | (4,179) |
Net Expenses | 129,470 |
Net Investment Income | 1,011,048 |
Realized Net Gain (Loss) |
|
Investment Securities Sold1 | 2,102,290 |
Futures Contracts | 24,494 |
Realized Net Gain (Loss) | 2,126,784 |
Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) |
|
Investment Securities | 3,617,892 |
Futures Contracts | 22,055 |
Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) | 3,639,947 |
Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations | 6,777,779 |
1 Dividend income, interest income, and realized net gain (loss) from affiliated companies of the fund were $100,818,000, $54,213,000, and $54,053,000, respectively.
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Statement of Changes in Net Assets
| Year Ended October 31, | |
| 2006 | 2005 |
| ($000) | ($000) |
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets |
|
|
Operations |
|
|
Net Investment Income | 1,011,048 | 800,083 |
Realized Net Gain (Loss) | 2,126,784 | 2,440,573 |
Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) | 3,639,947 | 1,030,901 |
Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations | 6,777,779 | 4,271,557 |
Distributions |
|
|
Net Investment Income |
|
|
Investor Shares | (636,172) | (608,526) |
Admiral Shares | (313,576) | (134,681) |
Realized Capital Gain |
|
|
Investor Shares | (782,678) | — |
Admiral Shares | (343,927) | — |
Total Distributions | (2,076,353) | (743,207) |
Capital Share Transactions—Note H |
|
|
Investor Shares | (564,170) | (1,039,868) |
Admiral Shares | 2,396,256 | 6,621,533 |
Net Increase (Decrease) from Capital Share Transactions | 1,832,086 | 5,581,665 |
Total Increase (Decrease) | 6,533,512 | 9,110,015 |
Net Assets |
|
|
Beginning of Period | 40,190,749 | 31,080,734 |
End of Period1 | 46,724,261 | 40,190,749 |
1 Net Assets—End of Period includes undistributed net investment income of $287,820,000 and $226,520,000.
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Financial Highlights
Windsor II Fund Investor Shares |
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|
|
|
| |
| Year Ended October 31, | |||||
For a Share Outstanding Throughout Each Period | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | |
Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period | $31.61 | $28.49 | $24.61 | $20.87 | $24.50 | |
Investment Operations |
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|
|
|
| |
Net Investment Income | .760 | .65 | .56 | .51 | .51 | |
Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) |
|
|
|
|
| |
on Investments | 4.368 | 3.10 | 3.87 | 3.75 | (3.47) | |
Total from Investment Operations | 5.128 | 3.75 | 4.43 | 4.26 | (2.96) | |
Distributions |
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|
|
|
| |
Dividends from Net Investment Income | (.720) | (.63) | (.55) | (.52) | (.52) | |
Distributions from Realized Capital Gains | (.878) | — | — | — | (.15) | |
Total Distributions | (1.598) | (.63) | (.55) | (.52) | (.67) | |
Net Asset Value, End of Period | $35.14 | $31.61 | $28.49 | $24.61 | $20.87 | |
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|
|
|
|
| |
Total Return | 16.85% | 13.22% | 18.15% | 20.68% | –12.51% | |
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|
|
|
|
| |
Ratios/Supplemental Data |
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|
|
|
| |
Net Assets, End of Period (Millions) | $30,790 | $28,199 | $26,232 | $20,843 | $17,735 | |
Ratio of Total Expenses to |
|
|
|
|
| |
Average Net Assets1 | 0.34% | 0.35% | 0.37% | 0.43% | 0.42% | |
Ratio of Net Investment Income to |
|
|
|
|
| |
Average Net Assets | 2.28% | 2.14% | 2.07% | 2.31% | 2.12% | |
Portfolio Turnover Rate | 34% | 28% | 22% | 29% | 41% | |
1 Includes performance-based investment advisory fee increases (decreases) of 0.01%, 0.01%, 0.02%, 0.03%, and 0.02%.
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Windsor II Fund Admiral Shares |
|
|
|
|
| ||
|
|
| Year Ended October 31, | ||||
For a Share Outstanding Throughout Each Period | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | ||
Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period | $56.13 | $50.59 | $43.69 | $37.05 | $43.50 | ||
Investment Operations |
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|
|
|
| ||
Net Investment Income | 1.402 | 1.224 | 1.043 | .95 | .944 | ||
Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) |
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|
|
|
| ||
on Investments | 7.782 | 5.493 | 6.885 | 6.65 | (6.167) | ||
Total from Investment Operations | 9.184 | 6.717 | 7.928 | 7.60 | (5.223) | ||
Distributions |
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|
|
|
| ||
Dividends from Net Investment Income | (1.346) | (1.177) | (1.028) | (.96) | (.962) | ||
Distributions from Realized Capital Gains | (1.558) | — | — | — | (.265) | ||
Total Distributions | (2.904) | (1.177) | (1.028) | (.96) | (1.227) | ||
Net Asset Value, End of Period | $62.41 | $56.13 | $50.59 | $43.69 | $37.05 | ||
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|
|
| ||
Total Return | 17.01% | 13.34% | 18.30% | 20.79% | –12.44% | ||
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|
|
|
|
| ||
Ratios/Supplemental Data |
|
|
|
|
| ||
Net Assets, End of Period (Millions) | $15,934 | $11,992 | $4,849 | $3,412 | $2,484 | ||
Ratio of Total Expenses to |
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|
|
|
| ||
Average Net Assets1 | 0.23% | 0.22% | 0.26% | 0.32% | 0.35% | ||
Ratio of Net Investment Income to |
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|
|
|
| ||
Average Net Assets | 2.39% | 2.25% | 2.17% | 2.41% | 2.18% | ||
Portfolio Turnover Rate | 34% | 28% | 22% | 29% | 41% | ||
1 Includes performance-based investment advisory fee increases (decreases) of 0.01%, 0.01%, 0.02%, 0.03%, and 0.02%.
See accompanying Notes, which are an integral part of the Financial Statements.
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Notes to Financial Statements
Vanguard Windsor II Fund is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 as an open-end investment company, or mutual fund. The fund files reports with the SEC under the company name Vanguard Windsor Funds. The fund offers two classes of shares, Investor Shares and Admiral Shares. Investor Shares are available to any investor who meets the fund’s minimum purchase requirements. Admiral Shares are designed for investors who meet certain administrative, servicing, tenure, and account-size criteria.
A. The following significant accounting policies conform to generally accepted accounting principles for U.S. mutual funds. The fund consistently follows such policies in preparing its financial statements.
1. Security Valuation: Securities are valued as of the close of trading on the New York Stock Exchange (generally 4:00 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. Temporary cash investments acquired over 60 days to maturity 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. Other temporary cash investments are valued at amortized cost, which approximates market value.
2. 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.
Futures contracts are valued at their quoted daily settlement prices. The aggregate principal amounts of the contracts are not recorded in the Statement of Net Assets. Fluctuations in the value of the contracts are recorded in the Statement of Net Assets as an asset (liability) and in the Statement of Operations as unrealized appreciation (depreciation) until the contracts are closed, when they are recorded as realized futures gains (losses).
3. Federal Income Taxes: The fund intends to continue to qualify as a regulated investment company and distribute all of its taxable income. Accordingly, no provision for federal income taxes is required in the financial statements.
4. Distributions: Distributions to shareholders are recorded on the ex-dividend date.
5. Security Lending: The fund may lend its securities to qualified institutional borrowers to earn additional income. Security loans are required to be secured at all times by collateral at least equal to the market value of securities loaned. The fund invests cash collateral received in Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund, and records a liability for the return of the collateral, during the period the securities are on loan. Security lending income represents the income earned on investing cash collateral, less expenses associated with the loan.
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6. Other: Dividend income is recorded on the ex-dividend date. Interest income includes income distributions received from Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund and is accrued daily. Security transactions are accounted for on the date securities are bought or sold. Costs used to determine realized gains (losses) on the sale of investment securities are those of the specific securities sold.
Each class of shares has equal rights as to assets and earnings, except that each class separately bears certain class-specific expenses related to maintenance of shareholder accounts (included in Management and Administrative expenses) and shareholder reporting. Marketing and distribution expenses are allocated to each class of shares based on a method approved by the board of trustees. Income, other non-class-specific expenses, and gains and losses on investments are allocated to each class of shares based on its relative net assets.
B. Barrow, Hanley, Mewhinney & Strauss, Inc.; Equinox Capital Management, LLC; Tukman Capital Management, Inc.; Hotchkis and Wiley Capital Management, LLC; and beginning January 1, 2006, Armstrong Shaw Associates Inc. each provide investment advisory services to a portion of the fund for a fee calculated at an annual percentage rate of average net assets managed by the advisor. The basic fee of Barrow, Hanley, Mewhinney & Strauss, Inc. is subject to quarterly adjustments based on performance for the preceding three years relative to the S&P 500/Barra Value Index for periods prior to May 1, 2006, and the new benchmark, the MSCI US Prime Market 750 Index, beginning May 1, 2006. The benchmark change will be fully phased in by April 2009. The basic fees of Equinox Capital Management, LLC, and Tukman Capital Management, Inc., are subject to quarterly adjustments based on performance for the preceding three years relative to a designated market index: for Equinox Capital Management, LLC, the Russell 1000 Value Index, and for Tukman Capital Management, Inc., the S&P 500 Index. The basic fee of Hotchkis and Wiley Capital Management, LLC, is subject to quarterly adjustments based on performance since January 31, 2004, relative to the MSCI US Investable Market 2500 Index. In accordance with the advisory contract entered into with Armstrong Shaw Associates Inc. in January 2006, beginning in November 2006 the investment advisory fee will be subject to quarterly adjustments based on performance since January 31, 2006, relative to the Russell 1000 Value Index.
The Vanguard Group provides investment advisory services to a portion of the fund on an at-cost basis; the fund paid Vanguard advisory fees of $1,027,000 for the year ended October 31, 2006.
For the year ended October 31, 2006, the aggregate investment advisory fee represented an effective annual basic rate of 0.13% of the fund’s average net assets before an increase of $3,027,000 (0.01%) based on performance.
C. The Vanguard Group furnishes at cost corporate management, administrative, marketing, and distribution services. The costs of such services are allocated to the fund under methods approved by the board of trustees. The fund has committed to provide up to 0.40% of its net assets in capital contributions to Vanguard. At October 31, 2006, the fund had contributed capital of $4,737,000 to Vanguard (included in Other Assets), representing 0.01% of the fund’s net assets and 4.74% of Vanguard’s capitalization. The fund’s trustees and officers are also directors and officers of Vanguard.
D. The fund has asked its investment advisors to direct certain security trades, subject to obtaining the best price and execution, to brokers who have agreed to rebate to the fund part of the commissions generated. Such rebates are used solely to reduce the fund’s management and administrative expenses. The fund’s custodian bank has also agreed to reduce its fees when the fund
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maintains cash on deposit in the non-interest-bearing custody account. For the year ended
October 31, 2006, these arrangements reduced the fund’s management and administrative expenses by $4,116,000 and custodian fees by $63,000. The total expense reduction represented an effective annual rate of 0.01% of the fund’s average net assets.
E. Distributions are determined on a tax basis and may differ from net investment income and realized capital gains for financial reporting purposes. Differences may be permanent or temporary. Permanent differences are reclassified among capital accounts in the financial statements to reflect their tax character. Temporary differences arise when certain items of income, expense, gain, or loss are recognized in different periods for financial statement and tax purposes; these differences will reverse at some time in the future. Differences in classification may also result from the treatment of short-term gains as ordinary income for tax purposes. The fund’s tax-basis capital gains and losses are determined only at the end of each fiscal year.
The fund used a tax accounting practice to treat a portion of the price of capital shares redeemed during the year as distributions from net investment income and realized capital gains. Accordingly, the fund has reclassified $205,221,000 from accumulated net realized gains to paid-in capital.
For tax purposes, at October 31, 2006, the fund had $481,386,000 of ordinary income and $1,804,740,000 of long-term capital gains available for distribution.
At October 31, 2006, the cost of investment securities for tax purposes was $34,681,509,000. Net unrealized appreciation of investment securities for tax purposes was $12,582,349,000, consisting of unrealized gains of $12,988,680,000 on securities that had risen in value since their purchase and $406,331,000 in unrealized losses on securities that had fallen in value since their purchase.
At October 31, 2006, the aggregate settlement value of open futures contracts expiring in December 2006 and the related unrealized appreciation (depreciation) were:
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S&P 500 Index | 1,131 | 391,100 | 16,411 |
E-mini S&P 500 Index | 1,640 | 113,422 | 2,153 |
Unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on open futures contracts is required to be treated as realized gain (loss) for tax purposes.
F. During the year ended October 31, 2006, the fund purchased $15,589,242,000 of investment securities and sold $14,343,091,000 of investment securities, other than temporary cash investments.
G. The market value of securities on loan to broker-dealers at October 31, 2006, was $422,897,000, for which the fund received cash collateral of $431,755,000.
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H. Capital share transactions for each class of shares were:
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Issued | 4,035,614 | 123,796 | 6,800,077 | 219,523 |
Issued in Lieu of Cash Distributions | 1,378,672 | 43,697 | 585,849 | 18,938 |
Redeemed | (5,978,456) | (183,528) | (8,425,794) | (267,065) |
Net Increase (Decrease)—Investor Shares | (564,170) | (16,035) | (1,039,868) | (28,604) |
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Issued in Lieu of Cash Distributions | 605,081 | 10,803 | 121,775 | 2,215 |
Redeemed | (1,694,081) | (29,219) | (808,848) | (14,577) |
Net Increase (Decrease)—Admiral Shares | 2,396,256 | 41,685 | 6,621,533 | 117,781 |
I. Certain of the fund’s investments are in companies that are considered to be affiliated companies of the fund because the fund owns more than 5% of the outstanding voting securities of the company. Transactions during the period in securities of these companies were as follows:
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CenterPoint Energy, Inc. | 314,535 | 11,285 | 10,241 | 12,066 | 367,821 |
Cooper Industries, Inc. Class A | 329,695 | 147,440 | — | 7,716 | 563,607 |
Hanson PLC ADR | 395,965 | 58,913 | 48,825 | 14,064 | 558,114 |
Lyondell Chemical Co. | 401,220 | 151,673 | — | 16,972 | 572,238 |
Mattel, Inc. | 377,606 | — | 180,584 | 10,298 | n/a1 |
Service Corp. International | 218,290 | — | — | 2,608 | 237,851 |
Sherwin-Williams Co. | n/a2 | 403,543 | 1,396 | 6,385 | 544,105 |
Triad Hospitals | 180,009 | 349 | 68,541 | — | n/a1 |
XL Capital Ltd. | n/a2 | 251,164 | — | 12,796 | 637,970 |
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1 At October 31, 2006, the security is still held but the issuer is no longer an affiliated company of the fund.
2 At October 31, 2005, the issuer was not an affiliated company of the fund.
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J. In June 2006, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued Interpretation No. 48 (“FIN 48”), “Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes.” FIN 48 establishes the minimum threshold for recognizing, and a system for measuring, the benefits of tax-return positions in financial statements. FIN 48 will be effective for the fund’s fiscal year beginning November 1, 2007. Management is in the process of analyzing the fund’s tax positions for purposes of implementing FIN 48; based on the analysis completed to date, management does not believe the adoption of FIN 48 will result in any material impact to the fund’s financial statements.
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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
To the Trustees of Vanguard Windsor Funds and the Shareholders of Vanguard Windsor II Fund:
In our opinion, the accompanying statement of net assets and the statement of assets and liabilities and the related statements of operations and of changes in net assets and the financial highlights present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Vanguard Windsor II Fund (the “Fund”) at October 31, 2006, the results of its operations for the year then ended, the changes in its net assets for each of the two years in the period then ended and the financial highlights for each of the five years in the period then ended, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. These financial statements and financial highlights (hereafter referred to as “financial statements”) are the responsibility of the Fund’s management; our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits. We conducted our audits of these financial statements in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, and evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits, which included confirmation of securities at October 31, 2006 by correspondence with the custodian and broker, and by agreement to the underlying ownership records for Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund, provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
December 11, 2006
Special 2006 tax information (unaudited) for Vanguard Windsor II Fund
This information for the fiscal year ended October 31, 2006, is included pursuant to provisions of the Internal Revenue Code.
The fund distributed $1,126,604,000 as capital gain dividends (from net long-term capital gains) to shareholders during the fiscal year.
The fund distributed $949,748,000 of qualified dividend income to shareholders during the fiscal year.
For corporate shareholders, 80.9% of investment income (dividend income plus short-term gains, if any) qualifies for the dividends-received deduction.
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Your Fund’s After-Tax Returns
This table presents returns for your fund both before and after taxes. The after-tax returns are shown in two ways: (1) assuming that an investor owned the fund during the entire period and paid taxes on the fund’s distributions, and (2) assuming that an investor paid taxes on the fund’s distributions and sold all shares at the end of each period.
Calculations are based on the highest individual federal income tax and capital gains tax rates in effect at the times of the distributions and the hypothetical sales. State and local taxes were not considered. After-tax returns reflect any qualified dividend income, using actual prior-year figures and estimates for 2006. (In the example, returns after the sale of fund shares may be higher than those assuming no sale. This occurs when the sale would have produced a capital loss. The calculation assumes that the investor received a tax deduction for the loss.)
The table shows returns for Investor Shares only; returns for other share classes will differ. Please note that your actual after-tax returns will depend on your tax situation and may differ from those shown. Also note that if you own the fund in a tax-deferred account, such as an individual retirement account or a 401(k) plan, this information does not apply to you. Such accounts are not subject to current taxes.
Finally, keep in mind that a fund’s performance—whether before or after taxes—does not guarantee future results.
Average Annual Total Returns: Windsor II Fund Investor Shares | |||
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Returns Before Taxes | 16.85% | 10.54% | 10.41% |
Returns After Taxes on Distributions | 15.99 | 9.91 | 8.69 |
Returns After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares | 11.91 | 8.92 | 8.21 |
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About Your Fund’s Expenses
As a shareholder of the fund, you incur ongoing costs, which include costs for portfolio management, administrative services, and shareholder reports (like this one), among others. Operating expenses, which are deducted from a fund’s gross income, directly reduce the investment return of the fund.
A fund’s expenses are expressed as a percentage of its average net assets. This figure is known as the expense ratio. The following examples are intended to help you understand the ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in your fund and to compare these costs with those of other mutual funds. The examples are based on an investment of $1,000 made at the beginning of the period shown and held for the entire period.
The table below illustrates your fund’s costs in two ways:
• Based on actual fund return. This section helps you to estimate the actual expenses that you paid over the period. The “Ending Account Value” shown is derived from the fund’s actual return, and the third column shows the dollar amount that would have been paid by an investor who started with $1,000 in the fund. You may use the information here, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over the period.
To do so, simply divide your account value by $1,000 (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number given for your fund under the heading “Expenses Paid During Period.”
• Based on hypothetical 5% yearly return. This section is intended to help you compare your fund’s costs with those of other mutual funds. It assumes that the fund had a yearly return of 5% before expenses, but that the expense ratio is unchanged. In this case—because the return used is not the fund’s actual return—the results do not apply to your investment. The example is useful in making comparisons because the Securities and Exchange Commission requires all mutual funds to calculate expenses based on a 5% return. You can assess your fund’s costs by comparing this hypothetical example with the hypothetical examples that appear in shareholder reports of other funds.
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Windsor II Fund | 4/30/2006 | 10/31/2006 | Period1 |
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Investor Shares | $1,000.00 | $1,067.28 | $1.77 |
Admiral Shares | 1,000.00 | 1,067.97 | 1.20 |
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Admiral Shares | 1,000.00 | 1,024.05 | 1.17 |
1 The calculations are based on expenses incurred in the most recent six-month period. The fund’s annualized six-month expense ratios for that period are 0.34% for Investor Shares and 0.23% for Admiral Shares. The dollar amounts shown as “Expenses Paid” are equal to the annualized expense ratio multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by the number of days in the most recent six-month period, then divided by the number of days in the most recent 12-month period.
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Note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight and help you compare ongoing costs only and do not reflect any transactional costs or account maintenance fees. They do not include your fund’s low-balance fee, which is described in the prospectus. If this fee were applied to your account, your costs would be higher. Your fund does not charge transaction fees, such as purchase or redemption fees, nor does it carry a “sales load.”
The calculations assume no shares were bought or sold during the period. Your actual costs may have been higher or lower, depending on the amount of your investment and the timing of any purchases or redemptions.
You can find more information about the fund’s expenses, including annual expense ratios, in the Financial Statements section of this report. For additional information on operating expenses and other shareholder costs, please refer to the appropriate fund prospectus.
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Glossary
Beta. A measure of the magnitude of a fund’s past share-price fluctuations in relation to the ups and downs of a given market index. The index is assigned a beta of 1.00. Compared with a given index, a fund with a beta of 1.20 typically would have seen its share price rise or fall by 12% when the index rose or fell by 10%. A fund’s beta should be reviewed in conjunction with its R-squared (see definition below). The lower the R-squared, the less correlation there is between the fund and the index, and the less reliable beta is as an indicator of volatility.
Earnings Growth Rate. The average annual rate of growth in earnings over the past five years for the stocks now in a fund.
Expense Ratio. The percentage of a fund’s average net assets used to pay its annual administrative and advisory expenses. These expenses directly reduce returns to investors.
Foreign Holdings. The percentage of a fund represented by stocks or depositary receipts of companies based outside the United States.
Median Market Cap. An indicator of the size of companies in which a fund invests; the midpoint of market capitalization (market price x shares outstanding) of a fund’s stocks, weighted by the proportion of the fund’s assets invested in each stock. Stocks representing half of the fund’s assets have market capitalizations above the median, and the rest are below it.
Price/Book Ratio. The share price of a stock divided by its net worth, or book value, per share. For a fund, the weighted average price/book ratio of the stocks it holds.
Price/Earnings Ratio. The ratio of a stock’s current price to its per-share earnings over the past year. For a fund, the weighted average P/E of the stocks it holds. P/E is an indicator of market expectations about corporate prospects; the higher the P/E, the greater the expectations for a company’s future growth.
R-Squared. A measure of how much of a fund’s past returns can be explained by the returns from the market in general, as measured by a given index. If a fund’s total returns were precisely synchronized with an index’s returns, its R-squared would be 1.00. If the fund’s returns bore no relationship to the index’s returns, its R-squared would be 0.
Return on Equity. The annual average rate of return generated by a company during the past five years for each dollar of shareholder’s equity (net income divided by shareholder’s equity). For a fund, the weighted average return on equity for the companies whose stocks it holds.
Short-Term Reserves. The percentage of a fund invested in highly liquid, short-term securities that can be readily converted to cash.
Turnover Rate. An indication of the fund’s trading activity. Funds with high turnover rates incur higher transaction costs and may be more likely to distribute capital gains (which may be taxable to investors). The turnover rate excludes in-kind transactions, which have minimal impact on costs.
Yield. A snapshot of a fund’s income from interest and dividends. The yield, expressed as a percentage of the fund’s net asset value, is based on income earned over the past 30 days and is annualized, or projected forward for the coming year. The index yield is based on the current annualized rate of income provided by securities in the index.
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The People Who Govern Your Fund
The trustees of your mutual fund are there to see that the fund is operated and managed in your best interests since, as a shareholder, you are a part owner of the fund. Your fund’s trustees also serve on the board of directors of The Vanguard Group, Inc., which is owned by the Vanguard funds and provides services to them on an at-cost basis.
A majority of Vanguard’s board members are independent, meaning that they have no affiliation with Vanguard or the funds they oversee, apart from the sizable personal investments they have made as private individuals.
Our independent board members bring distinguished backgrounds in business, academia, and public service to their task of working with Vanguard officers to establish the policies and oversee the activities of the funds. Among board members’ responsibilities are selecting investment advisors for the funds; monitoring fund operations, performance, and costs; reviewing contracts; nominating and selecting new trustees/directors; and electing Vanguard officers.
Each trustee serves a fund until its termination; or until the trustee’s retirement, resignation, or death; or otherwise as specified in the fund’s organizational documents. Any trustee may be removed at a shareholders’ meeting by a vote representing two-thirds of the net asset value of all shares of the fund together with shares of other Vanguard funds organized within the same trust. The table on these two pages shows information for each trustee and executive officer of the fund. The mailing address of the trustees and officers is P.O. Box 876, Valley Forge, PA 19482.
Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, and Trustee | |
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Born 1954 | Principal Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: Chairman of the Board, Chief |
Trustee since May 1987; | Executive Officer, and Director/Trustee of The Vanguard Group, Inc., and of each |
Chairman of the Board and | of the investment companies served by The Vanguard Group. |
Chief Executive Officer |
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Charles D. Ellis |
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Born 1937 | Principal Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: Applecore Partners (pro bono ventures |
Trustee since January 2001 | in education); Senior Advisor to Greenwich Associates (international business strategy |
144 Vanguard Funds Overseen | consulting); Successor Trustee of Yale University; Overseer of the Stern School of Business |
| at New York University; Trustee of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. |
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Rajiv L. Gupta |
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Born 1945 | Principal Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: Chairman and Chief Executive Officer |
Trustee since December 20012 | of Rohm and Haas Co. (chemicals); Board Member of the American Chemistry Council; |
144 Vanguard Funds Overseen | Director of Tyco International, Ltd. (diversified manufacturing and services) (since 2005); |
| Trustee of Drexel University and of the Chemical Heritage Foundation. |
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Amy Gutmann |
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Born 1949 | Principal Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: President of the University of |
Trustee since June 2006 | Pennsylvania since 2004; Professor in the School of Arts and Sciences, Annenberg School |
144 Vanguard Funds Overseen | for Communication, and Graduate School of Education of the University of Pennsylvania |
| since 2004; Provost (2001–2004) and Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and the |
| University Center for Human Values (1990–2004), Princeton University; Director of Carnegie |
| Corporation of New York and of Philadelphia 2016 (since 2005) and of Schuylkill River |
| Development Corporation and Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce (since 2004). |
JoAnn Heffernan Heisen |
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Born 1950 | Principal Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: Corporate Vice President and Chief | |
Trustee since July 1998 | Global Diversity Officer (since January 2006), Vice President and Chief Information | |
144 Vanguard Funds Overseen | Officer (1997–2005), and Member of the Executive Committee of Johnson & Johnson | |
| (pharmaceuticals/consumer products); Director of the University Medical Center at | |
| Princeton and Women’s Research and Education Institute. | |
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André F. Perold |
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Born 1952 | Principal Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: George Gund Professor of Finance and | |
Trustee since December 2004 | Banking, Harvard Business School (since 2000); Senior Associate Dean, Director of Faculty | |
144 Vanguard Funds Overseen | Recruiting, and Chair of Finance Faculty, Harvard Business School; Director and Chairman | |
| of UNX, Inc. (equities trading firm) (since 2003); Director of registered investment | |
| companies advised by Merrill Lynch Investment Managers and affiliates (1985–2004), | |
| Genbel Securities Limited (South African financial services firm) (1999–2003), Gensec | |
| Bank (1999–2003), Sanlam, Ltd. (South African insurance company) (2001–2003), and | |
| Stockback, Inc. (credit card firm) (2000–2002). | |
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Born 1941 | Principal Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: Chairman, President, Chief Executive | |
Trustee since January 1993 | Officer, and Director of NACCO Industries, Inc. (forklift trucks/housewares/ lignite); | |
144 Vanguard Funds Overseen | Director of Goodrich Corporation (industrial products/aircraft systems and services). | |
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J. Lawrence Wilson |
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Born 1936 | Principal Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: Retired Chairman and Chief Executive | |
Trustee since April 1985 | Officer of Rohm and Haas Co. (chemicals); Director of Cummins Inc. (diesel engines), | |
144 Vanguard Funds Overseen | MeadWestvaco Corp. (packaging products), and AmerisourceBergen Corp. (pharmaceutical | |
| distribution); Trustee of Vanderbilt University and of Culver Educational Foundation. | |
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Heidi Stam |
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Secretary since July 2005 | since November 1997; General Counsel of The Vanguard Group since July 2005; | |
144 Vanguard Funds Overseen | Secretary of The Vanguard Group and of each of the investment companies served | |
| by The Vanguard Group since July 2005. | |
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Thomas J. Higgins |
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Born 1957 | Principal Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: Principal of The Vanguard Group, Inc.; | |
Treasurer since July 1998 | Treasurer of each of the investment companies served by The Vanguard Group. | |
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Vanguard Senior Management Team | ||
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R. Gregory Barton | Kathleen C. Gubanich | Michael S. Miller |
Mortimer J. Buckley | Paul A. Heller | Ralph K. Packard |
James H. Gately | F. William McNabb, III | George U. Sauter |
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1 Officers of the funds are “interested persons” as defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940.
2 December 2002 for Vanguard Equity Income Fund, Vanguard Growth Equity Fund, the Vanguard Municipal Bond Funds, and the Vanguard State Tax-Exempt Funds.
More information about the trustees is in the Statement of Additional Information, available from The Vanguard Group.
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Item 2: Code of Ethics. The Registrant has adopted a code of ethics that applies to the Registrant's principal executive officer, principal financial officer, principal accounting officer or controller or persons performing similar functions. The Code of Ethics was amended during the reporting period covered by this report to make certain technical, non-material changes.
Item 3: Audit Committee Financial Expert. The following members of the Audit Committee have been determined by the Registrant’s Board of Trustees to be Audit Committee Financial Experts serving on its Audit Committee, and to be independent: Charles D. Ellis, Rajiv L. Gupta, JoAnn Heffernan Heisen, André F. Perold, Alfred M. Rankin, Jr., and J. Lawrence Wilson.
Item 4: Principal Accountant Fees and Services.
(a) Audit Fees.
Audit Fees of the Registrant
Fiscal Year Ended October 31, 2006: $47,000
Fiscal Year Ended October 31, 2005: $41,000
Aggregate Audit Fees of Registered Investment Companies in the Vanguard Group
Fiscal Year Ended October 31, 2006: $2,347,620
Fiscal Year Ended October 31, 2005: $2,152,740
(b) Audit-Related Fees.
Fiscal Year Ended October 31, 2006: $530,000
Fiscal Year Ended October 31, 2005: $382,200
Includes fees billed in connection with assurance and related services provided to the Registrant, The Vanguard Group, Inc., Vanguard Marketing Corporation, and other registered investment companies in the Vanguard Group.
(c) Tax Fees.
Fiscal Year Ended October 31, 2006: $101,300
Fiscal Year Ended October 31, 2005: $98,400
Includes fees billed in connection with tax compliance, planning and advice services provided to the Registrant, The Vanguard Group, Inc., Vanguard Marketing Corporation, and other registered investment companies in the Vanguard Group and related to income and excise taxes.
(d) All Other Fees.
Fiscal Year Ended October 31, 2006: $0
Fiscal Year Ended October 31, 2005: $0
Includes fees billed for services related to risk management and privacy matters. Services were provided to the Registrant, The Vanguard Group, Inc., Vanguard Marketing Corporation, and other registered investment companies in the Vanguard Group.
(e) (1) Pre-Approval Policies. The policy of the Registrant’s Audit Committee is to consider and, if appropriate, approve before the principal accountant is engaged for such services, all specific audit and non-audit services provided to: (1) the Registrant; (2) The Vanguard Group, Inc.; (3) other entities controlled by The Vanguard Group, Inc. that provide ongoing services to the Registrant; and (4) other registered investment companies in the Vanguard Group. In making a determination, the Audit Committee considers whether the services are consistent with maintaining the principal accountant’s independence.
In the event of a contingency situation in which the principal accountant is needed to provide services in between scheduled Audit Committee meetings, the Chairman of the Audit Committee would be called on to consider and, if appropriate, pre-approve audit or permitted non-audit services in an amount sufficient to complete services through the next Audit Committee meeting, and to determine if such services would be consistent with maintaining the accountant’s independence. At the next scheduled Audit Committee meeting, services and fees would be presented to the Audit Committee for formal consideration, and, if appropriate, approval by the entire Audit Committee. The Audit Committee would again consider whether such services and fees are consistent with maintaining the principal accountant’s independence.
The Registrant’s Audit Committee is informed at least annually of all audit and non-audit services provided by the principal accountant to the Vanguard complex, whether such services are provided to: (1) the Registrant; (2) The Vanguard Group, Inc.; (3) other entities controlled by The Vanguard Group, Inc. that provide ongoing services to the Registrant; or other registered investment companies in the Vanguard Group.
(2) No percentage of the principal accountant’s fees or services were approved pursuant to the waiver provision of paragraph (c)(7)(i)(C) of Rule 2-01 of Regulation S-X.
(f) For the most recent fiscal year, over 50% of the hours worked under the principal accountant’s engagement were not performed by persons other than full-time, permanent employees of the principal accountant.
(g) Aggregate Non-Audit Fees.
Fiscal Year Ended October 31, 2006: $101,300
Fiscal Year Ended October 31, 2005: $98,400
Includes fees billed for non-audit services provided to the Registrant, The Vanguard Group, Inc., Vanguard Marketing Corporation, and other registered investment companies in the Vanguard Group.
(h) For the most recent fiscal year, the Audit Committee has determined that the provision of all non-audit services was consistent with maintaining the principal accountant’s independence.
Item 5: Not applicable.
Item 6: Not applicable.
Item 7: Not applicable.
Item 8: Not applicable.
Item 9: Not applicable.
Item 10: Not applicable
Item 11: Controls and Procedures.
(a) Disclosure Controls and Procedures. The Principal Executive and Financial Officers concluded that the Registrant’s Disclosure Controls and Procedures are effective based on their evaluation of the Disclosure Controls and Procedures as of a date within 90 days of the filing date of this report.
(b) Internal Control Over Financial Reporting. There were no significant changes in Registrant’s internal control over financial reporting or in other factors that could significantly affect this control subsequent to the date of the evaluation, including any corrective actions with regard to significant deficiencies and material weaknesses.
Item 12: Exhibits.
(a) Code of Ethics.
(b) Certifications.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
VANGUARD WINDSOR FUNDS | |
BY: | (signature) |
(HEIDI STAM) JOHN J. BRENNAN* CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER |
Date: | December 15, 2006 |
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
VANGUARD WINDSOR FUNDS | |
BY: | (signature) |
(HEIDI STAM) JOHN J. BRENNAN* CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER |
Date: | December 15, 2006 |
VANGUARD WINDSOR FUNDS | |
BY: | (signature) |
(HEIDI STAM) THOMAS J. HIGGINS* TREASURER |
Date: | December 15, 2006 |
* By Power of Attorney. See File Number 002-65955-99, filed on July 27, 2006. Incorporated by Reference.