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, 2006 - April 30, 2007 |
Item 1: | Reports to Shareholders |
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> | For the six months ended April 30, 2007, Vanguard Windsor Fund outperformed its benchmarks and the broad U.S. stock market, with the fund’s Investor Shares gaining 10.1%. |
> | A number of the fund’s top ten holdings produced healthy returns, a tribute to the stock-selection skills of Windsor’s advisors. |
> | The fund’s allocations to the consumer-oriented and information technology sectors garnered solid gains. |
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Your Fund’s Total Returns | 1 |
Chairman’s Letter | 2 |
Advisors’ Report | 6 |
Fund Profile | 9 |
Performance Summary | 10 |
Financial Statements | 11 |
About Your Fund’s Expenses | 23 |
Trustees Approve Advisory Agreements | 25 |
Glossary | 27 |
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
Six Months Ended April 30, 2007 |
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Vanguard Windsor Fund |
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Investor Shares | VWNDX | 10.1% |
Admiral™ Shares1 | VWNEX | 10.2 |
Russell 1000 Value Index |
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Average Multi-Cap Value Fund2 |
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Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 Index |
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Your Fund’s Performance at a Glance | ||||
October 31, 2006–April 30, 2007 |
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Vanguard Windsor Fund |
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Investor Shares | $19.27 | $19.47 | $0.151 | $1.529 |
Admiral Shares | 65.04 | 65.72 | 0.539 | 5.159 |
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 six-month period ended April 30, 2007, the Investor Shares of Vanguard Windsor Fund returned 10.1%, and the lower-cost Admiral Shares gained 10.2%. The fund outperformed both of its value benchmarks and bested the broad U.S. stock market by 1 percentage point.
Windsor Fund’s relatively large weighting in the information technology sector and its holdings in consumer-oriented sectors helped the fund excel. Strong showings by a number of its major holdings—among them Cisco Systems, Arrow Electronics, and Alcoa—were major contributors to your fund’s six-month gain.
Stocks soared to a new high in the final month of the period
The U.S. stock market was particularly volatile during the fiscal half-year. The Dow Jones Industrial Average crept up gradually through the first three months, fell steeply in late February, then recovered in March and climbed steadily through April. The Dow closed above 13,000 for the first time on April 25, and gained 5.9% overall for the month, its best single-month performance since December 2003.
During the period, the market was buoyed by economic reports that showed slower, but broadly based, growth in the domestic economy, and by strong profit reports from a host of blue-chip companies. Once again, international stocks outperformed
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U.S. equities. In a marked turnaround from recent years, large-capitalization stocks outpaced small-cap issues.
The bond market produced modest half-year gains
The Federal Reserve Board maintained its target for the federal funds rate at 5.25% throughout the six-month period. The inversion of the yield curve continued, with yields of long-term bonds remaining lower than short-term yields. As inflation fears abated, the premium generally paid for long-term bonds—and for the longer commitment of capital—diminished.
Money market instruments continued to be a bright spot in the fixed income firmament, returning 2.5% for the half-year, as measured by the Citigroup 3-Month Treasury Bill Index. The yield of 3-month U.S. Treasuries was 4.8% at the end of the period. For the six months, the broad taxable bond market returned 2.6%, while municipal bonds posted a return of 1.6%.
Sound stock selection helped Windsor outpace the market
In accordance with Windsor Fund’s deep-value style of investing, the fund’s two investment advisors seek out companies that are financially solid but temporarily out of favor with investors. During the six-month period, many of the deeply discounted stocks your fund favors flourished, and the fund outperformed its benchmark index, the average return of its peer group, and the broad U.S. stock market.
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Russell 1000 Index (Large-caps) | 9.1% | 15.2% | 9.1% |
Russell 2000 Index (Small-caps) | 6.9 | 7.8 | 11.1 |
Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 Index (Entire market) | 9.1 | 14.5 | 9.7 |
MSCI All Country World Index ex USA (International) | 16.1 | 19.7 | 18.3 |
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Lehman Aggregate Bond Index (Broad taxable market) | 2.6% | 7.4% | 5.1% |
Lehman Municipal Bond Index | 1.6 | 5.8 | 5.2 |
Citigroup 3-Month Treasury Bill Index | 2.5 | 5.0 | 2.6 |
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Consumer Price Index | 2.4% | 2.6% | 2.8% |
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Several of the fund’s largest holdings had excellent half-year returns. Top-ten holdings Cisco Systems (+11%), Alcoa (+24%), and Goodrich (+30%), all made significant contributions. On the other hand, Bank of America, the fund’s third-largest holding, returned –3% for the period. A number of the fund’s large airline stocks also struggled.
Windsor’s managers select equities primarily on the basis of each stock’s individual merits, not its membership or weighting in a benchmark—and, as a result, the fund’s sector weightings can vary considerably from those of the Russell 1000 Value Index. During the past six months, the advisors’ stock selections led to heavy weightings in the consumer discretionary and information technology sectors, which added considerably to the fund’s performance.
Superior stock selection in the consumer staples sector also boosted the fund’s overall gain. The advisors’ selections underperformed the benchmark in the energy, industrials, and financials sectors, although the penalties were modest.
Windsor’s reliance on two investment advisors continues to serve the fund well. Wellington Management Company and AllianceBernstein independently manage their portions of the portfolio, and their distinct investment approaches add considerably to the fund’s diversification.
Annualized Expense Ratios1 |
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Your fund compared with its peer group |
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Windsor Fund | 0.32% | 0.22% | 1.31% |
1 Fund expense ratios reflect the six months ended April 30, 2007. Peer-group expense ratio is derived from data provided by Lipper Inc. and captures information through year-end 2006.
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A balanced strategy positions you for the long term
At Vanguard, we always encourage shareholders to evaluate their investments from a long-term perspective. In our view, a stock fund like Windsor should be part of a carefully considered, balanced portfolio with an asset allocation that reflects your personal appetite for risk, your time horizon, and your investment goals.
Over time, a well-diversified portfolio that holds both value and growth stock funds, as well as bond and money market funds, can help position you to reap the rewards of the markets’ best-performing assets while muting the impact of the worst-performing ones. With its low expenses and long-term focus on value investing, Vanguard Windsor Fund can play an important role in such an investment plan.
Thank you for investing with Vanguard.
Sincerely,
John J. Brennan
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
May 14, 2007
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Advisors’ Report
During the fiscal half-year ended April 30, 2007, the Investor Shares of Vanguard Windsor Fund returned 10.1%, and the lower-cost Admiral Shares returned 10.2%. 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 during the six-month period and of how their portfolio positioning reflects this assessment.
Wellington Management Company, LLP
Portfolio Manager:
David R. Fassnacht, CFA
Senior Vice President and Partner
Our contrarian approach entails maintaining a long-term investment horizon while looking for value amid shorter-term market price dislocations. As a consequence, during periods of market uncertainty, such as those that occurred during the late spring and early summer of 2006, many of our cheap stocks have a tendency to become cheaper. These periods of market pressure give us an opportunity to add to existing holdings and uncover new ideas.
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Wellington Management | 67 | 16,696 | An opportunistic, contrarian investment approach that |
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AllianceBernstein L.P. | 30 | 7,317 | A value focus that couples rigorous fundamental |
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Cash Investments1 | 3 | 734 | — |
1 These short-term reserves are invested by Vanguard in equity index products to simulate investment in stocks. Each advisor also may maintain a modest cash position.
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Among sectors, the materials group was a big contributor to our six-month performance, as holdings such as Alcoa, Owens-Illinois, and Celanese all rebounded strongly. Technology distribution companies Arrow Electronics and Avnet, which we purchased aggressively in mid-2006, also performed robustly. Other important successes during the period included R.H. Donnelley, Goodrich, Unilever, and Deere & Co.
The most significant shortfall came from our airline holdings, US Airways and UAL, which were hurt by the combination of poor winter weather, spiking jet fuel prices, and weakening consumer demand. Our underweight positions in the solidly performing energy and utilities sectors also modestly dragged on the portfolio’s performance relative to the benchmark index.
In recent months, many stocks within the consumer discretionary sector have come under selling pressure. Many companies in this group have seen their earnings hurt by fallout from the bursting of the U.S. housing bubble and news about excesses in consumer lending. Although we anticipate continued earnings pressure through 2008 for companies dependent on U.S. housing or consumer durables, we are seeing more attractive value opportunities in this sector—for example, Home Depot, Circuit City, Ford, and Centex, all of which we purchased in recent months.
We are keeping an eye on growing inflationary pressures created by rapidly rising food commodity prices, a tight labor market, and a weak U.S. dollar. We believe these pressures are likely to prevent the Federal Reserve Board from reducing short-term interest rates anytime soon. The current implosion of the U.S. subprime mortgage industry is bound to curtail residential construction, but we expect the overall economy to remain resilient. Our biggest concern remains the possibility of an extraneous shock to the global economy that would cause a rapid contraction in liquidity. We continue to monitor companies’ need for external capital in order to mitigate the fund’s exposure to this risk.
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 benign economic conditions of the past few years, coupled with generally high corporate profitability—and the belief that these conditions can persist indefinitely—have heightened investors’ appetite for risk, as evidenced by unusually low levels of market volatility, shrinking risk premiums in both the equity and fixed income markets, and compressed valuation spreads.
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In this environment, investors have been willing to pay higher multiples than usual for companies at or near peak cyclical earnings, and have been less willing to pay a normal premium for higher and more stable long-term earnings growth potential. The resulting compression in stock valuations has limited the value opportunity.
Our research and experience show that when valuation spreads are narrow, the return potential on any individual investment is likely to be modest and the vulnerability to forecast error large. With such asymmetry in possible outcomes, it is simply not prudent to be overly concentrated in any one stock or sector. In this regard, we are keeping our portfolio risk low. No one can say what will eventually disrupt the market’s complacency. But when that change comes and deep-value opportunities become more plentiful, we will adjust our risk profile accordingly.
For now, we continue to rely on our bottom-up research to find the opportunities that do exist. One value theme that has emerged recently lies in mega-cap stocks, which are attractively valued after years of underperformance versus smaller-cap stocks. To capture this opportunity, our portfolio retains a sizable tilt toward mega-caps. As of April 30, the largest 50 companies in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index made up 52% of our portfolio, versus an average of not quite 33% over the past eight years.
The mega-cap bargains we own include such prominent consumer staples players as Procter & Gamble, PepsiCo, and Altria, as well as financial services giants such as global insurer American International Group and the three largest banks in the United States—Citigroup, Bank of America, and JPMorgan Chase. Our holdings also include blue chips such as Microsoft and General Electric, which have been ignored by investors in recent years despite huge cash flows that are being returned to shareholders.
We also have identified a number of classic value opportunities farther down the capitalization spectrum. These include Sara Lee and Federated Department Stores, which have executed successful business restructurings that our analyses suggest are not yet reflected in their stock prices. Black & Decker became a bargain amid investor worries about the slowing housing market, an outlook that we view as overly gloomy. A shift to outsource most of its manufacturing has made the company’s cost structure much less sensitive to swings in the housing cycle. The company’s new product line, which is based on a breakthrough battery technology, should fuel earnings growth over the long term.
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Fund Profile
As of April 30, 2007
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Number of Stocks | 143 | 599 | 4,921 |
Median Market Cap | $57.2B | $50.3B | $32.1B |
Price/Earnings Ratio | 17.5x | 14.7x | 18.0x |
Price/Book Ratio | 2.3x | 2.2x | 2.9x |
Yield |
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Investor Shares | 1.3% |
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Admiral Shares | 1.4% |
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Return on Equity | 16.4% | 17.6% | 18.0% |
Earnings Growth Rate | 18.0% | 19.4% | 20.8% |
Foreign Holdings | 15.6% | 0.0% | 1.0% |
Turnover Rate | 41%3 | — | — |
Expense Ratio |
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Investor Shares | 0.32%3 |
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Admiral Shares | 022%3 |
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Short-Term Reserves | 1% | — | — |
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Consumer Discretionary | 12% | 9% | 12% |
Consumer Staples | 7 | 8 | 8 |
Energy | 7 | 14 | 10 |
Financials | 22 | 35 | 22 |
Health Care | 12 | 7 | 11 |
Industrials | 9 | 7 | 11 |
Information Technology | 17 | 3 | 15 |
Materials | 6 | 4 | 4 |
Telecommunication Services | 5 | 6 | 3 |
Utilities | 1 | 7 | 4 |
Other | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Short-Term Reserves | 1% | — | — |
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R-Squared | 0.86 | 0.92 |
Beta | 1.13 | 1.00 |
Ten Largest Holdings5 (% of total net assets) |
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Cisco Systems, Inc. | communications equipment | 4.0% |
Sanofi-Aventis | pharmaceuticals | 3.5 |
Bank of America Corp. | diversified financial services | 3.5 |
Microsoft Corp. | systems software | 3.2 |
Wyeth | pharmaceuticals | 3.2 |
Sprint Nextel Corp. | wireless telecommunication services | 3.0 |
Citigroup, Inc. | diversified financial services | 2.2 |
Comcast Corp. | broadcasting and cable TV | 2.0 |
Goodrich Corp. | aerospace and defense | 1.9 |
Alcoa Inc. | aluminum | 1.8 |
Top Ten |
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Investment Focus
1 Russell 1000 Value Index.
2 Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 Index.
3 Annualized.
4 For an explanation of R-squared, beta, and other terms used here, see the Glossary on page 27.
5 “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/performance.) 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.
Fiscal-Year Total Returns (%): October 31, 1996–April 30, 2007
Average Annual Total Returns: Periods Ended March 31, 2007
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 | 14.57% | 8.56% | 9.47% |
Admiral Shares | 11/12/2001 | 14.69 | 8.66 | 9.852 |
1 Six months ended April 30, 2007.
2 Return since inception.
Note: See Financial Highlights tables on pages 17 and 18 for dividend and capital gains information.
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Financial Statements (unaudited)
Statement of Net Assets
As of April 30, 2007
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 (96.8%)1 |
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*2 | R.H. Donnelley Corp. | 5,557,705 | 434,001 |
| Home Depot, Inc. | 9,047,100 | 342,614 |
* | Viacom Inc. Class B | 6,002,500 | 247,603 |
| Time Warner, Inc. | 11,361,600 | 234,390 |
| McDonald’s Corp. | 2,765,000 | 133,494 |
| Circuit City Stores, Inc. | 6,134,800 | 107,052 |
| CBS Corp. | 3,215,000 | 102,141 |
| Clear Channel Communications, Inc. | 2,508,800 | 88,887 |
| Ford Motor Co. | 10,453,000 | 84,042 |
| DaimlerChrysler AG | 930,000 | 74,874 |
| Centex Corp. | 1,617,100 | 72,398 |
| Federated Department Stores, Inc. | 1,600,000 | 70,272 |
* | Lear Corp. | 1,549,118 | 56,884 |
| VF Corp. | 528,836 | 46,437 |
* | Office Depot, Inc. | 1,233,722 | 41,478 |
* | Cablevision Systems NY Group Class A | 1,175,400 | 38,530 |
| BorgWarner, Inc. | 468,800 | 36,524 |
| Black & Decker Corp. | 394,177 | 35,760 |
| Limited Brands, Inc. | 1,270,000 | 35,014 |
| Autoliv, Inc. | 600,000 | 34,890 |
* | Interpublic Group of Cos., Inc. | 323,100 | 4,097 |
* | Comcast Corp. Class A | 127,474 | 3,398 |
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| Japan Tobacco, Inc. | 69,175 | 337,871 |
| Unilever NV | 9,090,839 | 277,425 |
| Bunge Ltd. | 2,839,800 | 215,143 |
| Altria Group, Inc. | 2,049,800 | 141,272 |
| The Procter & Gamble Co. | 1,704,000 | 109,584 |
| Safeway, Inc. | 2,891,600 | 104,965 |
| The Kroger Co. | 3,291,350 | 97,128 |
| The Clorox Co. | 1,280,000 | 85,862 |
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| Sara Lee Corp. | 4,450,000 | 73,025 |
| PepsiCo, Inc. | 1,090,000 | 72,038 |
| Kellogg Co. | 1,060,000 | 56,085 |
| Avon Products, Inc. | 1,292,700 | 51,449 |
| Unilever NV ADR | 1,639,400 | 50,002 |
| Kraft Foods Inc. | 1,418,510 | 47,478 |
| Molson Coors Brewing Co. Class B | 135,000 | 12,728 |
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Energy (6.7%) |
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| ExxonMobil Corp. | 5,269,008 | 418,254 |
| Chevron Corp. | 2,683,478 | 208,748 |
| ConocoPhillips Co. | 2,458,798 | 170,518 |
| GlobalSantaFe Corp. | 2,588,400 | 165,476 |
* | Newfield Exploration Co. | 2,954,300 | 129,251 |
| Total SA ADR | 1,567,800 | 115,531 |
| EnCana Corp. | 1,958,238 | 102,710 |
| Petroleo Brasileiro Series A ADR | 834,300 | 74,436 |
* | Petro-Canada (New York Shares) | 1,662,900 | 73,716 |
| BP PLC ADR | 1,025,000 | 69,003 |
| Petro-Canada | 1,330,000 | 59,136 |
| Petroleo Brasileiro ADR | 564,800 | 57,175 |
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Financials (21.6%) |
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| UBS AG (New York Shares) | 6,583,300 | 427,256 |
* | E*TRADE Financial Corp. | 9,091,100 | 200,731 |
| Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. | 1,800,000 | 162,414 |
| The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. | 335,000 | 73,234 |
* | TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. | 2,347,800 | 40,030 |
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| National City Corp. | 2,362,600 | 86,353 |
| SunTrust Banks, Inc. | 830,000 | 70,069 |
| Commerce Bancorp, Inc. | 1,978,400 | 66,158 |
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| Wells Fargo & Co. | 1,020,000 | 36,608 |
| Wachovia Corp. | 487,162 | 27,057 |
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| Capital One Financial Corp. | 4,638,300 | 344,440 |
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| Bank of America Corp. | 16,794,098 | 854,820 |
| Citigroup, Inc. | 10,220,946 | 548,047 |
| JPMorgan Chase & Co. | 4,903,100 | 255,452 |
| CIT Group Inc. | 2,823,100 | 168,398 |
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| American International Group, Inc. | 6,102,700 | 426,640 |
| ACE Ltd. | 4,931,100 | 293,203 |
| Aegon NV | 9,046,865 | 186,720 |
| MetLife, Inc. | 1,773,100 | 116,493 |
| PartnerRe Ltd. | 1,405,600 | 101,231 |
| The Allstate Corp. | 1,365,700 | 85,110 |
| The Travelers Cos., Inc. | 1,416,917 | 76,655 |
| XL Capital Ltd. Class A | 980,000 | 76,420 |
| Genworth Financial Inc. | 1,910,000 | 69,696 |
| The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. | 566,200 | 57,299 |
| Everest Re Group, Ltd. | 439,500 | 44,231 |
| IPC Holdings Ltd. | 1,319,600 | 39,562 |
| MBIA, Inc. | 550,000 | 38,258 |
| RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. | 657,250 | 35,590 |
| Fidelity National Financial, Inc. Class A | 275,000 | 7,010 |
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| Fannie Mae | 2,319,000 | 136,635 |
| Freddie Mac | 1,650,000 | 106,887 |
| Countrywide Financial Corp. | 2,354,800 | 87,316 |
* | Dime Bancorp Inc.— Litigation Tracking Warrants | 7,457,300 | 2,461 |
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Health Care (11.1%) |
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| Wyeth | 14,075,600 | 781,196 |
| Sanofi-Aventis ADR | 10,575,000 | 484,969 |
| Sanofi-Aventis | 4,259,623 | 389,912 |
| Astellas Pharma Inc. | 6,386,300 | 279,366 |
| Pfizer Inc. | 9,005,000 | 238,272 |
| Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. | 6,768,900 | 195,350 |
| Aetna Inc. | 2,906,700 | 136,266 |
| Merck & Co., Inc. | 2,422,300 | 124,603 |
| AmerisourceBergen Corp. | 1,359,800 | 67,976 |
| McKesson Corp. | 650,000 | 38,240 |
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Industrials (9.0%) |
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2 | Goodrich Corp. | 8,224,600 | 467,486 |
| Tyco International Ltd. | 11,151,800 | 363,883 |
*2 | UAL Corp. | 8,805,500 | 294,104 |
| General Electric Co. | 7,330,000 | 270,184 |
| Deere & Co. | 2,286,300 | 250,121 |
| American Standard Cos., Inc. | 2,701,100 | 148,723 |
* | US Airways Group Inc. | 3,349,900 | 123,745 |
| Northrop Grumman Corp. | 1,160,000 | 85,388 |
| Ingersoll-Rand Co. | 1,635,000 | 73,003 |
* | US Airways Group Private Placement | 1,471,675 | 54,364 |
| Eaton Corp. | 537,800 | 47,977 |
| SPX Corp. | 564,012 | 39,977 |
|
|
| 2,218,955 |
Information Technology (15.9%) |
|
| |
* | Cisco Systems, Inc. | 37,143,500 | 993,217 |
| Microsoft Corp. | 26,238,600 | 785,584 |
*2 | Arrow Electronics, Inc. | 9,283,217 | 366,873 |
* | Flextronics International Ltd. | 22,984,400 | 256,276 |
| Seagate Technology | 11,151,581 | 247,008 |
| LM Ericsson Telephone Co. ADR Class B | 6,234,300 | 237,963 |
* | Symantec Corp. | 10,600,000 | 186,560 |
* | Corning, Inc. | 7,578,200 | 179,755 |
* | Nortel Networks Corp. | 6,006,500 | 137,429 |
| Texas Instruments, Inc. | 3,309,700 | 113,754 |
| International Business Machines Corp. | 980,000 | 100,166 |
* | Sun Microsystems, Inc. | 18,664,600 | 97,429 |
| KLA-Tencor Corp. | 1,550,300 | 86,119 |
* | Nokia Corp. ADR | 1,550,000 | 39,138 |
* | Solectron Corp. | 10,387,300 | 34,797 |
* | Sanmina-SCI Corp. | 8,423,608 | 29,061 |
| Accenture Ltd. | 700,000 | 27,370 |
* | Unisys Corp. | 3,349,200 | 26,258 |
|
|
| 3,944,757 |
Materials (5.7%) |
|
| |
| Alcoa Inc. | 12,890,568 | 457,486 |
| E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. | 7,975,500 | 392,155 |
* | Owens-Illinois, Inc. | 5,275,800 | 158,749 |
* | Smurfit-Stone Container Corp. | 10,678,463 | 128,675 |
^ | Arcelor Mittal Class A New York Registered Shares | 1,640,000 | 87,609 |
| Chemtura Corp. | 7,697,300 | 84,901 |
| Celanese Corp. Series A | 1,669,450 | 55,376 |
| Dow Chemical Co. | 1,222,500 | 54,536 |
|
|
| 1,419,487 |
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|
| Market |
|
|
| Value• |
|
| Shares | ($000) |
Telecommunication Services (5.2%) |
|
| |
| Sprint Nextel Corp. | 37,633,882 | 753,807 |
| Verizon Communications Inc. | 6,930,242 | 264,597 |
| AT&T Inc. | 3,835,717 | 148,519 |
| Embarq Corp. | 1,547,341 | 92,902 |
* | Crown Castle International Corp. | 850,100 | 29,192 |
|
|
| 1,289,017 |
Utilities (1.1%) |
|
| |
| Entergy Corp. | 1,009,600 | 114,226 |
| Constellation Energy Group, Inc. | 831,425 | 74,097 |
| American Electric Power Co., Inc. | 1,055,300 | 52,997 |
* | Allegheny Energy, Inc. | 800,000 | 42,768 |
|
|
| 284,088 |
Other (1.2%) |
|
| |
3 | Miscellaneous |
| 291,036 |
|
|
|
|
Exchange-Traded Funds (0.9%) |
|
| |
4 | Vanguard Value ETF | 1,689,100 | 120,484 |
4^ | Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF | 696,000 | 102,402 |
|
|
| 222,886 |
Total Common Stocks |
|
| |
(Cost $18,452,481) |
| 23,953,437 | |
Temporary Cash Investments (3.6%)1 |
|
| |
Money Market Fund (2.2%) |
|
| |
5 | Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund, 5.259% | 521,754,848 | 521,755 |
5 | Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund, 5.259%—Note G | 19,114,570 | 19,115 |
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| Face | Market |
|
| Amount | Value• |
|
| ($000) | ($000) |
| Repurchase Agreement (1.3%) |
|
|
| Banc of America Securities, LLC 5.240%, 5/1/07 |
|
|
| (Dated 4/30/07,Repurchase Value |
|
|
| $310,545,000, collateralized by Federal National |
|
|
| Mortgage Assn.5.000%, 5/1/35) | 310,500 | 310,500 |
| U.S. Agency Obligation (0.1%) |
|
|
6 | Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. |
|
|
7 | 5.197%, 7/9/07 | 30,000 | 29,707 |
| Total Temporary Cash Investments |
|
|
| (Cost $881,075) |
| 881,077 |
| Total Investments (100.4%) |
|
|
| (Cost $19,333,556) |
| 24,834,514 |
| Other Assets and Liabilities—Net (–0.4%) |
| (87,369) |
| Net Assets (100%) |
| 24,747,145 |
|
|
|
|
| Statement of Assets and Liabilities |
|
|
| Assets |
|
|
| Investments in Securities, at Value |
| 24,834,514 |
| Receivables for Investment Securities Sold |
| 63,172 |
| Receivables for Capital Shares Issued |
| 13,903 |
| Other Assets—Note C |
| 36,405 |
| Total Assets |
| 24,947,994 |
| Liabilities |
|
|
| Payables for Investment Securities Purchased |
| 78,630 |
| Security Lending Collateral Payable to Brokers—Note G |
| 19,115 |
| Payables for Capital Shares Redeemed |
| 23,163 |
| Other Liabilities |
| 79,941 |
| Total Liabilities |
| 200,849 |
| Net Assets |
| 24,747,145 |
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At April 30, 2007, net assets consisted of:8 |
|
| Amount |
| ($000) |
Paid-in Capital | 17,944,852 |
Undistributed Net Investment Income | 77,528 |
Accumulated Net Realized Gains | 1,203,503 |
Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) |
|
Investment Securities | 5,500,958 |
Futures Contracts | 20,310 |
Foreign Currencies | (6) |
Net Assets | 24,747,145 |
|
|
Investor Shares—Net Assets |
|
Applicable to 768,137,277 outstanding $.001 |
|
par value shares of beneficial interest |
|
(unlimited authorization) | 14,955,243 |
Net Asset Value Per Share— |
|
Investor Shares | $19.47 |
|
|
Admiral Shares—Net Assets |
|
Applicable to 149,000,359 outstanding $.001 |
|
par value shares of beneficial interest |
|
(unlimited authorization) | 9,791,902 |
Net Asset Value Per Share— |
|
Admiral Shares | $65.72 |
• 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 98.9% and 1.5%, 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 $29,707,000 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
| Six Months Ended |
| April 30, 2007 |
| ($000) |
Investment Income |
|
Income |
|
Dividends1,2 | 202,410 |
Interest2 | 22,297 |
Security Lending | 529 |
Total Income | 225,236 |
Expenses |
|
Investment Advisory Fees—Note B |
|
Basic Fee | 14,675 |
Performance Adjustment | (883) |
The Vanguard Group—Note C |
|
Management and Administrative |
|
Investor Shares | 13,449 |
Admiral Shares | 4,130 |
Marketing and Distribution |
|
Investor Shares | 1,271 |
Admiral Shares | 723 |
Custodian Fees | 182 |
Shareholders’ Reports |
|
Investor Shares | 100 |
Admiral Shares | 19 |
Trustees’ Fees and Expenses | 15 |
Total Expenses | 33,681 |
Expenses Paid Indirectly—Note D | (411) |
Net Expenses | 33,270 |
Net Investment Income | 191,966 |
Realized Net Gain (Loss) |
|
Investment Securities Sold2 | 1,186,489 |
Futures Contracts | 39,144 |
Foreign Currencies | 567 |
Realized Net Gain (Loss) | 1,226,200 |
Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) |
|
Investment Securities | 899,135 |
Futures Contracts | 63 |
Foreign Currencies | 21 |
Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) | 899,219 |
Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations | 2,317,385 |
1 Dividends are net of foreign withholding taxes of $4,061,000.
2 Dividend income, interest income, and realized net gain (loss) from affiliated companies of the fund were $5,846,000, $11,362,000, and $40,675,000, respectively.
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Statement of Changes in Net Assets
| Six Months Ended | Year Ended |
| April 30, | October 31, |
| 2007 | 2006 |
| ($000) | ($000) |
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets |
|
|
Operations |
|
|
Net Investment Income | 191,966 | 337,353 |
Realized Net Gain (Loss) | 1,226,200 | 1,980,297 |
Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) | 899,219 | 1,604,186 |
Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations | 2,317,385 | 3,921,836 |
Distributions |
|
|
Net Investment Income |
|
|
Investor Shares | (109,629) | (192,991) |
Admiral Shares | (75,193) | (128,970) |
Realized Capital Gain1 |
|
|
Investor Shares | (1,110,085) | (1,113,365) |
Admiral Shares | (719,706) | (659,656) |
Total Distributions | (2,014,613) | (2,094,982) |
Capital Share Transactions—Note H |
|
|
Investor Shares | 626,354 | 147,757 |
Admiral Shares | 691,222 | 730,142 |
Net Increase (Decrease) from Capital Share Transactions | 1,317,576 | 877,899 |
Total Increase (Decrease) | 1,620,348 | 2,704,753 |
Net Assets |
|
|
Beginning of Period | 23,126,797 | 20,422,044 |
End of Period2 | 24,747,145 | 23,126,797 |
1 Includes fiscal 2007 and 2006 short-term gain distributions totaling $0 and $226,319,000, 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 $77,528,000 and $69,817,000.
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Financial Highlights
Windsor Fund Investor Shares |
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| Six Months |
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| Ended |
|
|
| ||
For a Share Outstanding | April 30, | Year Ended October 31, | ||||
Throughout Each Period | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 |
Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period | $19.27 | $17.81 | $16.75 | $15.23 | $11.81 | $14.27 |
Investment Operations |
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|
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|
|
|
Net Investment Income | .153 | .277 | .2651 | .214 | .17 | .164 |
Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
on Investments | 1.727 | 3.007 | 1.163 | 1.501 | 3.42 | (2.143) |
Total from Investment Operations | 1.880 | 3.284 | 1.428 | 1.715 | 3.59 | (1.979) |
Distributions |
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|
|
|
|
|
Dividends from Net Investment Income | (.151) | (.265) | (.280) | (.195) | (.17) | (.169) |
Distributions from Realized Capital Gains | (1.529) | (1.559) | (.088) | — | — | (.312) |
Total Distributions | (1.680) | (1.824) | (.368) | (.195) | (.17) | (.481) |
Net Asset Value, End of Period | $19.47 | $19.27 | $17.81 | $16.75 | $15.23 | $11.81 |
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|
|
Total Return | 10.12% | 19.72% | 8.54% | 11.30% | 30.66% | –14.55% |
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Ratios/Supplemental Data |
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|
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Net Assets, End of Period (Millions) | $14,955 | $14,140 | $12,871 | $15,130 | $13,733 | $11,012 |
Ratio of Total Expenses to |
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|
|
|
|
Average Net Assets2 | 0.32%* | 0.36% | 0.37% | 0.39% | 0.48% | 0.45% |
Ratio of Net Investment Income to |
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|
|
|
|
|
Average Net Assets | 1.55%* | 1.50% | 1.47%1 | 1.32% | 1.27% | 1.16% |
Portfolio Turnover Rate | 41%* | 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 (0.01%), 0.02%, 0.04%, 0.04%, 0.08%, and 0.08%.
* | Annualized. |
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Windsor Fund Admiral Shares |
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| Six Months |
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| Nov. 12, |
| Ended |
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| 20011 to | ||
For a Share Outstanding | April 30, | Year Ended October 31, | Oct. 31, | |||
Throughout Each Period | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 |
Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period | $65.04 | $60.12 | $56.56 | $51.41 | $39.88 | $50.00 |
Investment Operations |
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|
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|
|
Net Investment Income | .548 | 1.00 | .9682 | .787 | .605 | .556 |
Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) |
|
|
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|
|
on Investments | 5.830 | 10.15 | 3.896 | 5.082 | 11.537 | (9.030) |
Total from Investment Operations | 6.378 | 11.15 | 4.864 | 5.869 | 12.142 | (8.474) |
Distributions |
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|
|
|
|
|
Dividends from Net Investment Income | (.539) | (.97) | (1.007) | (.719) | (.612) | (.592) |
Distributions from Realized Capital Gains | (5.159) | (5.26) | (.297) | — | — | (1.054) |
Total Distributions | (5.698) | (6.23) | (1.304) | (.719) | (.612) | (1.646) |
Net Asset Value, End of Period | $65.72 | $65.04 | $60.12 | $56.56 | $51.41 | $39.88 |
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Total Return | 10.18% | 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) | $9,792 | $8,987 | $7,551 | $4,195 | $3,321 | $2,214 |
Ratio of Total Expenses to |
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Average Net Assets3 | 0.22%* | 0.25% | 0.27% | 0.28% | 0.37% | 0.40%* |
Ratio of Net Investment Income to |
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Average Net Assets | 1.65%* | 1.61% | 1.57%2 | 1.43% | 1.36% | 1.22%* |
Portfolio Turnover Rate | 41%* | 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 (0.01%), 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, service, 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 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 using exchange rates obtained from an independent third party as of the fund’s pricing time on the valuation date. Realized gains (losses) and unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investment securities include the effects of changes in exchange rates since the securities were purchased, combined with the effects of changes in security prices. Fluctuations in the value of other assets and liabilities resulting from changes in exchange rates are recorded as unrealized foreign currency gains (losses) until the assets or liabilities are settled in cash, at which time they are recorded as realized foreign currency gains (losses).
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.
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).
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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 six months ended April 30, 2007, the aggregate investment advisory fee represented an effective annual basic rate of 0.12% of the fund’s average net assets before a decrease of $883,000 (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 April 30, 2007, the fund had contributed capital of $2,216,000 to Vanguard (included in Other Assets), representing 0.01% of the fund’s net assets and 2.22% of Vanguard’s capitalization. The fund’s trustees and officers are also directors and officers of Vanguard.
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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 six months ended April 30, 2007, these arrangements reduced the fund’s management and administrative expenses by $411,000.
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.
During the six months ended April 30, 2007, the fund realized net foreign currency gains of $567,000, which increased distributable net income for tax purposes; accordingly, such gains have been reclassified from accumulated net realized gains to undistributed net investment income.
At April 30, 2007, the cost of investment securities for tax purposes was $19,333,556,000. Net unrealized appreciation of investment securities for tax purposes was $5,500,958,000, consisting of unrealized gains of $5,733,654,000 on securities that had risen in value since their purchase and $232,696,000 in unrealized losses on securities that had fallen in value since their purchase.
At April 30, 2007, the aggregate settlement value of open futures contracts expiring in June 2007 and the related unrealized appreciation (depreciation) were:
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| ($000) |
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| Aggregate | Unrealized |
| Number of | Settlement | Appreciation |
Futures Contracts | Long Contracts | Value | (Depreciation) |
S&P 500 Index | 661 | 245,958 | 11,804 |
E-mini S&P 500 Index | 2,790 | 207,632 | 6,278 |
S&P MidCap 400 Index | 135 | 59,279 | 2,228 |
Unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on open futures contracts is required to be treated as realized gain (loss) for tax purposes.
F. During the six months ended April 30, 2007, the fund purchased $4,731,961,000 of investment securities and sold $5,013,766,000 of investment securities, other than temporary cash investments.
G. The market value of securities on loan to broker-dealers at April 30, 2007, was $18,559,000, for which the fund received cash collateral of $19,115,000.
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H. Capital share transactions for each class of shares were:
| Six Months Ended | Year Ended | ||
| April 30, 2007 | October 31, 2006 | ||
| Amount | Shares | Amount | Shares |
| ($000) | (000) | ($000) | (000) |
Investor Shares |
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|
|
|
Issued | 677,521 | 35,497 | 1,159,762 | 64,777 |
Issued in Lieu of Cash Distributions | 1,186,362 | 63,476 | 1,264,434 | 73,315 |
Redeemed | (1,237,529) | (64,626) | (2,276,439) | (126,975) |
Net Increase (Decrease)—Investor Shares | 626,354 | 34,347 | 147,757 | 11,117 |
Admiral Shares |
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|
|
|
Issued | 670,055 | 10,289 | 1,018,466 | 16,817 |
Issued in Lieu of Cash Distributions | 726,269 | 11,519 | 716,143 | 12,308 |
Redeemed | (705,102) | (10,981) | (1,004,467) | (16,557) |
Net Increase (Decrease)—Admiral Shares | 691,222 | 10,827 | 730,142 | 12,568 |
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. | 371,949 | — | 125,557 | — | 366,873 |
Goodrich Corp. | 360,819 | 17,280 | 15,209 | 3,343 | 467,486 |
Lear Corp. | 186,399 | — | 177,099 | — | n/a1 |
R.H. Donnelley Corp. | 347,867 | 26,916 | 51,835 | — | 434,001 |
UAL Corp. | 307,686 | 76,513 | 61,325 | — | 294,104 |
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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.
1 At April 30, 2007, the security is still held but the issuer is no longer an affiliated company of the fund.
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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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Note that the expenses shown in the table on page 23 are meant to highlight and help you compare ongoing costs only and do not reflect transaction costs incurred by the fund for buying and selling securities. Further, the expenses do not include any account service fee described in the prospectus. If such a 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 your fund’s current prospectus.
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Trustees Approve Advisory Agreements
The board of trustees of Vanguard Windsor Fund has renewed the fund’s investment advisory agreements with Wellington Management Company, LLP, and AllianceBernstein L.P. The board determined that retention of the advisors was in the best interests of the fund and its shareholders.
The board approved a change to the process for the quarterly calculation of the fund’s asset-based advisory base fee schedules. The calculations will be based on the average daily net assets managed by each advisor rather than the average month-end net assets.
The board also approved changes to Wellington Management’s performance adjustment schedule. The performance schedule will now be based on a “linear” rather than a “step” approach. The board concluded that this change would better align the interests of Wellington Management with those of the fund shareholders because the advisor’s compensation will be more closely linked to its performance.
The board based its decisions upon an evaluation of each advisor’s investment staff, portfolio management process, and performance. The trustees considered the factors discussed below, among others. However, no single factor determined whether the board approved the agreements. Rather, it was the totality of the circumstances that drove the board’s decision.
Nature, extent, and quality of services
The board considered the quality of the fund’s investment management over both short- and long-term periods and took into account the organizational depth and stability of each advisor. The board noted the following:
Wellington Management Company. Wellington Management, which was founded in 1928, is among the nation’s oldest and most respected institutional investment managers. The firm has advised the fund since its inception in 1958. The advisor’s contrarian process involves buying stocks of high-quality companies that are out of favor with investors. Stocks are selected using a bottom-up approach, supported by Wellington Management’s deep industry research capabilities.
AllianceBernstein. For more than 40 years, the investment professionals at AllianceBernstein have been known for their commitment to value investing and their objectivity in investment research. AllianceBernstein has managed assets of the fund since 1999. The advisor continues to employ a sound process, creating a portfolio with specific risk and return expectations compared with the Russell 1000 Value Index, the fund’s benchmark. Stocks are selected through a bottom-up approach, in which AllianceBernstein uses a proprietary dividend discount model as the primary valuation tool.
The board concluded that each advisor’s experience, stability, depth, and performance, among other factors, warranted continuation of the advisory agreements.
Investment performance
The board considered the short- and long-term performance of the fund, including any periods of outperformance or underperformance of a relevant benchmark and peer group. The board concluded that each advisor has carried out the fund’s investment strategy in disciplined fashion and that performance results have allowed the fund to remain competitive versus its benchmark and its average peer fund. Information about the fund’s most recent performance can be found in the Performance Summary portion of this report.
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Cost
The board concluded that the fund’s expense ratio was far below the average expense ratio charged by funds in its peer group. The fund’s advisory fee rate was also well below the peer-group average. Information about the fund’s expense ratio appears in the About Your Fund’s Expenses section of this report as well as in the Financial Statements section, which also includes information about the advisory fee rate.
The board did not consider profitability of Wellington Management or AllianceBernstein in determining whether to approve the advisory fees, because the firms are independent of Vanguard and the advisory fees are the result of arm’s-length negotiations.
The benefit of economies of scale
The board concluded that the fund’s shareholders benefit from economies of scale because of breakpoints in the advisory fee schedules. The breakpoints reduce the effective rate of the fees as the fund’s assets managed by the firms increase.
The board will consider whether to renew the advisory agreements again after a one-year period.
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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.
Inception Date. The date on which the assets of a fund (or one of its share classes) are first invested in accordance with the fund’s investment objective. For funds with a subscription period, the inception date is the day after that period ends. Investment performance is measured from the inception date.
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; | Officer, and Director/Trustee of The Vanguard Group, Inc., and of each of the investment |
Chairman of the Board and | companies served by The Vanguard Group. |
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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 |
147 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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Trustee since December 20012 | of Rohm and Haas Co. (chemicals); Board Member of the American Chemistry Council; |
147 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 |
147 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 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 2006, Vice President and Chief Information Officer |
147 Vanguard Funds Overseen | (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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Trustee since December 2004 | and Banking, Harvard Business School; Senior Associate Dean, Director of Faculty |
147 Vanguard Funds Overseen | Recruiting, and Chair of Finance Faculty, Harvard Business School; Director and Chairman |
| of UNX, Inc. (equities trading firm) since 2003; Chair of the Investment Committee of |
| HighVista Strategies LLC (private investment firm) since 2005; 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 |
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Trustee since January 1993 | Officer, and Director of NACCO Industries, Inc. (forklift trucks/housewares/lignite); Director |
147 Vanguard Funds Overseen | 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) and |
147 Vanguard Funds Overseen | AmerisourceBergen Corp. (pharmaceutical distribution); Trustee of Vanderbilt University |
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Secretary since July 2005 | Group, Inc., since 2006; General Counsel of The Vanguard Group since 2005; Secretary of |
147 Vanguard Funds Overseen | The Vanguard Group, and of each of the investment companies served by The Vanguard |
| Group, since 2005; Principal of The Vanguard Group (1997–2006). |
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Treasurer since July 1998 | Treasurer of each of the investment companies served by The Vanguard Group. |
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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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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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> | Vanguard Windsor II Fund returned 10.9% for the first half of its fiscal year, outpacing both its benchmark and peer average. |
> | Electricity producers and consumer staples companies were among the fund’s top performers. |
> | An underweighting in the financials sector relative to the fund’s benchmark proved beneficial. |
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Your Fund’s Total Returns | 1 |
Chairman’s Letter | 2 |
Advisors’ Report | 6 |
Fund Profile | 10 |
Performance Summary | 11 |
Financial Statements | 12 |
About Your Fund’s Expenses | 25 |
Trustees Approve Advisory Arrangements | 27 |
Glossary | 29 |
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 | VWNFX | 10.9% |
Admiral™ Shares1 | VWNAX | 10.9 |
Russell 1000 Value Index |
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Average Large-Cap Value Fund2 |
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Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 Index |
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Admiral Shares | 62.41 | 65.66 | 0.769 | 2.588 |
1 A lower-cost class of shares available to many longtime shareholders and to those with significant investments in the fund.
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Chairman’s Letter
Dear Shareholder,
Value stocks continued their prolonged market leadership, helping Vanguard Windsor II Fund to a double-digit gain for the six months ended April 30, 2007. The fund returned 10.9%, a fine performance on both an absolute and a relative basis. Windsor II surpassed both its benchmark, the Russell 1000 Value Index, and the average gain among large-capitalization value funds.
The fund’s advisors notched a large portion of their gains in a handful of industries, including consumer staples companies and electricity providers. The fund also benefited from largely avoiding financials companies that were laid low by soaring default rates on mortgages issued to homebuyers with weak credit.
Stocks soared to a new high in the final month of the period
The U.S. stock market was particularly volatile during the six-month period. The Dow Jones Industrial Average crept up gradually through the first three months, fell steeply in late February, then recovered in March and climbed steadily through April. The Dow closed above 13,000 for the first time on April 25 and gained 5.9% overall for the month, its best single-month performance since December 2003.
During the period, the market was buoyed by economic reports that showed slower, but broad-based, growth in the domestic economy, and by strong profit reports from a host of blue-chip companies. Once
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again, international stocks outperformed U.S. equities. In a marked turnaround from recent years, large-cap stocks outpaced small-cap issues.
Bonds produced modest gains
The Federal Reserve Board maintained its target for the federal funds rate at 5.25% throughout the six-month period. The inversion of the yield curve continued, with yields of long-term bonds remaining lower than short-term yields. As inflation fears abated, the premium generally paid for long-term bonds—and for the longer commitment of capital—diminished.
Money market instruments continued to be a bright spot in the fixed income firmament, returning 2.5% for the half-year, as measured by the Citigroup 3-Month Treasury Bill Index. The yield of 3-month U.S. Treasuries was 4.8% at the end of the period. For the six months, the broad taxable bond market returned 2.6%, while municipal bonds posted a return of 1.6%.
Stock selection in power producers, consumer staples stoked gains
The market for value stocks was so robust during the six months that no industry sector lost ground and many produced double-digit gains. Vanguard Windsor II Fund did better still by holding the deeply discounted stocks its advisors prefer.
The largest single contribution to returns came from the utilities sector, particularly electricity providers Exelon and Entergy. Both benefited from increased demand for power and from flat supplies in their
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Russell 2000 Index (Small-caps) | 6.9 | 7.8 | 11.1 |
Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 Index (Entire market) | 9.1 | 14.5 | 9.7 |
MSCI All Country World Index ex USA (International) | 16.1 | 19.7 | 18.3 |
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regions, boosting profit margins. Exelon posted a 73% rise in quarterly profits
for the first three months of 2007 and, like Entergy, received preliminary regulatory approval to add to its portfolio of nuclear power plants.
Approximately one-third of the fund’s six-month gain came from only two sectors: utilities and consumer staples. The latter group’s performance was driven by Imperial Tobacco Group, up 25%, and Altria Group, which rose 14%. Both companies benefited from consolidation in the industry, and Altria gained after spinning off Kraft.
The fund’s largest sector, financials, made up 26% of holdings on average during the half-year, a much smaller exposure than the sector’s 36% weighting in the Russell 1000 Value Index. The fund’s long-standing underweighting of the sector has hurt the fund’s relative performance in the past few years, during which real estate investment trusts and investment banks have been top performers. During this most recent fiscal period, however, troubles in the mortgage loan business rippled through a variety of financial institutions and turned the fund’s underweighting into a positive.
Weak spots were conspicuous by their absence, in general. Compared with the stocks in its benchmark, however, Windsor II missed out on some of the large gains at ExxonMobil and Chevron, for example.
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1 Fund expense ratios reflect the six months ended April 30, 2007. Peer-group expense ratio is derived from data provided by Lipper Inc. and captures information through year-end 2006.
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In January, Lazard Asset Management LLC joined Windsor II’s team of advisors, replacing two firms, Equinox Capital Management, LLC, and Tukman Capital Management, Inc. The five managers responsible for Windsor II (see the table on page 6) have been assembled to represent different, yet complementary, investment strategies that we believe will provide competitive long-term performance at a very modest cost.
In addition, in November the fund’s board of trustees removed a $25,000 limit on annual share purchases that had been in place since April 20, 2006. A period of strong performance that resulted in significant new cash flows prompted the investment ceiling. We removed the cap on November 9, 2006, but retained the fund’s $10,000 initial investment minimum. The moves are part of our ongoing effort to protect existing shareholders and ensure that Windsor II’s advisors can effectively manage the portfolio, Vanguard’s largest actively managed fund.
A balanced strategy positions you for the long term
At Vanguard, we always encourage shareholders to evaluate their investments from a long-term perspective. In our view, a stock fund like Windsor II should be part of a carefully considered, balanced portfolio with an asset allocation that reflects your personal appetite for risk, your time horizon, and your investment goals.
Over time, a well-diversified portfolio that holds both value and growth stock funds, as well as bond and money market funds, can help position you to reap the rewards of the markets’ best-performing assets while muting the impact of the worst-performing ones. With its low expenses and long-term focus on value investing, Vanguard Windsor II Fund can play an important role in such an investment plan.
Thank you for investing with Vanguard.
Sincerely,
John J. Brennan
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
May 9, 2007
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Advisors’ Report
During the fiscal half-year ended April 30, 2007, Vanguard Windsor II Investor and Admiral Shares both returned 10.9%. This performance reflects the combined efforts of your fund’s five independent advisors. The use of multiple advisors provides exposure to distinct, yet complementary, investment approaches, enhancing the fund’s diversification. The advisors, the percentage and amount 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 half-year and of how the portfolio’s positioning reflects this assessment.
Barrow, Hanley, Mewhinney & Strauss, Inc.
Portfolio Manager:
James P. Barrow, Founding Partner
Corporate earnings began to moderate from their high levels over the past six months, even while companies continued
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Barrow, Hanley, | 59 | 30,751 |
| Conducts fundamental research on individual stocks |
Mewhinney & Strauss, Inc. |
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Lazard Asset Management LLC | 15 | 7,848 |
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Vanguard Quantitative Equity Group | 14 | 7,575 |
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Hotchkis and Wiley | 5 | 2,860 |
| Uses a disciplined investment approach, focusing on |
Capital Management, LLC |
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Armstrong Shaw Associates Inc. | 4 | 1,973 |
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Cash Investments1 | 3 | 1,603 |
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1 These short-term reserves are invested by Vanguard in equity index products to simulate investments in stocks. Each advisor may also maintain a modest cash position.
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to experience record profitability. Many believe the Federal Reserve Board has learned how to correctly manipulate the economy. In our report to shareholders in October, we urged caution, as most markets were near an all-time high.Yet, equities in general, and your fund in particular, have experienced good returns and the stock market has climbed to new levels. Stocks’ performance is sustainable, so long as inflation is under control and interest rates stay down.
In the fund’s fiscal half-year, oil prices failed to reach new highs even after headlines about political risk and supply disruptions. Our underweighting in the energy sector, particularly a lack of oil service holdings, detracted from performance. Financials stocks were a drag, with holdings such as Allstate, Bank of America, and Capital One Financial underperforming for the period.
Significant holdings in electric utilities such as Entergy and Exelon helped our performance. Our stock selection in consumer staples, particularly tobacco companies Imperial Tobacco Group and Altria Group, also contributed significantly to performance.
New names in the portfolio during the past six months include Quest Diagnostics, AT&T, Kraft Foods, Spectra Energy (a spin-off from Duke Energy), and Wyndham Worldwide. We closed our positions in ConAgra Foods and Mattel.
Lazard Asset Management LLC
Portfolio Managers:
Andrew Lacey, Deputy Chairman
Christopher Blake, Managing Director
The multiyear bull market that began in 2003 continued in 2007. Volatility increased in February and March; however, better-than-expected earnings reports and acquisitions drove stocks to new highs in April. Financials were among the portfolio’s worst-performing groups, as uncertainty surrounding the scope of the recent rise in subprime loan defaults weighed on the sector.
The portfolio’s performance was aided by solid stock selection in the consumer discretionary sector, particularly media holdings, including Idearc and R.H. Donnelley. Stock selection in consumer staples also boosted performance, as shares of Smithfield Foods rose. Within information technology, shares of First Data rose sharply after the company agreed to be acquired by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. The acquisition was one of many demonstrating that private-equity firms are not only focusing on mid-cap targets but also on larger-cap companies, due to the attractive valuations and consistent free cash flow available in that part of the market.
Stock selection in health care detracted from the portfolio’s returns, as shares of Sepracor declined. Returns were also hurt by a lack of exposure to utilities stocks, where we believe that valuations are unattractive.
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Historically, periods of slowing corporate-earnings growth have favored larger-cap, more diversified, and more consistently profitable companies, as investors seek out stability amid a more adverse environment. We expect the portfolio to perform well in these market conditions.
Vanguard Quantitative Equity Group
Portfolio Manager:
James D. Troyer, Principal
The heart of our process is a stock-selection model that uses three measures of a stock’s attractiveness relative to its capitalization and industry peers. The first measures a stock’s valuation; the second evaluates earnings quality; and the third considers market sentiment. We construct our portfolio by combining our rating of a stock with risk measures to minimize our exposure to industry-specific and other factors. Simply stated, our portion of the portfolio’s performance integrates three components: first, the return of the benchmark; second, our model’s stock-picking ability; and third, some amount of “luck.” Over the long run, we expect that luck will average out to zero.
During the fund’s fiscal half-year, our luck component was positive, slightly enhancing our model’s stock selection. The model itself had a good half-year, with all of the model’s components working in sync.
Our best performance over the six months was in the consumer durables industry, where our model picked Whirlpool and Mohawk Industries, each of which rose dramatically. Our model was also successful in the energy and banking industries. Conversely, the model picked Pfizer, which dropped in value during the period. These disparate results are typical of a quantitative process that holds many positions.
Hotchkis and Wiley Capital Management, LLC
Portfolio Managers:
George H. Davis, Jr., Chief Executive Officer
Sheldon J. Lieberman, Principal.
U.S. equity returns for the six months were led by the materials and utilities sectors as they reacted to surprisingly strong commodity inflation over the period. Consumer stocks were dragged down as investors extrapolated the impact on consumer spending of a collapse in subprime mortgage lending. Despite the distraction, equity indexes surged forward after a bit of a roller coaster ride.
During the past six months, our portion of the portfolio benefited from positive stock selection in the financials and information technology sectors. In financials, the portfolio had high exposure to insurance companies, such as Unum Group and MetLife, which did well on a relative basis. Within information technology, IT services companies Electronic Data Systems and First Data, and software manufacturer CA, performed well. In addition, strong stock selection within the health care sector aided performance.
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In the consumer discretionary sector, negative returns from homebuilders Centex, Pulte Homes, and Lennar hurt performance. Although current conditions are weak for homebuilders, and the subprime contraction may deepen the trough, we continue to be bullish about the long-term value of our homebuilder positions, as they offer attractive rewards for a patient investor, in our view.
Armstrong Shaw Associates Inc.
Portfolio Manager:
Jeffrey M. Shaw, Chairman and Chief Investment Officer
During the past six months, our portion of Windsor II garnered the greatest gain from our utility holdings, which were up 31%, followed by consumer staples and energy, up 20% and 15%, respectively. Weak relative returns in consumer discretionary and industrials detracted from performance.
We maintained a meaningful overweighting in consumer discretionary, with sizable positions in Comcast and Time Warner. Both companies had strong free-cash-flow generation and robust growth driven by the strength of their triple-play offerings of phone, Internet, and television services. We were also overweighted in health care, which is partly a play on demographics and the aging U.S. population.
Although corporate profit growth is already decelerating and earnings expectations are declining, several favorable trends could benefit our portfolio. Corporations are continuing to buy back stock, which should boost earnings per share; continued dollar weakness could improve the profit outlook of our global companies; and private equity firms are still flush with cash, fueling merger-and-acquisition and leveraged-buyout activity. In fact, on April 2, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts announced a leveraged buyout of First Data, one of our holdings, causing the stock to rise more than 25%. Finally, investors tend to move up in quality and capitalization size of their holdings as economic concerns grow, benefiting our high-quality large-cap stocks.
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Fund Profile
As of April 30, 2007
Portfolio Characteristics |
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Number of Stocks | 284 | 599 | 4,921 |
Median Market Cap | $43.4B | $50.3B | $32.1B |
Price/Earnings Ratio | 15.5x | 14.7x | 18.0x |
Price/Book Ratio | 2.5x | 2.2x | 2.9x |
Yield |
| 2.4% | 1.7% |
Investor Shares | 2.1% |
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Admiral Shares | 2.2% |
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Return on Equity | 19.1% | 17.6% | 18.0% |
Earnings Growth Rate | 16.7% | 19.4% | 20.8% |
Foreign Holdings | 7.4% | 0.0% | 1.0% |
Turnover Rate | 45%3 | — | — |
Expense Ratio |
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Investor Shares | 0.33%3 |
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Admiral Shares | 0.23%3 |
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Short-Term Reserves | 1% | — | — |
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Consumer Discretionary | 8% | 9% | 12% |
Consumer Staples | 10 | 8 | 8 |
Energy | 9 | 14 | 10 |
Financials | 26 | 35 | 22 |
Health Care | 13 | 7 | 11 |
Industrials | 10 | 7 | 11 |
Information Technology | 6 | 3 | 15 |
Materials | 4 | 4 | 4 |
Telecommunication Services | 5 | 6 | 3 |
Utilities | 8 | 7 | 4 |
Short-Term Reserves | 1% | — | — |
Volatility Measures4 |
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| Fund Versus | Fund Versus |
| Comparative Index1 | Broad Index2 |
R-Squared | 0.91 | 0.76 |
Beta | 0.91 | 0.71 |
Ten Largest Holdings5 (% of total net assets) |
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Bank of America Corp. | diversified financial services | 2.7% |
Citigroup, Inc. | diversified financial services | 2.5 |
Pfizer Inc. | pharmaceuticals | 2.4 |
JPMorgan Chase & Co. | diversified financial services | 2.4 |
ConocoPhillips Co. | integrated oil and gas | 2.3 |
Altria Group, Inc. | tobacco | 2.3 |
AT&T Inc. | integrated telecommunication services | 2.3 |
Exelon Corp. | electric utilities | 2.3 |
Imperial Tobacco Group ADR | tobacco | 2.3 |
Verizon Communications Inc. | integrated telecommunication services | 2.2 |
Top Ten |
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Investment Focus
1Russell 1000 Value Index.
2 Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 Index.
3 Annualized.
4 For an explanation of R-squared, beta, and other terms used here, see the Glossary on page 29.
5 “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/performance.) 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.
Fiscal-Year Total Returns (%): October 31, 1996–April 30, 2007
Average Annual Total Returns: Periods Ended March 31, 2007
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 | 16.07% | 9.61% | 10.25% |
Admiral Shares | 5/14/2001 | 16.19 | 9.73 | 7.672 |
1 Six months ended April 30, 2007.
2 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 (unaudited)
Statement of Net Assets
As of April 30, 2007
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 (97.0%)1 |
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Consumer Discretionary (7.8%) |
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| Carnival Corp. | 14,536,500 | 710,689 |
2 | Sherwin-Williams Co. | 9,235,200 | 588,929 |
* 2 | Wyndham Worldwide Corp. | 12,031,174 | 416,279 |
2 | Service Corp. International | 26,080,100 | 316,873 |
| Time Warner, Inc. | 13,199,699 | 272,310 |
* | R.H. Donnelley Corp. | 2,117,525 | 165,358 |
| Gannett Co., Inc. | 2,564,500 | 146,330 |
| Liz Claiborne, Inc. | 3,265,583 | 146,037 |
| Idearc Inc. | 3,982,007 | 138,375 |
| News Corp., Class A | 4,868,500 | 109,006 |
| Centex Corp. | 2,372,300 | 106,208 |
* | Comcast Corp. Special Class A | 3,728,840 | 98,441 |
| Home Depot, Inc. | 2,195,500 | 83,144 |
| The Stanley Works | 1,393,500 | 81,213 |
| Fortune Brands, Inc. | 974,600 | 78,065 |
| Lowe’s Cos., Inc. | 2,255,700 | 68,934 |
| Pulte Homes, Inc. | 2,412,500 | 64,896 |
| Lennar Corp. Class A | 1,348,000 | 57,573 |
| McDonald’s Corp. | 1,173,406 | 56,652 |
* | Interpublic Group of Cos., Inc. | 3,332,400 | 42,255 |
* | Office Depot, Inc. | 1,221,580 | 41,070 |
| Whirlpool Corp. | 330,200 | 35,011 |
| General Motors Corp. | 1,084,067 | 33,855 |
| CBS Corp. | 946,283 | 30,063 |
* | Mohawk Industries, Inc. | 330,400 | 29,789 |
| Magna International, Inc. Class A | 361,100 | 28,581 |
* | Expedia, Inc. | 1,124,700 | 26,565 |
| Yum! Brands, Inc. | 421,500 | 26,074 |
| Royal Caribbean Cruises, Ltd. | 566,983 | 23,569 |
* | Dollar Tree Stores, Inc. | 541,200 | 21,280 |
| Mattel, Inc. | 383,500 | 10,853 |
| Jones Apparel Group, Inc. | 270,400 | 9,029 |
| Newell Rubbermaid, Inc. | 289,048 | 8,865 |
| Eastman Kodak Co. | 270,800 | 6,746 |
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| Tribune Co. | 182,100 | 5,973 |
| Leggett & Platt, Inc. | 241,700 | 5,685 |
| Hasbro, Inc. | 156,800 | 4,956 |
| E.W. Scripps Co. Class A | 36,200 | 1,567 |
| The Gap, Inc. | 52,400 | 941 |
| Regal Entertainment Group Class A | 5,300 | 115 |
* | Liberty Global, Inc. Class A | 700 | 25 |
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Consumer Staples (9.3%) |
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| Altria Group, Inc. | 17,854,399 | 1,230,525 |
| Imperial Tobacco Group ADR | 13,840,000 | 1,209,754 |
| Kraft Foods Inc. | 21,448,226 | 717,872 |
| Diageo PLC ADR | 7,768,500 | 655,661 |
| CVS/Caremark Corp. | 6,473,500 | 234,600 |
| Coca-Cola Enterprises, Inc. | 7,300,360 | 160,170 |
| Kimberly-Clark Corp. | 2,000,177 | 142,353 |
* | Constellation Brands, Inc. Class A | 3,866,600 | 86,651 |
* | Smithfield Foods, Inc. | 2,604,400 | 79,617 |
| Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. | 1,437,900 | 68,904 |
| The Coca-Cola Co. | 1,263,699 | 65,952 |
| General Mills, Inc. | 627,600 | 37,593 |
| ConAgra Foods, Inc. | 1,422,700 | 34,970 |
| Safeway, Inc. | 907,500 | 32,942 |
| Molson Coors Brewing Co. Class B | 306,400 | 28,887 |
| Unilever PLC ADR | 899,760 | 28,171 |
| The Kroger Co. | 906,099 | 26,739 |
| Carolina Group | 247,200 | 18,918 |
| H.J. Heinz Co. | 293,300 | 13,817 |
| Dean Foods Co. | 368,200 | 13,414 |
| Reynolds American Inc. | 156,800 | 10,076 |
| The Pepsi Bottling Group, Inc. | 224,300 | 7,359 |
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Energy (8.4%) |
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| ConocoPhillips Co. | 17,794,757 | 1,234,066 |
| Occidental Petroleum Corp. | 20,467,700 | 1,037,712 |
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| ExxonMobil Corp. | 6,099,194 | 484,154 |
| Chevron Corp. | 5,208,029 | 405,133 |
| Spectra Energy Corp. | 13,534,200 | 353,243 |
| Hess Corp. | 2,213,656 | 125,625 |
2 | Massey Energy Co. | 4,659,000 | 125,467 |
| Arch Coal, Inc. | 3,022,300 | 109,014 |
| BJ Services Co. | 3,551,400 | 101,783 |
| Devon Energy Corp. | 1,024,852 | 74,681 |
| Royal Dutch Shell PLC ADR Class B | 813,500 | 57,523 |
| Valero Energy Corp. | 741,800 | 52,097 |
| Marathon Oil Corp. | 438,600 | 44,540 |
| Chesapeake Energy Corp. | 1,160,800 | 39,177 |
| Tesoro Petroleum Corp. | 293,700 | 35,596 |
| Sunoco, Inc. | 444,400 | 33,566 |
| GlobalSantaFe Corp. | 473,800 | 30,290 |
| Cimarex Energy Co. | 692,700 | 27,292 |
| Petro-Canada (New York Shares) | 550,000 | 24,382 |
| Apache Corp. | 236,170 | 17,122 |
| Patterson–UTI Energy, Inc. | 602,900 | 14,705 |
| Anadarko Petroleum Corp. | 274,600 | 12,813 |
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Financials (24.9%) |
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| The Bank of New York Co., Inc. | 3,604,568 | 145,913 |
| Bear Stearns Co., Inc. | 921,952 | 143,548 |
| Mellon Financial Corp. | 3,247,028 | 139,395 |
| Morgan Stanley | 1,597,685 | 134,222 |
| Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. | 1,395,100 | 125,880 |
| A.G. Edwards & Sons, Inc. | 1,594,633 | 115,531 |
| Ameriprise Financial, Inc. | 1,837,625 | 109,284 |
| Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc. | 368,900 | 27,771 |
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| Commercial Banks (3.0%) |
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| Wells Fargo & Co. | 26,913,223 | 965,916 |
| Wachovia Corp. | 1,828,540 | 101,557 |
| National City Corp. | 2,536,800 | 92,720 |
| U.S. Bancorp | 2,057,322 | 70,669 |
| Comerica, Inc. | 974,994 | 60,362 |
| PNC Financial Services Group | 662,500 | 49,091 |
| KeyCorp | 1,308,328 | 46,681 |
| Synovus Financial Corp. | 945,300 | 29,834 |
| Huntington Bancshares Inc. | 1,254,709 | 27,829 |
| Colonial BancGroup, Inc. | 1,070,500 | 25,756 |
| M & T Bank Corp. | 223,300 | 24,862 |
| SunTrust Banks, Inc. | 263,200 | 22,219 |
| BB&T Corp. | 379,740 | 15,805 |
| UnionBanCal Corp. | 223,800 | 13,759 |
| Fifth Third Bancorp | 330,799 | 13,427 |
| Regions Financial Corp. | 130,000 | 4,562 |
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| Consumer Finance (3.0%) |
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| SLM Corp. | 19,878,300 | 1,070,049 |
| Capital One Financial Corp. | 6,670,720 | 495,368 |
* | AmeriCredit Corp. | 24,000 | 606 |
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| Diversified Financial Services (7.5%) |
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| Bank of America Corp. | 27,746,541 | 1,412,299 |
| Citigroup, Inc. | 24,139,041 | 1,294,335 |
| JPMorgan Chase & Co. | 24,239,723 | 1,262,890 |
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| The Allstate Corp. | 15,277,601 | 952,100 |
| Manulife Financial Corp. | 22,406,830 | 809,111 |
2 | XL Capital Ltd. Class A | 9,779,400 | 762,598 |
| American International Group, Inc. | 4,820,200 | 336,980 |
| Marsh & McLennan Cos., Inc. | 5,244,945 | 166,579 |
| PartnerRe Ltd. | 2,118,760 | 152,593 |
| The Travelers Cos., Inc. | 2,593,000 | 140,281 |
| MetLife, Inc. | 1,725,000 | 113,333 |
| Genworth Financial Inc. | 2,394,000 | 87,357 |
| Unum Group | 2,550,300 | 63,451 |
| ACE Ltd. | 722,700 | 42,972 |
| The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. | 395,149 | 39,989 |
| Prudential Financial, Inc. | 415,800 | 39,501 |
| Safeco Corp. | 457,588 | 30,539 |
| Ambac Financial Group, Inc. | 309,600 | 28,421 |
| RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. | 510,800 | 27,660 |
* | Conseco, Inc. | 1,326,500 | 23,466 |
| Nationwide Financial Services, Inc. | 353,300 | 20,184 |
| The Chubb Corp. | 283,304 | 15,250 |
| Axis Capital Holdings Ltd. | 382,800 | 14,202 |
| Loews Corp. | 297,500 | 14,078 |
| Assurant, Inc. | 237,400 | 13,658 |
* | Arch Capital Group Ltd. | 26,529 | 1,932 |
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| Real Estate Investment Trusts (0.6%) |
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| CBL & Associates Properties, Inc. REIT | 1,677,300 | 76,233 |
| Simon Property Group, Inc. REIT | 226,400 | 26,099 |
| Boston Properties, Inc. REIT | 177,523 | 20,870 |
| Archstone-Smith Trust REIT | 361,400 | 18,833 |
| Vornado Realty Trust REIT | 132,100 | 15,671 |
| Health Care Properties Investors REIT | 410,300 | 14,521 |
| Avalonbay Communities, Inc. REIT | 117,900 | 14,414 |
| Regency Centers Corp. REIT | 159,600 | 13,151 |
| SL Green Realty Corp. REIT | 93,304 | 13,147 |
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| Apartment Investment & Management Co. Class A REIT | 225,900 | 12,492 |
| UDR, Inc. REIT | 376,100 | 11,298 |
| Host Hotels & Resorts Inc. REIT | 428,999 | 11,000 |
| ProLogis REIT | 143,300 | 9,286 |
| iStar Financial Inc. REIT | 168,600 | 8,079 |
| Equity Residential REIT | 153,500 | 7,127 |
| The Macerich Co. REIT | 72,800 | 6,925 |
| CapitalSource Inc. REIT | 229,000 | 5,901 |
| Kimco Realty Corp. REIT | 81,800 | 3,932 |
| Federal Realty Investment Trust REIT | 11,400 | 1,028 |
| Public Storage, Inc. REIT | 9,700 | 905 |
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^ | The St. Joe Co. | 946,300 | 53,589 |
�� | Forest City Enterprise Class A | 139,170 | 9,298 |
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| Thrifts & Mortgage Finance (1.5%) |
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| Washington Mutual, Inc. | 13,313,095 | 558,884 |
| Freddie Mac | 1,907,700 | 123,581 |
| Fannie Mae | 1,141,700 | 67,269 |
| Countrywide Financial Corp. | 450,028 | 16,687 |
| Radian Group, Inc. | 83,210 | 4,835 |
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Health Care (12.2%) |
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| Pfizer Inc. | 48,325,400 | 1,278,690 |
| Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. | 38,393,900 | 1,108,048 |
| Wyeth | 18,946,800 | 1,051,547 |
* | WellPoint Inc. | 10,883,900 | 859,502 |
| Baxter International, Inc. | 12,506,800 | 708,260 |
| Quest Diagnostics, Inc. | 6,540,500 | 319,765 |
* | Boston Scientific Corp. | 8,952,200 | 138,222 |
| Merck & Co., Inc. | 2,413,000 | 124,125 |
* | Biogen Idec Inc. | 2,224,056 | 104,998 |
| Abbott Laboratories | 1,558,500 | 88,242 |
* | Barr Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1,812,800 | 87,667 |
| Eli Lilly & Co. | 1,435,400 | 84,875 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1,319,200 | 84,719 |
* | Sepracor Inc. | 1,541,163 | 82,730 |
* | Hospira, Inc. | 1,878,948 | 76,191 |
| Schering-Plough Corp. | 2,175,600 | 69,032 |
| UnitedHealth Group Inc. | 1,234,500 | 65,503 |
* | King Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1,404,700 | 28,726 |
* | Tenet Healthcare Corp. | 3,827,900 | 28,403 |
| CIGNA Corp. | 90,500 | 14,081 |
| AmerisourceBergen Corp. | 259,400 | 12,967 |
* | Charles River Laboratories, Inc. | 75,400 | 3,571 |
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Industrials (9.8%) |
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| General Electric Co. | 24,476,300 | 902,196 |
| Honeywell International Inc. | 16,334,288 | 884,992 |
| Illinois Tool Works, Inc. | 15,525,700 | 796,624 |
2 | Cooper Industries, Inc. Class A | 13,561,300 | 674,810 |
| ITT Industries, Inc. | 8,101,000 | 516,925 |
| Tyco International Ltd. | 8,411,500 | 274,467 |
| United Technologies Corp. | 2,274,000 | 152,654 |
| Textron, Inc. | 1,335,400 | 135,770 |
| Pitney Bowes, Inc. | 2,666,300 | 127,982 |
| Northrop Grumman Corp. | 1,537,421 | 113,170 |
| Ingersoll-Rand Co. | 2,489,855 | 111,172 |
| Masco Corp. | 2,884,600 | 78,490 |
*^ | USG Corp. | 1,435,800 | 66,262 |
| Flowserve Corp. | 980,400 | 59,814 |
| Parker Hannifin Corp. | 409,200 | 37,704 |
| Union Pacific Corp. | 294,499 | 33,647 |
| Deere & Co. | 289,500 | 31,671 |
| Embraer-Empresa Brasileira de Aeronautica SA ADR | 605,200 | 28,390 |
| Avery Dennison Corp. | 407,600 | 25,353 |
| PACCAR, Inc. | 247,030 | 20,746 |
| CSX Corp. | 270,800 | 11,690 |
| R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co. | 285,350 | 11,471 |
| Emerson Electric Co. | 243,800 | 11,456 |
* | Avis Budget Group, Inc. | 344,210 | 9,683 |
| Raytheon Co. | 163,400 | 8,748 |
| Eaton Corp. | 69,000 | 6,155 |
| Dover Corp. | 25,200 | 1,213 |
* | Allied Waste Industries, Inc. | 52,962 | 708 |
* | Raytheon Co. Warrants Exp. 6/16/11 | 24,065 | 432 |
|
|
| 5,134,395 |
Information Technology (6.0%) |
|
| |
| Hewlett-Packard Co. | 13,071,672 | 550,840 |
| Microsoft Corp. | 13,948,600 | 417,621 |
* | Nokia Corp. ADR | 13,702,700 | 345,993 |
| First Data Corp. | 9,507,500 | 308,043 |
| International Business Machines Corp. | 2,751,700 | 281,251 |
| Electronic Data Systems Corp. | 5,188,000 | 151,697 |
| CA, Inc. | 5,267,728 | 143,598 |
* | Oracle Corp. | 7,345,200 | 138,090 |
* | Sun Microsystems, Inc. | 20,890,900 | 109,051 |
* | EMC Corp. | 5,991,752 | 90,955 |
* | Dell Inc. | 3,344,300 | 84,310 |
| Intel Corp. | 3,884,800 | 83,523 |
* | Flextronics International Ltd. | 7,045,040 | 78,552 |
* | Cisco Systems, Inc. | 2,892,100 | 77,335 |
* | Symantec Corp. | 3,929,300 | 69,156 |
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| Market |
|
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| Value• |
|
| Shares | ($000) |
| QUALCOMM Inc. | 1,559,200 | 68,293 |
| Motorola, Inc. | 3,205,600 | 55,553 |
* | BMC Software, Inc. | 785,700 | 25,433 |
* | Xerox Corp. | 969,800 | 17,941 |
* | Cadence Design Systems, Inc. | 684,200 | 15,189 |
* | Novellus Systems, Inc. | 435,899 | 14,110 |
* | Lexmark International, Inc. | 163,000 | 8,884 |
* | LSI Corp. | 946,200 | 8,043 |
* | Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. | 353,500 | 5,886 |
| Intersil Corp. | 34,900 | 1,040 |
* | International Rectifier Corp. | 4,500 | 159 |
|
|
| 3,150,546 |
Materials (4.2%) |
|
| |
2 | Lyondell Chemical Co. | 22,889,300 | 712,315 |
2 | Hanson PLC ADR | 8,026,950 | 681,328 |
| Dow Chemical Co. | 3,712,800 | 165,628 |
| E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. | 2,709,100 | 133,206 |
| Alcoa Inc. | 3,494,900 | 124,034 |
| Louisiana-Pacific Corp. | 4,872,551 | 96,038 |
| Ball Corp. | 1,293,700 | 65,578 |
* | Cemex SAB de CV ADR | 1,517,700 | 49,325 |
| United States Steel Corp. | 363,700 | 36,930 |
| Weyerhaeuser Co. | 435,400 | 34,492 |
| Eastman Chemical Co. | 444,900 | 30,120 |
| Ashland, Inc. | 410,500 | 24,609 |
| International Paper Co. | 623,500 | 23,518 |
| Nucor Corp. | 163,890 | 10,400 |
| Vulcan Materials Co. | 47,000 | 5,812 |
| International Flavors & Fragrances, Inc. | 97,000 | 4,721 |
| Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold, Inc. Class B | 22,000 | 1,478 |
|
|
| 2,199,532 |
Telecommunication Services (5.3%) |
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| |
| AT&T Inc. | 31,708,675 | 1,227,760 |
| Verizon Communications Inc. | 29,957,654 | 1,143,783 |
| Sprint Nextel Corp. | 12,034,900 | 241,059 |
| Alltel Corp. | 2,404,076 | 150,712 |
| Telephone & Data Systems, Inc. | 464,118 | 26,432 |
|
|
| 2,789,746 |
Utilities (7.9%) |
|
| |
| Exelon Corp. | 16,087,625 | 1,213,168 |
| Entergy Corp. | 8,863,400 | 1,002,805 |
| Dominion Resources, Inc. | 6,705,800 | 611,569 |
| Duke Energy Corp. | 28,002,400 | 574,609 |
2 | CenterPoint Energy Inc. | 18,711,100 | 352,330 |
| FPL Group, Inc. | 907,000 | 58,384 |
| FirstEnergy Corp. | 656,600 | 44,938 |
| American Electric Power Co., Inc. | 876,925 | 44,039 |
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|
| Market |
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|
| Value• |
|
| Shares | ($000) |
| Edison International | 753,500 | 39,446 |
* | Mirant Corp. | 840,100 | 37,695 |
| Sempra Energy | 575,100 | 36,507 |
| Consolidated Edison Inc. | 706,200 | 36,200 |
| PG&E Corp. | 682,700 | 34,545 |
| Constellation Energy Group, Inc. | 336,200 | 29,962 |
| Southern Co. | 559,209 | 21,133 |
| Xcel Energy, Inc. | 633,260 | 15,255 |
| MDU Resources Group, Inc. | 476,600 | 14,441 |
| Ameren Corp. | 47,200 | 2,481 |
| NSTAR | 62,600 | 2,247 |
* | NRG Energy, Inc. | 14,200 | 1,121 |
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|
| 4,172,875 |
Exchange-Traded Funds (1.2%) |
|
| |
3 | Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF | 3,098,900 | 455,941 |
3 | Vanguard Value ETF | 2,511,200 | 179,124 |
|
|
| 635,065 |
Total Common Stocks |
|
| |
(Cost $36,481,608) |
| 51,008,558 | |
Temporary Cash Investments (3.5%)1 |
|
| |
Money Market Fund (3.4%) |
|
| |
4 | Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund, 5.259% | 1,732,706,036 | 1,732,706 |
4 | Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund, 5.259%—Note G | 55,004,400 | 55,004 |
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| 1,787,710 |
|
| Face |
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| Amount |
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| ($000) |
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U.S. Agency Obligations (0.1%) |
|
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5 | Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. |
|
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6 | 5.195%–5.197%, 7/9/07 | 60,000 | 59,414 |
5 | Federal National Mortgage Assoc. |
|
|
6 | 5.192%, 7/25/07 | 2,000 | 1,976 |
|
|
| 61,390 |
Total Temporary Cash Investments |
|
| |
(Cost $1,849,096) |
| 1,849,100 | |
Total Investments (100.5%) |
|
| |
(Cost $38,330,704) |
| 52,857,658 | |
Other Assets and Liabilities— |
|
| |
Net (–0.5%) |
| (247,691) | |
Net Assets (100%) |
| 52,609,967 |
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| Market |
| Value• |
| ($000) |
Statement of Assets and Liabilities |
|
Assets |
|
Investment in Securities, at Value | 52,857,658 |
Receivables for Investment Securities Sold | 48,935 |
Receivables for Capital Shares Issued | 41,815 |
Other Assets—Note C | 75,278 |
Total Assets | 53,023,686 |
Liabilities |
|
Payables for Investment |
|
Securities Purchased | 216,380 |
Security Lending Collateral Payable to Brokers—Note G | 55,004 |
Payables for Capital Shares Redeemed | 43,516 |
Other Liabilities | 98,819 |
Total Liabilities | 413,719 |
Net Assets | 52,609,967 |
At April 30, 2007, net assets consisted of:7 |
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| Amount |
| ($000) |
Paid-in Capital | 35,165,658 |
Undistributed Net Investment Income | 290,986 |
Accumulated Net Realized Gains | 2,583,923 |
Unrealized Appreciation |
|
Investment Securities | 14,526,954 |
Futures Contracts | 42,446 |
Net Assets | 52,609,967 |
|
|
Investor Shares—Net Assets |
|
Applicable to 904,272,217 outstanding |
|
$.001 par value shares of beneficial |
|
interest (unlimited authorization) | 33,439,607 |
Net Asset Value Per Share— |
|
Investor Shares | $36.98 |
|
|
Admiral Shares—Net Assets |
|
Applicable to 291,944,346 outstanding |
|
$.001 par value shares of beneficial |
|
interest (unlimited authorization) | 19,170,360 |
Net Asset Value Per Share— |
|
Admiral Shares | $65.66 |
• | 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 98.8% and 1.7%, 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 $61,390,000 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
| Six Months Ended |
| April 30, 2007 |
| ($000) |
Investment Income |
|
Income |
|
Dividends1 | 585,329 |
Interest1 | 43,077 |
Security Lending | 2,210 |
Total Income | 630,616 |
Expenses |
|
Investment Advisory Fees—Note B |
|
Basic Fee | 30,289 |
Performance Adjustment | 2,622 |
The Vanguard Group—Note C |
|
Management and Administrative |
|
Investor Shares | 27,658 |
Admiral Shares | 6,046 |
Marketing and Distribution |
|
Investor Shares | 3,427 |
Admiral Shares | 1,527 |
Custodian Fees | 251 |
Shareholders’ Reports |
|
Investor Shares | 264 |
Admiral Shares | 64 |
Trustees’ Fees and Expenses | 31 |
Total Expenses | 72,179 |
Expenses Paid Indirectly—Note D | (987) |
Net Expenses | 71,192 |
Net Investment Income | 559,424 |
Realized Net Gain (Loss) |
|
Investment Securities Sold1 | 2,582,325 |
Futures Contracts | 22,807 |
Realized Net Gain (Loss) | 2,605,132 |
Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) |
|
Investment Securities | 1,944,605 |
Futures Contracts | 23,882 |
Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) | 1,968,487 |
Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations | 5,133,043 |
1 Dividend income, interest income, and realized net gain (loss) from affiliated companies of the fund were $54,440,000, $40,966,000, and ($34,272,000), respectively.
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Statement of Changes in Net Assets
| Six Months Ended | Year Ended |
| April 30, | October 31, |
| 2007 | 2006 |
| ($000) | ($000) |
Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets |
|
|
Operations |
|
|
Net Investment Income | 559,424 | 1,011,048 |
Realized Net Gain (Loss) | 2,605,132 | 2,126,784 |
Change in Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation) | 1,968,487 | 3,639,947 |
Net Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets Resulting from Operations | 5,133,043 | 6,777,779 |
Distributions |
|
|
Net Investment Income |
|
|
Investor Shares | (355,166) | (636,172) |
Admiral Shares | (201,092) | (313,576) |
Realized Capital Gain1 |
|
|
Investor Shares | (1,263,000) | (782,678) |
Admiral Shares | (676,755) | (343,927) |
Total Distributions | (2,496,013) | (2,076,353) |
Capital Share Transactions—Note H |
|
|
Investor Shares | 955,528 | (564,170) |
Admiral Shares | 2,293,148 | 2,396,256 |
Net Increase (Decrease) from Capital Share Transactions | 3,248,676 | 1,832,086 |
Total Increase (Decrease) | 5,885,706 | 6,533,512 |
Net Assets |
|
|
Beginning of Period | 46,724,261 | 40,190,749 |
End of Period2 | 52,609,967 | 46,724,261 |
1 Includes fiscal 2007 and 2006 short-term gain distributions totaling $134,373,000 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 $290,986,000 and $287,820,000.
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Financial Highlights
Windsor II Fund Investor Shares |
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| Six Months |
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| Ended |
| |||||
For a Share Outstanding | April 30, | Year Ended October 31, | |||||
Throughout Each Period | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | |
Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period | $35.14 | $31.61 | $28.49 | $24.61 | $20.87 | $24.50 | |
Investment Operations |
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| |
Net Investment Income | .399 | .760 | .65 | .56 | .51 | .51 | |
Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) |
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|
| |
on Investments | 3.309 | 4.368 | 3.10 | 3.87 | 3.75 | (3.47) | |
Total from Investment Operations | 3.708 | 5.128 | 3.75 | 4.43 | 4.26 | (2.96) | |
Distributions |
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|
| |
Dividends from Net Investment Income | (.410) | (.720) | (.63) | (.55) | (.52) | (.52) | |
Distributions from Realized Capital Gains | (1.458) | (.878) | — | — | — | (.15) | |
Total Distributions | (1.868) | (1.598) | (.63) | (.55) | (.52) | (.67) | |
Net Asset Value, End of Period | $36.98 | $35.14 | $31.61 | $28.49 | $24.61 | $20.87 | |
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Total Return | 10.89% | 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) | $33,440 | $30,790 | $28,199 | $26,232 | $20,843 | $17,735 | |
Ratio of Total Expenses to |
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| |
Average Net Assets1 | 0.33%* | 0.34% | 0.35% | 0.37% | 0.43% | 0.42% | |
Ratio of Net Investment Income to |
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| |
Average Net Assets | 2.26%* | 2.28% | 2.14% | 2.07% | 2.31% | 2.12% | |
Portfolio Turnover Rate | 45%* | 34% | 28% | 22% | 29% | 41% | |
1 Includes performance-based investment advisory fee increases (decreases) of 0.01%, 0.01%, 0.01%, 0.02%, 0.03%, and 0.02%.
* | Annualized. |
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Windsor II Fund Admiral Shares |
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| Six Months |
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| Ended |
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For a Share Outstanding | April 30, | Year Ended October 31, | ||||||
Throughout Each Period | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | ||
Net Asset Value, Beginning of Period | $62.41 | $56.13 | $50.59 | $43.69 | $37.05 | $43.50 | ||
Investment Operations |
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Net Investment Income | .743 | 1.402 | 1.224 | 1.043 | .95 | .944 | ||
Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss) |
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| ||
on Investments | 5.864 | 7.782 | 5.493 | 6.885 | 6.65 | (6.167) | ||
Total from Investment Operations | 6.607 | 9.184 | 6.717 | 7.928 | 7.60 | (5.223) | ||
Distributions |
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Dividends from Net Investment Income | (.769) | (1.346) | (1.177) | (1.028) | (.96) | (.962) | ||
Distributions from Realized Capital Gains | (2.588) | (1.558) | — | — | — | (.265) | ||
Total Distributions | (3.357) | (2.904) | (1.177) | (1.028) | (.96) | (1.227) | ||
Net Asset Value, End of Period | $65.66 | $62.41 | $56.13 | $50.59 | $43.69 | $37.05 | ||
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Total Return | 10.93% | 17.01% | 13.34% | 18.30% | 20.79% | –12.44% | ||
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Ratios/Supplemental Data |
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Net Assets, End of Period (Millions) | $19,170 | $15,934 | $11,992 | $4,849 | $3,412 | $2,484 | ||
Ratio of Total Expenses to |
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Average Net Assets1 | 0.23%* | 0.23% | 0.22% | 0.26% | 0.32% | 0.35% | ||
Ratio of Net Investment Income to |
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Average Net Assets | 2.36%* | 2.39% | 2.25% | 2.17% | 2.41% | 2.18% | ||
Portfolio Turnover Rate | 45%* | 34% | 28% | 22% | 29% | 41% | ||
1 Includes performance-based investment advisory fee increases (decreases) of 0.01%, 0.01%, 0.01%, 0.02%, 0.03%, and 0.02%.
* | Annualized. |
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, service, 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 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.; Hotchkis and Wiley Capital Management, LLC; Armstrong Shaw Associates Inc.; and beginning January 9, 2007, Lazard Asset Management LLC 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 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. The basic fee of Armstrong Shaw Associates Inc. is subject to quarterly adjustments based on performance since January 31, 2006, relative to the Russell 1000 Value Index. In accordance with the advisory contract entered into with Lazard Asset Management LLC in January 2007, beginning in November 2007, the investment advisory fee will be subject to quarterly adjustments based on performance since January 31, 2007, relative to the S&P 500 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 $1,038,000 for the six months ended April 30, 2007.
For the six months ended April 30, 2007, 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 $2,622,000 (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 April 30, 2007, the fund had contributed capital of $4,642,000 to Vanguard (included in Other Assets), representing 0.01% of the fund’s net assets and 4.64% 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 six months ended April 30, 2007, these arrangements reduced the fund’s management and administrative expenses by $977,000 and custodian fees by $10,000.
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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.
At April 30, 2007, the cost of investment securities for tax purposes was $38,330,704,000. Net unrealized appreciation of investment securities for tax purposes was $14,526,954,000, consisting of unrealized gains of $14,778,028,000 on securities that had risen in value since their purchase and $251,074,000 in unrealized losses on securities that had fallen in value since their purchase.
At April 30, 2007, the aggregate settlement value of open futures contracts expiring in June 2007 and the related unrealized appreciation (depreciation) were:
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| ($000) |
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| Aggregate | Unrealized |
| Number of | Settlement | Appreciation |
Futures Contracts | Long Contracts | Value | (Depreciation) |
S&P 500 Index | 2,362 | 878,900 | 41,829 |
E-mini S&P 500 Index | 1,096 | 81,564 | 617 |
Unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on open futures contracts is required to be treated as realized gain (loss) for tax purposes.
F. During the six months ended April 30, 2007, the fund purchased $14,524,592,000 of investment securities and sold $13,493,768,000 of investment securities, other than temporary cash investments.
G. The market value of securities on loan to broker-dealers at April 30, 2007, was $52,439,000, for which the fund received cash collateral of $55,004,000.
H. Capital share transactions for each class of shares were:
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Issued | 2,257,857 | 63,994 | 4,035,614 | 123,796 |
Issued in Lieu of Cash Distributions | 1,580,553 | 45,484 | 1,378,672 | 43,697 |
Redeemed | (2,882,882) | (81,333) | (5,978,456) | (183,528) |
Net Increase (Decrease)—Investor Shares | 955,528 | 28,145 | (564,170) | (16,035) |
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Issued | 2,363,723 | 37,548 | 3,485,256 | 60,101 |
Issued in Lieu of Cash Distributions | 821,181 | 13,311 | 605,081 | 10,803 |
Redeemed | (891,756) | (14,232) | (1,694,081) | (29,219) |
Net Increase (Decrease)—Admiral Shares | 2,293,148 | 36,627 | 2,396,256 | 41,685 |
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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. | 367,821 | — | 83,680 | 6,912 | 352,330 |
Cooper Industries, Inc. Class A | 563,607 | 86,986 | 45,525 | 4,970 | 674,810 |
Hanson PLC ADR | 558,114 | — | — | 12,057 | 681,328 |
Lyondell Chemical Co. | 572,238 | 19,018 | — | 10,031 | 712,315 |
Massey Energy Co. | n/a1 | 106,337 | — | 186 | 125,467 |
Service Corp. International | 237,851 | 35,154 | 36,623 | 1,664 | 316,873 |
Sherwin-Williams Co. | 544,105 | 3,075 | — | 5,206 | 588,929 |
Wyndham Worldwide Corp. | n/a1 | 332,760 | — | — | 416,279 |
XL Capital Ltd. Class A | 637,970 | 51,551 | — | 6,961 | 762,598 |
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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.
1 At October 31, 2006, the issuer was not an affiliated company of the fund.
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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 | 10/31/2006 | 4/30/2007 | Period1 |
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Investor Shares | $1,000.00 | $1,108.93 | $1.73 |
Admiral Shares | 1,000.00 | 1,109.33 | 1.20 |
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Admiral Shares | 1,000.00 | 1,023.65 | 1.15 |
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 0.33% 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 on page 25 are meant to highlight and help you compare ongoing costs only and do not reflect transaction costs incurred by the fund for buying and selling securities. Further, the expenses do not include any account service fee described in the prospectus. If such a 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 your fund’s current prospectus.
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Trustees Approve Advisory Arrangements
The board of trustees of Vanguard Windsor II Fund has renewed the fund’s investment advisory arrangements with Barrow, Hanley, Mewhinney & Strauss, Inc.; Hotchkis and Wiley Capital Management, LLC; Armstrong Shaw Associates Inc.; and The Vanguard Group, Inc. The board also added Lazard Asset Management LLC to the fund’s investment advisory team effective January 2007.
The board concluded that retaining Barrow Hanley, Hotchkis and Wiley, Armstrong Shaw, and Vanguard as advisors, and adding Lazard to the investment advisory team, were in the best interests of the fund and its shareholders.
The board based its decisions upon an evaluation of each advisor’s investment staff, portfolio management process, and performance. The trustees considered the factors discussed below, among others. However, no single factor determined whether the board approved the
arrangements. Rather, it was the totality of the circumstances that drove the board’s decision.
Nature, extent, and quality of services
The board considered the quality of the fund’s investment management over both short- and long-term periods and took into account the organizational depth and stability of each advisor. The board noted the following:
Barrow, Hanley, Mewhinney & Strauss. Founded in 1979, Barrow Hanley is known for its commitment to value investing. A subsidiary of Old Mutual Asset Managers, Barrow Hanley remains independently managed and its professionals retain significant equity ownership. The firm has advised Vanguard Windsor II Fund since the fund’s inception in 1985.
Using a combination of in-depth fundamental research and valuation forecasts, Barrow Hanley seeks stocks offering strong fundamentals and price appreciation potential, with below-average price/earnings ratios and price/book-value ratios, and above-average current yields.
Hotchkis and Wiley Capital Management. Founded in 1980, Hotchkis and Wiley is a value-oriented firm that manages various large-, mid-, and small-cap portfolios. The firm has advised Vanguard Windsor II Fund since 2003.
Hotchkis and Wiley invests mainly in mid- to large-cap stocks with value-oriented characteristics. The advisor follows a disciplined investment approach, focusing on such investment parameters as a company’s tangible assets, sustainable cash flow, and potential for improving business performance.
Armstrong Shaw Associates. Founded in 1984, Armstrong Shaw is employee-owned and invests in large-cap value products. The firm has advised Vanguard Windsor II Fund since 2006.
Armstrong Shaw constructs a portfolio of large-cap stocks using a combination of fundamental and qualitative criteria to identify individual companies for potential investment. The firm’s disciplined, absolute value-based approach determines the intrinsic value of a company through analysis of its cash flow or an appraisal of its assets. Candidates for purchase are stocks selling at a substantial discount to this intrinsic value that also have a sound business and a capable management team.
The Vanguard Group. Vanguard has been managing investments for more than two decades. George U. Sauter, Vanguard managing director and chief investment officer, has been in the investment management business since 1985. The group adheres to a sound, disciplined investment management process; the team has considerable experience, stability, and depth.
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Lazard Asset Management. Lazard is an investment management firm and a wholly owned subsidiary of Lazard Frères & Co., LLC. Lazard manages approximately $100 billion in assets.
Stability, depth, and a strong investment culture are key attributes of the U.S. equity team, which is headed by Andrew Lacey. The team consists of 11 portfolio managers supported by Lazard’s 28-person global-sector analyst team. The 6-member value team has, on average, 16 years of investment experience.
The board concluded that each advisor’s experience, stability, depth, and performance, among other factors, warranted the continuation and addition, as applicable, of the fund’s advisory arrangements.
Investment performance
The board considered the short- and long-term performance of the fund, including any periods of outperformance or underperformance of relevant benchmarks and peer groups. The board concluded that each of the existing advisors has carried out the fund’s investment strategy in disciplined fashion, and that performance results have allowed the fund to remain competitive versus its benchmark and its average peer fund. Further, the board concluded that Lazard’s other investment portfolios have been competitive versus the fund’s benchmark and the fund’s peer group over various short- and long-term periods. Information about the fund’s most recent performance can be found in the Performance Summary portion of this report.
Cost
The board considered the cost of services to be provided, including consideration of competitive fee rates and the fact that, after implementation of the new agreement with Lazard, the fund’s advisory fee rate and expense ratio should remain below the advisory fee rates and expense ratios of the fund’s peers. Information about the fund’s expense ratio appears in the About Your Fund’s Expenses section of this report as well as in the Financial Statements section, which also includes information about the advisory fee rate.
The board did not consider profitability of Barrow Hanley; Hotchkis and Wiley; Armstrong Shaw; or Lazard in determining whether to approve the advisory fees, because the firms are independent of Vanguard and the advisory fees are the result of arm’s-length negotiations. The board does not conduct a profitability analysis of Vanguard because of Vanguard’s unique “at-cost” structure. Unlike most other mutual fund management companies, Vanguard is owned by the funds it oversees, and produces “profits” only in the form of reduced expenses for fund shareholders.
The benefit of economies of scale
The board concluded that the fund’s shareholders benefit from economies of scale because of breakpoints in the advisory fee schedules for Barrow Hanley, Hotchkis and Wiley, Armstrong Shaw, and Lazard. The breakpoints reduce the effective rate of the fees as the fund’s assets managed by the firms increase. The board also concluded that the fund’s low-cost arrangement with Vanguard ensures that the fund will realize economies of scale as it grows, with the cost to shareholders declining as the fund’s assets managed by Vanguard increase.
The board will consider whether to renew the advisory arrangements again after a one-year period.
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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.
Inception Date. The date on which the assets of a fund (or one of its share classes) are first invested in accordance with the fund’s investment objective. For funds with a subscription period, the inception date is the day after that period ends. Investment performance is measured from the inception date.
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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Born 1954 | Principal Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive |
Trustee since May 1987; | Officer, and Director/Trustee of The Vanguard Group, Inc., and of each of the investment |
Chairman of the Board and | 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 |
147 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; |
147 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 |
147 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 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 2006, Vice President and Chief Information Officer |
147 Vanguard Funds Overseen | (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 |
Trustee since December 2004 | and Banking, Harvard Business School; Senior Associate Dean, Director of Faculty |
147 Vanguard Funds Overseen | Recruiting, and Chair of Finance Faculty, Harvard Business School; Director and Chairman |
| of UNX, Inc. (equities trading firm) since 2003; Chair of the Investment Committee of |
| HighVista Strategies LLC (private investment firm) since 2005; 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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Alfred M. Rankin, Jr. |
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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); Director |
147 Vanguard Funds Overseen | 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) and |
147 Vanguard Funds Overseen | AmerisourceBergen Corp. (pharmaceutical distribution); Trustee of Vanderbilt University |
| and of Culver Educational Foundation. |
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Heidi Stam |
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Born 1956 | Principal Occupation(s) During the Past Five Years: Managing Director of The Vanguard |
Secretary since July 2005 | Group, Inc., since 2006; General Counsel of The Vanguard Group since 2005; Secretary of |
147 Vanguard Funds Overseen | The Vanguard Group, and of each of the investment companies served by The Vanguard |
| Group, since 2005; Principal of The Vanguard Group (1997–2006). |
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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. |
147 Vanguard Funds Overseen |
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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 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.
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: | June 14, 2007 |
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: | June 14, 2007 |
VANGUARD WINDSOR FUNDS | |
BY: | (signature) |
(HEIDI STAM) THOMAS J. HIGGINS* TREASURER |
Date: | June 14, 2007 |
*By Power of Attorney. See File Number 002-65955-99, filed on July 27, 2006. Incorporated by Reference.