ETF comparison
FHLC vs IXJ
Both Healthcare.
Fidelity MSCI Health Care Index ETF · iShares Global Healthcare ETF
Holdings overlap
60 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of FHLC and IXJ would leave roughly 70.9% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Unmatched is the part of a fund's weight the other fund doesn't match: names only it holds, plus any extra weight it puts in names both funds hold.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
FHLC is 30 bps cheaper than IXJ. On a $100,000 position that's about $296/yr more in fees for IXJ.
Fee figure is the annual expense charged on $100,000. To see how the gap compounds over a multi-decade holding period, open the cost calculator pre-filled with FHLC vs IXJ.
Top shared holdings
60 shared in total| # | Holding | In FHLC | In IXJ | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eli Lilly & Co | 13.35% | 10.93% | 10.93% |
| 2 | Johnson & Johnson | 8.93% | 7.04% | 7.04% |
| 3 | AbbVie Inc | 6.42% | 5.12% | 5.12% |
| 4 | UnitedHealth Group Inc | 5.44% | 4.40% | 4.40% |
| 5 | Merck & Co Inc | 4.66% | 4.12% | 4.12% |
| 6 | Amgen Inc | 3.00% | 2.54% | 2.54% |
| 7 | Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc | 3.09% | 2.42% | 2.42% |
| 8 | Abbott Laboratories | 2.66% | 2.05% | 2.05% |
| 9 | Gilead Sciences Inc | 2.34% | 2.04% | 2.04% |
| 10 | Intuitive Surgical Inc | 1.82% | 1.83% | 1.82% |
| 11 | Pfizer Inc | 2.06% | 1.78% | 1.78% |
| 12 | CVS Health Corp | 1.92% | 1.71% | 1.71% |
Only in FHLC
274 total- Natera Inc 0.52%
- Illumina Inc 0.44%
- Revolution Medicines Inc 0.44%
- Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc 0.39%
- Royalty Pharma PLC 0.35%
- Tenet Healthcare Corp 0.32%
- Insmed Inc 0.30%
- United Therapeutics Corp 0.30%
- Guardant Health Inc 0.28%
- Neurocrine Biosciences Inc 0.23%
Only in IXJ
50 total- ASTRAZENECA PLC 3.76%
- Roche Holding AG 3.75%
- Novartis AG 3.71%
- NOVO NORDISK A/S 1.99%
- GSK PLC 1.38%
- SANOFI SA 1.18%
- argenx SE 0.74%
- ESSILORLUXOTTICA SA 0.71%
- Bayer Aktiengesellschaft 0.71%
- HOYA CORPORATION 0.70%
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Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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Holdings overlap is the sum of min(weight_a, weight_b) over positions
matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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