ETF comparison
FHLC vs VHT
Both Healthcare.
Fidelity MSCI Health Care Index ETF · Vanguard Health Care Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
311 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of FHLC and VHT would leave roughly 95.2% 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 1 bps cheaper than VHT. On a $100,000 position that's about $6/yr more in fees for VHT.
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 VHT.
Top shared holdings
311 shared in total| # | Holding | In FHLC | In VHT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eli Lilly & Co | 13.35% | 14.04% | 13.35% |
| 2 | Johnson & Johnson | 8.93% | 8.47% | 8.47% |
| 3 | AbbVie Inc | 6.42% | 6.09% | 6.09% |
| 4 | UnitedHealth Group Inc | 5.44% | 5.45% | 5.44% |
| 5 | Merck & Co Inc | 4.66% | 4.66% | 4.66% |
| 6 | Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc | 3.09% | 2.93% | 2.93% |
| 7 | Amgen Inc | 3.00% | 2.87% | 2.87% |
| 8 | Abbott Laboratories | 2.66% | 2.35% | 2.35% |
| 9 | Gilead Sciences Inc | 2.34% | 2.64% | 2.34% |
| 10 | Pfizer Inc | 2.06% | 2.35% | 2.06% |
| 11 | Bristol-Myers Squibb Co | 1.93% | 1.84% | 1.84% |
| 12 | CVS Health Corp | 1.92% | 1.83% | 1.83% |
Only in FHLC
23 total- Royalty Pharma PLC 0.35%
- Xenon Pharmaceuticals Inc 0.07%
- CRISPR Therapeutics AG 0.06%
- uniQure NV 0.03%
- SELLAS Life Sciences Group Inc 0.03%
- AtaiBeckley Inc 0.02%
- VeraDermics Inc 0.02%
- Damora Therapeutics Inc 0.02%
- HeartFlow Inc 0.01%
- Jade Biosciences Inc 0.01%
Only in VHT
87 total- Masimo Corp 0.13%
- Nuvalent Inc 0.07%
- Catalyst Pharmaceuticals Inc 0.06%
- Summit Therapeutics Inc 0.04%
- Select Medical Holdings Corp 0.03%
- Avanos Medical Inc 0.02%
- agilon health Inc 0.02%
- Esperion Therapeutics Inc 0.01%
- KalVista Pharmaceuticals Inc 0.01%
- CryoPort Inc 0.01%
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- VHT vs IHF · iShares U.S. Healthcare Providers ETF 15.5%
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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/.
Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.