ETF comparison
IBB vs VHT
Both Healthcare.
iShares Biotechnology ETF · Vanguard Health Care Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
172 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IBB and VHT would leave roughly 17.6% 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
VHT is 35 bps cheaper than IBB. On a $100,000 position that's about $350/yr more in fees for IBB.
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Top shared holdings
172 shared in total| # | Holding | In IBB | In VHT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amgen, Inc. | 7.83% | 2.87% | 2.87% |
| 2 | Gilead Sciences, Inc. | 6.84% | 2.64% | 2.64% |
| 3 | Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 8.08% | 1.80% | 1.80% |
| 4 | Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4.91% | 1.00% | 1.00% |
| 5 | Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3.12% | 0.63% | 0.63% |
| 6 | Natera, Inc. | 2.89% | 0.46% | 0.46% |
| 7 | Biogen, Inc. | 2.47% | 0.45% | 0.45% |
| 8 | Revolution Medicines, Inc. | 2.78% | 0.40% | 0.40% |
| 9 | Illumina, Inc. | 2.07% | 0.39% | 0.39% |
| 10 | Insmed, Inc. | 1.78% | 0.36% | 0.36% |
| 11 | United Therapeutics Corp. | 1.73% | 0.36% | 0.36% |
| 12 | Incyte Corp. | 1.75% | 0.26% | 0.26% |
Only in IBB
76 total- Argenx SE 3.76%
- BeOne Medicines Ltd. 1.77%
- Ascendis Pharma A/S 1.29%
- Genmab A/S 1.12%
- Abivax SA 0.67%
- BioNTech SE 0.66%
- Xenon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 0.43%
- CRISPR Therapeutics AG 0.38%
- Legend Biotech Corp. 0.33%
- Structure Therapeutics, Inc. 0.24%
Only in VHT
226 total- Eli Lilly & Co 14.04%
- Johnson & Johnson 8.47%
- AbbVie Inc 6.09%
- UnitedHealth Group Inc 5.45%
- Merck & Co Inc 4.66%
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc 2.93%
- Intuitive Surgical Inc 2.38%
- Pfizer Inc 2.35%
- Abbott Laboratories 2.35%
- Bristol-Myers Squibb Co 1.84%
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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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