ETF comparison
IHF vs VHT
Both Healthcare.
iShares U.S. Healthcare Providers ETF · Vanguard Health Care Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
59 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IHF and VHT would leave roughly 13.1% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
VHT is 29 bps cheaper than IHF. On a $100,000 position that's about $290/yr more in fees for IHF.
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 IHF vs VHT.
Top shared holdings
59 shared in total| # | Holding | In IHF | In VHT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | UNITEDHEALTH GROUP INCORPORATED | 22.48% | 3.94% | 3.94% |
| 2 | CVS HEALTH CORPORATION | 12.81% | 1.50% | 1.50% |
| 3 | HCA HEALTHCARE, INC. | 8.98% | 1.29% | 1.29% |
| 4 | THE CIGNA GROUP | 4.85% | 1.15% | 1.15% |
| 5 | ELEVANCE HEALTH, INC. | 4.79% | 1.05% | 1.05% |
| 6 | VEEVA SYSTEMS INC. | 4.45% | 0.42% | 0.42% |
| 7 | LABCORP HOLDINGS INC. | 4.01% | 0.36% | 0.36% |
| 8 | QUEST DIAGNOSTICS INCORPORATED | 3.91% | 0.35% | 0.35% |
| 9 | HUMANA INC. | 3.79% | 0.34% | 0.34% |
| 10 | CENTENE CORPORATION | 2.77% | 0.33% | 0.33% |
| 11 | TENET HEALTHCARE CORPORATION | 3.01% | 0.31% | 0.31% |
| 12 | THE ENSIGN GROUP, INC. | 2.11% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
Only in IHF
1 total- Heartflow Inc 0.08%
Only in VHT
349 total- Eli Lilly & Co 12.54%
- Johnson & Johnson 8.74%
- AbbVie Inc 6.08%
- Merck & Co Inc 4.58%
- Amgen Inc 3.10%
- Abbott Laboratories 3.00%
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc 2.92%
- Gilead Sciences Inc 2.74%
- Intuitive Surgical Inc 2.68%
- Pfizer Inc 2.33%
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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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