ETF comparison
IHF vs VHT
Both Healthcare.
iShares U.S. Healthcare Providers ETF · Vanguard Health Care Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
60 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IHF and VHT would leave roughly 15.5% 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 28 bps cheaper than IHF. On a $100,000 position that's about $280/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
60 shared in total| # | Holding | In IHF | In VHT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | UNITEDHEALTH GROUP INCORPORATED | 21.91% | 5.45% | 5.45% |
| 2 | CVS HEALTH CORPORATION | 14.79% | 1.83% | 1.83% |
| 3 | ELEVANCE HEALTH, INC. | 7.13% | 1.35% | 1.35% |
| 4 | THE CIGNA GROUP | 4.00% | 1.17% | 1.17% |
| 5 | HCA HEALTHCARE, INC. | 4.49% | 0.96% | 0.96% |
| 6 | HUMANA INC. | 4.68% | 0.58% | 0.58% |
| 7 | CENTENE CORPORATION | 4.22% | 0.46% | 0.46% |
| 8 | VEEVA SYSTEMS INC. | 3.98% | 0.43% | 0.43% |
| 9 | QUEST DIAGNOSTICS INCORPORATED | 3.51% | 0.34% | 0.34% |
| 10 | LABCORP HOLDINGS INC. | 3.43% | 0.34% | 0.34% |
| 11 | TENET HEALTHCARE CORPORATION | 2.41% | 0.24% | 0.24% |
| 12 | GUARDANT HEALTH, INC. | 2.97% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
Only in IHF
1 total- Heartflow Inc 0.08%
Only in VHT
338 total- Eli Lilly & Co 14.04%
- Johnson & Johnson 8.47%
- AbbVie Inc 6.09%
- Merck & Co Inc 4.66%
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc 2.93%
- Amgen Inc 2.87%
- Gilead Sciences Inc 2.64%
- Intuitive Surgical Inc 2.38%
- Pfizer Inc 2.35%
- Abbott Laboratories 2.35%
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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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