ETF comparison
IHF vs XLK
Healthcare vs Technology.
iShares U.S. Healthcare Providers ETF · State Street Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IHF and XLK would leave roughly 0.0% 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
XLK 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 XLK.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in IHF
61 total- UNITEDHEALTH GROUP INCORPORATED 21.91%
- CVS HEALTH CORPORATION 14.79%
- ELEVANCE HEALTH, INC. 7.13%
- HUMANA INC. 4.68%
- HCA HEALTHCARE, INC. 4.49%
- CENTENE CORPORATION 4.22%
- THE CIGNA GROUP 4.00%
- VEEVA SYSTEMS INC. 3.98%
- QUEST DIAGNOSTICS INCORPORATED 3.51%
- LABCORP HOLDINGS INC. 3.43%
Only in XLK
74 total- NVIDIA Corp 14.65%
- Apple Inc 12.85%
- Microsoft Corp 8.38%
- Micron Technology Inc 5.42%
- Broadcom Inc 5.41%
- Advanced Micro Devices Inc 5.28%
- Intel Corp 3.68%
- Applied Materials Inc 3.20%
- Lam Research Corp 3.02%
- Cisco Systems Inc 2.58%
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- IHF vs IBB · iShares Biotechnology ETF 0.1%
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Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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