ETF comparison
IHF vs XLV
Both Healthcare.
iShares U.S. Healthcare Providers ETF · State Street Health Care Select Sector SPDR ETF
Holdings overlap
11 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IHF and XLV would leave roughly 12.1% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
XLV is 30 bps cheaper than IHF. On a $100,000 position that's about $300/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 XLV.
Top shared holdings
11 shared in total| # | Holding | In IHF | In XLV | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | UNITEDHEALTH GROUP INCORPORATED | 22.48% | 4.62% | 4.62% |
| 2 | CVS HEALTH CORPORATION | 12.81% | 1.72% | 1.72% |
| 3 | HCA HEALTHCARE, INC. | 8.98% | 1.40% | 1.40% |
| 4 | THE CIGNA GROUP | 4.85% | 1.32% | 1.32% |
| 5 | ELEVANCE HEALTH, INC. | 4.79% | 1.22% | 1.22% |
| 6 | LABCORP HOLDINGS INC. | 4.01% | 0.42% | 0.42% |
| 7 | QUEST DIAGNOSTICS INCORPORATED | 3.91% | 0.41% | 0.41% |
| 8 | HUMANA INC. | 3.79% | 0.39% | 0.39% |
| 9 | CENTENE CORPORATION | 2.77% | 0.29% | 0.29% |
| 10 | UNIVERSAL HEALTH SERVICES, INC. | 1.79% | 0.19% | 0.19% |
| 11 | DAVITA INC. | 0.93% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
Only in IHF
49 total- VEEVA SYSTEMS INC. 4.45%
- TENET HEALTHCARE CORPORATION 3.01%
- GUARDANT HEALTH, INC. 2.16%
- THE ENSIGN GROUP, INC. 2.11%
- ENCOMPASS HEALTH CORPORATION 1.77%
- HEALTHEQUITY, INC. 1.29%
- MOLINA HEALTHCARE, INC. 1.24%
- BRIGHTSPRING HEALTH SERVICES, INC. 1.02%
- CHEMED CORPORATION 0.97%
- HIMS & HERS HEALTH, INC. 0.78%
Only in XLV
49 total- Eli Lilly & Co 13.74%
- Johnson & Johnson 11.10%
- AbbVie Inc 7.25%
- Merck & Co Inc 5.63%
- Amgen Inc 3.57%
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc 3.48%
- Abbott Laboratories 3.37%
- Gilead Sciences Inc 3.26%
- Intuitive Surgical Inc 3.09%
- Pfizer Inc 3.01%
Open IHF or XLV at a brokerage
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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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