ETF comparison
IHF vs XLV
Both Healthcare.
iShares U.S. Healthcare Providers ETF · State Street Health Care Select Sector SPDR ETF
Holdings overlap
12 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IHF and XLV 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
XLV 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 XLV.
Top shared holdings
12 shared in total| # | Holding | In IHF | In XLV | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | UNITEDHEALTH GROUP INCORPORATED | 21.91% | 6.57% | 6.57% |
| 2 | CVS HEALTH CORPORATION | 14.79% | 2.30% | 2.30% |
| 3 | ELEVANCE HEALTH, INC. | 7.13% | 1.46% | 1.46% |
| 4 | THE CIGNA GROUP | 4.00% | 1.27% | 1.27% |
| 5 | HCA HEALTHCARE, INC. | 4.49% | 1.05% | 1.05% |
| 6 | HUMANA INC. | 4.68% | 0.83% | 0.83% |
| 7 | CENTENE CORPORATION | 4.22% | 0.52% | 0.52% |
| 8 | VEEVA SYSTEMS INC. | 3.98% | 0.46% | 0.46% |
| 9 | QUEST DIAGNOSTICS INCORPORATED | 3.51% | 0.41% | 0.41% |
| 10 | LABCORP HOLDINGS INC. | 3.43% | 0.40% | 0.40% |
| 11 | UNIVERSAL HEALTH SERVICES, INC. | 1.18% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 12 | DAVITA INC. | 1.07% | 0.12% | 0.12% |
Only in IHF
49 total- GUARDANT HEALTH, INC. 2.97%
- TENET HEALTHCARE CORPORATION 2.41%
- MOLINA HEALTHCARE, INC. 1.78%
- BRIGHTSPRING HEALTH SERVICES, INC. 1.65%
- ENCOMPASS HEALTH CORPORATION 1.50%
- THE ENSIGN GROUP, INC. 1.39%
- HEALTHEQUITY, INC. 1.14%
- HIMS & HERS HEALTH, INC. 1.10%
- CHEMED CORPORATION 0.92%
- RADNET, INC. 0.65%
Only in XLV
48 total- Eli Lilly & Co 16.51%
- Johnson & Johnson 10.64%
- AbbVie Inc 7.74%
- Merck & Co Inc 5.52%
- Amgen Inc 3.40%
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc 3.24%
- Abbott Laboratories 2.75%
- Gilead Sciences Inc 2.73%
- Intuitive Surgical Inc 2.45%
- Pfizer Inc 2.39%
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- XLV vs IHI · iShares U.S. Medical Devices ETF 14.8%
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- XLV vs VHT · Vanguard Health Care Index Fund ETF Shares 85.4%
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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