ETF comparison
IHI vs VHT
Both Healthcare.
iShares U.S. Medical Devices ETF · Vanguard Health Care Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
44 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IHI and VHT would leave roughly 14.6% 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 IHI. On a $100,000 position that's about $280/yr more in fees for IHI.
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 IHI vs VHT.
Top shared holdings
44 shared in total| # | Holding | In IHI | In VHT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. | 15.09% | 2.38% | 2.38% |
| 2 | ABBOTT LABORATORIES | 16.93% | 2.35% | 2.35% |
| 3 | STRYKER CORPORATION | 11.64% | 1.66% | 1.66% |
| 4 | MEDTRONIC PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY | 4.40% | 1.50% | 1.50% |
| 5 | BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION | 3.99% | 1.13% | 1.13% |
| 6 | EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES CORPORATION | 4.75% | 0.79% | 0.79% |
| 7 | IDEXX LABORATORIES, INC. | 4.27% | 0.71% | 0.71% |
| 8 | BECTON, DICKINSON AND COMPANY | 4.63% | 0.66% | 0.66% |
| 9 | DEXCOM, INC. | 4.02% | 0.46% | 0.46% |
| 10 | GE HEALTHCARE TECHNOLOGIES INC. | 4.51% | 0.45% | 0.45% |
| 11 | RESMED INC. | 4.38% | 0.44% | 0.44% |
| 12 | STERIS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY | 3.20% | 0.33% | 0.33% |
Only in IHI
2 total- Beta Bionics Inc 0.10%
- HOLOGIC INC CVR 0.00%
Only in VHT
354 total- Eli Lilly & Co 14.04%
- Johnson & Johnson 8.47%
- AbbVie Inc 6.09%
- UnitedHealth Group Inc 5.45%
- Merck & Co Inc 4.66%
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc 2.93%
- Amgen Inc 2.87%
- Gilead Sciences Inc 2.64%
- Pfizer Inc 2.35%
- Bristol-Myers Squibb Co 1.84%
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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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