ETF comparison
IHI vs XLV
Both Healthcare.
iShares U.S. Medical Devices ETF · State Street Health Care Select Sector SPDR ETF
Holdings overlap
16 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IHI and XLV would leave roughly 14.8% 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 IHI. On a $100,000 position that's about $290/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 XLV.
Top shared holdings
16 shared in total| # | Holding | In IHI | In XLV | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ABBOTT LABORATORIES | 16.93% | 2.75% | 2.75% |
| 2 | INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. | 15.09% | 2.45% | 2.45% |
| 3 | STRYKER CORPORATION | 11.64% | 1.89% | 1.89% |
| 4 | MEDTRONIC PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY | 4.40% | 1.75% | 1.75% |
| 5 | BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION | 3.99% | 1.10% | 1.10% |
| 6 | EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES CORPORATION | 4.75% | 0.91% | 0.91% |
| 7 | BECTON, DICKINSON AND COMPANY | 4.63% | 0.73% | 0.73% |
| 8 | IDEXX LABORATORIES, INC. | 4.27% | 0.72% | 0.72% |
| 9 | GE HEALTHCARE TECHNOLOGIES INC. | 4.51% | 0.51% | 0.51% |
| 10 | RESMED INC. | 4.38% | 0.49% | 0.49% |
| 11 | DEXCOM, INC. | 4.02% | 0.45% | 0.45% |
| 12 | STERIS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY | 3.20% | 0.36% | 0.36% |
Only in IHI
30 total- PENUMBRA, INC. 1.92%
- GLOBUS MEDICAL, INC. 1.39%
- GLAUKOS CORPORATION 1.27%
- TELEFLEX INCORPORATED 0.87%
- LIVANOVA PLC 0.70%
- ENVISTA HOLDINGS CORPORATION 0.66%
- IRHYTHM HOLDINGS, INC. 0.61%
- INTEGER HOLDINGS CORPORATION 0.49%
- AxoGen, Inc. 0.38%
- TRANSMEDICS GROUP, INC. 0.36%
Only in XLV
44 total- Eli Lilly & Co 16.51%
- Johnson & Johnson 10.64%
- AbbVie Inc 7.74%
- UnitedHealth Group Inc 6.57%
- Merck & Co Inc 5.52%
- Amgen Inc 3.40%
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc 3.24%
- Gilead Sciences Inc 2.73%
- Pfizer Inc 2.39%
- CVS Health Corp 2.30%
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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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