ETF comparison
VHT vs XLK
Healthcare vs Technology.
Vanguard Health Care Index Fund ETF Shares · State Street Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VHT 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
Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.
Cost difference
XLK is 1 bps cheaper than VHT. On a $100,000 position that's about $10/yr more in fees for VHT.
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 VHT vs XLK.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in VHT
398 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%
- Intuitive Surgical Inc 2.38%
- Pfizer Inc 2.35%
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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- VHT vs IBB · iShares Biotechnology ETF 17.6%
- VHT vs IHF · iShares U.S. Healthcare Providers ETF 15.5%
- VHT vs IHI · iShares U.S. Medical Devices ETF 14.6%
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- XLK vs VOX · Vanguard Communication Services Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- XLK vs VPU · Vanguard Utilities Index Fund ETF Shares 0.0%
- XLK vs XAR · State Street SPDR S&P Aerospace & Defense ETF 0.0%
- XLK vs XBI · State Street SPDR S&P Biotech ETF 0.0%
- XLK vs XHB · State Street SPDR S&P Homebuilders ETF 0.0%
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/.
Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.