VHT
HealthcareVanguard Health Care Index Fund ETF Shares
Vanguard · Tracks MSCI US Investable Market Health Care 25/50 Index · Inception Jan 26, 2004
Trailing returns
through Oct 23, 2026- 1 year
- +26.4%
- 3 year
- +15.9%
- annualized
- 5 year
- +7.0%
- annualized
Price return from month-end closes, distributions reinvested at month end. Excludes trading costs, bid-ask spreads and taxes. Past performance says nothing about future returns and is not part of the composite score — see the methodology for what the score does measure.
Composite score
Based on a 0.090% expense ratio.
Based on $21.81B in net assets for the whole fund, all 2 share classes. Our sources don't report the ETF class alone.
Top-10 holdings represent 51.9% of net assets.
Healthcare base · ETF wrapper · 1.39% TTM yield.
The composite is a weighted average of the four core sub-scores above (cost, tax efficiency, liquidity, concentration). Missing sub-scores fall back to the per-category median when the category has at least 50% data coverage, so funds without (e.g.) parsed N-PORT holdings aren't accidentally boosted by renormalization. Tracking quality is shown where computable but isn't currently part of the composite weighting. See methodology for formulas, the tracking-quality partial-coverage rationale, and the dimensions we deliberately don't score (methodology v0.5.2).
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Top holdings
| # | Holding | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eli Lilly & Co | 14.04% |
| 2 | Johnson & Johnson | 8.47% |
| 3 | AbbVie Inc | 6.09% |
| 4 | UnitedHealth Group Inc | 5.45% |
| 5 | Merck & Co Inc | 4.66% |
| 6 | Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc | 2.93% |
| 7 | Amgen Inc | 2.87% |
| 8 | Gilead Sciences Inc | 2.64% |
| 9 | Intuitive Surgical Inc | 2.38% |
| 10 | Pfizer Inc | 2.35% |
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