ETF comparison
FHLC vs IBB
Both Healthcare.
Fidelity MSCI Health Care Index ETF · iShares Biotechnology ETF
Holdings overlap
151 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of FHLC and IBB would leave roughly 17.8% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
FHLC is 36 bps cheaper than IBB. On a $100,000 position that's about $356/yr more in fees for IBB.
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 FHLC vs IBB.
Top shared holdings
151 shared in total| # | Holding | In FHLC | In IBB | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amgen Inc | 3.01% | 7.51% | 3.01% |
| 2 | Gilead Sciences Inc | 2.62% | 7.75% | 2.62% |
| 3 | Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc | 1.75% | 7.44% | 1.75% |
| 4 | Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc | 1.18% | 7.21% | 1.18% |
| 5 | Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc | 0.66% | 3.99% | 0.66% |
| 6 | Insmed Inc | 0.47% | 3.20% | 0.47% |
| 7 | Biogen Inc | 0.45% | 2.46% | 0.45% |
| 8 | Natera Inc | 0.44% | 2.41% | 0.44% |
| 9 | United Therapeutics Corp | 0.38% | 2.30% | 0.38% |
| 10 | Revolution Medicines Inc | 0.38% | 1.54% | 0.38% |
| 11 | Illumina Inc | 0.31% | 1.68% | 0.31% |
| 12 | Moderna Inc | 0.26% | 1.68% | 0.26% |
Only in FHLC
187 total- Eli Lilly & Co 12.13%
- Johnson & Johnson 8.94%
- AbbVie Inc 6.03%
- UnitedHealth Group Inc 5.42%
- Merck & Co Inc 4.38%
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc 2.91%
- Intuitive Surgical Inc 2.62%
- Abbott Laboratories 2.55%
- Pfizer Inc 2.45%
- Bristol-Myers Squibb Co 1.99%
Only in IBB
105 total- BlackRock Funds III 9.66%
- Argenx SE 3.07%
- BeOne Medicines Ltd. 1.93%
- Genmab A/S 1.17%
- Ascendis Pharma A/S 0.96%
- BioNTech SE 0.66%
- Abivax SA 0.50%
- Arcellx, Inc. 0.47%
- Amicus Therapeutics, Inc. 0.41%
- Centessa Pharmaceuticals plc 0.25%
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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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