ETF comparison
FHLC vs IXJ
Both Healthcare.
Fidelity MSCI Health Care Index ETF · iShares Global Healthcare ETF
Holdings overlap
58 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of FHLC and IXJ would leave roughly 69.5% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
FHLC is 32 bps cheaper than IXJ. On a $100,000 position that's about $316/yr more in fees for IXJ.
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 IXJ.
Top shared holdings
58 shared in total| # | Holding | In FHLC | In IXJ | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eli Lilly & Co | 12.13% | 9.44% | 9.44% |
| 2 | Johnson & Johnson | 8.94% | 7.63% | 7.63% |
| 3 | AbbVie Inc | 6.03% | 4.98% | 4.98% |
| 4 | Merck & Co Inc | 4.38% | 3.96% | 3.96% |
| 5 | UnitedHealth Group Inc | 5.42% | 3.25% | 3.25% |
| 6 | Amgen Inc | 3.01% | 2.51% | 2.51% |
| 7 | Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc | 2.91% | 2.45% | 2.45% |
| 8 | Abbott Laboratories | 2.55% | 2.37% | 2.37% |
| 9 | Gilead Sciences Inc | 2.62% | 2.29% | 2.29% |
| 10 | Intuitive Surgical Inc | 2.62% | 2.17% | 2.17% |
| 11 | Pfizer Inc | 2.45% | 2.12% | 2.12% |
| 12 | Bristol-Myers Squibb Co | 1.99% | 1.64% | 1.64% |
Only in FHLC
280 total- Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc 0.66%
- Insmed Inc 0.47%
- Natera Inc 0.44%
- Veeva Systems Inc 0.39%
- United Therapeutics Corp 0.38%
- Revolution Medicines Inc 0.38%
- Royalty Pharma PLC 0.33%
- Illumina Inc 0.31%
- Tenet Healthcare Corp 0.25%
- State Street Global Advisors 0.23%
Only in IXJ
55 total- ASTRAZENECA PLC 4.02%
- Novartis AG 3.87%
- Roche Holding AG 3.72%
- NOVO NORDISK A/S 1.55%
- GSK PLC 1.49%
- SANOFI SA 1.37%
- ESSILORLUXOTTICA SA 0.90%
- Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited 0.78%
- HOYA CORPORATION 0.78%
- CSL LIMITED 0.63%
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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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