ETF comparison
FHLC vs VHT
Both Healthcare.
Fidelity MSCI Health Care Index ETF · Vanguard Health Care Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
321 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of FHLC and VHT would leave roughly 94.6% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
FHLC is 1 bps cheaper than VHT. On a $100,000 position that's about $6/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 FHLC vs VHT.
Top shared holdings
321 shared in total| # | Holding | In FHLC | In VHT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eli Lilly & Co | 12.13% | 12.54% | 12.13% |
| 2 | Johnson & Johnson | 8.94% | 8.74% | 8.74% |
| 3 | AbbVie Inc | 6.03% | 6.08% | 6.03% |
| 4 | Merck & Co Inc | 4.38% | 4.58% | 4.38% |
| 5 | UnitedHealth Group Inc | 5.42% | 3.94% | 3.94% |
| 6 | Amgen Inc | 3.01% | 3.10% | 3.01% |
| 7 | Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc | 2.91% | 2.92% | 2.91% |
| 8 | Gilead Sciences Inc | 2.62% | 2.74% | 2.62% |
| 9 | Intuitive Surgical Inc | 2.62% | 2.68% | 2.62% |
| 10 | Abbott Laboratories | 2.55% | 3.00% | 2.55% |
| 11 | Pfizer Inc | 2.45% | 2.33% | 2.33% |
| 12 | Bristol-Myers Squibb Co | 1.99% | 1.88% | 1.88% |
Only in FHLC
17 total- Royalty Pharma PLC 0.33%
- State Street Global Advisors 0.23%
- CRISPR Therapeutics AG 0.07%
- Xenon Pharmaceuticals Inc 0.07%
- Capricor Therapeutics Inc 0.03%
- Inhibrx Biosciences Inc 0.02%
- uniQure NV 0.01%
- AtaiBeckley Inc 0.01%
- HeartFlow Inc 0.01%
- Nutex Health Inc 0.01%
Only in VHT
87 total- Exact Sciences Corp 0.29%
- Hologic Inc 0.25%
- Medline Inc 0.12%
- Amicus Therapeutics Inc 0.06%
- Arcellx Inc 0.05%
- Summit Therapeutics Inc 0.04%
- Corvus Pharmaceuticals Inc 0.02%
- Omeros Corp 0.01%
- Ventyx Biosciences Inc 0.01%
- Esperion Therapeutics Inc 0.01%
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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.