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ETF comparison

IHI vs VHT

Both Healthcare.

iShares U.S. Medical Devices ETF · Vanguard Health Care Index Fund ETF Shares

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
14.2 %

44 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IHI and VHT would leave roughly 14.2% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

IHI unmatched 85.6% Shared 14.2% VHT unmatched 85.5%

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.

In IHI only
2 positions
Shared
44 positions
In VHT only
369 positions

Side by side

IHI

iShares U.S. Medical Devices ETF

iShares · Healthcare

64 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.37%
Net assets
$3.66B
TTM yield
0.45%
Top-10 conc.
74.6%
VHT

Vanguard Health Care Index Fund ETF Shares

Vanguard · Healthcare

84 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.090%
Net assets
$23.73B
whole fund, 2 share classes
TTM yield
1.32%
Top-10 conc.
51.7%

Sub-score comparison

63
Cost
91
85
Tax efficiency
83
81
Liquidity
100
8
Concentration
40
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Tracking quality
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IHI sub-score VHT

Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.

Cost difference

VHT is 28 bps cheaper than IHI. On a $100,000 position that's about $280/yr more in fees for IHI.

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 IHI vs VHT.

Top shared holdings

44 shared in total
# Holding In IHI In VHT Overlap
1 ABBOTT LABORATORIES 16.93% 2.66% 2.66%
2 INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. 15.09% 1.85% 1.85%
3 MEDTRONIC PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY 4.40% 1.61% 1.61%
4 STRYKER CORPORATION 11.64% 1.55% 1.55%
5 BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION 3.99% 0.99% 0.99%
6 BECTON, DICKINSON AND COMPANY 4.63% 0.74% 0.74%
7 EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES CORPORATION 4.75% 0.72% 0.72%
8 IDEXX LABORATORIES, INC. 4.27% 0.61% 0.61%
9 DEXCOM, INC. 4.02% 0.49% 0.49%
10 RESMED INC. 4.38% 0.48% 0.48%
11 GE HEALTHCARE TECHNOLOGIES INC. 4.51% 0.45% 0.45%
12 STERIS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY 3.20% 0.32% 0.32%

Only in IHI

2 total
  • Beta Bionics Inc 0.10%
  • HOLOGIC INC CVR 0.00%

Only in VHT

369 total
  • Eli Lilly & Co 12.87%
  • Johnson & Johnson 8.75%
  • AbbVie Inc 6.28%
  • Merck & Co Inc 5.06%
  • UnitedHealth Group Inc 4.90%
  • Amgen Inc 3.21%
  • Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc 3.18%
  • Gilead Sciences Inc 2.52%
  • Pfizer Inc 2.24%
  • Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc 1.92%

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.