ETF comparison
IHI vs VHT
Both Healthcare.
iShares U.S. Medical Devices ETF · Vanguard Health Care Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
46 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of IHI and VHT would leave roughly 17.7% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
VHT is 29 bps cheaper than IHI. On a $100,000 position that's about $290/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
46 shared in total| # | Holding | In IHI | In VHT | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ABBOTT LABORATORIES | 16.98% | 3.00% | 3.00% |
| 2 | INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. | 15.57% | 2.68% | 2.68% |
| 3 | STRYKER CORPORATION | 10.76% | 1.98% | 1.98% |
| 4 | MEDTRONIC PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY | 4.62% | 1.86% | 1.86% |
| 5 | BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION | 4.28% | 1.69% | 1.69% |
| 6 | IDEXX LABORATORIES, INC. | 4.44% | 0.78% | 0.78% |
| 7 | EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES CORPORATION | 4.47% | 0.75% | 0.75% |
| 8 | BECTON, DICKINSON AND COMPANY | 4.57% | 0.75% | 0.75% |
| 9 | GE HEALTHCARE TECHNOLOGIES INC. | 4.40% | 0.57% | 0.57% |
| 10 | RESMED INC. | 4.43% | 0.55% | 0.55% |
| 11 | DEXCOM, INC. | 3.28% | 0.43% | 0.43% |
| 12 | STERIS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY | 2.94% | 0.37% | 0.37% |
Only in IHI
1 total- Beta Bionics Inc 0.05%
Only in VHT
362 total- Eli Lilly & Co 12.54%
- Johnson & Johnson 8.74%
- AbbVie Inc 6.08%
- Merck & Co Inc 4.58%
- UnitedHealth Group Inc 3.94%
- Amgen Inc 3.10%
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc 2.92%
- Gilead Sciences Inc 2.74%
- Pfizer Inc 2.33%
- Danaher Corp 2.01%
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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/.
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