VanguardHealthVHT · NYSE Arca
Vanguard Health Care ETF (VHT)
- Price
- $310.74
- —11 Sept 2026
- Assets
- $22B
- Total net assets
- Expense ratio
- 0.09%
- Category 1.00%
- Yield
- 1.48%
- Trailing distributions
- 3Y CAGR
- 10.1%-3.4%
- Category 13.5%
- 5Y CAGR
- 5.3%+3.4%
- Category 1.9%
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Vanguard Health Care ETF
Calendar-year returns
Fund only: no comparison series covers this fund's history.
Risk statistics
Five years of daily closes. Risk-free rate 4% a year.
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Holdings
The 10 largest positions make up 51.9% of the fund.
Top holdings
| Ticker | Holding | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| LLY | Eli Lilly and Co | 13.37% |
| JNJ | Johnson & Johnson | 8.83% |
| ABBV | AbbVie Inc | 6.43% |
| UNH | UnitedHealth Group Inc | 5.45% |
| MRK | Merck & Co Inc | 4.67% |
| TMO | Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc | 3.09% |
| AMGN | Amgen Inc | 3.01% |
| ABT | Abbott Laboratories | 2.67% |
| GILD | Gilead Sciences Inc | 2.34% |
| PFE | Pfizer Inc | 2.06% |
Portfolio valuation
Weighted averages of what the fund holds.
- P/E
- 28.7
- P/B
- 4.5
- P/S
- 1.7
- P/CF
- 18.3
Sector allocation
Share of the equity the fund holds.
- Health care100.0%
- Financial services0.0%
- Technology0.0%
- Industrials0.0%
Asset mix
- Stocks99.6%
- Cash0.2%
- Other0.2%
ETF details
- Issuer
- Vanguard
- Category
- Equity · Health
- Ticker
- VHT
- Exchange
- NYSE Arca
- Inception
- 26 Jan 2004 (22.6 years)
- Structure
- Exchange Traded Fund
- Expense ratio
- 0.09% (category 1.00%)
- Holdings turnover
- 4% (category 51%)
- Distribution yield
- 1.48%
- Beta, 3 years
- 0.58
- Total net assets
- $22B
Prices and returns as of 11 Sept 2026; total return with distributions reinvested, before brokerage and taxes. Not investment advice.
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