VHTVanguard Health Care Index Fund ETF Shares

Grow my money22y track recordRanked #86 of 2,960 in this goal

Seeks to track the performance of a benchmark index that measures health care stocks.

By Vanguard · Launched 2004

Annual Cost

0.09%

#474 of 5,562 · low cost

Fund Size

$19.0B

#153 of 5,562 · large

Return (1Y)Goal

+15.0%

Track Record

22 years

#185 of 5,562 · established

Performance

Total-return NAV · USD

Growth of $10,000

$11,757+17.6%

Total-return NAV, USD. Net of fund fees, before tax.

Classification

How Beacon categorizes this fund

Asset class

Equity

Region

North america

Cap

Multi cap

Strategy

Index tracking

Sector

Health care

Index tracked

MSCI US Investable Market Index (IMI)/Health Care 25/50

What it actually holds

By weight

Concentration

Top 10 holdings = 47.0% of fundmoderately concentrated

Eli Lilly & Co

12.9%

AbbVie Inc

5.0%

Johnson & Johnson

4.6%

UnitedHealth Group Inc

4.2%

Merck & Co Inc

3.9%

Vanguard Cmt Funds-Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund

3.8%

Abbott Laboratories

3.3%

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc

3.3%

Intuitive Surgical Inc

3.1%

Amgen Inc

2.8%

Asset allocation

Stocks

99.6%

Cash

0.2%

Other

0.2%

By sector

Healthcare

100.0%

Financial Services

0.0%

Risk profile

Last 12 months · Sharpe & Sortino need 3+ years

Volatility (1Y)

14.7%Moderate

Year-on-year price swings

Max drawdown

-28.9%Moderate

Worst peak-to-trough loss

Sharpe (3Y)

0.29Below average

Sortino (3Y)

0.41Moderate downside risk

Where to buy

Listing

Exchange: NYSE Arca

Full fund details

Objective: Seeks to track the performance of a benchmark index that measures health care stocks.
Strategy: Invests primarily in stocks of large, mid-size, and small U.S. health care companies, tracking the MSCI US Investable Market Index (IMI)/Health Care 25/50. The Fund holds each stock in approximately the same proportion as its weighting in the Target Index.
Inception date: January 26, 2004
Fund family: Vanguard