VANGUARD HEALTH CARE INDEX FUND
U.S. stock index ETF · tracks MSCI US Investable Market Index (IMI)/Health Care 25/50
As of its 2026 Q2 report, VANGUARD HEALTH CARE INDEX FUND held 406 positions with $18.99B in net assets. Its ten largest holdings made up 51.9% of the fund. The VHT share class costs 0.09% a year. Over the 12 months to May 2026, VHT returned 16.7%, with dividends reinvested. In 2026 Q2 it added 4 new positions and exited 13.
Vanguard Health Care Index Fund (the Fund) seeks to track the performance of a benchmark index that measures the investment return of health care stocks.
The fund tracks the MSCI US Investable Market Index (IMI)/Health Care 25/50 by holding all or substantially all of the stocks in the index in the same proportions, gaining exposure to large, mid-size, and small U.S. health care companies including providers, equipment manufacturers, and pharmaceutical and biotechnology firms. Because the fund attempts to replicate the index rather than sample it, tracking error may arise from the fund's holdings diverging from index weightings.
What you own
| Company | Weight | Value | Shares | Reported price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
14.04% | $2.67B | 2.4M | $1,105.00 | |
8.47% | $1.61B | 7.1M | $225.33 | |
ABBVAbbVie Inc | 6.09% | $1.16B | 5.3M | $217.72 |
5.45% | $1.03B | 2.7M | $380.31 | |
4.66% | $885.00M | 7.5M | $118.72 | |
2.93% | $555.74M | 1.1M | $492.51 | |
AMGNAmgen Inc | 2.87% | $544.66M | 1.6M | $336.79 |
2.64% | $500.92M | 3.7M | $134.43 | |
2.38% | $452.10M | 1.1M | $424.64 | |
2.35% | $447.02M | 5.2M | $85.60 |
Reported price is the fund's own reported value divided by its own reported shares at 2026-05-31 — not a live quote, and not what the fund paid.
The 200 largest of 406 holdings, with the share counts as filed, open with a free account.
What the fund is made of
Percentages are of fund net assets. Rounding, liabilities and short positions can make totals differ from 100%.
| Stocks | 99.80% |
| Cash & short-term | 0.22% |
| Derivatives | -0.00% |
The outer band is exposure held short — written against the portfolio rather than part of it, which is why it sits outside the ring and why the two are never netted into one figure.
Derivatives are shown at market value, not notional exposure.
By sector
- Health Care
- 99.8%
- Cash
- 0.2%
- International
- 0.0%
- Other
- 0.0%
How it has done
VHT share class · total returns with dividends reinvested
Volatility over the last 12 months: 14.74%. Past returns are a record, not a forecast.
The 2 share classes hold the same portfolio
| Share class | Expense ratio | 1 year | 3 years | 5 years | Worst fall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.09% | +16.74% | +24.25% | +25.48% | -14.94% | |
| 0.09% | +16.74% | +24.23% | +25.44% | -14.94% |
These classes hold the same portfolio, so the 0.04pp spread over 5 years is the cost difference between them — roughly 0.01pp a year — not a difference in what they own.
Fees & fund details
VANGUARD HEALTH CARE INDEX FUND is a U.S. equity index ETF that tracks the MSCI US Investable Market Index (IMI)/Health Care 25/50. 21% of VHT’s stock holdings are in companies whose revenue grew in the top quartile of U.S. companies over the last five fiscal years (covering 98% of the fund’s equity).
- Asset class
- Equity
- Region
- United States
- Management
- Index (passive)
- Fund type
- ETF
- Expense ratio, by class
- 0.09% – 0.09%· VHT 0.09%
- Portfolio turnover
- 4.00% a year · as of 2026 Q2
Turnover is how much of the portfolio was replaced in a year.
Classified from what the fund holds, not from its name · 2026 Q2. The summary is a paraphrase of the prospectus; the objective is verbatim.
What changed this quarter
Positions that entered or left the fund since its previous filing. Positions that were only resized are not listed.
4 new· the largest 3
13 exited· the largest 8
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