HDVvsVHT

iShares Core High Dividend ETF or Vanguard Health Care ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 21% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 7 stocks in both. HDV costs 0.08% a year against 0.09% for VHT, $1 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months HDV returned +25.7% and VHT +16.7%.

21%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
HDV24% in stocks the other holds too
VHT22% in stocks the other holds too
stocks in bothstocks only in that fundbonds, cash and unmatched shares

The two funds

From each fund's latest N-PORT filing and its prospectus.

HDVVHTYearly cost0.08%0.09%Net assets$14.9B$19.0BPositions79407Last 12 months+25.7%+16.7%3 years, a year+15.2%+7.5%5 years, a year+12.1%+4.6%Largest holdingXOM 7.9%LLY 14.0%Main sectorHealthcare 24%Healthcare 99%Holdings as ofJul 31, 2026May 31, 2026

Returns are total returns with dividends reinvested, from the funds’ own monthly figures; “(price)” marks a fund whose filing record is younger than a year, whose twelve months are its price change. The stronger figure in each row is set in bold. Past returns say what happened, not what will.

Growth of $100

Both funds from September 2019, the first month both report, dividends reinvested.

HDV$188VHT$182
September 2019May 2026

What they both hold

7 stocks are in both funds: 24% of HDV and 22% of VHT. The biggest shared positions:

More comparisons

From each fund’s Form N-PORT (HDV: July 2026, VHT: May 2026) and prospectus, via the SEC’s public data sets. Overlap counts only the stocks we can match to a listing: stock by stock, the smaller of the two weights, added up.