VHTvsVIG

Vanguard Health Care ETF or Vanguard Dividend Appreciation ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 18% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 25 stocks in both. VIG costs 0.04% a year against 0.09% for VHT, $5 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months VHT returned +16.7% and VIG +18.0%.

18%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
VHT59% in stocks the other holds too
VIG18% 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.

VHTVIGYearly cost0.09%0.04%Net assets$19.0B$130.9BPositions407341Last 12 months+16.7%+18.0%3 years, a year+7.5%+14.9%5 years, a year+4.6%+10.4%Largest holdingLLY 14.0%AVGO 4.6%Main sectorHealthcare 99%Technology 25%Holdings as ofMay 31, 2026Jul 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.

VHT$182VIG$224
September 2019May 2026

What they both hold

25 stocks are in both funds: 59% of VHT and 18% of VIG. The biggest shared positions:

Stockin VHTin VIG
LLY14.0%3.9%JNJ8.5%2.7%ABBV6.1%1.9%UNH5.4%1.6%MRK4.7%1.4%AMGN2.9%0.9%ABT2.4%0.8%GILD2.6%0.7%DHR1.8%0.5%SYK1.7%0.5%

Only in VHT

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

  1. TMOThermo Fisher Scientific2.9%
  2. ISRGIntuitive Surgical2.4%
  3. PFEPfizer2.4%
  4. BMYBristol Myers Squibb1.8%
  5. CVSCVS Health1.8%
  6. VRTXVertex Pharmaceuticals1.8%

Only in VIG

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

  1. AVGOBroadcom4.6%
  2. AAPLApple Inc.4.5%
  3. MSFTMicrosoft Corporation4.3%
  4. JPMJPMorgan Chase4.1%
  5. XOMExxon Mobil Corporation2.8%
  6. VVisa Inc.2.4%

More comparisons

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From each fund’s Form N-PORT (VHT: May 2026, VIG: July 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.