Which stocks do VHT and XLV both hold?

59 stocks are in both. The biggest shared positions: LLY (14.0% of VHT, 16.5% of XLV), JNJ (8.5% of VHT, 10.6% of XLV), ABBV (6.1% of VHT, 7.7% of XLV), UNH (5.4% of VHT, 6.6% of XLV), MRK (4.7% of VHT, 5.5% of XLV).

VHTvsXLV

Vanguard Health Care ETF or State Street Health Care Select Sector SPDR ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 85% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 59 stocks in both. XLV costs 0.08% a year against 0.09% for VHT, $1 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months VHT returned +16.7% and XLV +19.8%.

85%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight

VHT85% in stocks the other holds too

XLV100% 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.

VHTXLVYearly cost0.09%0.08%Net assets$19.0B$40.6BPositions40765Last 12 months+16.7%+19.8%3 years, a year+7.5%+7.9%5 years, a year+4.6%+6.4%Largest holdingLLY 14.0%LLY 16.5%Main sectorHealthcare 99%Healthcare 100%Holdings as ofMay 31, 2026Jun 30, 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$182XLV$185

September 2019May 2026

What they both hold

59 stocks are in both funds: 85% of VHT and 100% of XLV. The biggest shared positions:

Stockin VHTin XLV

LLYEli Lilly14.0%16.5%JNJJohnson & Johnson8.5%10.6%ABBVAbbVie6.1%7.7%UNHUnitedHealth Group5.4%6.6%MRKMerck & Co.4.7%5.5%TMOThermo Fisher Scientific2.9%3.2%AMGNAmgen2.9%3.4%GILDGilead Sciences2.6%2.7%ISRGIntuitive Surgical2.4%2.5%PFEPfizer2.4%2.4%

Only in VHT

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

More comparisons

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