Which returned more over the last year, VHT or VXF?

In the year to Sep 12, 2026, with distributions reinvested, VHT returned +21.6% and VXF returned +14.1%, so VHT returned more. One year is one year; the longer windows are in the table.

Which is cheaper, VHT or VXF?

VHT charges 0.09% a year and VXF charges 0.05%, so VXF is cheaper. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.

How much do VHT and VXF overlap with the S&P 500?

By their latest filed holdings, 86% of VHT and 0% of VXF by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds. Between the two funds, 12% of their books are the same securities at the same weight.

Data as of Sep 12, 2026. Both funds on the fields they both publish, from the same sources.

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VHT vs VXF: how they differ

VHT and VXF hold 12% of their weight in the same names, and VHT returned more over the year.

Vanguard Health Care Index Fund and Vanguard Extended Market Index Fund.

What they hold in common

By the books each fund has filed, VHT and VXF hold 12% of their money in the same securities at the same weight.

Positions VHT and VXF both hold, largest shared weight first
Holding	VHT	VXF
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc	0.63%	0.47%
Natera Inc	0.47%	0.46%
REVOLUTION Medicines Inc	0.40%	0.44%
Illumina Inc	0.39%	0.31%
Insmed Inc	0.36%	0.27%
United Therapeutics Corp	0.36%	0.27%
Guardant Health Inc	0.23%	0.23%
Neurocrine Biosciences Inc	0.25%	0.20%
Tenet Healthcare Corp	0.24%	0.19%
Roivant Sciences Ltd	0.18%	0.19%
Jazz Pharmaceuticals PLC	0.20%	0.18%
Exelixis Inc	0.20%	0.16%

Largest positions each one holds and the other does not
Only in VHT	Only in VXF
Eli Lilly & Co 14.07%	Space Exploration Technologies Corp 1.19%
Johnson & Johnson 8.48%	Snowflake Inc 1.03%
AbbVie Inc 6.10%	Bloom Energy Corp 0.93%
UnitedHealth Group Inc 5.46%	Cloudflare Inc 0.92%
Merck & Co Inc 4.67%	Astera Labs Inc 0.76%
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc 2.93%	Rocket Lab Corp 0.61%
Amgen Inc 2.87%	Cheniere Energy Inc 0.59%
Gilead Sciences Inc 2.64%	Ferguson Enterprises Inc 0.54%

Weight overlap is an ETFIQ calculation: for every security both funds hold, the smaller of the two weights, summed. Above 50%, holding both is close to holding one of them twice. Holdings dated Jun 30, 2026 and May 31, 2026.

VHT and VXF on the fields both publish, as of Sep 12, 2026. Source: ETFIQ.
	VHT Vanguard Health Care Index Fund	VXF Vanguard Extended Market Index Fund
Where it sits	Core index fund	Core index fund
Issuer	Vanguard	Vanguard
What it is	Health Care	Extended Market
Total return, 1 year	+21.6%	+14.1%
S&P 500 over the same days	+17.5%	+17.5%
Gap to the S&P 500	+4.1 pts	−3.4 pts
Expense ratio	0.09%	0.05%
Already in the S&P 500	85.6%	0.0%
Holdings	401	3365

VHT in plain words

VHT is an index equity fund tracking the Health Care. Over the year to Sep 11, 2026 it returned +21.6% with distributions reinvested, against +17.5% for the S&P 500 and +23.0% for the Nasdaq-100. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.09% a year. By its holdings filed for May 31, 2026, 86% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 401 positions, with the top ten at 52.0%. It sat 5.7% below its high of Aug 19, 2026 on Sep 11, 2026.

VXF in plain words

VXF is an index equity fund tracking the Extended Market. Over the year to Sep 11, 2026 it returned +14.1% with distributions reinvested, against +17.5% for the S&P 500 and +23.0% for the Nasdaq-100. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.05% a year. By its holdings filed for Jun 30, 2026, 0% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 3365 positions, with the top ten at 7.6%. It sat 5.1% below its high of Aug 14, 2026 on Sep 11, 2026.

Questions people ask

Which returned more over the last year, VHT or VXF?: In the year to Sep 12, 2026, with distributions reinvested, VHT returned +21.6% and VXF returned +14.1%, so VHT returned more. One year is one year; the longer windows are in the table.
Which is cheaper, VHT or VXF?: VHT charges 0.09% a year and VXF charges 0.05%, so VXF is cheaper. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.
How much do VHT and VXF overlap with the S&P 500?: By their latest filed holdings, 86% of VHT and 0% of VXF by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds. Between the two funds, 12% of their books are the same securities at the same weight.

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