Do BMED and HELX hold the same stocks?

By their latest filings, 14% of their books are the same securities at the same weight, which is mostly different names. Overlap is the sum of the smaller weight of every security they share.

Which is more different from the S&P 500, BMED or HELX?

BMED has 62% of its weight in S&P 500 names and HELX has 15%, so HELX differs more from the index.

Which is cheaper, BMED or HELX?

BMED charges 0.55% a year and HELX charges 0.50%, so HELX is cheaper. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.

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BMED vs HELX: which is really different?

BMED and HELX hold 14% of their weight in the same names, and HELX returned +44.5% over the year. iShares Health Innovation Active ETF and Franklin Genomic Advancements ETF.

61.5%

BMED in the S&P 500

15.1%

HELX in the S&P 500

+29.3%

BMED total return, 1 year

+44.5%

HELX total return, 1 year

BMED · 1 year to Sep 30, 202639% of its weight is outside the S&P 500

62% of BMED's weight is in S&P 500 companies and 39% is outside the index

HELX · 1 year to Sep 30, 202685% of its weight is outside the S&P 500

15% of HELX's weight is in S&P 500 companies and 85% is outside the index

ETFIQ Off-Index Score · HELX scores higherHow much of it is not the index it is sold as an alternative to?

BMED 35.2

HELX 41.3

0.1, the lowest in this set92.0, the highest

A percentile among the 375 thematic ETFs with a holdings filing. It is a position in a set, not a rating, and neither end of it is a recommendation. All thematic ETFs ranked by it → How it is computed →

What they hold in common

By the books each fund has filed, BMED and HELX hold 14% of their money in the same securities at the same weight. Above 50%, holding both is close to holding one of them twice. Holdings dated Jun 30, 2026 and Sep 30, 2026.

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half

14% in common

Positions both hold, largest shared weight first

Holding BMED HELX

VERTEX PHARMACEUTICALS 3.35% 2.78%

ARGENX SE ADR 1.92% 1.66%

TEMPUS AI CLASS A 1.57% 1.97%

GUARDANT HEALTH 1.51% 9.21%

NEUROCRINE BIOSCIENCES 1.34% 1.87%

CHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES INTERNA 2.09% 1.28%

AXSOME THERAPEUTICS 0.96% 0.83%

THERMO FISHER SCIENTIFIC INC 4.41% 0.77%

IQVIA HOLDINGS 3.75% 0.76%

AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES INC 1.24% 0.59%

DANAHER 5.19% 0.58%

PTC THERAPEUTICS 0.47% 1.48%

Only in BMED

MODERNA 5.19%

GILEAD SCIENCES 5.00%

ABBVIE 4.61%

JOHNSON & JOHNSON 4.17%

WATERS CORP 3.66%

BIOGEN 3.52%

METTLER TOLEDO 3.33%

MERCK & CO INC 3.10%

Only in HELX

NATERA INC 7.56%

KRYSTAL BIOTECH INC 6.41%

LIGAND PHARMACEUTICALS INC 4.68%

ADAPTIVE BIOTECHNOLOGIES CORP 4.04%

UNITED THERAPEUTICS CORP 3.55%

BRIDGEBIO PHARMA INC 3.54%

ELI LILLY & COMPANY 2.99%

TWIST BIOSCIENCE CORP 2.89%

Weight overlap is an ETFIQ calculation: for every security both funds hold, the smaller of the two weights, summed.

14% of the two portfolios are the same securities at the same weight.

Performance, window by window

	Total return		vs the S&P 500		vs the Nasdaq-100
Window	BMED	HELX	BMED	HELX	BMED	HELX
3 months	+12.6%	+9.9%	+10.1 pts	+7.4 pts	+10.5 pts	+7.8 pts
6 months	+19.4%	+33.6%	+2.4 pts	+16.6 pts	−7.5 pts	+6.8 pts
1 year	+29.3%	+44.5%	+13.6 pts	+28.8 pts	+5.5 pts	+20.8 pts
3 years	+54.5%	+57.9%	−30.5 pts	−27.1 pts	−55.5 pts	−52.1 pts
Since launch BMED Oct 2020 · HELX Feb 2020	+35.9%	+87.4%	−109.5 pts	−94.7 pts	−135.6 pts	−187.2 pts

BMED and HELX over each window. Every figure is an ETFIQ calculation with distributions reinvested. Source: ETFIQ. Open the live comparison on ETFIQ →

On the same fields

BMED

iShares Health Innovation Active ETF · Holds 60 stocks in healthcare innovation and GLP-1, 62% of its weight in S&P 500 companies

HELX

Franklin Genomic Advancements ETF · Holds 61 stocks in healthcare innovation and GLP-1, 15% of its weight in S&P 500 companies

Issuer iShares Franklin

Theme Healthcare innovation and GLP-1 Healthcare innovation and GLP-1

In the S&P 500 61.5% 15.1%

Active share vs the S&P 500 95.6% 97.2%

In the Nasdaq-100 13.2% 10.0%

Holdings 60 61

Top ten, share of the fund 42.9% 47.7%

Expense ratio 0.55% 0.50%

Fee for the differing part 0.58% 0.51%

Total return, 1 year +29.3% +44.5%

vs the S&P 500 +13.6 pts +28.8 pts

vs the Nasdaq-100 +5.5 pts +20.8 pts

Below its high −1.0% −23.0%

Net assets $14m $33m

BMED and HELX on the same fields, as of Sep 30, 2026. Source: ETFIQ.

BMED in plain words

By weight, 62% of BMED's portfolio is stocks that are also in the S&P 500; its active share against the S&P 500 is 96%. The top ten holdings are 43% of the fund across 60 positions, as published by its issuer for Sep 30, 2026. Over the year to Sep 30, 2026 the fund returned +29.3% with distributions reinvested against +15.7% for the S&P 500, so a holder was ahead by 13.6 pts.

HELX in plain words

By weight, 15% of HELX's portfolio is stocks that are also in the S&P 500; its active share against the S&P 500 is 97%. The top ten holdings are 48% of the fund across 61 positions, as filed for Jun 30, 2026. Over the year to Sep 30, 2026 the fund returned +44.5% with distributions reinvested against +15.7% for the S&P 500, so a holder was ahead by 28.8 pts. It sits 23.0% below its all-time high of Sep 7, 2021.

Questions people ask

Do BMED and HELX hold the same stocks?: By their latest filings, 14% of their books are the same securities at the same weight, which is mostly different names. Overlap is the sum of the smaller weight of every security they share.
Which is more different from the S&P 500, BMED or HELX?: BMED has 62% of its weight in S&P 500 names and HELX has 15%, so HELX differs more from the index.
Which is cheaper, BMED or HELX?: BMED charges 0.55% a year and HELX charges 0.50%, so HELX is cheaper. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.

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Where these figures came from

BMED filings on SEC EDGAR ↗BMED prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗iShares page for BMED ↗HELX filings on SEC EDGAR ↗HELX prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗Franklin website ↗

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ETFIQ, BMED against HELX, data as of Sep 30, 2026. https://etfiq.com/compare/themes/bmed-vs-helx

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