VHT · Vanguard Health Care ETF
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VHT tracks an index of Health Care and returned +25.0% over the past year.
VHT returned +25.0% over the year to Oct 28, 2026, charges 0.09% a year and holds $19.1bn in net assets on Sep 30, 2026.
Promise check: DeliveredOver the year to Oct 28, 2026, VHT returned 25.0% against 25.4% for FHLC, which tracks the same MSCI US Investable Market Index (IMI)/Health Care 25/50. Fees aside, VHT finished 0.43 points behind FHLC.
VHT risk and return scorecard
vs FHLC · Nov 2013 to Oct 2026 · 677 weekly returns · dividend-adjusted
Computed by ETFIQ from Tiingo daily prices and ETFIQ's distribution records; risk-free rate: U.S. Treasury, Daily Treasury Bill Rates, 13-week coupon equivalent Method · Data
What you earned
How concentrated, and what does it cost?
MSCI US Investable Market Index (IMI)/Health Care 25/50More on VHT
Every number below is on this page. Open what you need.Price, 1 year
$334.46+0.4%1 day, priceClose, Oct 28, 2026
Price only. Total return over the same days, distributions reinvested, was +25.0%. Computed by ETFIQ from Tiingo daily prices.
Source: Tiingo end-of-day prices. Data as of Oct 28, 2026. Updated every trading night. Report a data error
Points (pts) are percentage points.
| Window | Total return | Benchmark (FHLC) | Gap to FHLC | S&P 500 (SPY) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1M Sep 28 – Oct 28, 2026 | +4.3% | +4.4% | −0.1 pts | +0.9% |
| 3M Jul 29 – Oct 28, 2026 | +7.8% | +7.9% | −0.1 pts | +6.1% |
| 6M Apr 29 – Oct 28, 2026 | +26.2% | +26.5% | −0.3 pts | +9.1% |
| YTD Dec 31, 2025 – Oct 28, 2026 | +17.4% | +17.8% | −0.4 pts | +14.1% |
| 1Y Oct 28, 2025 – Oct 28, 2026 | +25.0% | +25.4% | −0.4 pts | +13.6% |
| 3Y Oct 27, 2023 – Oct 28, 2026 | +56.9% | +57.2% | −0.3 pts | +95.0% |
| 5Y Oct 29, 2021 – Oct 28, 2026 | +39.2% | +39.6% | −0.4 pts | +79.8% |
| 10Y Oct 28, 2016 – Oct 28, 2026 | +212.6% | +210.4% | +2.2 pts | +325.8% |
| Since launch Jan 30, 2004 – Oct 28, 2026 | +819.5% | not available | not available | +931.2% |
| Since launch, annualised Jan 30, 2004 – Oct 28, 2026 | +10.2% | – | – | – |
Total returns, distributions reinvested.
Source: Tiingo end-of-day prices, with distributions reinvested.
Money in and out
Monthly data · as of May 31, 2026VHT’s fund, all share classes together: in the month to May 31, 2026, net $19.3m went out, by its SEC filing.
Computed by ETFIQ from the monthly sales and redemptions VHT files with the SEC on Form N-PORT.
How this is computed
ETFIQ reads no daily data for this fund, so its flows are monthly, and the latest month filed is May 2026. The filing covers all share classes of the fund, not the ETF alone: Vanguard sells its ETF as one share class of a fund that also has mutual fund shares. Every day and month ETFIQ holds for VHT, back to Sep 2019, is in its flows file. Flows across every fund · How these flows are computed · Compare VHT with other funds in the flows tool
Month by month, money in and money outJun 2023 to May 2026
VHT, all share classes of its fund, money in and money out each month from Jun 2023 to May 2026: two bars a month, money in above the line and money out below. Every bar is from VHT’s SEC filings (N-PORT item B.6). Of the 36 months listed, money came in on net in 5 and went out in 31.
Every bar is from VHT’s SEC filings (N-PORT item B.6). Of the 36 months listed, money came in on net in 5 and went out in 31.
Most recent first.
How this is computed
N-PORT months: money in is sales plus reinvestments; money out is redemptions.
N-PORT months are the filed sales plus reinvestments less redemptions. Later months add up the daily data; the Source column names any missing day.
Source: ETFIQ, from the fund’s SEC N-PORT filings. Data as of May 31, 2026. Updated when the fund files its next report.
VHT key stats
Trading
as of Oct 27, 2026
VHT top ten by weight, 51.8% of the fund, of its 414 equity positions, from the holdings filed for Sep 30, 2026. An index fund holds what the index holds, so this is the index. Source: the fund’s SEC filing.
Source: Vanguard’s month-end holdings file. Data as of Sep 30, 2026. Updated monthly.
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About VHT
12 seats on VHT, as of Oct 28, 2026: 1 Supports, 2 Mixed, 8 Challenges, 1 Not enough data.
Questions people ask about VHT
- How has VHT performed?
- Over the year to Oct 28, 2026, VHT returned +25.0% with distributions reinvested, against +25.4% for its benchmark, the MSCI US Investable Market Index (IMI)/Health Care 25/50. Over three years the number is +56.9%.
- What does VHT cost?
- The prospectus expense ratio is 0.09% a year.
- What does VHT hold?
- 414 positions as published by its issuer as of Sep 30, 2026, with the top ten at 51.8% of the fund. 86% of its weight is in stocks the S&P 500 also holds.
- How far is VHT below its high?
- 0.5% below its high of Oct 22, 2026, measured on the reinvested series to Oct 28, 2026.
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