Fund · Vanguard Health Care Index Fund · measured from SEC filings
VHT holdings
VHT reports 403 holdings and behaves like 23 equally weighted ones, computed from its SEC Form N-PORT filing for 2026-05-31. The fact sheet publishes the first number; this page computes the second, and traces it across 27 quarters of filings.
Measured concentration
as of 2026-05-31Computed by this site from the fund's SEC Form N-PORT filing; what the measure does not tell you · every fund in one table · hold it with other funds? X-ray the mix. Pricing: 100% at a quoted market price (level 1), one issuer country.
What stands out
as of 2026-05-31VHT's largest investment is ELI Lilly & Co at 14.04% of net assets. Johnson&johnson and Abbvie Inc follow; the three together are 28.6%. Ten companies are 51.95% of the fund; the other 393 share the rest. Among the 721 equity funds measured here, VHT behaves like 23 holdings against a median of 42.4 — 1.9 times more concentrated than the median. Across 27 quarterly filings VHT has become more concentrated: it behaved like 37.3 at 2019-11-30 and 23 at 2026-05-31. Between the 2026-02-28 and 2026-05-31 filings 3 positions were added and 12 dropped; 6.9% of the weight moved.
Each sentence is read from the fund's own SEC filing; the class median is computed across the comparable equity funds on this site. Nothing here is a view on the fund.
Every filing since 2019
27Between 2019-11-30 and 2026-05-31, VHT went from behaving like 37.3 equally weighted positions to 23 — 38% fewer, while its top ten went from 42.75% to 51.95% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-31 | 403 | 23 | 51.95% | 14.06% |
| 2026-02-28 | 413 | 25.1 | 50.43% | 12.57% |
| 2025-11-30 | 421 | 28.1 | 47.09% | 12.93% |
| 2025-08-31 | 411 | 32.6 | 44.83% | 10.17% |
| 2025-05-31 | 404 | 31.5 | 45.01% | 10.71% |
| 2025-02-28 | 419 | 27.7 | 48.13% | 11.94% |
| 2024-11-30 | 422 | 29.2 | 47.04% | 10.3% |
| 2024-08-31 | 427 | 27.5 | 47.91% | 11.75% |
Earlier filings (19 more, back to 2019-11-30)
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-05-31 | 411 | 27.7 | 49.59% | 11.04% |
| 2024-02-29 | 418 | 29.1 | 48.92% | 9.96% |
| 2023-11-30 | 411 | 28.8 | 49.37% | 9.34% |
| 2023-08-31 | 419 | 31.8 | 47.94% | 7.86% |
| 2023-05-31 | 408 | 32.5 | 47.35% | 8.23% |
| 2023-02-28 | 413 | 33.9 | 46.59% | 8.05% |
| 2022-11-30 | 405 | 31.4 | 48.39% | 8.59% |
| 2022-08-31 | 408 | 32.3 | 47.28% | 8.92% |
| 2022-05-31 | 442 | 31.8 | 48.14% | 8.26% |
| 2022-02-28 | 444 | 35.9 | 44.42% | 7.79% |
| 2021-11-30 | 455 | 38.4 | 43.33% | 7.13% |
| 2021-08-31 | 504 | 41.4 | 41.15% | 7.33% |
| 2021-05-31 | 507 | 40.8 | 40.77% | 7.78% |
| 2021-02-28 | 452 | 41.9 | 40.7% | 7.87% |
| 2020-11-30 | 425 | 40.1 | 41.97% | 7.6% |
| 2020-08-31 | 433 | 37.8 | 43.05% | 8.34% |
| 2020-05-31 | 388 | 35.9 | 43.62% | 8.66% |
| 2020-02-29 | 390 | 36.8 | 42.95% | 8.73% |
| 2019-11-30 | 406 | 37.3 | 42.75% | 8.32% |
One row per filed reporting period, newest first, read from EDGAR. Quarterly because that is the public filing cadence. Rows marked * are published but held out of the comparison above; the methodology page says when and why.
Compared with, in the essays
1Overlap with other funds
1Measured against every other fund on this site, from the same filings. Combined effective holdings is how the pair behaves held in equal size.
| With | Overlap | Shared | Combined effective |
|---|---|---|---|
| VHT vs XLV | 83.71% | 57 | 19.3 |
Largest positions, as filed
as of 2026-05-31The 15 largest of 403 positions in VHT's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: VHT.csv.gz.
| # | Position | Weight | Cumulative |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eli Lilly & Co | 14.06% | 14.1% |
| 2 | Johnson & Johnson | 8.48% | 22.5% |
| 3 | AbbVie Inc | 6.09% | 28.6% |
| 4 | UnitedHealth Group Inc | 5.46% | 34.1% |
| 5 | Merck & Co Inc | 4.67% | 38.8% |
| 6 | Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc | 2.93% | 41.7% |
| 7 | Amgen Inc | 2.87% | 44.6% |
| 8 | Gilead Sciences Inc | 2.64% | 47.2% |
| 9 | Intuitive Surgical Inc | 2.38% | 49.6% |
| 10 | Pfizer Inc | 2.36% | 51.9% |
| 11 | Abbott Laboratories | 2.36% | 54.3% |
| 12 | Bristol-Myers Squibb Co | 1.84% | 56.1% |
| 13 | Danaher Corp | 1.84% | 58.0% |
| 14 | CVS Health Corp | 1.83% | 59.8% |
| 15 | Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc | 1.80% | 61.6% |
Returns the fund reported
2019-09 – 2026-05Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of VHT's own filings, 81 months on record. Not computed here and not from a price feed.
Cross-checked against a series computed separately from prices: median difference 0.05 percentage points over 81 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: VHT.json · all funds.
Who borrows VHT's shares
2026-05-31The fund lends its holdings, and Item B.4.a of the filing names every firm holding them. At 2026-05-31, $25m was out to 10 borrowers, 0.13% of net assets. The largest, BARCLAYS BANK PLC, held 40.8% of it.
| Borrower | On loan | Share of the loan |
|---|---|---|
| BARCLAYS BANK PLC | $10m | 40.8% |
| BofA Securities, Inc. | $5m | 18.4% |
| JP MORGAN SECURITIES LLC | $4m | 16.8% |
| Jefferies LLC | $2m | 6.7% |
| BNP PARIBAS SECURITIES CORP | $1m | 4.7% |
Cash collateral reported against the loan: 0.16% of net assets, 121.9% of the amount lent. That is a floor on the collateral, not the whole of it — collateral the fund does not hold as a position is not in this filing, so a figure under 100% is not evidence of under-collateralisation. How that figure behaves across all funds. Every quarter VHT has filed, with each borrower: VHT.json · all funds.
Since the previous filing
2026-02-28 → 2026-05-31408 positions became 399: 3 added (0.0% of the fund at the later date), 12 dropped (0.8% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 6.9%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of VHT compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.
| Largest increases | 2026-02-28 | 2026-05-31 | Largest decreases | 2026-02-28 | 2026-05-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UnitedHealth Group Inc | 3.95% | 5.46% | Abbott Laboratories | 3.01% | 2.36% |
| Eli Lilly & Co | 12.57% | 14.06% | Boston Scientific Corp | 1.69% | 1.13% |
| CVS Health Corp | 1.51% | 1.83% | McKesson Corp | 1.82% | 1.45% |
| Elevance Health Inc | 1.05% | 1.35% | Medtronic PLC | 1.86% | 1.50% |
| Humana Inc | 0.34% | 0.58% | HCA Healthcare Inc | 1.29% | 0.96% |
| REVOLUTION Medicines Inc | 0.21% | 0.40% | Zoetis Inc | 0.86% | 0.54% |
New: agilon health Inc (0.02%), First Tracks Biotherapeutics Inc (0.00%), Hologic Inc (0.00%). Gone: Exact Sciences Corp (0.29%), Hologic Inc (0.25%), Amicus Therapeutics Inc (0.06%), Arcellx Inc (0.05%), Terns Pharmaceuticals Inc (0.04%), Soleno Therapeutics Inc (0.03%).
Asset categories and pricing
as of 2026-05-3199.78% equity, 0.22% short-term investment as filed; 100.0% carried at a quoted market price (fair-value level 1). Categories and levels are the filer's; what a low level-1 share does and does not mean is in the measure's page.
Derivative exposure and counterparties
as of 2026-05-31A position count cannot describe a fund that uses derivatives, because a swap is filed at its unrealised gain, not its exposure. These are the notionals the fund itself reported, against net assets of $18.99B. Notional of an interest-rate or currency swap is not equity exposure.
| Swap counterparty | Notional | % of net assets |
|---|---|---|
| Goldman Sachs International | $23M | 0.12% |
| Bank of America NA | $7M | 0.04% |
| CITIBANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION | $6M | 0.03% |
Financing leg as filed: the fund pays OBFR01 + 0% on $35M of long swap notional . Issuers fill the spread field differently (some file the all-in rate), so compare within an issuer, not across.
Full detail for every fund that files derivatives: leverage.json (CC BY 4.0).
Neighbours by effective holdings, equity funds
10Every measured equity fund lined up by how many holdings it behaves like; these sit either side of VHT (23). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.
| Fund | Reports | Behaves like | Top ten | As of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HLAL Wahed FTSE USA Shariah ETF | 207 | 22.5 | 55.72% | 2026-05-31 |
| WINN Harbor Long-Term Growers ETF | 74 | 22.6 | 57.94% | 2026-07-31 |
| IETC iShares U.S. Tech Independence Focused ETF | 103 | 22.7 | 53.04% | 2026-07-31 |
| GRID First Trust NASDAQ Clean Edge Smart Grid Infrastructure Index Fund | 122 | 22.8 | 58.49% | 2026-06-30 |
| IYC iShares U.S. Consumer Discretionary ETF | 158 | 22.9 | 49.95% | 2026-07-31 |
| TUR iShares MSCI Turkey ETF | 74 | 23.2 | 53.86% | 2026-05-31 |
| SCHG Schwab U.S. Large-Cap Growth ETF | 196 | 23.3 | 57.21% | 2026-05-31 |
| ONEQ Fidelity Nasdaq Composite Index ETF | 1,024 | 23.3 | 57.6% | 2026-05-31 |
| FELG Fidelity Enhanced Large Cap Growth ETF | 149 | 23.3 | 54.59% | 2026-06-30 |
| AAXJ iShares MSCI All Country Asia ex Japan ETF | 953 | 23.5 | 42.1% | 2026-07-31 |
Essays that examine VHT
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