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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 2026-05-31
403 Positions reported
23 Effective holdings
17.5× Concentration multiple
51.95% Top ten weight

Computed 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 2026-05-31

VHT'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

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Between 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.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
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)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
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

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Overlap with other funds

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Measured against every other fund on this site, from the same filings. Combined effective holdings is how the pair behaves held in equal size.

WithOverlapSharedCombined effective
VHT vs XLV 83.71% 57 19.3

Largest positions, as filed

as of 2026-05-31

The 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.

#PositionWeightCumulative
1Eli Lilly & Co14.06%14.1%
2Johnson & Johnson8.48%22.5%
3AbbVie Inc6.09%28.6%
4UnitedHealth Group Inc5.46%34.1%
5Merck & Co Inc4.67%38.8%
6Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc2.93%41.7%
7Amgen Inc2.87%44.6%
8Gilead Sciences Inc2.64%47.2%
9Intuitive Surgical Inc2.38%49.6%
10Pfizer Inc2.36%51.9%
11Abbott Laboratories2.36%54.3%
12Bristol-Myers Squibb Co1.84%56.1%
13Danaher Corp1.84%58.0%
14CVS Health Corp1.83%59.8%
15Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc1.80%61.6%

Returns the fund reported

2019-09 – 2026-05

Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of VHT's own filings, 81 months on record. Not computed here and not from a price feed.

16.7%Last twelve months filed
82%Whole series, compounded
13.4%Best month
-7.9%Worst month

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

2026-05-31

The 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.

BorrowerOn loanShare 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 → 2026-05-31

408 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 increases2026-02-282026-05-31Largest decreases2026-02-282026-05-31
UnitedHealth Group Inc3.95%5.46% Abbott Laboratories3.01%2.36%
Eli Lilly & Co12.57%14.06% Boston Scientific Corp1.69%1.13%
CVS Health Corp1.51%1.83% McKesson Corp1.82%1.45%
Elevance Health Inc1.05%1.35% Medtronic PLC1.86%1.50%
Humana Inc0.34%0.58% HCA Healthcare Inc1.29%0.96%
REVOLUTION Medicines Inc0.21%0.40% Zoetis Inc0.86%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 2026-05-31

99.78% 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 2026-05-31

A 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.

99.8%Stocks held directly
0.19%Swap notional (3)
0%Futures notional (0)
100%Sum, % of net assets
Swap counterpartyNotional% of net assets
Goldman Sachs International$23M0.12%
Bank of America NA$7M0.04%
CITIBANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION$6M0.03%

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

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Every 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.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs 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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