Vanguard Health Care ETF (VHT)
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Should You Invest in the Vanguard Health Care ETF (VHT)?
Launched on January 26, 2004, the Vanguard Health Care ETF (VHT) is a passively managed exchange traded fund designed to provide a broad exposure to the Healthcare - Broad segment of the equity market.
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Vanguard Health Care ETF and Health Care Select Sector SPDR Fund both benefit from healthcare innovation tailwinds, earning a buy rating. VHT offers broader diversification and greater exposure to small-caps and biotechs, providing stronger upside potential compared to XLV's mega-cap pharma focus. XLV's concentrated portfolio delivers higher dividend yield and stability, but exposes investors to greater idiosyncratic risk from top holdings like LLY.
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Vanguard Health Care ETF Profile
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Overview
The company manages a healthcare-focused investment fund that aims to mirror the performance of the MSCI US Investable Market Index (IMI)/Health Care 25/50. This index encompasses a broad spectrum of U.S. companies within the health care sector, including enterprises of large, mid, and small-scale. The fund employs an indexing investment strategy, where it attempts to invest all, or nearly all, of its assets in the stocks comprising the index. By doing so, it seeks to maintain each stock within the fund in proportion to its respective weighting in the index. It is important to note that this fund is non-diverse, focusing exclusively on the health care sector as defined by the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS).
Products and Services
- Healthcare Sector Investment Fund
This product is a targeted investment vehicle aiming to replicate the performance of the MSCI US Investable Market Index (IMI)/Health Care 25/50. This index represents a wide array of companies in the U.S. health care sector, across various market capitalizations. The fund's strategy is to invest in the stocks that make up this index, striving to allocate assets in each stock proportionally to its index weighting. This focused approach allows investors to gain exposure to the health care sector's performance as a whole.
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