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About Vanguard Health Care ETF
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Inception date
Jan 26, 2004
Structure
Open-Ended Fund
Replication method
Physical
Dividend treatment
Distributes
Distribution tax treatment
Qualified dividends
Income tax type
Capital Gains
Max ST capital gains rate
39.60%
Max LT capital gains rate
20.00%
Primary advisor
The Vanguard Group, Inc.
Distributor
Vanguard Marketing Corp.
ISIN
US92204A5048
The fund offers broad exposure to healthcare companies in the US. It holds firms that stretch across multiple industries from the broadly defined healthcare space. This includes healthcare provider and services companies, healthcare equipment and supplies manufacturers and distributors, healthcare technology firms, and companies involved in the research, development, production, and marketing of pharmaceuticals and biotech products. The funds large basket stems from its total market universe. Holdings are weighted by market capitalization and are diversified by applying limits on regulated investment companies, such that no group entity exceeds 25% of the index weight and the aggregate weight of issuers with over 5% weight in the index are capped at 50% of the portfolio. The index is rebalanced quarterly.
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Classification
What's in the fund
Exposure type
Health Technology
Health Services
Stock breakdown by region
Top 10 holdings
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Frequently Asked Questions
An exchange-traded fund (ETF) is a collection of assets (stocks, bonds, commodities, etc.) that track an underlying index and can be bought on an exchange like individual stocks.
VHT assets under management is 15.10 B USD. AUM is an important metric as it reflects the fund's size and can serve as a gauge of how successful the fund is in attracting investors, which, in its turn, can influence decision-making.
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VHT invests in stocks. See more details in our Analysis section.
VHT expense ratio is 0.09%. It's an important metric for helping traders understand the fund's operating costs relative to assets and how expensive it would be to hold the fund.
No, VHT isn't leveraged, meaning it doesn't use borrowings or financial derivatives to magnify the performance of the underlying assets or index it follows.
Yes, VHT pays dividends to its holders with the dividend yield of 1.56%.
VHT shares are issued by The Vanguard Group, Inc.
VHT follows the MSCI US IMI 25/50 Health Care. ETFs usually track some benchmark seeking to replicate its performance and guide asset selection and objectives.
The fund started trading on Jan 26, 2004.
The fund's management style is passive, meaning it's aiming to replicate the performance of the underlying index by holding assets in the same proportions as the index. The goal is to match the index's returns.