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Vanguard Health Care ETF VHT

Issuer: Vanguard SEC registrant: VANGUARD WORLD FUND Equity · US
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Last price 333.60 USD Change: Up +7.66 Percent change: Up +2.35%

Source: Yahoo Finance (opens in a new tab) Observed · 1 day ago Quotes may be delayed

Expense ratio
0.09%
Prospectus 19 Dec 2025
Net assets
$19.0B
As of 31 May 2026
Holdings
407
As of 31 May 2026
12-month distribution yield
1.38%
Quarterly
Asset class
Equity
From holdings

Vanguard Health Care ETF (VHT) is an exchange-traded fund listed on NYSE Arca in the United States, issued by Vanguard. Its category is Equity · US (equity). Its last price was US$333.60 on 20 Oct 2026. Its expense ratio is 0.09% a year, from its prospectus dated 19 Dec 2025. It reported net assets of US$18.99 billion as of 31 May 2026. Its latest holdings report lists 407 holdings as of 31 May 2026. Over the last 12 months it paid distributions of US$4.62 a unit, a 12-month distribution yield of 1.38%, paid quarterly.

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Fees

Total annual operating expenses (gross)
0.09%
Net, after fee waivers or reimbursements
No waiver stated
Management fee
0.08%
Prospectus date
19 Dec 2025
Filed with the SEC
30 Jun 2026

Source: SEC prospectus risk/return data sets (opens in a new tab) Filed

Size and reporting

Net assets
$18,988,497,409
Total assets
$18,990,163,785
Holdings as of
31 May 2026
Report made public
29 Jul 2026 (59 days after the month end)

Net assets are for the whole fund series, which for some funds (Vanguard's, for example) also includes mutual fund share classes.

Source: SEC Form N-PORT (opens in a new tab) Filed

Top holdings

Largest 25 of 407 positions, as of 31 May 2026. Weight is the percent of net assets the fund reported.

VHT top holdings as of 31 May 2026
# Holding Identifier Weight Value (USD) Type Country Currency
1 Eli Lilly & Co US5324571083 14.04% $2.7B Equity (common) United States USD
2 Johnson & Johnson US4781601046 8.47% $1.6B Equity (common) United States USD
3 AbbVie Inc US00287Y1091 6.09% $1.2B Equity (common) United States USD
4 UnitedHealth Group Inc UNITEDHEALTH GRP US91324P1021 5.45% $1.0B Equity (common) United States USD
5 Merck & Co Inc US58933Y1055 4.66% $885.0M Equity (common) United States USD
6 Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc US8835561023 2.93% $555.7M Equity (common) United States USD
7 Amgen Inc US0311621009 2.87% $544.7M Equity (common) United States USD
8 Gilead Sciences Inc US3755581036 2.64% $500.9M Equity (common) United States USD
9 Intuitive Surgical Inc US46120E6023 2.38% $452.1M Equity (common) United States USD
10 Pfizer Inc US7170811035 2.35% $447.0M Equity (common) United States USD
11 Abbott Laboratories ABBOTT LABS US0028241000 2.35% $447.0M Equity (common) United States USD
12 Bristol-Myers Squibb Co BRISTOL-MYER SQB US1101221083 1.84% $349.6M Equity (common) United States USD
13 Danaher Corp US2358511028 1.84% $348.7M Equity (common) United States USD
14 CVS Health Corp US1266501006 1.83% $346.9M Equity (common) United States USD
15 Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc US92532F1003 1.80% $341.1M Equity (common) United States USD
16 Stryker Corp US8636671013 1.66% $315.3M Equity (common) United States USD
17 Medtronic PLC IE00BTN1Y115 1.50% $284.1M Equity (common) United States USD
18 McKesson Corp US58155Q1031 1.45% $275.2M Equity (common) United States USD
19 Elevance Health Inc US0367521038 1.35% $256.8M Equity (common) United States USD
20 Cigna Group/The THE CIGNA GROUP US1255231003 1.17% $222.6M Equity (common) United States USD
21 Boston Scientific Corp BOSTON SCIENTIFC US1011371077 1.13% $215.1M Equity (common) United States USD
22 Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc US75886F1075 1.00% $190.7M Equity (common) United States USD
23 HCA Healthcare Inc US40412C1018 0.96% $181.6M Equity (common) United States USD
24 Edwards Lifesciences Corp US28176E1082 0.79% $150.7M Equity (common) United States USD
25 Cencora Inc US03073E1055 0.79% $149.1M Equity (common) United States USD

Source: SEC Form N-PORT (opens in a new tab) Made public Holdings as of 31 May 2026

All 407 stored holdings

Breakdowns

Sums of reported weights over every position in the report. Totals can differ from 100% because of derivatives, borrowing and cash.

Asset type

Asset type by weight
TypeWeightBar
Equity (common) 99.80%
Short-term investment vehicles (cash funds) 0.22%
Equity derivatives −<0.01%

Country

Country by weight
CountryWeightBar
United States 100.02%
Switzerland 0.00%
Not stated −<0.01%

The country each issuer is assigned to in the report.

Currency exposure

Currency exposure by weight
CurrencyWeightBar
US dollar (USD) 100.02%

The currency each holding is denominated in. Currency hedges are not netted off, so a hedged fund still shows its holdings' currencies.

Sector

Sector weights for holdings matched to listed stocks
SectorWeightBar
Health Care 86.20%
Industrials 6.83%
Consumer Staples 1.83%
Technology 0.60%
Health Technology 0.23%
Consumer Discretionary 0.12%
Finance 0.03%

Partial coverage: sectors are known for 95.8% of net assets (96% of the fund's equity weight), the holdings matched by CUSIP or ticker to US stocks listed on this site. The rest is not assigned a sector.

Source: SEC Form N-PORT (opens in a new tab) Holdings as of

Distributions

Paid in the last 12 months
$4.6150
4 payments per unit
12-month yield
1.38%
Distributions only, not total return
Frequency
Quarterly
From the gaps between ex-dates
Latest ex-date
23 Sep 2026

12-month yield = distributions per unit with an ex-date in the last 12 months ($4.6150) ÷ latest price ($333.60) × 100 = 1.38%. It looks back, so it is not a forecast; special distributions in the window are included.

Why a distribution yield is not the fund's return: yield vs total return

Distribution history table (20 payments)
VHT distributions per unit by ex-date
Ex-dateAmount per unit
23 Sep 2026$0.9690
24 Jun 2026$0.9870
24 Mar 2026$0.9940
17 Dec 2025$1.6650
24 Sep 2025$1.0770
26 Jun 2025$0.9620
25 Mar 2025$0.9400
18 Dec 2024$0.9190
27 Sep 2024$1.1670
28 Jun 2024$0.9660
22 Mar 2024$0.8190
19 Dec 2023$0.8950
28 Sep 2023$0.8770
29 Jun 2023$0.8770
24 Mar 2023$0.7590
15 Dec 2022$0.9800
28 Sep 2022$0.8210
23 Jun 2022$0.7730
24 Mar 2022$0.7220
16 Dec 2021$0.8180

Source: Yahoo Finance (opens in a new tab) Checked · 2 days ago Amounts are adjusted for later unit splits

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