Vanguard Health Care ETF VHT

The Vanguard Health Care ETF aims to follow the performance of the MSCI US Investable Market Index (IMI)/Health Care 25/50. This index comprises stocks of large, medium, and small US-based companies classified under the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS) within the healthcare sector. The ETF, which uses US dollars as base currency, was launched in 2004 and is based in the United States. The Vanguard Group, founded in 1975 and headquartered in Malvern, Pennsylvania, manages this ETF. The company operates internationally and offers a variety of financial investment products, including bonds, stocks, ETFs, and mutual funds

The fund uses an indexing investment approach to track the performance of the MSCI US Investable Market Index (IMI)/Health Care 25/50. As such, all, or mostly all, assets are invested in stocks making up this index. This ETF holds the stocks in approximately the same proportion as the weightings on the mentioned index.

The majority of the stocks are held in the United States with minor interests in Europe, Canada, Eurozone, and Latin America. The Vanguard Health Care ETF focuses most of its investments on the healthcare sector. The top five holdings in the fund’s portfolio are Johnson & Johnson, UnitedHealth Group Inc., Pfizer Inc., Abbvie Inc., and Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. This fund trades on the NYSE under the VHT stock ticker.

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