Health Care Select Sector SPDR Fund (S&P 500 health-care sector) against Vanguard Health Care ETF (MSCI US IMI Health Care 25/50) — fees, long-horizon total returns, holdings overlap, and sector tilt, side by side.
| XLV | VHT | SPREAD | |
|---|---|---|---|
| YTD (cumulative) | +11.5% | — | — |
| 1Y CAGR | +27.7% | — | — |
| 3Y CAGR | +10.4% | — | — |
| 5Y CAGR | +6.63% | — | — |
| 10Y CAGR | +10.7% | — | — |
| Since inception CAGR | +8.77% | — | — |
Total return: dividend- and split-adjusted daily closes (distributions reinvested). Spread is XLV minus VHT. XLV since-inception measured from first available bar December 22, 1998. Since-inception spans differ — compare that row with care.
| XLV | VHT | |
|---|---|---|
| Name | State Street Health Care Select Sector SPDR ETF | Vanguard Health Care Index Fund ETF Shares |
| Category | Health | Health |
| Style | Passive | Passive |
| Expense ratio | 0.08% | 0.09% |
| Assets (AUM) | $41.7B | $20.9B |
| Dividend yield | 1.56% | 1.55% |
| Avg volume (3-mo) | 10.1M | 254K |
| Inception | December 16, 1998 | January 26, 2004 |
| Benchmark proxy | S&P 500 | S&P 500 |
XLV costs 0.01 pp less per year — about $1.00 per $10,000 invested.
| Shared holding | XLV | VHT | MIN |
|---|---|---|---|
| LLYEli Lilly and Co | 15.47% | 13.37% | 13.37% |
| JNJJohnson & Johnson | 10.51% | 8.83% | 8.83% |
| ABBVAbbVie Inc | 7.55% | 6.43% | 6.43% |
| UNHUnitedHealth Group Inc | 6.41% | 5.45% | 5.45% |
| MRKMerck & Co Inc | 5.47% | 4.67% | 4.67% |
| TMOThermo Fisher Scientific Inc | 3.63% |
Expense ratios verified against issuer fact sheets. Dividend yield is trailing 12-month distributions divided by price, as reported by the fund data provider.
| 3.09% |
| 3.09% |
| AMGNAmgen Inc | 3.54% | 3.01% | 3.01% |
| ABTAbbott Laboratories | 3.13% | 2.67% | 2.67% |
| GILDGilead Sciences Inc | 2.75% | 2.34% | 2.34% |
| PFEPfizer Inc | 2.43% | 2.06% | 2.06% |
Sum of min(weight in each fund) across shared tickers — the standard fund-overlap measure. Computed on the top 25 holdings each fund reports, so it is a lower bound; the coverage figures show how much of each fund those top holdings represent.