Vanguard Health Care Index Fund Admiral Shares (VHCIX)

Fund Assets	7.74B
Expense Ratio	0.10%
Min. Investment	$100,000
Turnover	n/a
Dividend (ttm)	2.00
Dividend Yield	1.61%
Dividend Growth	15.05%
Payout Frequency	Quarterly
Ex-Dividend Date	Mar 25, 2025

Previous Close	123.67
YTD Return	-1.21%
1-Year Return	-1.45%
5-Year Return	41.39%
52-Week Low	120.23
52-Week High	144.14
Beta (5Y)	0.67
Holdings	414
Inception Date	Feb 2, 2004

About VHCIX

The fund employs an indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the MSCI US Investable Market Index (IMI)/Health Care 25/50, an index made up of stocks of large, mid-size, and small U.S. companies within the health care sector, as classified under the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS). The Advisor attempts to replicate the target index by seeking to invest all, or substantially all, of its assets in the stocks that make up the index, in order to hold each stock in approximately the same proportion as its weighting in the index. The fund is non-diversified.

• Fund Family: Vanguard
• Category: Health
• Performance Rating: High
• Risk Rating: Below Average
• Stock Exchange: NASDAQ
• Ticker Symbol: VHCIX
• Share Class: Admiral Shares
• Index: MSCI US IMI/Health Care 25/50 TR USD

Performance

VHCIX had a total return of -1.45% in the past year, including dividends. Since the fund's inception, the average annual return has been 9.30%.

Equivalent ETF

VHCIX has an equivalent ETF with the ticker symbol VHT, the Vanguard Health Care ETF. This is an ETF from the same fund company that follows the same index. It has an expense ratio of 0.10% compared to 0.10% for VHCIX.

Symbol	Name	Expense Ratio
VHT	Vanguard Health Care ETF	0.10%

Top 10 Holdings

47.77% of assets

Name	Symbol	Weight
Eli Lilly and Company	LLY	10.94%
UnitedHealth Group Incorporated	UNH	7.91%
AbbVie Inc.	ABBV	5.48%
Johnson & Johnson	JNJ	4.87%
Abbott Laboratories	ABT	3.78%
Merck & Co., Inc.	MRK	3.55%
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.	TMO	3.12%
Intuitive Surgical, Inc.	ISRG	2.90%
Amgen Inc.	AMGN	2.75%
Mktliq 12/31/2049	n/a	2.48%

Dividend History

Ex-Dividend	Amount	Pay Date
Mar 25, 2025	$0.470	Mar 26, 2025
Dec 18, 2024	$0.4595	Dec 19, 2024
Sep 27, 2024	$0.5833	Sep 30, 2024
Jun 28, 2024	$0.4831	Jul 1, 2024
Mar 22, 2024	$0.4094	Mar 25, 2024
Dec 18, 2023	$0.4477	Dec 19, 2023