VHT Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Vanguard Health Care ETF | ARCA:VHT)

Seeks to track the performance of a benchmark index that measures the investment return of stocks in the health care sector. Passively managed using a full-replication strategy when possible and a sampling strategy if regulatory constraints dictate. Includes stocks of companies involved in providing medical or health care products services technology or equipment.

Vanguard Health Care ETF trades on the ARCA stock market under the symbol VHT.

As of December 19, 2025, VHT stock price climbed to $287.45 with 379,470 million shares trading.

VHT has a beta of 0.55, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. VHT has a correlation of 0.33 to the broad based SPY ETF.

VHT has a market cap of $17.42 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

In the last 3 years, VHT traded as high as $296.51 and as low as $222.27.

VHT has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of +15.7%, while SPY returned +17.3%. This shows that you would have done better investing in the overall market (through SPY) over the last year than in VHT shares. However, VHT has outperformed the market in the last 3 month and 2 week periods, returning +13.1% and +0.3%, while SPY returned +3.3% and -0.6%, respectively. This indicates VHT has been having a stronger performance recently.

VHT support price is $282.31 and resistance is $287.85 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that VHT shares will trade within this expected range on the day.