iShares U.S. Healthcare Providers ETF
$54.99−0.47 (−0.86%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.37%
- Fund size
- $1.4B
- 1Y return
- +15.6%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 0.98%
- Holdings
- 61
- Volume · 30D
- 0.5M sh
- NAV per share
- $55.85
- 52W range
The ETF.net IHF Grade
Score 56 of 100 sits in the B band. Bands: A ≥ 70, B ≥ 55, C ≥ 40, D ≥ 25, F < 25; the scale skips E.
Cost
What you pay to own it — the expense ratio plus trading frictions, ranked within its category.BScore 69Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.Not scoredRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.FScore 24Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 75Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.DScore 30Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 77Category rank
Our read on IHF
BHealthcare without the drug labs. IHF tracks a US health care providers index, the insurers, hospitals and care networks that deliver and pay for care rather than invent the medicine, and it has been doing that job since 2006.
The Fund seeks to track the investment results of an index made up of U.S. equities in the healthcare providers sector. Its stated strategy is to track the Dow Jones U.S. Select Health Care Providers Index before fund fees and expenses.
Why people hold it
- Owns the delivery-and-payment side of healthcare, not the drug pipeline. That is a genuinely different slice than a whole-sector fund, run off one index since 2006.
- Costs 0.37% a year, under the 0.50% median for health care sector ETFs.
- A multi-billion-dollar iShares fund with moderate volume: a real market on both sides of the trade.
- Lands in the upper half of the broad health care ETFs we grade, a solid showing for such a targeted mandate.
Worth knowing
- About 60 stocks inside one corner of one sector. A narrow lineup like this can swing harder than a diversified healthcare fund.
- Broad healthcare rivals are far cheaper (VHT at 0.09%, XLV and FHLC at 0.08%). The focused mandate is what the extra fee buys.
- Distributions land quarterly. This is a growth-oriented equity slice, so income is a byproduct rather than the design.
IHF Holdings
- Stocks
- 61
- 73%
- UNH
Sectors
- Health Care93.6%
- Technology6.0%
- Financials0.3%
Geography
- United States100.00%
IHF Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
IHF$11,559
Returns run to the Sep 22, 2026 close, with cash distributions reinvested. Each period starts on the same date that many months or years earlier. Periods over one year show the average yearly return.
| Period | IHF |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +16.5% |
| 1 month | −2.4% |
| 3 months | +5.2% |
| 1 year | +15.6% |
| 3 years | +4.6% |
| 5 years | +1.9% |
| 10 years | +9.4% |
Calendar-year total return with cash distributions hypothetically reinvested at the ex-dividend date’s closing price. The current year shows year to date.
| Year | Return bar | IHF |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +16.5% | |
| 2025 | +0.9% | |
| 2024 | −7.9% | |
| 2023 | −1.1% | |
| 2022 | −7.1% | |
| 2021 | +24.5% | |
| 2020 | +17.7% |
IHF in the news
IHF Dividends
- 0.98%
- $0.54
- $0.13 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 15, 2026 | Sep 18, 2026 | $0.13 |
| Jun 15, 2026 | Jun 18, 2026 | $0.05 |
| Mar 17, 2026 | Mar 20, 2026 | $0.14 |
| Dec 16, 2025 | Dec 19, 2025 | $0.22 |
| Sep 16, 2025 | Sep 19, 2025 | $0.11 |
| Jun 16, 2025 | Jun 20, 2025 | $0.06 |
| Mar 18, 2025 | Mar 21, 2025 | $0.11 |
| Dec 17, 2024 | Dec 20, 2024 | $0.10 |
| Sep 25, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 | $0.17 |
| Jun 11, 2024 | Jun 17, 2024 | $0.03 |
| Mar 21, 2024 | Mar 27, 2024 | $0.11 |
| Dec 20, 2023 | Dec 27, 2023 | $0.10 |
IHF Risk
- 22.3%
How it’s calculated: standard deviation
The sample standard deviation of monthly total returns, multiplied by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Total returns include reinvested distributions.
- 0.15
How it’s calculated: Sharpe ratio
Subtract each month’s Treasury-bill return from the fund’s monthly total return.
Divide the average of those excess returns by their sample standard deviation, then multiply by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Each month uses the Treasury yield quoted at the end of the previous month.
- −29.8%
How it’s calculated: maximum drawdown
The largest percentage decline from an earlier peak, using total returns with reinvested distributions.
Uses up to five years through the last close, with at least 12 months required.
- 0.85
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
IHF Cost
0.37%
IHF0.37%
- The middle half of Health Care (Broad) funds
- Median 0.50%
6 of the 25 Health Care (Broad) funds charge less.