Vanguard Health Care ETF vs Simplify Health Care ETF
Vanguard offers broad exposure at 0.09% cost with 1.5% yield, while Simplify's active strategy returned 32.4% over one year but charges 0.51%.
Overview
Vanguard Health Care ETF (NYSEMKT:VHT) offers broad-market healthcare exposure at a minimal cost, whereas Simplify Health Care ETF (NYSEMKT:PINK) provides an active strategy focused on innovation while donating its profits to charity.
Healthcare investors must often choose between the stability of a cap-weighted index and the potential of active management. While the Vanguard fund tracks a wide benchmark of domestic healthcare stocks, the Simplify fund seeks capital appreciation through a concentrated, expert-led portfolio targeting biotechnology and medical technology breakthroughs.
Details
Beta measures price volatility relative to the S&P 500; beta is calculated from monthly returns over the available fund history (up to five years). The 1-yr return represents total return over the trailing 12 months. Dividend yield is the trailing-12-month distribution yield.
Source
Originally published at www.fool.com.