Healthcare ETF Overview

Healthcare ETFs invest in the equity of companies from the health care industry.

With 62 ETFs traded on the U.S. markets, Healthcare ETFs have total assets under management of $94.88B. The average expense ratio is 0.63%. Healthcare ETFs can be found in the following asset classes:

  • Equity

The largest Healthcare ETF is the Health Care Select Sector SPDR Fund XLV with $38.04B in assets. In the last trailing year, the best-performing Healthcare ETF was BBP at 9.87%. The most recent ETF launched in the Healthcare space was the Horizon Kinetics Medical ETF MEDX on 01/30/23.

Top ETF Performers

LABD Direxion Daily S&P Biotech Bear 3X Shares 28.09%
PFES AXS 2X PFE Bear Daily ETF 3.02%
MDEV First Trust Indxx Medical Devices ETF 2.72%
SANE Subversive Mental Health ETF 2.30%
EKG First Trust Nasdaq Lux Digital Health Solutions ETF 1.95%

Bottom ETF Performers

LABU Direxion Daily S&P Biotech Bull 3X Shares -26.41%
PSIL AdvisorShares Psychedelics ETF -15.89%
XDNA Kelly CRISPR & Gene Editing Technology ETF -14.10%
BBC Virtus LifeSci Biotech Clinical Trials ETF -12.29%
CNCR Loncar Cancer Immunotherapy ETF -10.85%

Top Creations

XHE SPDR S&P Health Care Equipment ETF 69.04
LABU Direxion Daily S&P Biotech Bull 3X Shares 58.58
XPH SPDR S&P Pharmaceuticals ETF 23.84
RXL ProShares Ultra Health Care 13.51
IHE iShares U.S. Pharmaceuticals ETF 9.55

Top Redemptions

XBI SPDR S&P Biotech ETF -591.63
IBB iShares Biotechnology ETF -324.35
IXJ iShares Global Healthcare ETF -267.24
XLV Health Care Select Sector SPDR Fund -122.07
PPH VanEck Pharmaceutical ETF -97.54

AUM Winners

RXD ProShares UltraShort Health Care 53.34%
BIS ProShares UltraShort NASDAQ Biotechnology 41.45%
PFES AXS 2X PFE Bear Daily ETF 10.15%
MSGR Direxion mRNA ETF 2.77%
IXJ iShares Global Healthcare ETF 1.59%

AUM Losers

LABD Direxion Daily S&P Biotech Bear 3X Shares -33.76%
FTXH First Trust Nasdaq Pharmaceuticals ETF -23.54%
RXL ProShares Ultra Health Care -20.44%
XDNA Kelly CRISPR & Gene Editing Technology ETF -16.97%
XPH SPDR S&P Pharmaceuticals ETF -16.42%

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