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Asset Class: Health Sector
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Oldest ETF back tested: The Health Care Select Sector SPDR® Fund (XLV)
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Long-Term Performance: 8.24% CAGR
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S&P 500 Performance: 6.55% CAGR
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Back test timeframe: January 1999 – July 2020
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Number of ETFs available in this asset class: 41
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Number of ETFs in this asset class that are 10-years old or older: 17
XLV vs SPY: January 1999 – July 2020
XLV vs SPY: December 22, 1998 – August 7, 2020
The Deep Value ETF Accumulator rankings for the 17 oldest Health sector ETFs:
The 4 top ranked Health sector ETFs head-to-head comparisons:
FBT vs XBI vs IHI vs PTH: November 2006 – July 2020
FBT vs XBI vs IHI vs PTH: October 12, 2006 – August 7, 2020
Stated objectives of 4 top ranked Health sector ETFs:
FBT – The First Trust NYSE Arca Biotechnology Index Fund is an exchange-traded index fund. The investment objective of the Fund is to replicate as closely as possible, before fees and expenses, the price and yield of the NYSE Arca Biotechnology IndexSM. The NYSE Arca Biotechnology IndexSM is an equal dollar weighted index designed to measure the performance of a cross section of companies in the biotechnology industry that are primarily involved in the use of biological processes to develop products or provide services.
Such processes include, but are not limited to, recombinant DNA technology, molecular biology, genetic engineering, monoclonal antibody-based technology, lipid/liposome technology, and genomics. The index is rebalanced quarterly based upon closing prices on the third Friday in January, April, July & October to ensure that each component stock continues to represent an approximately equal weight in the index.
XBI – The SPDR® S&P® Biotech ETF seeks to provide investment results that, before fees and expenses, correspond generally to the total return performance of the S&P® Biotechnology Select IndustryTM Index (the “Index”). Seeks to provide exposure to the Biotechnology segment of the S&P TMI, which comprises the following sub-industries: Biotechnology. Seeks to track a modified equal weighted index which provides the potential for unconcentrated industry exposure across large, mid and small cap stocks
Allows investors to take strategic or tactical positions at a more targeted level than traditional sector based investing.
IHI – The iShares U.S. Medical Devices ETF seeks to track the investment results of an index composed of U.S. equities in the medical devices sector. Exposure to U.S. companies that manufacture and distribute medical devices. Targeted access to domestic medical device stocks. Use to express a sector view.
PTH – The Invesco DWA Healthcare Momentum ETF (Fund) is based on the Dorsey Wright® Healthcare Technical Leaders Index (Index). The Fund will normally invest at least 90% of its total assets in the securities that comprise the Index. The Index is designed to identify companies that are showing relative strength (momentum), and is composed of at least 30 securities from the NASDAQ US Benchmark Index. Relative strength is the measurement of a security’s performance in a given universe over time as compared to the performance of all other securities in that universe. The Fund and the Index are rebalanced and reconstituted quarterly.
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Previous Deep Value ETF Accumulator article on Health sector ETFs:
4 Best Long-Term Performance Health Sector ETFs 1.3
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