Health Care ETFs Unmoved By Possible Humana Inc. Merger

Exchange-traded healthcare funds were little changed Friday on a report that Humana Inc HUM hired advisors to consider a sale.

The Dow Jones U.S. Health Care Index closed down 1.4 percent Friday.

Exchange-traded healthcare funds aim to mirror sector performance by holding a wide a mix of stocks including pharmaceutical companies, hospitals, medical device makers and insurers.

Humana

Humana, which specializes in

Medicare

patients, tapped Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to evaluate potential offers from

CIGNA CorporationCI

and

Aetna IncAET

, according to The Wall Street Journal.

IShares' Healthcare ETFs

The exchange-traded fund

iShares Dow Jones US Health Care(ETF)IHF

picked up about 1.5 percent Friday afternoon, trading at $138.66.

Among the fund's holdings of 51 stocks across the spectrum of the health care industry are Anthem Inc ANTM, Cigna and Aetna.

The

iShares Dow Jones US Healthcare (ETF)IYH

traded recently at 159.38, off $0.11.

Guggenheim's Healthcare ETF

Guggenheim S&P 500 Equal Weight Healthcare ETFRYH

was nearly unchanged at $159.95.

The fund has about 55 health care stocks including Aetna, Cigna and Humana.

Vanguard's Mutual Fund

Vanguard Health Care Fund Investor SharesVGHCX

was up nearly 1 percent at $235.29 a share. The fund's top ten investments include a range of pharmaceutical companies and the health and well-being company

UnitedHealth Group Inc.UNH

Fidelity's ETF

The

Fidelity MSCI Health Care Index ETFFHLC

traded recently at $36.38, down $0.06.

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