In afternoon trading on Thursday, Healthcare stocks are the best performing sector, up 1.3%. Within that group, Boston Scientific Corp. (NYSE: BSX) and St. Jude Medical, Inc. (NYSE: STJ) are two of the day's stand-outs, showing a gain of 3.7% and 3.5%, respectively. Among healthcare ETFs, one ETF following the sector is the Health Care Select Sector SPDR ETF (AMEX: XLV), which is up 1.2% on the day, and up 8.51% year-to-date. Boston Scientific Corp., meanwhile, is up 34.87% year-to-date, and St. Jude Medical, Inc. is up 14.67% year-to-date. Combined, BSX and STJ make up approximately 1.6% of the underlying holdings of XLV.
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