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iShares U.S. Aerospace & Defense ETF (ITA)

CBOE · inception 2006-05-05 · beta 0.98 · avg volume 716,167 · holdings as of 2026-10-15 · prices through 2026-10-16
AUM$12.1B
Holdings50
Top-10 weight75.5%
1-yr return+0.7%
Max drawdown 5y-19.6%
Volatility 1y23.1%

Performance vs S&P 500 (SPY)

■ ITA ■ SPY
7411916420925420222023202420252026
Total return1m3m6mYTD1y3y5y
ITA-2.2%-8.8%-9.9%-5.8%+0.7%+93.3%+101.3%
SPY+0.3%+2.9%+7.5%+11.7%+15.1%+80.0%+84.9%
Rebased to 100 five years ago, weekly adjusted closes. Max drawdown is the largest peak-to-trough fall in that window (trough 2026-10-07). 3y and 5y returns are cumulative.

Top holdings

#TickerNameWeight
1GEGE AEROSPACE20.90%
2RTXRTX16.49%
3BABOEING7.53%
4LMTLOCKHEED MARTIN CORP4.78%
5TDGTRANSDIGM GROUP4.74%
6NOCNORTHROP GRUMMAN CORP4.62%
7GDGENERAL DYNAMICS CORP4.56%
8HWMHOWMET AEROSPACE4.49%
9HONAHONEYWELL AEROSPACE INC3.91%
10LHXL3HARRIS TECHNOLOGIES3.48%

Exposure

Sector
Industrials98.4%
Basic Materials1.5%
Unclassified0.1%
Country
US99.9%
Unclassified0.1%
Weights of holdings joined to company profiles; bonds, cash and derivatives fall under Unclassified.

InsiderStreet scores of the holdings

Holdings-weighted scoreScorePercentile vs ETFs
Overall62/10059
Quality68/10034
Profitability47/10013
Balance sheet54/10015
Earnings quality70/10072
Growth69/10092
Value40/1005
Momentum86/10095
Risk (safety)79/10052
Portfolio fundamentalsValue
P/E34.1
P/B7.8
P/S3.4
Earnings yield2.9%
FCF yield3.2%
ROE23.8%
Net margin10.0%
Revenue growth (yoy)+19.2%
Dividend yield0.83%
Debt / equity0.97
Scores are weighted by holding; 96% of the fund's weight is in companies we score. Percentile ranks the fund among ETFs with at least half their weight scored. A score describes the holdings, not the outlook for the fund.

Most similar ETFs by holdings overlap

ETFNameOverlapShared holdingsAUM
DFENDirexion Daily Aerospace & Defense Bull 3X97.8%48$385.6M
PPAInvesco Aerospace & Defense ETF70.3%36$7.4B
DEFAiShares Adaptive Currency Hedged MSCI EAFE ETF60.2%23$6.6M
MISLFirst Trust Indxx Aerospace & Defense ETF59.8%31$193.7M
AVCorgi Etf Trust I - Corgi Aerospace & Comm58.3%19$767,516
NATOThemes ETF Trust - Themes Transatlantic Defens57.8%38$91.1M
Overlap = sum over shared holdings of the smaller of the two weights.
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