ITA holdings and overlap
iShares U.S. Aerospace & Defense ETF (ITA) holds 50 positions in its iShares file of 2026-10-27. Its three largest are GE Aerospace (GE) at 20.09%, RTX (RTX) at 17.06% and Boeing (BA) at 6.81%, and its ten largest make up 76.1% of the fund.
In its iShares file of 2026-10-27, ITA is 99.8% industrials by sector, with none of it in mega-cap tech or in the ten largest US companies by market value.
What does ITA hold, as of its issuer file of 2026-10-27?
GE Aerospace is 20.09% of ITA on its own, against a median largest position of 5.8% across the 17 Industrials funds with a page here. The position ITA carries furthest above that group is RTX at 17.06% of the fund, against a 3.06% median there.
| Rank | Company | Weight | Weight bar |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GE GE Aerospace | 20.09% | |
| 2 | RTX RTX | 17.06% | |
| 3 | BA Boeing | 6.81% | |
| 4 | LMT Lockheed Martin | 5.66% | |
| 5 | NOC Northrop Grumman | 5.09% | |
| 6 | GD General Dynamics | 4.79% | |
| 7 | TDG TransDigm Group | 4.78% | |
| 8 | HONA Honeywell Aerospace Inc | 4.16% | |
| 9 | HWM Howmet Aerospace | 3.93% | |
| 10 | LHX L3Harris | 3.77% | |
| 11 | AXON Axon Enterprise | 2.7% | |
| 12 | RKLB Rocket Lab | 2.51% | |
| 13 | ATI ATI | 1.77% | |
| 14 | WWD Woodward | 1.4% | |
| 15 | HEI.A Heico | 1.38% | |
| 16 | CW Curtiss Wright | 1.37% | |
| 17 | FTAI FTAI Aviation | 1.27% | |
| 18 | CRS Carpenter Technology | 1.12% | |
| 19 | TXT Textron | 1.05% | |
| 20 | HEI Heico | 0.99% | |
| 21 | BWXT BWX Technologies | 0.96% | |
| 22 | HII Huntington Ingalls Industries | 0.87% | |
| 23 | MOG.A Moog Inc | 0.78% | |
| 24 | KTOS Kratos Defense & Security Solutions | 0.61% | |
| 25 | HXL Hexcel | 0.47% | |
| 26 | SARO Standardaero | 0.39% | |
| 27 | AVAV AeroVironment | 0.37% | |
| 28 | KRMN Karman Holdings Inc | 0.37% | |
| 29 | MRCY Mercury Systems | 0.34% | |
| 30 | VSEC VSE | 0.33% | |
| 31 | AIR AAR | 0.31% | |
| 32 | DRS Leonardo DRS | 0.22% | |
| 33 | ACHR Archer Aviation | 0.22% | |
| 34 | ARXS Arxis | 0.2% | |
| 35 | BETA Beta Technologies | 0.19% | |
| 36 | VVX V2X | 0.19% | |
| 37 | DCO Ducommun | 0.18% | |
| 38 | RDW Redwire | 0.17% | |
| 39 | ATRO Astronics | 0.17% | |
| 40 | LOAR Loar | 0.17% | |
| 41 | FLY Firefly Aerospace | 0.14% | |
| 42 | LUNR Intuitive Machines | 0.14% | |
| 43 | VOYG Voyager Technologies | 0.12% | |
| 44 | CDRE Cadre | 0.07% | |
| 45 | NPK National Presto Industries | 0.06% | |
| 46 | RCAT Red Cat | 0.05% | |
| 47 | RGR Sturm, Ruger | 0.05% | |
| 48 | SWBI Smith & Wesson Brands | 0.05% | |
| 49 | YSS York Space Systems Inc | 0.05% | |
| 50 | SPCE Virgin Galactic | 0.03% |
The most recent file iShares has published for ITA is dated 2026-10-27, 1 day before these prices, which is the median for the iShares ETFs covered here. Every one of the 50 positions ITA holds, with its weight, is in the fund's JSON file. See the other 102 ETFs with a page here that hold GE, and how their weights compare with the 20.09% ITA gives it.
Category: Industrials, set by TickerInside from the ETF's own latest file. In its file of 2026-10-27, 100% of its stocks whose sector is known are industrials companies, each in the sector the site gives that company. How categories are set.
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ITA's flow on the close of Friday, October 23, 2026 is not measured: the two measures of it, from its holdings, disagreed, as they do on a rebalance or a corporate action. Over its last 5 closes, a net inflow of $31 million, 3 of them measured.
From ITA's own holdings files. Every ETF's latest flows.
How is ITA split by sector?
| Sector | Weight | Weight bar |
|---|---|---|
| Industrials | 99.8% | |
| Consumer discretionary | 0.1% |
From its iShares file of 2026-10-27. How these are measured.
What did ITA hold in its SEC reports since 2019?
In ITA's SEC filings, its largest position went from Boeing (BA) at 22.38% on 2019-09-30 to GE Aerospace (GE) at 22.61% on 2026-06-30, across 28 quarterly reports.
| Report | Positions | Largest | Top 10 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-09-30 | 32 | BA 22.38% | 74.7% |
| 2019-12-31 | 32 | BA 21.35% | 74.5% |
| 2020-12-31 | 33 | BA 19.32% | 73.4% |
| 2021-12-31 | 32 | RTX 20.81% | 75.1% |
| 2022-12-31 | 34 | RTX 21.38% | 75.4% |
| 2023-12-31 | 34 | BA 20.12% | 76.5% |
| 2024-12-31 | 34 | GE 17.61% | 76.4% |
| 2025-12-31 | 41 | GE 21.50% | 76.5% |
| 2026-06-30 | 49 | GE 22.61% | 75.2% |
The first report, then the last of each year, of the 28 reports ITA filed on SEC Form N-PORT from 2019-09-30 to 2026-06-30, each company under its ticker today. Every position of every report is in its quarterly file, and at any date at /api/v1/history/ita/{date}.json. How these are read.
What does ITA duplicate?
The ETF nearest to ITA is PPA: the two hold 69.7% of their weight in common, in the 36 companies both own, and 95.8% of ITA itself is also held there. Owning ITA alongside the ETFs at the top of this table means about half of the weight is held twice. ITA is close to contained in PPA.
| ETF | Overlap by weight | Of ITA held there | Of that ETF in ITA | Companies in both | Overlap bar |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PPA | 69.7% | 95.8% | 78.6% | 36 | |
| XAR | 53.2% | 98.5% | 99.3% | 47 | |
| ROKT | 30.5% | 59.5% | 51.4% | 19 | |
| XLI | 24.2% | 80.8% | 24.3% | 13 | |
| VIS | 23.0% | 93.9% | 23.1% | 42 | |
| UFO | 20.8% | 46.1% | 28.4% | 14 | |
| IYJ | 18.1% | 94.6% | 18.1% | 27 | |
| MADE | 17.5% | 66.9% | 17.6% | 23 | |
| RSPN | 14.9% | 80.8% | 15.3% | 13 | |
| FITE | 14.7% | 52.6% | 22.8% | 23 | |
| EXI | 13.4% | 80.8% | 13.4% | 13 | |
| HACK | 9.1% | 9.9% | 9.3% | 2 |
VIS's holdings are from its SEC Form N-PORT for the period ended 2026-05-31, filed 2026-07-29. UFO's holdings are from its SEC Form N-PORT for the period ended 2026-07-31, filed 2026-09-29. HACK's holdings are from its SEC Form N-PORT for the period ended 2026-06-30, filed 2026-08-28. The other ETFs' holdings are from their issuers' latest files. Check ITA against any ETF in the ETF overlap calculator · how overlap is measured.
What adds something different to ITA?
MCHI shares 0% of weight with ITA and its weekly returns correlate with it at 0.23 over three years. The table lists the covered ETFs with the least in common with ITA, least shared weight first and, among equals, lowest correlation.
| ETF | Name | Overlap by weight | Correlation, 3y | Companies in both |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MCHI | iShares MSCI China ETF | 0.0% | 0.23 | 0 |
| RING | iShares MSCI Global Gold Miners ETF | 0.0% | 0.36 | 0 |
| SLVP | iShares MSCI Global Silver and Metals Miners ETF | 0.0% | 0.36 | 0 |
| IYR | iShares U.S. Real Estate ETF | 0.0% | 0.42 | 0 |
| USRT | iShares Core U.S. REIT ETF | 0.0% | 0.44 | 0 |
| REET | iShares Global REIT ETF | 0.0% | 0.46 | 0 |
| SOXX | iShares Semiconductor ETF | 0.0% | 0.47 | 0 |
| PFF | iShares Preferred and Income Securities ETF | 0.0% | 0.51 | 0 |
Cost, returns and risk
| Expense ratio | 0.37% |
|---|---|
| Dividend yield | 0.27% |
| Total return, 1 year | -3.5% |
| Total return, 3 years cumulative | 87.0% |
| Total return, 5 years cumulative | 98.3% |
| Volatility, annualised | 20.5% |
| Worst fall, 3 years | -20.0% |
| Beta against SPY, 3 years of weekly returns | 0.99 |
| Weight in the ten largest positions | 76.1% |
| Largest single position | 20.1% |
| Assets under management | $12.1B |
Expense ratio, yield and assets are reference data (the expense ratio from ITA's SEC filing of 2026-07-27); the weight in the ten largest positions and the largest single position are from the issuer file of 2026-10-27; every other figure is computed here from weekly closes.
How it moves with the market
| Against | Correlation, 3 years | Covariance, annualised, in percent squared |
|---|---|---|
| SPY | 0.67loosely linked | 191 |
| QQQ | 0.55loosely linked | 219 |
Weekly total returns. What the bands mean · why the covariance is printed.
Year by year
| Year | Total return |
|---|---|
| 2026 | -3.0% |
| 2025 | 48.6% |
| 2024 | 15.8% |
| 2023 | 14.3% |
| 2022 | 10.0% |
One year
Where to go next
- IYJ, iShares U.S. Industrials ETF
- IYT, iShares U.S. Transportation ETF
- JETS, US Global Jets ETF
- MADE, iShares U.S. Manufacturing ETF
- Run a portfolio x-ray to see what ITA carries once you look through it
- Compare ITA against any other ETF in the builder
Holdings from the most recent file iShares has published, dated 2026-10-27. Prices through 2026-10-28. How every figure here is produced. Measurements, not investment advice.
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