ETF comparison
ITA vs IYJ
Both Industrials.
iShares U.S. Aerospace & Defense ETF · iShares U.S. Industrials ETF
Holdings overlap
26 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of ITA and IYJ would leave roughly 19.5% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Unmatched is the part of a fund's weight the other fund doesn't match: names only it holds, plus any extra weight it puts in names both funds hold.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
Expense ratios are effectively identical (0.37% vs 0.37%).
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Top shared holdings
26 shared in total| # | Holding | In ITA | In IYJ | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY | 22.61% | 4.45% | 4.45% |
| 2 | RTX CORPORATION | 14.82% | 3.47% | 3.47% |
| 3 | THE BOEING COMPANY | 8.90% | 1.96% | 1.96% |
| 4 | LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION | 4.05% | 1.42% | 1.42% |
| 5 | HOWMET AEROSPACE INC. | 4.50% | 1.34% | 1.34% |
| 6 | GENERAL DYNAMICS CORPORATION | 4.33% | 1.17% | 1.17% |
| 7 | Northrop Grumman Corporation | 3.92% | 0.87% | 0.87% |
| 8 | TRANSDIGM GROUP INCORPORATED | 4.59% | 0.84% | 0.84% |
| 9 | L3HARRIS TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | 3.80% | 0.62% | 0.62% |
| 10 | AXON ENTERPRISE, INC. | 3.17% | 0.49% | 0.49% |
| 11 | ROCKET LAB CORPORATION | 3.63% | 0.42% | 0.42% |
| 12 | CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION | 1.96% | 0.32% | 0.32% |
Only in ITA
23 total- CARPENTER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION 2.15%
- MOOG INC. 0.85%
- HEXCEL CORPORATION 0.53%
- MERCURY SYSTEMS, INC. 0.45%
- VSE CORPORATION 0.45%
- AAR CORP. 0.39%
- Archer Aviation Inc 0.21%
- INTUITIVE MACHINES, INC. 0.19%
- DUCOMMUN INCORPORATED 0.18%
- ASTRONICS CORPORATION 0.18%
Only in IYJ
185 total- VISA INC. 7.23%
- MASTERCARD INCORPORATED 5.54%
- CATERPILLAR INC. 4.43%
- GE VERNOVA INC. 3.19%
- AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY 2.14%
- UNION PACIFIC CORPORATION 2.07%
- EATON CORPORATION PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY 1.93%
- DEERE & COMPANY 1.75%
- CAPITAL ONE FINANCIAL CORPORATION 1.56%
- PARKER-HANNIFIN CORPORATION 1.47%
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- IYJ vs SHLD · Global X Defense Tech ETF 8.1%
- IYJ vs AIRR · First Trust RBA American Industrial RenaissanceTM ETF 4.0%
- IYJ vs JETS · U.S. Global Jets ETF 3.0%
- IYJ vs VGT · Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund ETF Shares 1.9%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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Holdings overlap is the sum of min(weight_a, weight_b) over positions
matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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