ETF comparison
ITA vs VIS
Both Industrials.
iShares U.S. Aerospace & Defense ETF · Vanguard Industrials Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
42 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of ITA and VIS would leave roughly 23.0% 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
VIS is 28 bps cheaper than ITA. On a $100,000 position that's about $280/yr more in fees for ITA.
Fee figure is the annual expense charged on $100,000. To see how the gap compounds over a multi-decade holding period, open the cost calculator pre-filled with ITA vs VIS.
Top shared holdings
42 shared in total| # | Holding | In ITA | In VIS | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY | 22.61% | 4.84% | 4.84% |
| 2 | RTX CORPORATION | 14.82% | 3.41% | 3.41% |
| 3 | THE BOEING COMPANY | 8.90% | 2.57% | 2.57% |
| 4 | LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION | 4.05% | 1.57% | 1.57% |
| 5 | HOWMET AEROSPACE INC. | 4.50% | 1.40% | 1.40% |
| 6 | GENERAL DYNAMICS CORPORATION | 4.33% | 1.13% | 1.13% |
| 7 | Northrop Grumman Corporation | 3.92% | 1.08% | 1.08% |
| 8 | TRANSDIGM GROUP INCORPORATED | 4.59% | 1.00% | 1.00% |
| 9 | ROCKET LAB CORPORATION | 3.63% | 0.98% | 0.98% |
| 10 | L3HARRIS TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | 3.80% | 0.84% | 0.84% |
| 11 | AXON ENTERPRISE, INC. | 3.17% | 0.48% | 0.48% |
| 12 | CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION | 1.96% | 0.39% | 0.39% |
Only in ITA
7 total- FTAI Aviation Ltd. 1.95%
- FIREFLY AEROSPACE INC. 0.07%
- SMITH & WESSON BRANDS, INC. 0.05%
- STURM, RUGER & COMPANY, INC. 0.04%
- BETA Technologies Inc 0.04%
- ASTRONICS CORPORATION 0.04%
- York Space Systems Inc 0.03%
Only in VIS
339 total- Caterpillar Inc 5.81%
- GE Vernova Inc 3.72%
- Eaton Corp PLC 2.21%
- Honeywell International Inc 2.14%
- Deere & Co 1.97%
- Uber Technologies Inc 1.97%
- Union Pacific Corp 1.89%
- Vertiv Holdings Co 1.63%
- Parker-Hannifin Corp 1.51%
- Quanta Services Inc 1.50%
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More comparisons with ITA
- ITA vs IYJ · iShares U.S. Industrials ETF 19.5%
- ITA vs PAVE · Global X U.S. Infrastructure Development ETF 7.0%
- ITA vs JETS · U.S. Global Jets ETF 4.5%
- ITA vs AIRR · First Trust RBA American Industrial RenaissanceTM ETF 3.7%
- ITA vs IFRA · iShares U.S. Infrastructure ETF 2.0%
- ITA vs IGF · iShares Global Infrastructure ETF 0.0%
More comparisons with VIS
- VIS vs XAR · State Street SPDR S&P Aerospace & Defense ETF 20.3%
- VIS vs IFRA · iShares U.S. Infrastructure ETF 17.0%
- VIS vs SHLD · Global X Defense Tech ETF 9.3%
- VIS vs AIRR · First Trust RBA American Industrial RenaissanceTM ETF 7.0%
- VIS vs JETS · U.S. Global Jets ETF 4.9%
- VIS vs IGF · iShares Global Infrastructure ETF 0.0%
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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