ETF comparison
ITA vs XLI
Both Industrials.
iShares U.S. Aerospace & Defense ETF · State Street Industrial Select Sector SPDR ETF
Holdings overlap
12 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of ITA and XLI would leave roughly 24.0% 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
XLI is 29 bps cheaper than ITA. On a $100,000 position that's about $290/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 XLI.
Top shared holdings
12 shared in total| # | Holding | In ITA | In XLI | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY | 22.61% | 6.77% | 6.77% |
| 2 | RTX CORPORATION | 14.82% | 4.43% | 4.43% |
| 3 | THE BOEING COMPANY | 8.90% | 2.96% | 2.96% |
| 4 | HOWMET AEROSPACE INC. | 4.50% | 1.87% | 1.87% |
| 5 | LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION | 4.05% | 1.79% | 1.79% |
| 6 | GENERAL DYNAMICS CORPORATION | 4.33% | 1.56% | 1.56% |
| 7 | TRANSDIGM GROUP INCORPORATED | 4.59% | 1.29% | 1.29% |
| 8 | Northrop Grumman Corporation | 3.92% | 1.18% | 1.18% |
| 9 | L3HARRIS TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | 3.80% | 0.94% | 0.94% |
| 10 | AXON ENTERPRISE, INC. | 3.17% | 0.78% | 0.78% |
| 11 | TEXTRON INC. | 1.12% | 0.28% | 0.28% |
| 12 | HUNTINGTON INGALLS INDUSTRIES, INC. | 0.77% | 0.19% | 0.19% |
Only in ITA
37 total- ROCKET LAB CORPORATION 3.63%
- CARPENTER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION 2.15%
- CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION 1.96%
- FTAI Aviation Ltd. 1.95%
- ATI INC 1.89%
- WOODWARD, INC. 1.78%
- HEICO CORPORATION 1.40%
- BWX TECHNOLOGIES, INC. 1.25%
- HEICO CORPORATION 1.01%
- MOOG INC. 0.85%
Only in XLI
69 total- Caterpillar Inc 8.51%
- GE Vernova Inc 5.48%
- Eaton Corp PLC 2.87%
- Union Pacific Corp 2.80%
- Deere & Co 2.77%
- Uber Technologies Inc 2.55%
- Vertiv Holdings Co 2.23%
- Parker-Hannifin Corp 2.14%
- Trane Technologies PLC 1.88%
- Quanta Services Inc 1.88%
Related comparisons
More comparisons with ITA
- ITA vs VIS · Vanguard Industrials Index Fund ETF Shares 23.0%
- 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%
More comparisons with XLI
- XLI vs XAR · State Street SPDR S&P Aerospace & Defense ETF 18.3%
- XLI vs IFRA · iShares U.S. Infrastructure ETF 15.5%
- XLI vs SHLD · Global X Defense Tech ETF 10.3%
- XLI vs JETS · U.S. Global Jets ETF 5.8%
- XLI vs AIRR · First Trust RBA American Industrial RenaissanceTM ETF 2.4%
- XLI 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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