ETF comparison
JETS vs XAR
Both Industrials.
U.S. Global Jets ETF · State Street SPDR S&P Aerospace & Defense ETF
Holdings overlap
3 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of JETS and XAR would leave roughly 5.1% 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
XAR is 25 bps cheaper than JETS. On a $100,000 position that's about $250/yr more in fees for JETS.
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 JETS vs XAR.
Top shared holdings
3 shared in total| # | Holding | In JETS | In XAR | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | General Dynamics Corp | 1.71% | 2.67% | 1.71% |
| 2 | Textron Inc | 1.69% | 2.59% | 1.69% |
| 3 | Boeing Co/The | 1.69% | 2.67% | 1.69% |
Only in JETS
46 total- American Airlines Group Inc 11.31%
- United Airlines Holdings Inc 11.07%
- Southwest Airlines Co 10.65%
- Delta Air Lines Inc 10.50%
- Allegiant Travel Co 4.26%
- Frontier Group Holdings Inc 4.05%
- Air Canada 3.62%
- JetBlue Airways Corp 3.58%
- Alaska Air Group Inc 3.48%
- SkyWest Inc 3.45%
Only in XAR
45 total- VSE Corp 3.40%
- Axon Enterprise Inc 3.22%
- StandardAero Inc 3.11%
- FTAI Aviation Ltd 3.08%
- Carpenter Technology Corp 3.04%
- General Electric Co 3.02%
- Woodward Inc 2.98%
- HEICO Corp 2.86%
- Moog Inc 2.86%
- TransDigm Group Inc 2.83%
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- JETS vs FIDU · Fidelity MSCI Industrials Index ETF 3.6%
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- JETS vs IGF · iShares Global Infrastructure ETF 2.3%
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Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
Open JETS or XAR at a brokerage
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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/.
Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.