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 5.7% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
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 | Boeing Co/The | 1.91% | 3.08% | 1.91% |
| 2 | General Dynamics Corp | 1.90% | 3.21% | 1.90% |
| 3 | Textron Inc | 1.87% | 3.11% | 1.87% |
Only in JETS
46 total- Delta Air Lines Inc 11.92%
- United Airlines Holdings Inc 11.05%
- American Airlines Group Inc 10.57%
- Southwest Airlines Co 9.59%
- JetBlue Airways Corp 3.75%
- Allegiant Travel Co 3.71%
- Air Canada 3.67%
- Frontier Group Holdings Inc 3.66%
- SkyWest Inc 3.62%
- Alaska Air Group Inc 3.36%
Only in XAR
39 total- BWX Technologies Inc 3.46%
- Curtiss-Wright Corp 3.26%
- Carpenter Technology Corp 3.20%
- Hexcel Corp 3.17%
- L3Harris Technologies Inc 3.14%
- FTAI Aviation Ltd 3.12%
- RTX Corp 3.08%
- Lockheed Martin Corp 3.08%
- Northrop Grumman Corp 3.08%
- Woodward Inc 3.07%
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/.
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