ETF comparison
PPAvsVIS
Both Industrials.
Invesco Aerospace & Defense ETF · Vanguard Industrials Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
46 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of PPA and VIS would leave roughly29.4%of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
VIS is 49 bps cheaper than PPA. On a $100,000 position that's about $490/yr more in fees for PPA.
Fee figure is the annual expense charged on $100,000. To see how the gap compounds over a multi-decade holding period, open thecost calculator pre-filled with PPA vs VIS.
Top shared holdings
46 shared in total| # | Holding | In PPA | In VIS | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | General Electric Co. | 7.87% | 4.84% | 4.84% |
| 2 | RTX Corp. | 7.15% | 3.41% | 3.41% |
| 3 | Boeing Co. (The) | 9.14% | 2.57% | 2.57% |
| 4 | Eaton Corp. PLC | 2.36% | 2.21% | 2.21% |
| 5 | Honeywell International Inc. | 4.40% | 2.14% | 2.14% |
| 6 | Lockheed Martin Corp. | 6.41% | 1.57% | 1.57% |
| 7 | Parker-Hannifin Corp. | 3.75% | 1.51% | 1.51% |
| 8 | Howmet Aerospace Inc. | 4.19% | 1.40% | 1.40% |
| 9 | General Dynamics Corp. | 4.54% | 1.13% | 1.13% |
| 10 | Northrop Grumman Corp. | 4.47% | 1.08% | 1.08% |
| 11 | TransDigm Group Inc. | 2.63% | 1.00% | 1.00% |
| 12 | Rocket Lab Corp. | 2.78% | 0.98% | 0.98% |
Only in PPA
15 total- Elbit Systems Ltd.3.59%
- Amphenol Corp.2.34%
- Palantir Technologies Inc.1.23%
- Keysight Technologies, Inc.1.02%
- Teledyne Technologies Inc.0.86%
- CAE Inc.0.75%
- Viasat, Inc.0.70%
- TTM Technologies, Inc.0.67%
- OSI Systems, Inc.0.32%
- nLight, Inc.0.24%
Only in VIS
335 total- Caterpillar Inc5.81%
- GE Vernova Inc3.72%
- Deere & Co1.97%
- Uber Technologies Inc1.97%
- Union Pacific Corp1.89%
- Vertiv Holdings Co1.63%
- Quanta Services Inc1.50%
- Trane Technologies PLC1.42%
- FedEx Corp1.30%
- Automatic Data Processing Inc1.27%
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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.