AIRRvsSHLD

First Trust RBA American Industrial Renaissance ETF or Global X Defense Tech ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 8.8% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 5 stocks in both. SHLD costs 0.50% a year against 0.69% for AIRR, $19 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months AIRR returned +63.9% and SHLD +19.6%.

8.8%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
AIRR11% in stocks the other holds too
SHLD8.9% in stocks the other holds too
stocks in bothstocks only in that fundbonds, cash and unmatched shares

The two funds

From each fund's latest N-PORT filing and its prospectus.

AIRRSHLDYearly cost0.69%0.50%Net assets$11.5B$8.0BPositions5351Last 12 months+63.9%+19.6%3 years, a year+35.4%n/a5 years, a year+26.9%n/aLargest holdingSTRL 6.0%LMT 8.4%Main sectorIndustrials 91%Industrials 53%Holdings as ofJun 30, 2026May 31, 2026

Returns are total returns with dividends reinvested, from the funds’ own monthly figures; “(price)” marks a fund whose filing record is younger than a year, whose twelve months are its price change. The stronger figure in each row is set in bold. Past returns say what happened, not what will.

Growth of $100

Both funds from December 2023, the first month both report, dividends reinvested.

AIRR$254SHLD$254
December 2023May 2026

What they both hold

5 stocks are in both funds: 11% of AIRR and 8.9% of SHLD. The biggest shared positions:

Stockin AIRRin SHLD
BWXT3.0%3.1%HII2.4%2.0%KTOS2.4%1.8%MRCY1.2%1.1%KRMN1.9%0.8%

Only in AIRR

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

  1. STRLSterling Infrastructure, Inc.6.0%
  2. AGXArgan, Inc.4.7%
  3. FIXComfort Systems USA4.4%
  4. MTZMasTec, Inc.4.2%
  5. CHRWC.H. Robinson4.1%
  6. OCOwens Corning3.9%

Only in SHLD

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

  1. LMTLockheed Martin8.4%
  2. RTXRTX Corporation7.8%
  3. GDGeneral Dynamics7.7%
  4. PLTRPalantir Technologies7.1%
  5. LHXL3Harris4.7%
  6. NOCNorthrop Grumman4.2%

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From each fund’s Form N-PORT (AIRR: June 2026, SHLD: May 2026) and prospectus, via the SEC’s public data sets. Overlap counts only the stocks we can match to a listing: stock by stock, the smaller of the two weights, added up.