FTCSvsSHLD

First Trust Capital Strength ETF or Global X Defense Tech ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 5.4% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 3 stocks in both. SHLD costs 0.50% a year against 0.53% for FTCS, $3 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months FTCS returned +4.5% and SHLD +19.6%.

5.4%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
FTCS5.4% in stocks the other holds too
SHLD20% 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.

FTCSSHLDYearly cost0.53%0.50%Net assets$7.6B$8.0BPositions5251Last 12 months+4.5%+19.6%3 years, a year+9.1%n/a5 years, a year+5.8%n/aLargest holdingCSCO 2.7%LMT 8.4%Main sectorIndustrials 23%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.

FTCS$124SHLD$254
December 2023May 2026

What they both hold

3 stocks are in both funds: 5.4% of FTCS and 20% of SHLD. The biggest shared positions:

Stockin FTCSin SHLD
GD2.1%7.7%LMT1.7%8.4%NOC1.5%4.2%

Only in FTCS

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

  1. CSCOCisco2.7%
  2. MNSTMonster Beverage2.5%
  3. TROWT. Rowe Price2.4%
  4. ADPAutomatic Data Processing2.3%
  5. CINFCincinnati Financial2.2%
  6. AAgilent Technologies2.2%

Only in SHLD

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

  1. RTXRTX Corporation7.8%
  2. PLTRPalantir Technologies7.1%
  3. LHXL3Harris4.7%
  4. ESLTElbit Systems Ltd.4.1%
  5. BWXTBWX Technologies, Inc.3.1%
  6. LDOSLeidos2.8%

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From each fund’s Form N-PORT (FTCS: 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.