IJKvsITA

iShares S&P Mid-Cap 400 Growth ETF or iShares U.S. Aerospace & Defense ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 8.8% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 10 stocks in both. IJK costs 0.17% a year against 0.38% for ITA, $21 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months IJK returned +29.8% and ITA +29.3%.

8.8%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
IJK8.8% in stocks the other holds too
ITA12% 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.

IJKITAYearly cost0.17%0.38%Net assets$11.3B$14.4BPositions24852Last 12 months+29.8%+29.3%3 years, a year+17.1%+28.6%5 years, a year+8.7%+18.2%Largest holdingBlackRock 5.9%GE 22.6%Main sectorIndustrials 30%Industrials 100%Holdings as ofJun 30, 2026Jun 30, 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 July 2019, the first month both report, dividends reinvested.

IJK$221ITA$242
July 2019June 2026

What they both hold

10 stocks are in both funds: 8.8% of IJK and 12% of ITA. The biggest shared positions:

Stockin IJKin ITA
CRS1.6%2.1%CW1.5%2.0%ATI1.4%1.9%WWD1.3%1.8%BWXT0.9%1.3%MOG-A0.6%0.8%KTOS0.5%0.7%HXL0.4%0.5%AVAV0.3%0.4%SARO0.2%0.4%

Only in IJK

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

  1. TWLOTwilio Inc.1.7%
  2. NVTnVent Electric plc1.5%
  3. FTITechnipFMC plc1.4%
  4. STRLSterling Infrastructure, Inc.1.4%
  5. MTZMasTec, Inc.1.4%
  6. MTSIMACOM Technology Solutions Holdings, Inc.1.3%

Only in ITA

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

  1. GEGE Aerospace22.6%
  2. RTXRTX Corporation14.8%
  3. BABoeing8.9%
  4. TDGTransDigm Group4.6%
  5. HWMHowmet Aerospace4.5%
  6. GDGeneral Dynamics4.3%

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From each fund’s Form N-PORT (IJK: June 2026, ITA: June 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.