Which stocks do ITA and SHLD both hold?

15 stocks are in both. The biggest shared positions: RTX (14.8% of ITA, 7.8% of SHLD), GD (4.3% of ITA, 7.7% of SHLD), LMT (4.0% of ITA, 8.4% of SHLD), NOC (3.9% of ITA, 4.2% of SHLD), LHX (3.8% of ITA, 4.7% of SHLD).

ITAvsSHLD

iShares U.S. Aerospace & Defense ETF or Global X Defense Tech ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 29% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 15 stocks in both. ITA costs 0.38% a year against 0.50% for SHLD, $12 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months ITA returned +29.3% and SHLD +19.6%.

29%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight

ITA36% in stocks the other holds too

SHLD45% in stocks the other holds too

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The two funds

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

ITASHLDYearly cost0.38%0.50%Net assets$14.4B$8.0BPositions5251Last 12 months+29.3%+19.6%3 years, a year+28.6%n/a5 years, a year+18.2%n/aLargest holdingGE 22.6%LMT 8.4%Main sectorIndustrials 100%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.

ITA$200SHLD$254

December 2023May 2026

What they both hold

15 stocks are in both funds: 36% of ITA and 45% of SHLD. The biggest shared positions:

Stockin ITAin SHLD

RTXRTX Corporation14.8%7.8%GDGeneral Dynamics4.3%7.7%LMTLockheed Martin4.0%8.4%NOCNorthrop Grumman3.9%4.2%LHXL3Harris3.8%4.7%BWXTBWX Technologies, Inc.1.3%3.1%MOG-AMoog Inc.0.8%1.7%HIIHuntington Ingalls Industries0.8%2.0%KTOSKratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc.0.7%1.8%MRCYMercury Systems, Inc.0.5%1.1%

Only in ITA

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

Only in SHLD

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

More comparisons

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From each fund’s Form N-PORT (ITA: 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.