ITAvsVIS

iShares U.S. Aerospace & Defense ETF or Vanguard Industrials ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 23% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 42 stocks in both. VIS costs 0.09% a year against 0.38% for ITA, $29 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months ITA returned +29.3% and VIS +27.6%.

23%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
ITA98% in stocks the other holds too
VIS23% 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.

ITAVISYearly cost0.38%0.09%Net assets$14.4B$8.4BPositions52385Last 12 months+29.3%+27.6%3 years, a year+28.6%+24.3%5 years, a year+18.2%+12.6%Largest holdingGE 22.6%CAT 5.8%Main sectorIndustrials 100%Industrials 96%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 September 2019, the first month both report, dividends reinvested.

ITA$227VIS$263
September 2019May 2026

More comparisons

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