ITAvsXLI

iShares U.S. Aerospace & Defense ETF or State Street Industrial Select Sector SPDR ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 24% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 12 stocks in both. XLI costs 0.08% a year against 0.38% for ITA, $30 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months ITA returned +29.3% and XLI +27.2%.

24%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
ITA77% in stocks the other holds too
XLI24% 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.

ITAXLIYearly cost0.38%0.08%Net assets$14.4B$34.0BPositions5286Last 12 months+29.3%+27.2%3 years, a year+28.6%+21.7%5 years, a year+18.2%+14.3%Largest holdingGE 22.6%CAT 8.5%Main sectorIndustrials 100%Industrials 99%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.

ITA$242XLI$268
July 2019June 2026

What they both hold

12 stocks are in both funds: 77% of ITA and 24% of XLI. The biggest shared positions:

Stockin ITAin XLI
GE22.6%6.8%RTX14.8%4.4%BA8.9%3.0%HWM4.5%1.9%LMT4.0%1.8%GD4.3%1.6%TDG4.6%1.3%NOC3.9%1.2%LHX3.8%0.9%AXON3.2%0.8%

Only in ITA

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

  1. RKLBRocket Lab Corporation3.6%
  2. CRSCarpenter Technology Corporation2.1%
  3. CWCurtiss-Wright Corporation2.0%
  4. FTAIFTAI Aviation Ltd.1.9%
  5. ATIATI Inc.1.9%
  6. WWDWoodward, Inc.1.8%

Only in XLI

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

  1. CATCaterpillar Inc.8.5%
  2. GEVGE Vernova5.5%
  3. ETNEaton Corporation2.9%
  4. UNPUnion Pacific Corporation2.8%
  5. DEDeere & Company2.8%
  6. UBERUber2.5%

More comparisons

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