PPAvsVIS

Invesco Aerospace & Defense ETF or Vanguard Industrials ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. 27% of their stock holdings are the same at the same weight, across 45 stocks in both. VIS costs 0.09% a year against 0.58% for PPA, $49 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months PPA returned +20.0% and VIS +27.6%.

27%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
PPA84% in stocks the other holds too
VIS27% 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.

PPAVISYearly cost0.58%0.09%Net assets$8.3B$8.4BPositions64385Last 12 months+20.0%+27.6%3 years, a year+27.6%+24.3%5 years, a year+19.1%+12.6%Largest holdingRTX 8.3%CAT 5.8%Main sectorIndustrials 87%Industrials 96%Holdings as ofJul 31, 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.

PPA$276VIS$263
September 2019May 2026

More comparisons

From each fund’s Form N-PORT (PPA: July 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.