iShares U.S. Aerospace & Defense ETF holds 52 positions and $14.4B in net assets as of Jun 30, 2026. The largest: GE 22.6%, RTX 14.8%, BA 8.9%, TDG 4.6%, HWM 4.5%.

What is the expense ratio of ITA?

ITA costs 0.38% a year, from its prospectus.

Which ETFs are most like ITA?

By the share of stock holdings in common: PPA 66%, SHLD 29%, XLI 24%, VIS 23%, XMMO 10%, IJK 8.8%.

ITAiShares U.S. Aerospace & Defense ETF

ETF · iSHARES TRUST

$68.99close Nov 6, 2026

The fund

Holdings as of Jun 30, 2026, filed with the SEC.

$14.4B

net assets, all share classes

0.38%

yearly cost, from the prospectus

positions on file

Growth of $100

Total return with dividends reinvested, month by month since July 2019.

$100$242

20192026

+29.3%

last 12 months

+28.6%

a year, over 3 years

+18.2%

a year, over 5 years

Largest holdings

The top 10 of 52 positions, by share of the fund. Under each, about how much of the company the fund owns.

GE GE Aerospace: 22.6%0.86% of GE
RTX RTX Corporation: 14.8%0.83% of RTX
BA Boeing: 8.9%0.75% of BA
TDG TransDigm Group: 4.6%0.91% of TDG
HWM Howmet Aerospace: 4.5%0.61% of HWM
GD General Dynamics: 4.3%0.64% of GD
LMT Lockheed Martin: 4.0%0.48% of LMT
NOC Northrop Grumman: 3.9%0.77% of NOC
LHX L3Harris: 3.8%1.00% of LHX
RKLB Rocket Lab Corporation: 3.6%0.85% of RKLB

Where it owns the most

The companies of which ITA alone owns the largest share, from its holdings and each company's share count.

Most alike

The funds whose stock holdings overlap most with ITA's: stock by stock, the smaller of the two weights, added up.

The closest is PPA (Invesco Aerospace & Defense ETF): 66%of the two funds’ stock holdings are the same.

Side by side:ITA vs PPA ITA vs SHLD ITA vs XLI ITA vs VIS ITA vs XMMO ITA vs IJK

ITA costs 0.38% a year. Overlap counts only the stocks we can match to a listing; bonds, cash and unmatched foreign shares are left out. Every group of near-identical funds and what each costs.

Sectors

The stocks we can place, by sector.

Industrials99.9%

Countries

Where the holdings are, by share of the fund.

United States99.6%
Cayman Islands1.9%

What it holds

By kind of asset.

Stocks99.9%
Cash and short-term1.6%

From the fund’s Form N-PORT for June 2026 (filed Aug 24, 2026) and its prospectus, via the SEC’s public data sets. Shares of net assets can sum above 100% where a fund holds cash collateral or derivatives.