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ITA holdings

ITA reports 51 holdings and behaves like 10.3 equally weighted ones, computed from its SEC Form N-PORT filing for 2026-06-30. The fact sheet publishes the first number; this page computes the second, and traces it across 28 quarters of filings.

Measured concentration

as of 2026-06-30

Read this figure with the following in mind

1.5% of net assets is securities-lending cash collateral, excluded from the figure; counted as filed the fund would read 10.3

The figure below is what the filing says, published unchanged. What it may not do is sit beside a plain long-only fund and be read as the same quantity. How comparability is decided.

51 Positions reported
10.3 Effective holdings
4.9× Concentration multiple
75.13% Top ten weight

Computed by this site from the fund's SEC Form N-PORT filing; what the measure does not tell you · every fund in one table · hold it with other funds? X-ray the mix. Pricing: 100% at a quoted market price (level 1), 2 issuer countries.

What stands out

as of 2026-06-30

ITA's largest investment is General Electric Co at 22.61% of net assets. RTX Corp and Boeing Co THE follow; the three together are 46.33%. Ten companies are 75.13% of the fund; the other 41 share the rest. Among the 721 equity funds measured here, ITA behaves like 10.3 holdings against a median of 42.4 — 4.2 times more concentrated than the median. Across 28 quarterly filings ITA has held roughly steady since 2019-09-30 (10.3 then, 10.3 now). Between the 2026-03-31 and 2026-06-30 filings 6 positions were added and 0 dropped; 6.5% of the weight moved.

Each sentence is read from the fund's own SEC filing; the class median is computed across the comparable equity funds on this site. Nothing here is a view on the fund.

Every filing since 2019

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Between 2019-09-30 and 2026-06-30, ITA went from behaving like 10.3 equally weighted positions to 10.3 — 0% more, while its top ten went from 74.55% to 75.13% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
2026-06-30 51 10.3 75.13% 22.61%
2026-03-31 45 11.3 74.94% 19.03%
2025-12-31 42 10.4 76.48% 21.5%
2025-09-30 41 10.8 75.88% 21.48%
2025-06-30 40 11.1 75.59% 20.66%
2025-03-31 37 10.9 76.54% 19.79%
2024-12-31 36 11.4 76.38% 17.61%
2024-09-30 37 11.1 76.41% 19.3%
Earlier filings (20 more, back to 2019-09-30)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
2024-06-30 36 11.4 76.09% 18.98%
2024-03-31 37 11.4 76.84% 17.51%
2023-12-31 37 10.7 76.55% 20.12%
2023-09-30 34 11.5 75.74% 17.65%
2023-06-30 37 10.7 74.9% 20.46%
2023-03-31 38 10.5 75.94% 20.61%
2022-12-31 36 10.5 75.41% 21.38%
2022-09-30 36 10.7 74.47% 21.23%
2022-06-30 37 9.9 75.48% 22.94%
2022-03-31 37 10.9 73.79% 21.33%
2021-12-31 36 10.4 75.13% 20.8%
2021-09-30 34 10.1 75.39% 20.57%
2021-06-30 35 10.6 74.37% 19.42%
2021-03-31 37 10 74.53% 21.81%
2020-12-31 36 10.9 73.4% 19.32%
2020-09-30 37 11.2 73.25% 18.63%
2020-06-30 33 11 73.03% 19.21%
2020-03-31 34 11.2 75.93% 17.32%
2019-12-31 35 10.4 74.59% 21.38%
2019-09-30 36 10.3 74.55% 22.35%

One row per filed reporting period, newest first, read from EDGAR. Quarterly because that is the public filing cadence. Rows marked * are published but held out of the comparison above; the methodology page says when and why.

Compared with, in the essays

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Overlap with other funds

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Measured against every other fund on this site, from the same filings. Combined effective holdings is how the pair behaves held in equal size.

WithOverlapSharedCombined effective
ITA vs XAR 47.92% 45 22.8

As filed, collateral included

1.51% collateral

ITA's filing lists 52 positions including 1.51% of net assets in securities-lending cash collateral. Counted as filed the fund reads 10.3 effective holdings with a top ten of 75.15%; on its own investments — the figure above — it reads 10.3 with a top ten of 75.13%. The collateral is matched by a liability and is not a holding the fund chose; since 2026-09-18 every figure on this site sets it aside (methodology). Both numbers are in the data.

Largest positions, as filed

as of 2026-06-30

The 15 largest of 51 positions in ITA's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: ITA.csv.gz.

#PositionWeightCumulative
1GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY22.61%22.6%
2RTX CORPORATION14.81%37.4%
3THE BOEING COMPANY8.89%46.3%
4TRANSDIGM GROUP INCORPORATED4.58%50.9%
5HOWMET AEROSPACE INC.4.50%55.4%
6GENERAL DYNAMICS CORPORATION4.33%59.7%
7LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION4.05%63.8%
8Northrop Grumman Corporation3.92%67.7%
9L3HARRIS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.3.80%71.5%
10ROCKET LAB CORPORATION3.63%75.1%
11AXON ENTERPRISE, INC.3.17%78.3%
12CARPENTER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION2.15%80.4%
13CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION1.96%82.4%
14FTAI Aviation Ltd.1.95%84.4%
15ATI INC1.89%86.2%

By country of issuer

as of 2026-06-30

Share of ITA's own investments by the issuer country the filer reported (incorporation, not revenue). Each country links to every fund that holds it.

CountryShare
United States 98.05%
Cayman Islands° 1.95%

Returns the fund reported

2019-07 – 2026-06

Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of ITA's own filings, 84 months on record. Not computed here and not from a price feed.

29.3%Last twelve months filed
142%Whole series, compounded
22.1%Best month
-28.0%Worst month

Cross-checked against a series computed separately from prices: median difference 0.04 percentage points over 84 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: ITA.json · all funds.

Who borrows ITA's shares

2026-06-30

The fund lends its holdings, and Item B.4.a of the filing names every firm holding them. At 2026-06-30, $233m was out to 17 borrowers, 1.62% of net assets. The largest, JP MORGAN SECURITIES LLC, held 18.9% of it.

BorrowerOn loanShare of the loan
JP MORGAN SECURITIES LLC $44m 18.9%
BofA Securities, Inc. $39m 16.9%
CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS INC. $36m 15.6%
HSBC BANK PLC $21m 9.0%
STATE STREET BANK & TRUST COMPANY $14m 6.0%

Cash collateral reported against the loan: 1.51% of net assets, 93.5% of the amount lent. That is a floor on the collateral, not the whole of it — collateral the fund does not hold as a position is not in this filing, so a figure under 100% is not evidence of under-collateralisation. How that figure behaves across all funds. Every quarter ITA has filed, with each borrower: ITA.json · all funds.

Since the previous filing

2026-03-31 → 2026-06-30

45 positions became 51: 6 added (0.2% of the fund at the later date), 0 dropped (0.0% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 6.5%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of ITA compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.

Largest increases2026-03-312026-06-30Largest decreases2026-03-312026-06-30
GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY19.03%22.61% RTX CORPORATION16.56%14.82%
ROCKET LAB CORPORATION2.55%3.63% L3HARRIS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.4.66%3.80%
CARPENTER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION1.66%2.15% Northrop Grumman Corporation4.58%3.92%
AXON ENTERPRISE, INC.2.83%3.17% LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION4.58%4.05%
ATI INC1.67%1.89% HUNTINGTON INGALLS INDUSTRIES, INC.1.26%0.77%
MOOG INC.0.70%0.85% KRATOS DEFENSE & SECURITY SOLUTIONS, INC.1.10%0.66%

New: FIREFLY AEROSPACE INC. (0.07%), ASTRONICS CORPORATION (0.04%), York Space Systems Inc (0.03%), VOYAGER TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (0.03%), VIRGIN GALACTIC HOLDINGS, INC. (0.02%), XAI EMINI INDUSTR SEP26 (0.00%).

Asset categories and pricing

as of 2026-06-30

98.41% equity, 1.58% short-term investment as filed; 100.0% carried at a quoted market price (fair-value level 1). Categories and levels are the filer's; what a low level-1 share does and does not mean is in the measure's page.

Derivative exposure and counterparties

as of 2026-06-30

A position count cannot describe a fund that uses derivatives, because a swap is filed at its unrealised gain, not its exposure. These are the notionals the fund itself reported, against net assets of $14.44B. Notional of an interest-rate or currency swap is not equity exposure.

99.93%Stocks held directly
0%Swap notional (0)
0.07%Futures notional (1)
100%Sum, % of net assets

Full detail for every fund that files derivatives: leverage.json (CC BY 4.0).

Neighbours by effective holdings, equity funds

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Every measured equity fund lined up by how many holdings it behaves like; these sit either side of ITA (10.3). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs of
REM iShares Mortgage Real Estate ETF 33 10.1 73.26% 2026-06-30
ENZL iShares MSCI New Zealand ETF 28 10.1 76.61% 2026-05-31
VCR Vanguard Consumer Discretionary Index Fund 285 10.2 60.03% 2026-05-31
IAI iShares U.S. Broker-Dealers & Securities Exchanges ETF 37 10.3 76.16% 2026-06-30
EFNL iShares MSCI Finland ETF 38 10.3 73.89% 2026-05-31
BIZD VanEck BDC Income ETF 34 10.4 77.58% 2026-06-30
IYE iShares U.S. Energy ETF 42 10.5 70.37% 2026-07-31
SLVR Sprott Silver Miners & Physical Silver ETF 78 10.5 74% 2026-06-30
VOX Vanguard Communication Services Index Fund 116 10.8 71.85% 2026-05-31
IYZ iShares U.S. Telecommunications ETF 25 10.9 69.49% 2026-06-30

Essays that examine ITA

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