Fund · iShares U.S. Aerospace & Defense ETF · measured from SEC filings
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 2026-06-30Read 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.
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 2026-06-30ITA'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
28Between 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.
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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)
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
1Overlap with other funds
1Measured against every other fund on this site, from the same filings. Combined effective holdings is how the pair behaves held in equal size.
| With | Overlap | Shared | Combined effective |
|---|---|---|---|
| ITA vs XAR | 47.92% | 45 | 22.8 |
As filed, collateral included
1.51% collateralITA'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 2026-06-30The 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.
| # | Position | Weight | Cumulative |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY | 22.61% | 22.6% |
| 2 | RTX CORPORATION | 14.81% | 37.4% |
| 3 | THE BOEING COMPANY | 8.89% | 46.3% |
| 4 | TRANSDIGM GROUP INCORPORATED | 4.58% | 50.9% |
| 5 | HOWMET AEROSPACE INC. | 4.50% | 55.4% |
| 6 | GENERAL DYNAMICS CORPORATION | 4.33% | 59.7% |
| 7 | LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION | 4.05% | 63.8% |
| 8 | Northrop Grumman Corporation | 3.92% | 67.7% |
| 9 | L3HARRIS TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | 3.80% | 71.5% |
| 10 | ROCKET LAB CORPORATION | 3.63% | 75.1% |
| 11 | AXON ENTERPRISE, INC. | 3.17% | 78.3% |
| 12 | CARPENTER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION | 2.15% | 80.4% |
| 13 | CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION | 1.96% | 82.4% |
| 14 | FTAI Aviation Ltd. | 1.95% | 84.4% |
| 15 | ATI INC | 1.89% | 86.2% |
By country of issuer
as of 2026-06-30Share of ITA's own investments by the issuer country the filer reported (incorporation, not revenue). Each country links to every fund that holds it.
| Country | Share |
|---|---|
| United States | 98.05% |
| Cayman Islands° | 1.95% |
Returns the fund reported
2019-07 – 2026-06Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of ITA's own filings, 84 months on record. Not computed here and not from a price feed.
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
2026-06-30The 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.
| Borrower | On loan | Share 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 → 2026-06-3045 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 increases | 2026-03-31 | 2026-06-30 | Largest decreases | 2026-03-31 | 2026-06-30 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY | 19.03% | 22.61% | RTX CORPORATION | 16.56% | 14.82% |
| ROCKET LAB CORPORATION | 2.55% | 3.63% | L3HARRIS TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | 4.66% | 3.80% |
| CARPENTER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION | 1.66% | 2.15% | Northrop Grumman Corporation | 4.58% | 3.92% |
| AXON ENTERPRISE, INC. | 2.83% | 3.17% | LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION | 4.58% | 4.05% |
| ATI INC | 1.67% | 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 2026-06-3098.41% 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 2026-06-30A 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.
Full detail for every fund that files derivatives: leverage.json (CC BY 4.0).
Neighbours by effective holdings, equity funds
10Every 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.
| Fund | Reports | Behaves like | Top ten | As 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 |
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