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Fund · First Trust Indxx Aerospace & Defense ETF · measured from SEC filings

MISL holdings

MISL reports 40 holdings and behaves like 20.4 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 15 quarters of filings.

Measured concentration

as of 2026-06-30
40 Positions reported
20.4 Effective holdings
2× Concentration multiple
61.64% 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

MISL's largest investment is GE Aerospace COM at 8.92% of net assets. Space Exploration Technologies Corp Class A COM STK and Boeing Company (THE) follow; the three together are 24.05%. Ten companies are 61.64% of the fund; the other 30 share the rest. Among the 721 equity funds measured here, MISL behaves like 20.4 holdings against a median of 42.4 — 2.1 times more concentrated than the median. Across 15 quarterly filings MISL has held roughly steady since 2022-12-30 (19.2 then, 20.4 now). Between the 2026-03-31 and 2026-06-30 filings 3 positions were added and 2 dropped; 20.8% 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 2022

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Between 2022-12-30 and 2026-06-30, MISL went from behaving like 19.2 equally weighted positions to 20.4 — 6% more, while its top ten went from 61.53% to 61.64% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
2026-06-30 40 20.4 61.64% 8.91%
2026-03-31 39 19.2 62.45% 9.56%
2025-12-31 39 19.3 62.58% 9.15%
2025-09-30 35 20.6 59.39% 8.69%
2025-06-30 36 21.1 57.99% 9.06%
2025-03-31 35 18.9 63.92% 9.28%
2024-12-31 35 20.3 59.01% 9.87%
2024-09-30 35 20 59.91% 9%
Earlier filings (7 more, back to 2022-12-30)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
2024-06-30 35 20.2 60.09% 8.09%
2024-03-31 34 20.4 59.47% 8.31%
2023-12-31 33 19.6 60.77% 10.04%
2023-09-29 32 19.5 61.22% 8.92%
2023-06-30 33 20.5 59.36% 8.23%
2023-03-31 33 20.4 59.76% 8.22%
2022-12-30 33 19.2 61.53% 9.62%

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.

Largest positions, as filed

as of 2026-06-30

The 15 largest of 40 positions in MISL's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: MISL.csv.gz.

#PositionWeightCumulative
1GE AEROSPACE8.91%8.9%
2SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORP7.80%16.7%
3BOEING COMPANY (THE)7.32%24.0%
4RTX CORP6.92%31.0%
5PALANTIR TECHNOLOGIES INC6.70%37.7%
6LOCKHEED MARTIN CORP6.10%43.8%
7ROCKET LAB CORP5.49%49.3%
8HEICO CORP4.42%53.7%
9TRANSDIGM GROUP INC4.06%57.7%
10HOWMET AEROSPACE INC3.91%61.6%
11GENERAL DYNAMICS CORP3.89%65.5%
12AST SPACEMOBILE INC3.44%69.0%
13L3HARRIS TECHNOLOGIES INC3.02%72.0%
14CURTISS-WRIGHT CORP2.90%74.9%
15FTAI AVIATION LTD2.88%77.8%

By country of issuer

as of 2026-06-30

Share of MISL'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 97.12%
Cayman Islands° 2.88%

Returns the fund reported

2022-10 – 2026-06

Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of MISL's own filings, 45 months on record. Not computed here and not from a price feed.

23.2%Last twelve months filed
125%Whole series, compounded
14.2%Best month
-9.5%Worst month

Cross-checked against a series computed separately from prices: median difference — percentage points over 0 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: MISL.json · all funds.

Since the previous filing

2026-03-31 → 2026-06-30

39 positions became 40: 3 added (15.0% of the fund at the later date), 2 dropped (0.1% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 20.8%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of MISL compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.

Largest increases2026-03-312026-06-30Largest decreases2026-03-312026-06-30
ROCKET LAB CORP3.25%5.49% GENERAL DYNAMICS CORP8.33%3.89%
GE AEROSPACE7.58%8.91% LOCKHEED MARTIN CORP9.56%6.10%
HEICO CORP3.33%4.42% NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORP4.73%2.78%
TRANSDIGM GROUP INC3.58%4.06% RTX CORP8.79%6.92%
MERCURY SYSTEMS INC0.57%0.76% L3HARRIS TECHNOLOGIES INC4.41%3.02%
PARSONS CORP0.40%0.58% LEIDOS HOLDINGS INC2.69%1.35%

New: SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORP (7.80%), PALANTIR TECHNOLOGIES INC (6.70%), FIREFLY AEROSPACE INC (0.49%). Gone: Telos Corp (0.04%), AIRO Group Holdings Inc. (0.03%).

Asset categories and pricing

as of 2026-06-30

99.81% equity, 0.19% 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.

Neighbours by effective holdings, equity funds

10

Every measured equity fund lined up by how many holdings it behaves like; these sit either side of MISL (20.4). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs of
OMAH VistaShares Target 15 Berkshire Select Income ETF 60 20 55.37% 2026-07-31
XLRE State Street(R) Real Estate Select Sector SPDR(R) ETF 33 20.3 59.3% 2026-06-30
SOXX iShares Semiconductor ETF 32 20.4 61.65% 2026-06-30
CTEF Castellan Targeted Equity ETF 35 20.4 57.35% 2026-05-29
DDM ProShares Ultra Dow30 45 20.4 * 51.9% 2026-05-31
IWY iShares Russell Top 200 Growth ETF 103 20.6 59.5% 2026-06-30
REMX VanEck Rare Earth and Strategic Metals ETF 30 20.6 61.4% 2026-06-30
XLF State Street(R) Financial Select Sector SPDR(R) ETF 80 20.7 57.59% 2026-06-30
EAGL Eagle Capital Select Equity ETF 28 20.9 58.54% 2026-06-30
GTOP Goldman Sachs Technology Opportunities ETF 38 21.1 55.26% 2026-05-31

Essays that examine MISL

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