ETF comparison
AIRR vs SHLD
Both Industrials.
First Trust RBA American Industrial RenaissanceTM ETF · Global X Defense Tech ETF
Holdings overlap
5 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AIRR and SHLD would leave roughly 6.4% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Unmatched is the part of a fund's weight the other fund doesn't match: names only it holds, plus any extra weight it puts in names both funds hold.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
SHLD is 19 bps cheaper than AIRR. On a $100,000 position that's about $190/yr more in fees for AIRR.
Fee figure is the annual expense charged on $100,000. To see how the gap compounds over a multi-decade holding period, open the cost calculator pre-filled with AIRR vs SHLD.
Top shared holdings
5 shared in total| # | Holding | In AIRR | In SHLD | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BWX TECHNOLOGIES INC | 2.97% | 2.03% | 2.03% |
| 2 | HUNTINGTON INGALLS INDUSTRIES INC | 2.44% | 1.67% | 1.67% |
| 3 | KRATOS DEFENSE & SECURITY SOLUTIONS INC | 2.43% | 1.38% | 1.38% |
| 4 | MERCURY SYSTEMS INC | 1.24% | 0.76% | 0.76% |
| 5 | KARMAN HOLDINGS INC | 1.88% | 0.56% | 0.56% |
Only in AIRR
47 total- STERLING INFRASTRUCTURE INC 6.00%
- ARGAN INC 4.73%
- COMFORT SYSTEMS USA INC 4.42%
- MASTEC INC 4.18%
- CH ROBINSON WORLDWIDE INC 4.08%
- OWENS CORNING 3.89%
- DYCOM INDUSTRIES INC 3.76%
- EMCOR GROUP INC 3.75%
- SAIA INC 3.53%
- POWELL INDUSTRIES INC 2.48%
Only in SHLD
45 total- PALANTIR TECHNOLOGIES INC. 10.80%
- RTX CORPORATION 9.31%
- GENERAL DYNAMICS CORPORATION 8.59%
- LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION 8.34%
- Northrop Grumman Corporation 7.71%
- BAE SYSTEMS PLC 4.62%
- Rheinmetall Aktiengesellschaft 4.04%
- HANWHA AEROSPACE CO., LTD. 3.81%
- L3HARRIS TECHNOLOGIES, INC. 3.80%
- THALES SA 3.72%
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- AIRR vs PPA · Invesco Aerospace & Defense ETF 4.8%
- AIRR vs IYJ · iShares U.S. Industrials ETF 4.0%
- AIRR vs ITA · iShares U.S. Aerospace & Defense ETF 3.7%
- AIRR vs XLI · State Street Industrial Select Sector SPDR ETF 2.4%
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- SHLD vs XLK · State Street Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF 1.5%
- SHLD vs IFRA · iShares U.S. Infrastructure ETF 0.0%
- SHLD vs IGF · iShares Global Infrastructure ETF 0.0%
- SHLD vs PAVE · Global X U.S. Infrastructure Development ETF 0.0%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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Holdings overlap is the sum of min(weight_a, weight_b) over positions
matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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