ETF comparison
ITA vs VIS
Both Industrials.
iShares U.S. Aerospace & Defense ETF · Vanguard Industrials Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
45 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of ITA and VIS would leave roughly 23.2% 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
VIS is 28 bps cheaper than ITA. On a $100,000 position that's about $280/yr more in fees for ITA.
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 ITA vs VIS.
Top shared holdings
45 shared in total| # | Holding | In ITA | In VIS | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY | 22.61% | 5.04% | 5.04% |
| 2 | RTX CORPORATION | 14.82% | 4.01% | 4.01% |
| 3 | THE BOEING COMPANY | 8.90% | 2.23% | 2.23% |
| 4 | LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION | 4.05% | 1.67% | 1.67% |
| 5 | HOWMET AEROSPACE INC. | 4.50% | 1.41% | 1.41% |
| 6 | GENERAL DYNAMICS CORPORATION | 4.33% | 1.23% | 1.23% |
| 7 | Northrop Grumman Corporation | 3.92% | 1.05% | 1.05% |
| 8 | TRANSDIGM GROUP INCORPORATED | 4.59% | 0.95% | 0.95% |
| 9 | L3HARRIS TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | 3.80% | 0.71% | 0.71% |
| 10 | AXON ENTERPRISE, INC. | 3.17% | 0.62% | 0.62% |
| 11 | ROCKET LAB CORPORATION | 3.63% | 0.48% | 0.48% |
| 12 | ATI INC | 1.89% | 0.40% | 0.40% |
Only in ITA
4 total- SMITH & WESSON BRANDS, INC. 0.05%
- STURM, RUGER & COMPANY, INC. 0.04%
- York Space Systems Inc 0.03%
- VIRGIN GALACTIC HOLDINGS, INC. 0.02%
Only in VIS
352 total- Caterpillar Inc 5.33%
- GE Vernova Inc 3.48%
- Deere & Co 2.29%
- Eaton Corp PLC 2.24%
- Union Pacific Corp 2.21%
- Uber Technologies Inc 1.94%
- Parker-Hannifin Corp 1.78%
- Automatic Data Processing Inc 1.65%
- Trane Technologies PLC 1.41%
- Vertiv Holdings Co 1.35%
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- ITA vs IYJ · iShares U.S. Industrials ETF 19.5%
- ITA vs PAVE · Global X U.S. Infrastructure Development ETF 6.9%
- ITA vs JETS · U.S. Global Jets ETF 4.5%
- ITA vs AIRR · First Trust RBA American Industrial RenaissanceTM ETF 3.7%
- ITA vs IFRA · iShares U.S. Infrastructure ETF 2.0%
- ITA vs IGF · iShares Global Infrastructure ETF 0.0%
More comparisons with VIS
- VIS vs XAR · State Street SPDR S&P Aerospace & Defense ETF 19.6%
- VIS vs IFRA · iShares U.S. Infrastructure ETF 17.0%
- VIS vs SHLD · Global X Defense Tech ETF 9.9%
- VIS vs AIRR · First Trust RBA American Industrial RenaissanceTM ETF 6.0%
- VIS vs JETS · U.S. Global Jets ETF 4.9%
- VIS vs IGF · iShares Global Infrastructure 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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