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Global X Defense Tech ETF

Global X · Tracks Global X Defense Tech Index · Inception Sep 11, 2023

Expense ratio
0.50%
50.0 bps
Net assets
$6.60B
TTM yield
0.69%
Last price
$61.51
as of Nov 10, 2026
Avg volume
1,305,143
shares/day, 30d

Trailing returns

through Nov 10, 2026
1 year
-1.7%
3 year
+31.8%
annualized
5 year
—
annualized
Growth of $1, 2023-10 to 2026-11

Price return from month-end closes, distributions reinvested at month end. Excludes trading costs, bid-ask spreads and taxes. Past performance says nothing about future returns and is not part of the composite score — see the methodology for what the score does measure.

Composite score

63 / 100
Cost 50

Based on a 0.50% expense ratio.

Liquidity 92

Based on $6.60B in net assets.

Concentration 22

Top-10 holdings represent 64.8% of net assets.

Tax efficiency 84

Industrials base · ETF wrapper · 0.69% TTM yield.

The composite is a weighted average of the four core sub-scores above (cost, tax efficiency, liquidity, concentration). Missing sub-scores fall back to the per-category median when the category has at least 50% data coverage, so funds without (e.g.) parsed N-PORT holdings aren't accidentally boosted by renormalization. Tracking quality is shown where computable but isn't currently part of the composite weighting. See methodology for formulas, the tracking-quality partial-coverage rationale, and the dimensions we deliberately don't score (methodology v0.5.2).

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Top holdings

57 total holdings · as of Aug 31, 2026
# Holding Weight
1 PALANTIR TECHNOLOGIES INC. 10.80%
2 RTX CORPORATION 9.31%
3 GENERAL DYNAMICS CORPORATION 8.59%
4 LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION 8.34%
5 Northrop Grumman Corporation 7.71%
6 BAE SYSTEMS PLC 4.62%
7 Rheinmetall Aktiengesellschaft 4.04%
8 HANWHA AEROSPACE CO., LTD. 3.81%
9 L3HARRIS TECHNOLOGIES, INC. 3.80%
10 THALES SA 3.72%

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Holdings sourced from SEC Form N-PORT-P (accession 0002048251-26-009626).