iShares U.S. Aerospace & Defense ETF
iShares Trust · Series S000009423 · 1 share classes
data updated 2026-08-10
Fund profile
As filed in the prospectus · 2025 Q3
The iShares U.S. Aerospace & Defense ETF (the Fund ) seeks to track the investment results of an index composed of U.S. equities in the aerospace and defense sector.
The fund tracks the Dow Jones U.S. Select Aerospace & Defense Index using representative sampling, holding a sample of securities with similar investment characteristics to the index rather than all its constituents. Because the fund may not hold all index securities, its returns may diverge from the index. The fund concentrates its holdings in the aerospace and defense sector to the same extent as the index.
| Share class | Expense ratio |
|---|---|
| ITA | 0.38% |
Portfolio turnover 42.00% · as of 2025 Q3
Allocation
Asset groups · long / short shown separately, never netted · 2026 Q1
| Stocks | 99.94% |
| Cash & short-term | 1.41% |
| Derivatives | -0.00% |
The outer band is exposure held short — written against the portfolio rather than part of it, which is why it sits outside the ring and why the two are never netted into one figure.
Derivatives are shown at market value, not notional exposure.
Latest quarter
What changed since the fund's previous filing
New: FTAI, RDW, BETA, XAI EMINI INDUSTR JUN26
Exited: XAI EMINI INDUSTR MAR26
Return profile
Total return as filed — price change plus distributions reinvested · trailing figures to Feb 2026
Mar 2026 has been filed since the trailing figures were struck, so it is not in the table above or the curve — every figure here shares one cut-off, which is what makes them comparable with other funds.
Holdings
By % of NAV · equity positions carry filed share counts · every resolvable issuer links to its company page
| Ticker | Issuer | %NAV | Value | Shares |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GE | GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYGE | 19.03% | $2.57B | 9.0M |
| RTX | RTX CORPORATIONRTX | 16.55% | $2.23B | 11.6M |
| BA | THE BOEING COMPANYBA | 8.91% | $1.20B | 6.0M |
| GD | GENERAL DYNAMICS CORPORATIONGD | 4.77% | $643.39M | 1.9M |
| LHX | L3HARRIS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.LHX | 4.66% | $628.52M | 1.8M |
| LMT | LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATIONLMT | 4.58% | $617.27M | 1.0M |
| NOC | Northrop Grumman CorporationNOC | 4.58% | $617.23M | 904.7K |
| TDG | TRANSDIGM GROUP INCORPORATEDTDG | 4.53% | $610.93M | 527.1K |
| HWM | HOWMET AEROSPACE INC.HWM | 4.50% | $607.46M | 2.6M |
| AXON | AXON ENTERPRISE, INC.AXON | 2.83% | $381.22M | 897.6K |
Top 10 positions are 74.93% of net assets, top 25 96.94%, across 46 issuers.
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