State Street(R) SPDR(R) S&P(R) Aerospace & Defense ETF
SPDR SERIES TRUST · 1 share class
Fund classification
Classified from what the fund holds · as of 2026 Q2
State Street(R) SPDR(R) S&P(R) Aerospace & Defense ETF is a U.S. equity index ETF that tracks the S&P Aerospace & Defense Select Industry Index. 30% of XAR’s stock holdings are in companies whose revenue grew in the top quartile of U.S. companies over the last five fiscal years (covering 92% of the fund’s equity).
- Asset class
- Equity
- Region
- United States
- Management
- Index (passive)
- Fund type
- ETF
Fund profile
As filed in the prospectus · 2025 Q4
The State Street SPDR S&P Aerospace & Defense ETF (the Fund) seeks to provide investment results that, before fees and expenses, correspond generally to the total return performance of an index derived from the aerospace and defense segment of a U.S. total market composite index.
The fund tracks the S&P Aerospace & Defense Select Industry Index, which comprises U.S.-listed aerospace and defense companies with market capitalizations of at least $400–$500 million and sufficient trading liquidity, rebalancing quarterly on a modified equal-weight basis. The fund invests substantially all its assets in the index constituents, though it may use a sampling approach to hold a subset of securities with similar risk and return characteristics. Because the fund employs sampling rather than holding all index constituents, its returns may diverge from the index.
| Share class | Expense ratio |
|---|---|
| XAR | 0.35% |
Portfolio turnover 35.00% · as of 2025 Q4
Allocation
Asset groups · long / short shown separately, never netted · 2026 Q2
| Stocks | 99.95% |
| Cash & short-term | 3.04% |
Sector allocation
The same holdings as Allocation above, grouped by market sector instead of asset type · as of 2026 Q2
| Industrials | 93.6% |
| International | 3.0% |
| Cash | 3.0% |
| Information Technology | 0.5% |
Government, Securitized and Cash are non-corporate buckets; International is foreign holdings we don’t sector-classify, and Other is the residual (held funds, unresolved names).
Portfolio growth profile
How much of the fund’s stock holdings are in fast-growing companies · as of 2026 Q2
Share of the fund’s equity (by value) in companies whose trailing five-year revenue — or net-income — growth ranks in the top 25% of U.S. public companies. Foreign and newly-listed holdings are excluded, so the figure covers only part of the book. From SEC filings — not investment advice. How we measure this.
Latest quarter
What changed since the fund's previous filing
New: FLY, SATL, YSS, PKE, VOYG, SPCE
Return profile
Total return as filed — price change plus distributions reinvested · trailing figures to Apr 2026
May 2026 and Jun 2026 have been filed since the trailing figures were struck, so they are 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 | Reported price | Value | Shares |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VSEC | VSE CorpVSEC | 3.40% | $228.50 | $219.70M | 961.5K |
| AXON | Axon Enterprise IncAXON | 3.22% | $560.61 | $208.56M | 372.0K |
| SARO | StandardAero IncSARO | 3.11% | $29.91 | $201.06M | 6.7M |
| — | FTAI Aviation Ltd | 3.08% | $270.53 | $199.53M | 737.6K |
| GVMXX | State Street Global AdvisorsGVMXX | 3.04% | — | $196.69M | — |
| CRS | Carpenter Technology CorpCRS | 3.04% | $616.84 | $196.37M | 318.3K |
| GE | General Electric CoGE | 3.02% | $373.73 | $195.26M | 522.5K |
| WWD | Woodward IncWWD | 2.98% | $425.44 | $192.88M | 453.4K |
| HEI | HEICO CorpHEI | 2.86% | $356.19 | $184.83M | 518.9K |
| MOG/A | Moog IncMOG/A | 2.85% | $423.84 | $184.69M | 435.7K |
Reported price is the fund's own reported value divided by its own reported shares at 2026-06-30 — not a live quote, and not what the fund paid.
Top 10 positions are 30.61% of net assets, top 25 70.84%, across 48 issuers.
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