State Street(R) SPDR(R) S&P(R) Aerospace & Defense ETF
U.S. stock index ETF · tracks S&P Aerospace & Defense Select Industry Index
As of its 2026 Q2 report, State Street(R) SPDR(R) S&P(R) Aerospace & Defense ETF held 49 positions with $6.47B in net assets. Its ten largest holdings made up 30.6% of the fund. The XAR share class costs 0.35% a year. Over the 12 months to May 2026, XAR returned 51.0%, with dividends reinvested. In 2026 Q2 it added 6 new positions and exited none.
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.
What you own
| Company | Weight | Value | Shares | Reported price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
VSECVSE Corp | 3.40% | $219.70M | 961.5K | $228.50 |
3.22% | $208.56M | 372.0K | $560.61 | |
SAROStandardAero Inc | 3.11% | $201.06M | 6.7M | $29.91 |
FTAI Aviation Ltd | 3.08% | $199.53M | 737.6K | $270.53 |
GVMXXState Street Global Advisors | 3.04% | $196.69M | — | — |
3.04% | $196.37M | 318.3K | $616.84 | |
3.02% | $195.26M | 522.5K | $373.73 | |
WWDWoodward Inc | 2.98% | $192.88M | 453.4K | $425.44 |
HEIHEICO Corp | 2.86% | $184.83M | 518.9K | $356.19 |
MOG/AMoog Inc | 2.85% | $184.69M | 435.7K | $423.84 |
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.
All 49 holdings, with the share counts as filed, open with a free account.
What the fund is made of
Percentages are of fund net assets. Rounding, liabilities and short positions can make totals differ from 100%.
| Stocks | 99.95% |
| Cash & short-term | 3.04% |
By sector
- Industrials
- 93.6%
- International
- 3.0%
- Cash
- 3.0%
- Information Technology
- 0.5%
How it has done
XAR share class · total returns with dividends reinvested
Volatility over the last 12 months: 24.34%. Past returns are a record, not a forecast.
Jun 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.
Fees & fund details
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
- Expense ratio, by class
- 0.35%· XAR 0.35%
- Portfolio turnover
- 35.00% a year · as of 2025 Q4
Turnover is how much of the portfolio was replaced in a year.
Classified from what the fund holds, not from its name · 2026 Q2. The summary is a paraphrase of the prospectus; the objective is verbatim.
What changed this quarter
Positions that entered or left the fund since its previous filing. Positions that were only resized are not listed.
6 new
0 exited
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