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PPA vs WR: which is really different?

PPA and WR hold 30% of their weight in the same names.

Invesco Aerospace & Defense ETF and Corgi U.S. War Machine ETF.

71.7%PPA in the S&P 500
70.0%WR in the S&P 500
+6.0%PPA total return, 1 year
+7.9%WR total return, 1 year

ETFIQ Off-Index Score: WR scores higher

How much of it is not the index it is sold as an alternative to?

PPA 36.9WR 37.90.1, the lowest in this set91.8, the highest

A percentile among the 379 thematic ETFs with a holdings filing. It is a position in a set, not a rating, and neither end of it is a recommendation. All thematic ETFs ranked by it · How it is computed

PPA28% of its weight is outside the S&P 500 · 1 year to Sep 18, 2026
72%28%of its weight in S&P 500 companiesoutside the S&P 500active share 96% · top ten 54% of the fund · 63 holdings filed Sep 19, 2026 · Nasdaq-100: 5% in72%28%in the S&P 500outsideactive share 96% · top ten 54% of the fund
WR30% of its weight is outside the S&P 500 · 3 months to Sep 18, 2026
70%30%of its weight in S&P 500 companiesof its weight outside the S&P 500active share 97% · top ten 49% of the fund · 57 holdings filed Sep 18, 2026 · Nasdaq-100: 9% in70%30%in the S&P 500outsideactive share 97% · top ten 49% of the fund

30% of the two portfolios are the same securities at the same weight.

What they hold in common

By the books each fund has filed, PPA and WR hold 30% of their money in the same securities at the same weight.

Positions PPA and WR both hold, largest shared weight first
HoldingPPAWR
RTX Corp8.16%5.04%
Lockheed Martin Corp6.67%3.55%
General Dynamics Corp4.99%2.87%
Howmet Aerospace Inc3.97%2.55%
Palantir Technologies Inc1.93%5.66%
TransDigm Group Inc2.92%1.61%
ATI Inc1.74%1.42%
Rocket Lab Corp1.70%1.34%
Leidos Holdings Inc1.22%1.04%
CACI International Inc1.20%0.93%
Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc1.05%0.81%
Moog Inc0.79%0.81%
Only in each
Only in PPAOnly in WR
Boeing Co/The 6.87%ExxonMobil Holdings Corp 8.60%
General Electric Co 6.77%Chevron Corp 6.37%
Northrop Grumman Corp 5.04%Marathon Petroleum Corp 4.41%
Parker-Hannifin Corp 3.89%Valero Energy Corp 4.29%
L3Harris Technologies Inc 3.73%Phillips 66 4.04%
Honeywell Aerospace Inc 3.53%ConocoPhillips 3.90%
Elbit Systems Ltd 3.50%EOG Resources Inc 2.67%
Axon Enterprise Inc 2.96%Williams Cos Inc/The 2.61%

Weight overlap is an ETFIQ calculation: for every security both funds hold, the smaller of the two weights, summed. Above 50%, holding both is close to holding one of them twice. Holdings dated Sep 18, 2026 and Sep 19, 2026.

Performance, window by window

PPA and WR over each window. Every figure is an ETFIQ calculation with distributions reinvested. Source: ETFIQ.
WindowTotal returnvs the S&P 500vs the Nasdaq-100
PPAWRPPAWRPPAWR
3 months−8.8%+11.1%−11.0 pts+8.8 pts−6.3 pts+13.6 pts
6 months−5.5%not published−23.5 ptsnot published−29.7 ptsnot published
1 year+6.0%not published−10.6 ptsnot published−15.8 ptsnot published
3 years+98.2%not published+19.8 ptsnot published+0.1 ptsnot published
Since launch+985.0%+7.9%+181.5 pts+3.6 pts−705.2 pts+4.1 pts
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PPA and WR on the same fields, as of Sep 18, 2026. Source: ETFIQ.
PPA
Invesco Aerospace & Defense ETF
Holds 63 stocks in defense, 72% of its weight in S&P 500 companies
WR
Corgi U.S. War Machine ETF
Holds 57 stocks in defense, 70% of its weight in S&P 500 companies
IssuerInvescoCorgi
ThemeDefenseDefense
In the S&P 50071.7%70.0%
Active share vs the S&P 50096.4%96.6%
In the Nasdaq-1004.9%9.2%
Holdings6357
Top ten, share of the fund53.6%48.7%
Expense ratio0.58%not published
Fee for the differing part0.60%not published
Total return, 1 year+6.0%+7.9% (since launch on May 6, 2026)
vs the S&P 500−10.6 pts+3.6 pts
vs the Nasdaq-100−15.8 pts+4.1 pts
Below its high−13.8%−3.9%
Net assets$7.6bn$945,672

PPA in plain words

By weight, 72% of PPA's portfolio is stocks that are also in the S&P 500; its active share against the S&P 500 is 96%. The top ten holdings are 54% of the fund across 63 positions, as published by its issuer for Sep 19, 2026. Over the year to Sep 18, 2026 the fund returned +6.0% with distributions reinvested against +16.6% for the S&P 500, so a holder was behind by 10.6 pts. It sits 13.8% below its all-time high of Mar 2, 2026.

WR in plain words

By weight, 70% of WR's portfolio is stocks that are also in the S&P 500; its active share against the S&P 500 is 97%. The top ten holdings are 49% of the fund across 57 positions, as published by its issuer for Sep 18, 2026. Since it launched on May 6, 2026 the fund returned +7.9% with distributions reinvested against +4.3% for the S&P 500, so a holder was ahead by 3.6 pts.

Questions people ask

Do PPA and WR hold the same stocks?
By their latest filings, 30% of their books are the same securities at the same weight, which is a meaningful overlap. Overlap is the sum of the smaller weight of every security they share.
Which is more different from the S&P 500, PPA or WR?
PPA has 72% of its weight in S&P 500 names and WR has 70%, so WR differs more from the index.

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Where these figures came from

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PPA against WR, ETFIQ, data as of Sep 18, 2026. Every figure is calculated from a named public source; the method is at etfiq.com/methodology. A comparison is not a recommendation.

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