ITA iShares U.S. Aerospace & Defense ETF
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Over the year to Oct 28, 2026, ITA lost 4.3%.
Promise check: Not measuredIts theme exposure is measured once ETFIQ defines its theme company by company.
ITA risk and return scorecard
vs its own holdings
Computed by ETFIQ from Tiingo daily prices and ETFIQ's distribution records; risk-free rate: U.S. Treasury, Daily Treasury Bill Rates, 13-week coupon equivalent Method · Data
Money in and out
Net fund flows · Oct 23, 2026What you earned
What did you actually buy?
Defense · holdings as of Oct 27, 2026More on ITA
Every number below is on this page. Open what you need.Price, 1 year
$207.74+0.7%1 day, priceClose, Oct 28, 2026
Price only. Total return over the same days, distributions reinvested, was −4.3%. Computed by ETFIQ from Tiingo daily prices.
Source: Tiingo end-of-day prices. Data as of Oct 28, 2026. Updated every trading night. Report a data error
| Window | Total return | S&P 500 (SPY) |
|---|---|---|
| 1M Sep 28 – Oct 28, 2026 | −0.7% | +0.9% |
| 3M Jul 29 – Oct 28, 2026 | −12.0% | +6.1% |
| 6M Apr 29 – Oct 28, 2026 | −2.4% | +9.1% |
| YTD Dec 31, 2025 – Oct 28, 2026 | −3.0% | +14.1% |
| 1Y Oct 28, 2025 – Oct 28, 2026 | −4.3% | +13.6% |
| 3Y Oct 27, 2023 – Oct 28, 2026 | +97.8% | +95.0% |
| 5Y Oct 29, 2021 – Oct 28, 2026 | +106.9% | +79.8% |
| 10Y Oct 28, 2016 – Oct 28, 2026 | +252.4% | +325.8% |
| Since launch May 5, 2006 – Oct 28, 2026 | +892.2% | +748.0% |
| Since launch, annualised May 5, 2006 – Oct 28, 2026 | +11.8% | – |
Total returns, distributions reinvested.
Source: Tiingo end-of-day prices, with distributions reinvested.
How much of its weight does it not share with the S&P 500?
That is the share of the 112 thematic ETFs with at least half their money in S&P 500 companies sitting at or below ITA.
Weight not shared with the S&P 500 only; it says nothing about returns, fees or whether the theme pays off. Where the fund sits in this set, not a rating. Do not average it with another category's score.
How different its holdings are from the S&P 500, ranked against 112 thematic ETFs with at least half their money in S&P 500 companies. 100 is best. How it is computed
ITA shares 13 of its 51 holdings with the S&P 500. Counting each at the smaller of its two weights, the two overlap by 2.3%.
Money in and out
Daily data · as of Oct 23, 2026ITA: in the year to Oct 23, 2026, net $161m came in; in the month to Oct 23, 2026, $114m went out.
Oct 21, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026
Sep 28, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026
Jul 28, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026
Jan 2, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026
Oct 28, 2025 to Oct 23, 2026
SEC filings, then daily counts
ITA, net flow each trading day over the 63 sessions from Jul 28, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026: money came in on 20 days and went out on 28 days.
Money in on 20 of the 63 trading days, out on 28.
ITA, net flow each trading day over the 249 sessions from Oct 28, 2025 to Oct 23, 2026: money came in on 117 days and went out on 76 days.
Money in on 117 of the 249 trading days, out on 76.
ITA, net flow each trading day over the 400 sessions from Mar 24, 2025 to Oct 23, 2026: money came in on 196 days and went out on 98 days.
Money in on 196 of the 400 trading days, out on 98.
Computed by ETFIQ from iShares’s daily data: each day’s change in shares outstanding times the previous day’s net asset value.
How this is computed
Percentages are of net assets at the start of each window. Numbers are net: money in less money out. Checked against the filing: The month’s daily sum and the filing’s B.6 number agree within rounding or, where the filing’s is larger, within rounding plus the fund’s creation and redemption fees. The full rule is in the fund’s flows file. Every day and month ETFIQ holds for ITA, back to Jul 2019, is in its flows file. Flows across every fund · How these flows are computed · Compare ITA with other funds in the flows tool
Every trading day, last 3 months63 days
Most recent first.
Week by week, last year52 weeks
Net flow into ITA each week, Oct 28, 2025 to Oct 23, 2026, most recent first, each week named by its last trading day with data. Computed by ETFIQ.
Month by month, money in and money outNov 2023 to Oct 2026
ITA, money in and money out each month from Nov 2023 to Sep 2026: two bars a month, money in above the line and money out below. Bars for Nov 2023 to Jun 2026 are from ITA’s SEC filings (N-PORT item B.6), and for Jul 2026 to Sep 2026 ETFIQ’s sums of its days. Oct 2026 is still in progress, so it is in the list and not drawn. Of the 36 months listed, money came in on net in 19 and went out in 17.
Bars for Nov 2023 to Jun 2026 are from ITA’s SEC filings (N-PORT item B.6), and for Jul 2026 to Sep 2026 ETFIQ’s sums of its days. Of the 36 months listed, money came in on net in 19 and went out in 17.
Most recent first.
How this is computed
N-PORT months: money in is sales plus reinvestments; money out is redemptions. Months summed from daily data: money in adds the days money came in; money out adds the days it went out.
N-PORT months are the filed sales plus reinvestments less redemptions. Later months add up the daily data; the Source column names any missing day.
Source: ETFIQ, from the fund’s daily share counts and net asset values, and its SEC N-PORT filings. Data as of Oct 23, 2026.
ITA key stats
Trading
as of Oct 27, 2026
ITA top ten by weight, 76.1% of the fund, of its 51 equity positions, from the holdings published by its issuer for Oct 27, 2026. Source: the issuer’s own daily file.
Source: iShares’s daily holdings file. Data as of Oct 27, 2026. Updated each trading day. Last checked Oct 28, 2026.
Also against AIQ, XBI, AIRR, ARKK, SHLD, URA, QTUM, FDN, XAR, IFRA, ARTY, XME, IDEF, NATO, WAR, DUTY, SOXX, IGV, IBB, IGF, PPA, COPX, SIL, XT, ARKG, MISL, GDX, PAVE, GDXJ, KWEB, BOTZ, NLR, EUAD, KDEF, FOWF, DRAM, WDEF, GCAD, WDAF, ARMY, WDGF, XDEF, AMMO, WR, AV, TSSD, QQQ, QQQM, VTI, VUG, VGT, SCHG.
About ITA
How we measure
12 seats on ITA, as of Oct 28, 2026: 11 Challenges, 1 Not enough data.
Questions people ask about ITA
- How much of ITA is in S&P 500 companies?
- By its holdings published by its issuer for Oct 27, 2026, 81% of ITA by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds. Its active share against the index is 98%, so that share is the part doing something different.
- What does ITA hold?
- 51 positions as published by its issuer for Oct 27, 2026, with the top ten at 76% of the fund. The largest are GE AEROSPACE at 20.1%, RTX at 17.1%, BOEING at 6.8%.
- Has ITA beaten the S&P 500?
- Over the year to Oct 28, 2026 ITA returned −4.3% with distributions reinvested, against +13.6% for the S&P 500, so it finished behind the index by 17.9 points.
- What does ITA cost?
- The prospectus expense ratio is 0.37% a year. Because 98% of the fund differs from the S&P 500, the fee on that differing part works out at 0.38%.
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