MISL First Trust Indxx Aerospace & Defense ETF
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Over the year to Oct 28, 2026, MISL lost 4.0%, against 13.7% for VOO.
Promise check: Not measuredIts theme exposure is measured once ETFIQ defines its theme company by company.
MISL risk and return scorecard
vs VOO · Nov 2022 to Oct 2026 · 207 weekly returns · dividend-adjusted
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 27, 2026What you earned
What did you actually buy?
Defense · holdings as of Oct 27, 2026More on MISL
Every number below is on this page. Open what you need.Price, 1 year
$41.56+0.3%1 day, priceClose, Oct 28, 2026
Price only. Total return over the same days, distributions reinvested, was −4.0%. 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
Points (pts) are percentage points.
| Window | Total return | Benchmark (VOO) | Gap to VOO |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1M Sep 28 – Oct 28, 2026 | −0.8% | +0.9% | −1.7 pts |
| 3M Jul 29 – Oct 28, 2026 | −2.1% | +6.1% | −8.2 pts |
| 6M Apr 29 – Oct 28, 2026 | −3.3% | +9.1% | −12.4 pts |
| YTD Dec 31, 2025 – Oct 28, 2026 | −2.8% | +14.2% | −17.0 pts |
| 1Y Oct 28, 2025 – Oct 28, 2026 | −4.0% | +13.7% | −17.7 pts |
| 3Y Oct 27, 2023 – Oct 28, 2026 | +90.8% | +95.5% | −4.7 pts |
| Since launch Oct 26, 2022 – Oct 28, 2026 | +105.4% | +113.6% | −8.2 pts |
| Since launch, annualised Oct 26, 2022 – Oct 28, 2026 | +19.7% | – | – |
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 MISL.
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
MISL shares 14 of its 44 holdings with the S&P 500. Counting each at the smaller of its two weights, the two overlap by 2.6%.
Money in and out
Daily data · as of Oct 27, 2026MISL: in the 17 trading days to Oct 27, 2026, net $93.5m went out.
Oct 27, 2026
Oct 21, 2026 to Oct 27, 2026
Jul 1, 2025 to Jun 30, 2026
monthly, from SEC filings
Jul 1, 2023 to Jun 30, 2026
monthly, from SEC filings
monthly, from SEC filings
MISL, net flow each trading day over the 65 sessions from Jul 28, 2026 to Oct 27, 2026: money came in on 2 days and went out on 6 days, of the 16 days with daily data; the other 49 have none. Before Oct 6, 2026 ETFIQ has the fund’s monthly data only, from SEC filings: that span is shaded and draws no bars, and its months are in the month by month list.
In on 2 days, out on 6. 49 days missing.
MISL, net flow each trading day over the 251 sessions from Oct 28, 2025 to Oct 27, 2026: money came in on 2 days and went out on 6 days, of the 16 days with daily data; the other 235 have none. Before Oct 6, 2026 ETFIQ has the fund’s monthly data only, from SEC filings: that span is shaded and draws no bars, and its months are in the month by month list.
In on 2 days, out on 6. 235 days missing.
MISL, net flow each trading day over the 400 sessions from Mar 26, 2025 to Oct 27, 2026: money came in on 2 days and went out on 6 days, of the 16 days with daily data; the other 384 have none. Before Oct 6, 2026 ETFIQ has the fund’s monthly data only, from SEC filings: that span is shaded and draws no bars, and its months are in the month by month list.
In on 2 days, out on 6. 384 days missing.
Daily data starts Oct 6, 2026.
How this is computed
Computed by ETFIQ from First Trust’s daily data: each day’s change in shares outstanding times the previous day’s net asset value. Percentages are of net assets at the start of each window. Numbers are net: money in less money out. Every day and month ETFIQ holds for MISL, back to Oct 2022, is in its flows file. Flows across every fund · How these flows are computed · Compare MISL with other funds in the flows tool
Every trading day, last 3 months16 days
Most recent first.
Week by week, last year4 weeks
Net flow into MISL each week, Oct 6, 2026 to Oct 27, 2026, most recent first, each week named by its last trading day with data. Computed by ETFIQ.
Month by month, money in and money outAug 2023 to Oct 2026
MISL, money in and money out each month from Aug 2023 to Jun 2026: two bars a month, money in above the line and money out below. Every bar is from MISL’s SEC filings (N-PORT item B.6). 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 29 and went out in 6.
Every bar is from MISL’s SEC filings (N-PORT item B.6). Of the 36 months listed, money came in on net in 29 and went out in 6.
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 27, 2026. Last checked Oct 29, 2026.
MISL key stats
Trading
as of Oct 27, 2026
MISL top ten by weight, 60.9% of the fund, of its 44 equity positions, from the holdings published by its issuer for Oct 27, 2026. Source: the issuer’s own daily file.
Source: First Trust’s daily holdings file. Updated each trading day. Last checked Oct 28, 2026.
About MISL
How we measure
12 seats on MISL, as of Oct 28, 2026: 1 Mixed, 9 Challenges, 2 Not enough data.
Questions people ask about MISL
- How much of MISL is in S&P 500 companies?
- By its holdings published by its issuer for Oct 27, 2026, 66% of MISL by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds. Its active share against the index is 97%, so that share is the part doing something different.
- What does MISL hold?
- 44 positions as published by its issuer for Oct 27, 2026, with the top ten at 61% of the fund. The largest are RTX Corporation at 8.4%, GE Aerospace at 7.8%, Palantir Technologies Inc. (Class A) at 7.7%.
- Has MISL beaten the S&P 500?
- Over the year to Oct 28, 2026 MISL returned −4.0% with distributions reinvested, against +13.6% for the S&P 500, so it finished behind the index by 17.6 points.
- What does MISL cost?
- The prospectus expense ratio is 0.60% a year. Because 97% of the fund differs from the S&P 500, the fee on that differing part works out at 0.62%.
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