SHLD Global X Defense Tech ETF
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Over the year to Oct 28, 2026, SHLD lost 6.5%.
Promise check: Not measuredIts theme exposure is measured once ETFIQ defines its theme company by company.
SHLD 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 12, 2026What you earned
What did you actually buy?
Defense · holdings as of May 31, 2026More on SHLD
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$63.29+0.1%1 day, priceClose, Oct 28, 2026
Price only. Total return over the same days, distributions reinvested, was −6.5%. 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 | +4.1% | +0.9% |
| 3M Jul 29 – Oct 28, 2026 | +2.0% | +6.1% |
| 6M Apr 29 – Oct 28, 2026 | −4.7% | +9.1% |
| YTD Dec 31, 2025 – Oct 28, 2026 | −2.0% | +14.1% |
| 1Y Oct 28, 2025 – Oct 28, 2026 | −6.5% | +13.6% |
| 3Y Oct 27, 2023 – Oct 28, 2026 | +156.5% | +95.0% |
| Since launch Sep 13, 2023 – Oct 28, 2026 | +160.2% | +80.0% |
| Since launch, annualised Sep 13, 2023 – Oct 28, 2026 | +35.8% | – |
Total returns, distributions reinvested.
Source: Tiingo end-of-day prices, with distributions reinvested.
Money in and out
Monthly data · as of Oct 12, 2026SHLD: in the month to Oct 31, 2026, net $35.0m went out.
Jun 1, 2025 to May 31, 2026
monthly, from SEC filings
monthly, from SEC filings
Computed by ETFIQ from the monthly sales and redemptions SHLD files with the SEC on Form N-PORT.
How this is computed
ETFIQ reads no daily data for this fund, so its flows are monthly, and the latest month filed is Oct 2026. Every day and month ETFIQ holds for SHLD, back to Sep 2023, is in its flows file. Flows across every fund · How these flows are computed · Compare SHLD with other funds in the flows tool
Month by month, money in and money outSep 2023 to Oct 2026
SHLD, money in and money out each month from Sep 2023 to May 2026: two bars a month, money in above the line and money out below. Every bar is from SHLD’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 34 months listed, money came in on net in 30 and went out in 4.
Every bar is from SHLD’s SEC filings (N-PORT item B.6). Of the 34 months listed, money came in on net in 30 and went out in 4.
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 SEC N-PORT filings. Data as of Oct 12, 2026. Updated when the fund files its next report.
SHLD key stats
Trading
as of Oct 28, 2026
SHLD top ten by weight, 59.3% of the fund, of its 48 equity positions, from the holdings filed for May 31, 2026. That is 150 days before Oct 28, 2026, older than the issuer’s daily file, which ETFIQ could not read. Source: the fund’s SEC filing.
Source: Holdings filing (SEC Form N-PORT). Data as of May 31, 2026.
About SHLD
How we measure
12 seats on SHLD, as of Oct 28, 2026: 1 Mixed, 5 Challenges, 6 Not enough data.
Questions people ask about SHLD
- How much of SHLD is in S&P 500 companies?
- By its holdings filed for May 31, 2026, 45% of SHLD by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds. Its active share against the index is 99%, so that share is the part doing something different.
- What does SHLD hold?
- 48 positions as filed for May 31, 2026, with the top ten at 59% of the fund. The largest are LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION at 8.4%, RTX CORPORATION at 7.8%, GENERAL DYNAMICS CORPORATION at 7.7%.
- Has SHLD beaten the S&P 500?
- Over the year to Oct 28, 2026 SHLD returned −6.5% with distributions reinvested, against +13.6% for the S&P 500, so it finished behind the index by 20.1 points.
- What does SHLD cost?
- The prospectus expense ratio is 0.50% a year. Because 99% of the fund differs from the S&P 500, the fee on that differing part works out at 0.51%.
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