WDEF WisdomTree Europe Defense Fund
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Over the year to Oct 28, 2026, WDEF lost 9.2%.
Promise check: Not measuredIts theme exposure is measured once ETFIQ defines its theme company by company.
WDEF 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 · Jun 30, 2026What you earned
What did you actually buy?
Defense · holdings as of Jun 30, 2026More on WDEF
Every number below is on this page. Open what you need.Price, 1 year
$28.51+0.2%1 day, priceClose, Oct 28, 2026
Price only. Total return over the same days, distributions reinvested, was −9.2%. 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 | +0.4% | +0.9% |
| 3M Jul 29 – Oct 28, 2026 | −4.1% | +6.1% |
| 6M Apr 29 – Oct 28, 2026 | −2.9% | +9.1% |
| YTD Dec 31, 2025 – Oct 28, 2026 | −1.7% | +14.1% |
| 1Y Oct 28, 2025 – Oct 28, 2026 | −9.2% | +13.6% |
| Since launch Jul 17, 2025 – Oct 28, 2026 | −5.1% | +24.6% |
| Since launch, annualised Jul 17, 2025 – Oct 28, 2026 | −4.0% | – |
Total returns, distributions reinvested. Listed Jul 2025: no 3 years windows.
Source: Tiingo end-of-day prices, with distributions reinvested.
Money in and out
Monthly data · as of Jun 30, 2026WDEF: in the month to Jun 30, 2026, nothing net moved, by its SEC filing.
monthly, from SEC filings
monthly, from SEC filings
Computed by ETFIQ from the monthly sales and redemptions WDEF 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 Jun 2026. Every day and month ETFIQ holds for WDEF, back to Jul 2025, is in its flows file. Flows across every fund · How these flows are computed · Compare WDEF with other funds in the flows tool
Month by month, money in and money outJul 2025 to Jun 2026
WDEF, money in and money out each month from Jul 2025 to Jun 2026: two bars a month, money in above the line and money out below. Every bar is from WDEF’s SEC filings (N-PORT item B.6). Of the 12 months listed, money came in on net in 11 and went out in 0.
Every bar is from WDEF’s SEC filings (N-PORT item B.6). Of the 12 months listed, money came in on net in 11 and went out in 0.
Most recent first.
How this is computed
N-PORT months: money in is sales plus reinvestments; money out is redemptions.
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 Jun 30, 2026. Updated when the fund files its next report.
WDEF key stats
Trading
as of Sep 11, 2026
WDEF top ten by weight, 63.3% of the fund, of its 42 equity positions, from the holdings filed for Jun 30, 2026. Source: the fund’s SEC filing.
Source: Holdings filing (SEC Form N-PORT).
About WDEF
How we measure
12 seats on WDEF, as of Oct 28, 2026: 1 Mixed, 5 Challenges, 6 Not enough data.
Questions people ask about WDEF
- How much of WDEF is in S&P 500 companies?
- By its holdings filed for Jun 30, 2026, 0% of WDEF by weight is stocks the S&P 500 already holds. Its active share against the index is 100%, so that share is the part doing something different.
- What does WDEF hold?
- 42 positions as filed for Jun 30, 2026, with the top ten at 63% of the fund. The largest are BAE SYSTEMS PLC at 10.1%, THALES SA at 10.0%, RHEINMETALL AG at 8.6%.
- Has WDEF beaten the S&P 500?
- Over the year to Oct 28, 2026 WDEF returned −9.2% with distributions reinvested, against +13.6% for the S&P 500, so it finished behind the index by 22.8 points.
- What does WDEF cost?
- The prospectus expense ratio is 0.45% a year. Because 100% of the fund differs from the S&P 500, the fee on that differing part works out at 0.45%.
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