XAR State Street SPDR S&P Aerospace & Defense ETF
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Over the year to Oct 28, 2026, XAR lost 10.0%, against 13.7% for VOO.
Promise check: Not measuredIts theme exposure is measured once ETFIQ defines its theme company by company.
XAR risk and return scorecard
vs VOO · Oct 2011 to Oct 2026 · 785 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 22, 2026What you earned
What did you actually buy?
Defense · holdings as of Oct 27, 2026More on XAR
Every number below is on this page. Open what you need.Price, 1 year
$224.98+0.2%1 day, priceClose, Oct 28, 2026
Price only. Total return over the same days, distributions reinvested, was −10.0%. Computed by ETFIQ from Tiingo daily prices.
Source: Tiingo end-of-day prices. Data as of Oct 28, 2026. Updated every trading night. Last checked Oct 19, 2026. Report a data error
Points (pts) are percentage points.
| Window | Total return | Benchmark (VOO) | Gap to VOO |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1M Sep 28 – Oct 28, 2026 | −3.9% | +0.9% | −4.8 pts |
| 3M Jul 29 – Oct 28, 2026 | −12.8% | +6.1% | −18.9 pts |
| 6M Apr 29 – Oct 28, 2026 | −9.9% | +9.1% | −19.0 pts |
| YTD Dec 31, 2025 – Oct 28, 2026 | −6.6% | +14.2% | −20.8 pts |
| 1Y Oct 28, 2025 – Oct 28, 2026 | −10.0% | +13.7% | −23.7 pts |
| 3Y Oct 27, 2023 – Oct 28, 2026 | +103.5% | +95.5% | +8.0 pts |
| 5Y Oct 29, 2021 – Oct 28, 2026 | +93.3% | +80.4% | +12.9 pts |
| 10Y Oct 28, 2016 – Oct 28, 2026 | +316.2% | +328.1% | −11.9 pts |
| Since launch Sep 29, 2011 – Oct 28, 2026 | +945.4% | +773.5% | +171.9 pts |
| Since launch, annualised Sep 29, 2011 – Oct 28, 2026 | +16.8% | – | – |
Total returns, distributions reinvested.
Source: Tiingo end-of-day prices, with distributions reinvested.
Money in and out
Daily data · as of Oct 22, 2026XAR: in the year to Oct 22, 2026, net $871m came in; in the month to Oct 22, 2026, $374m went out.
Oct 21, 2026 to Oct 22, 2026
Sep 28, 2026 to Oct 22, 2026
Jul 28, 2026 to Oct 22, 2026
round trip, net −$28.1m
Jan 2, 2026 to Oct 22, 2026
round trip, net +$10.6m
Oct 28, 2025 to Oct 22, 2026
round trip, net +$18.6m
SEC filings, then daily counts
XAR, net flow each trading day over the 62 sessions from Jul 28, 2026 to Oct 22, 2026: money came in on 14 days and went out on 26 days. One round trip is boxed.
Money in on 14 of the 62 trading days, out on 26.
XAR, net flow each trading day over the 248 sessions from Oct 28, 2025 to Oct 22, 2026: money came in on 79 days and went out on 77 days.
Money in on 79 of the 248 trading days, out on 77.
XAR, net flow each trading day over the 400 sessions from Mar 21, 2025 to Oct 22, 2026: money came in on 150 days and went out on 98 days.
Money in on 150 of the 400 trading days, out on 98.
Computed by ETFIQ from State Street’s daily data: each day’s change in shares outstanding times the previous day’s net asset value. Round trips: $705m came in on Mar 19, 2026 and $667m went out on Mar 23, 2026; $719m came in on Jun 17, 2026 and $717m went out on Jun 22, 2026; $338m came in on Sep 16, 2026 and $366m went out on Sep 21, 2026. A creation undone within days moves money in and straight back out, so it says little about what investors wanted. Both days stay in every total and are marked in the tables and the drawings.
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 XAR, back to Jul 2019, is in its flows file. Flows across every fund · How these flows are computed · Compare XAR with other funds in the flows tool
Every trading day, last 3 months62 days
Most recent first.
Week by week, last year52 weeks
Net flow into XAR each week, Oct 28, 2025 to Oct 22, 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
XAR, 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 XAR’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 25 and went out in 11.
Bars for Nov 2023 to Jun 2026 are from XAR’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 25 and went out in 11.
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 22, 2026.
XAR key stats
Trading
as of Oct 27, 2026
XAR top ten by weight, 32.2% of the fund, of its 50 equity positions, from the holdings published by its issuer for Oct 27, 2026. Source: the issuer’s own daily file.
Source: State Street’s daily holdings file. Data as of Oct 27, 2026. Updated each trading day. Last checked Oct 28, 2026.
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About XAR
How we measure
12 seats on XAR, as of Oct 28, 2026: 1 Supports, 10 Challenges, 1 Not enough data.
Questions people ask about XAR
- How much of XAR is in S&P 500 companies?
- By its holdings published by its issuer for Oct 27, 2026, 40% of XAR 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 XAR hold?
- 50 positions as published by its issuer for Oct 27, 2026, with the top ten at 32% of the fund. The largest are LOCKHEED MARTIN CORP at 3.7%, HONEYWELL AEROSPACE INC at 3.4%, NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORP at 3.3%.
- Has XAR beaten the S&P 500?
- Over the year to Oct 28, 2026 XAR returned −10.0% with distributions reinvested, against +13.6% for the S&P 500, so it finished behind the index by 23.6 points.
- What does XAR cost?
- The prospectus expense ratio is 0.35% a year. Because 98% of the fund differs from the S&P 500, the fee on that differing part works out at 0.36%.
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