{"url":"https://etfiq.com/questions/is-there-a-defense-etf","section":"questions","title":"Is there a defense ETF? | ETFIQ","description":"Yes. ETFIQ covers 22 defense ETFs as of Oct 20, 2026. The largest is ITA at $11.9bn. The cheapest is GCAD at 0.10%.","as_of":"Oct 20, 2026","structured_data":[{"@type":"FAQPage","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"Is there a defense ETF?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Yes. ETFIQ covers 22 defense ETFs as of Oct 20, 2026. The largest is ITA at $11.9bn. The cheapest is GCAD at 0.10%."}}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"ETFIQ","item":"https://etfiq.com/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Questions","item":"https://etfiq.com/questions/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Is there a defense ETF?","item":"https://etfiq.com/questions/is-there-a-defense-etf"}]},{"@type":"WebPage","name":"Is there a defense ETF?","description":"Yes. ETFIQ covers 22 defense ETFs as of Oct 20, 2026. The largest is ITA at $11.9bn. The cheapest is GCAD at 0.10%.","url":"https://etfiq.com/questions/is-there-a-defense-etf","dateModified":"2026-10-20","isPartOf":{"@type":"WebSite","name":"ETFIQ","url":"https://etfiq.com"},"speakable":{"@type":"SpeakableSpecification","cssSelector":[".lede"]},"publisher":{"@id":"https://etfiq.com/#org"}}],"characters":2858,"truncated":false,"content":"ETFIQ / Questions / Is there a defense ETF? \n \n Answered from ETFIQ data as of Oct 20, 2026 .\n Is there a defense ETF?\n Yes. ETFIQ covers 22 defense ETFs as of Oct 20, 2026. The largest is ITA at $11.9bn. The cheapest is GCAD at 0.10%.\n How much of a defense fund is already in the S&P 500 decides how much of it is new exposure. Across these 22 funds the median is 40.7% of the weight. The rest is what you are buying that an index fund does not already hold.\n Concentration is the other thing to read. The median defense ETF here holds 58.8% of its weight in its top ten positions. That is what a theme fund does: it buys a shortlist, not a market.\n ETFIQ files a fund under a theme editorially, from what the fund holds rather than from its name, and every figure on this page is the one its defense hub prints.\n On ETFIQ today\n Ticker Fund Issuer Net assets Fee In the S&P 500 \n ITA iShares U.S. Aerospace & Defense ETF iShares $11.9bn 0.37% 80.4% \n PPA Invesco Aerospace & Defense ETF Invesco $7.4bn 0.58% 76.8% \n SHLD Global X Defense Tech ETF Global X $6.3bn 0.50% 44.6% \n XAR State Street SPDR S&P Aerospace & Defense ET State Street $5.0bn 0.35% 39.2% \n IDEF iShares Defense Industrials and Tech Active iShares $3.6bn 0.55% 41.3% \n EUAD Select STOXX Europe Aerospace & Defense ETF Tuttle $1.2bn 0.50% 0.0% \n MISL First Trust Indxx Aerospace & Defense ETF First Trust $667m 0.60% 65.9% \n KDEF PLUS Korea Defense Industry Index ETF PLUS $157m 0.65% 0.0% \n NATO Themes Transatlantic Defense ETF Themes $101m 0.35% 58.2% \n WDEF WisdomTree Europe Defense Fund WisdomTree $88m 0.45% 0.0% \n GCAD Gabelli Commercial Aerospace and Defense ETF Gabelli $44m 0.10% 40.1% \n WAR U.S. Global Technology and Aerospace & Defen U.S. Global $41m 0.60% 38.1% \n \n Where to next\n Every defense ETF Every theme How concentrated are thematic ETFs? Where these figures came from\n Fund holdings from SEC Form N-PORT and from the issuers own daily files SEC EDGAR, full-text search of fund filings SEC Form N-PORT, what a fund filed it holds Rule 19a-1, what a distribution notice must say ETFIQ links to the documents behind every figure; a link is not an endorsement.\n ETFIQ is an independent publisher and makes no recommendations. Standards and sources \n Cite this page. ETFIQ, Is there a defense ETF?, data as of Oct 20, 2026. https://etfiq.com/questions/is-there-a-defense-etf Free to use with attribution for figures ETFIQ computes; issuer data stays under its owner's terms. The underlying files are at Open data .\n Other forms Plain ETFIQ, Is there a defense ETF?, data as of Oct 20, 2026. https://etfiq.com/questions/is-there-a-defense-etf APA ETFIQ. (Oct 20, 2026). Is there a defense ETF?. Retrieved from https://etfiq.com/questions/is-there-a-defense-etf Markdown [Is there a defense ETF? (ETFIQ, Oct 20, 2026)](https://etfiq.com/questions/is-there-a-defense-etf)","source":"ETFIQ, independent ETF data. Recomputed nightly from public filings and prices.","publisher":{"@id":"https://etfiq.com/#org","name":"ETFIQ","url":"https://etfiq.com"},"license":"https://etfiq.com/license/","license_text":"Figures ETFIQ computes are free to use with attribution: ETFIQ (etfiq.com). Issuer data stays under its owner's terms.","citation":"ETFIQ, Is there a defense ETF?, data as of Oct 20, 2026. https://etfiq.com/questions/is-there-a-defense-etf"}