iShares U.S. Aerospace & Defense ETF ITA · CBOE
$207.62 -0.69% (-$1.45)
Summary
iShares U.S. Aerospace & Defense ETF is an ETF - a fund traded on an exchange like a stock - run by IShares. Positions inside: 53. The ten largest make up 76% of the fund.
- Yearly costs
- 0.37%
- Fund size
- $12.1B
- Positions
- 53
- Dividend yield
- 0.20%
- Running since
- 2006
What speaks for it
- Costs of 0.37% a year are below the middle of comparable funds (0.44%).
- A large fund with $12.1B under management.
- Easy to buy and sell: about $150.5M changes hands a day.
- Average yearly growth over the last ten years: 13%.
- It has been running since 2006.
What to watch
- The ten largest positions make up 76% of the fund, so its result rests on a few names.
- 100% of the fund is in one country (United States).
A fund has no Bulios Score and no Fair Price of its own - both are computed from the results of a single company. This page shows what is inside the fund and what it costs instead.
Price
Performance
- 1 month
- -2.8%
- 3 months
- -9.4%
- This year
- -3.2%
- 1 year
- -0.9%
- 3 years
- +94%
- 5 years
- +92%
- 10 years
- +227%
- Avg. market cap
- $151.8B
- P/E
- 31.8x
- Forward P/E
- 26.8x
- P/S
- 3.0x
- P/B
- 5.9x
- P/FCF
- 29.5x
- EV/EBITDA
- 20.6x
- Dividend yield
- 0.83%
- ROIC
- 8.3%
- ROE
- 29.7%
- Gross margin
- 23.4%
- Operating margin
- -27.5%
- Net margin
- -27.1%
- Payout ratio
- 26.5%
- Net debt/EBITDA
- 2.1x
- Beta
- 0.98
Weighted average of the 50 largest companies, which make up 100% of the fund. Banks and insurers are left out of the gross margin, the ROIC and the EBITDA figures.
What is inside?
Concentrated- 1 GEGeneral Electric Company GE 21%
- 2 RTRTX RTX 16%
- 3 BABoeing BA 7.6%
- 4 LMLockheed Martin LMT 4.8%
- 5 TDTransDigm TDG 4.8%
- 6 NONorthrop Grumman Corp NOC 4.6%
- 7 GDGeneral Dynamics GD 4.5%
- 8 HWHowmet Aerospace HWM 4.5%
- 9 HOHoneywell Aerospace Inc HONA 4.0%
- 10 LHL3Harris Technologies, Inc. LHX 3.5%
Positions in the fund: 53. The ten largest make up 76% of it.
Composition as of Oct 18, 2026.
Where is it spread?
One countryBy country
- United States 100%
- Puerto Rico 0.05%
- Other countries 0.01%
By company size
- Mega cap 37%
- Large cap 57%
- Mid cap 5.1%
- Small cap 0.5%
By the company's market value: Mega cap from $200B, Large cap from $10B, Mid cap from $2B, Small cap from $300M, Micro cap below $300M.
Largest country: United States (100%). Largest size group: Large cap (57%).
What does it cost me?
Cheap- A year from $10,000
- $37.00
- Over 20 years
- $1,809
From every $10,000 invested the fund takes $37.00 a year. You do not pay it separately - it is taken out of the fund's value. Over 20 years at 5% yearly growth that adds up to about $1,809.
How has it done?
Growing over the long run- A year on average, 10 years
- +13%
- Deepest drop
- -20%
- Yearly volatility
- 23%
Average yearly growth over the last ten years: 13%. Deepest drop in these years: 20% below the earlier high.
Does it pay dividends?
Yes, it pays out- Yield
- 0.20%
- Last payment
- $0.25
Over the last 12 months it paid $0.41 per share, which is 0.20% of today's price. The last payment was $0.25 on Sep 15, 2026.
Is it easy to buy and sell?
Very easy- Traded a day
- $150.5M
- Shares a day
- 725K
On an average day about $150.5M of the fund changes hands.
How expensive are the companies inside?
Rather expensive- P/E of the companies inside
- 31.8
- Average Bulios Score
- 57 out of 100
Weight by Bulios Fair Price
- Undervalued 13%
- Fairly valued 7.3%
- Overvalued 80%
On average the companies inside trade for 31.8 times their yearly profit. By Fair Price, 80% of the rated weight comes out as overvalued.
Counted from its largest companies (50), which make up 100% of the fund. Each company counts by its weight. We use the metrics, the Bulios Score and the Fair Price of the companies themselves.
Similar funds
Funds that hold much of the same. The overlap says how much of their weight they share with this fund.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
FS FSDAX Fidelity Select Defense & Aerospace Portfolio· mutual fund | - | - | $3.32B | -1.4% | Pays out | 76% |
PP PPA Invesco Aerospace & Defense ETF | United States | 0.58% | $7.42B | +0.6% | Pays out | 70% |
DF DFEN Direxion Daily Aerospace & Defense Bull 3X Shares | United States | 0.96% | $385.6M | -31% | Pays out | 69% |
MI MISL First Trust Indxx Aerospace & Defense ETF | United States | 0.60% | $193.7M | -3.8% | Pays out | 67% |
AV AV Corgi Etf Trust I - Corgi Aerospace & Commercial Aviation ETF | United States | 0.35% | $767.5K | - | - | 57% |
NA NATO Themes ETF Trust - Themes Transatlantic Defense ETF | United States | 0.35% | $91.1M | -4.2% | Reinvests | 56% |