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iShares U.S. Aerospace & Defense ETF ITA

Issuer: iShares SEC registrant: iShares Trust Equity · US
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Last price 206.15 USD Change: Down −1.61 Percent change: Down −0.77%

Source: Yahoo Finance (opens in a new tab) Observed · 1 day ago Quotes may be delayed

Expense ratio
0.38%
Prospectus 1 Aug 2025
Net assets
$14.4B
As of 30 Jun 2026
Holdings
52
As of 30 Jun 2026
12-month distribution yield
0.27%
Quarterly
Asset class
Equity
From holdings

iShares U.S. Aerospace & Defense ETF (ITA) is an exchange-traded fund listed on Cboe BZX in the United States, issued by iShares. Its category is Equity · US (equity). Its last price was US$206.15 on 20 Oct 2026. Its expense ratio is 0.38% a year, from its prospectus dated 1 Aug 2025. It reported net assets of US$14.44 billion as of 30 Jun 2026. Its latest holdings report lists 52 holdings as of 30 Jun 2026. Over the last 12 months it paid distributions of US$0.57 a unit, a 12-month distribution yield of 0.27%, paid quarterly.

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Fees

Total annual operating expenses (gross)
0.38%
Net, after fee waivers or reimbursements
No waiver stated
Management fee
0.38%
Prospectus date
1 Aug 2025
Filed with the SEC
22 Jul 2025

Source: SEC prospectus risk/return data sets (opens in a new tab) Filed

Size and reporting

Net assets
$14,444,112,392
Total assets
$14,668,044,926
Holdings as of
30 Jun 2026
Report made public
24 Aug 2026 (55 days after the month end)

Net assets are for the whole fund series, which for some funds (Vanguard's, for example) also includes mutual fund share classes.

Source: SEC Form N-PORT (opens in a new tab) Filed

Top holdings

Largest 25 of 52 positions, as of 30 Jun 2026. Weight is the percent of net assets the fund reported.

ITA top holdings as of 30 Jun 2026
# Holding Identifier Weight Value (USD) Type Country Currency
1 GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY US3696043013 22.61% $3.3B Equity (common) United States USD
2 RTX CORPORATION US75513E1010 14.82% $2.1B Equity (common) United States USD
3 THE BOEING COMPANY BOEING CO THE US0970231058 8.90% $1.3B Equity (common) United States USD
4 TRANSDIGM GROUP INCORPORATED US8936411003 4.59% $662.3M Equity (common) United States USD
5 HOWMET AEROSPACE INC. US4432011082 4.50% $649.6M Equity (common) United States USD
6 GENERAL DYNAMICS CORPORATION US3695501086 4.33% $626.1M Equity (common) United States USD
7 LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION US5398301094 4.05% $584.9M Equity (common) United States USD
8 Northrop Grumman Corporation US6668071029 3.92% $566.3M Equity (common) United States USD
9 L3HARRIS TECHNOLOGIES, INC. US5024311095 3.80% $548.5M Equity (common) United States USD
10 ROCKET LAB CORPORATION US7731211089 3.63% $524.5M Equity (common) United States USD
11 AXON ENTERPRISE, INC. US05464C1018 3.17% $457.8M Equity (common) United States USD
12 CARPENTER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION US1442851036 2.15% $310.5M Equity (common) United States USD
13 CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION US2315611010 1.96% $283.6M Equity (common) United States USD
14 FTAI Aviation Ltd. KYG3730V1059 1.95% $281.2M Equity (common) Cayman Islands USD
15 ATI INC US01741R1023 1.89% $272.5M Equity (common) United States USD
16 WOODWARD, INC. US9807451037 1.78% $256.8M Equity (common) United States USD
17 BlackRock Funds III: BlackRock Cash Funds: Institutional; SL Agency Shares BLACKROCK CASH FUNDS INSTITUTIONAL FUND SL AGENCY US0669225197 1.51% $218.4M Short-term investment vehicles (cash funds) United States USD
18 HEICO CORPORATION US4228062083 1.40% $202.8M Equity (common) United States USD
19 BWX TECHNOLOGIES, INC. US05605H1005 1.25% $180.7M Equity (common) United States USD
20 TEXTRON INC. US8832031012 1.12% $161.6M Equity (common) United States USD
21 HEICO CORPORATION US4228061093 1.01% $145.3M Equity (common) United States USD
22 MOOG INC. US6153942023 0.85% $122.1M Equity (common) United States USD
23 HUNTINGTON INGALLS INDUSTRIES, INC. US4464131063 0.77% $111.7M Equity (common) United States USD
24 KRATOS DEFENSE & SECURITY SOLUTIONS, INC. US50077B2079 0.66% $94.7M Equity (common) United States USD
25 HEXCEL CORPORATION US4282911084 0.53% $76.5M Equity (common) United States USD

Source: SEC Form N-PORT (opens in a new tab) Made public Holdings as of 30 Jun 2026

All 52 stored holdings

Breakdowns

Sums of reported weights over every position in the report. Totals can differ from 100% because of derivatives, borrowing and cash.

Asset type

Asset type by weight
TypeWeightBar
Equity (common) 99.93%
Short-term investment vehicles (cash funds) 1.61%
Equity derivatives <0.01%

Country

Country by weight
CountryWeightBar
United States 99.59%
Cayman Islands 1.95%

The country each issuer is assigned to in the report.

Currency exposure

Currency exposure by weight
CurrencyWeightBar
US dollar (USD) 101.54%

The currency each holding is denominated in. Currency hedges are not netted off, so a hedged fund still shows its holdings' currencies.

Sector

Sector weights for holdings matched to listed stocks
SectorWeightBar
Industrials 69.18%
Technology 25.03%
Energy 1.78%
Unknown 0.85%
Consumer Discretionary 0.47%

Partial coverage: sectors are known for 97.3% of net assets (97% of the fund's equity weight), the holdings matched by CUSIP or ticker to US stocks listed on this site. The rest is not assigned a sector.

Source: SEC Form N-PORT (opens in a new tab) Holdings as of

Distributions

Paid in the last 12 months
$0.5660
3 payments per unit
12-month yield
0.27%
Distributions only, not total return
Frequency
Quarterly
From the gaps between ex-dates
Latest ex-date
15 Sep 2026

12-month yield = distributions per unit with an ex-date in the last 12 months ($0.5660) ÷ latest price ($206.15) × 100 = 0.27%. It looks back, so it is not a forecast; special distributions in the window are included.

Why a distribution yield is not the fund's return: yield vs total return

Distribution history table (19 payments)
ITA distributions per unit by ex-date
Ex-dateAmount per unit
15 Sep 2026$0.2510
15 Jun 2026$0.1640
17 Mar 2026$0.1510
16 Sep 2025$0.7500
16 Jun 2025$0.1720
18 Mar 2025$0.2530
17 Dec 2024$0.4370
25 Sep 2024$0.2270
11 Jun 2024$0.2990
21 Mar 2024$0.2660
20 Dec 2023$0.4330
26 Sep 2023$0.2250
7 Jun 2023$0.2370
23 Mar 2023$0.2800
13 Dec 2022$0.2400
26 Sep 2022$0.3820
9 Jun 2022$0.2780
24 Mar 2022$0.1600
13 Dec 2021$0.1580

Source: Yahoo Finance (opens in a new tab) Checked · 2 days ago Amounts are adjusted for later unit splits

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