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State Street® SPDR® S&P® Aerospace & Defense ETF

SPDR · US78464A6313

State Street® SPDR® S&P® Aerospace & Defense ETF is an exchange-traded fund (ETF) from SPDR, traded under the ticker XAR (ISIN US78464A6313). It lets you buy a basket of holdings in a single trade, spreading your money across them rather than one company. At its core it is a focused, thematic fund: it concentrates on the industrials part of the…

· Tracks the S&P Aerospace & Defense Select Industry Index index ?
Equity ?Unknown Physical ?United States ?
Mid-range feeOwns the shares directlyOther
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Fund size (AUM) ?
€5B
1-year return ?
-5.4%
Price Return · to 2026-10-06
Yearly fee (TER) ?
0.35%
All-in cost ≈ 0.00%

About this fund

What you own

The S&P Aerospace & Defense Select Industry Index index is the benchmark this fund aims to copy. By holding it, this fund gives you a stake in around 51 companies across Other in a single purchase.

How it works

The fund actually buys every share in the index it tracks (full replication).

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Owning every holding keeps things transparent — what is in the index is what the fund actually owns. It can be a touch costlier to run for indexes with thousands of tiny positions, since the fund has to buy and maintain them all. There is no swap bank involved, so there is no extra “what if the partner fails” question to weigh.

Cost

0.35%Yearly fee (TER)
0.00%All-in cost

The yearly running cost of the fund, shown as a % of your money. Lower is cheaper.

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For example, a 0.20% fee works out at €0.20 a year for every €100 invested — that’s a generic illustration of the mechanic, not this fund’s own fee. It is skimmed quietly from inside the fund a little each day, so you never get a bill — but it drags on your return every year you hold. On a broad index ETF it is usually a small fraction of a percent; the gap between a cheap and a pricey fund looks tiny on day one but compounds over decades, which is why it is worth a glance.

Fund facts

Index tracked ?
S&P Aerospace & Defense Select Industry Index
Replication ?
Physical
Full — buys every share
Launched
Sep 2011
15-year track record

Performance

60.9109157205253202120242026

Growth of $100 invested — the line starts at $100.

State Street® SPDR® S&P® Aerospace & Defense ETF

End-of-day prices, rebased to a common start so the shapes are comparable. Past performance does not predict future results.

YTD-3.2%
1 year-5.4%
3 years+28.2%
5 years+13.7%

Return, year by year

-5.5
+23.1
+22.4
+45.5
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3 of 4 up yearsBest: 2025 +45.5%Worst: 2022 -5.5%Calendar-year total returns, in USD

How bumpy has it been?

29.5%
Volatility (1y) ?
How much the price swings year to year — lower is calmer.
-22.1%
Worst drop (3y) ?
The biggest fall from a peak over the last three years.
1.17
Return for the risk (3y) ?
Reward earned per unit of bumpiness.

The bigger picture

+76.1%
Since inception
Total growth since launch — about +11.3% a year.
+84.2%
Best 12 months
The strongest one-year stretch on record.
-24.6%
Worst 12 months
The weakest one-year stretch on record.
-30.9%
Worst fall on record ?
It clawed back in about 15 months.

What's inside

By sector ?

Industrials93.2%
Cash/Other4.2%
Corporate2.6%

The 10 biggest holdings make up 30.1% of the fund — the rest is spread across roughly 41 more companies.

Top 10 holdings

#CompanyWeight
1ROCKET LAB CORP3.4%
2MOOG INC CLASS A3.2%
3AEROVIRONMENT INC3.1%
4HONEYWELL AEROSPACE INC3.0%
5LOCKHEED MARTIN CORP2.9%
6TRANSDIGM GROUP INC2.9%
7HOWMET AEROSPACE INC2.9%
8NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORP2.9%
9GENERAL ELECTRIC2.9%
10HEICO CORP2.9%

Where to buy this fund

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Where it trades

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Full holdings

As of 2026-10-06 · the fund's own published holdings.

#CompanyWeight
1ROCKET LAB CORP3.4%
2MOOG INC CLASS A3.2%
3AEROVIRONMENT INC3.1%
4HONEYWELL AEROSPACE INC3.0%
5LOCKHEED MARTIN CORP2.9%
6TRANSDIGM GROUP INC2.9%
7HOWMET AEROSPACE INC2.9%
8NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORP2.9%
9GENERAL ELECTRIC2.9%
10HEICO CORP2.9%
11TEXTRON INC2.9%
12WOODWARD INC2.9%
13RTX CORP2.8%
14L3HARRIS TECHNOLOGIES INC2.8%
15GENERAL DYNAMICS CORP2.8%
16KRATOS DEFENSE + SECURITY2.8%
17CURTISS WRIGHT CORP2.8%
18HUNTINGTON INGALLS INDUSTRIE2.7%
19FTAI AVIATION LTD2.7%
20BOEING CO/THE2.7%
21HEXCEL CORP2.6%
22ATI INC2.6%
23STANDARDAERO INC2.6%
24AXON ENTERPRISE INC2.6%
25KARMAN HOLDINGS INC2.6%
26BWX TECHNOLOGIES INC2.5%
27VSE CORP2.5%
28CARPENTER TECHNOLOGY2.5%
29MERCURY SYSTEMS INC2.1%
30ARCHER AVIATION INC A1.9%
31AAR CORP1.5%
32REDWIRE CORP1.5%
33V2X INC1.3%
34INTUITIVE MACHINES INC1.3%
35DUCOMMUN INC1.3%
36LOAR HOLDINGS INC1.3%
37ASTRONICS CORP1.2%
38LEONARDO DRS INC1.2%
39FIREFLY AEROSPACE INC1.1%
40ARXIS INC A1.0%
41BETA TECHNOLOGIES INC CL A1.0%
42VOYAGER TECHNOLOGIES INC A1.0%
43RED CAT HOLDINGS INC0.5%
44YORK SPACE SYSTEMS INC0.5%
45SATELLOGIC INC A0.4%
46NATIONAL PRESTO INDS INC0.4%
47CADRE HOLDINGS INC0.3%
48PARK AEROSPACE CORP0.3%
49VIRGIN GALACTIC HOLDINGS INC0.2%
50AEVEX CORP CL A0.2%
51SSI US GOV MONEY MARKET CLASS0.1%

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How it ranks vs peers

🪙 Cheaper than 50% of similar ETFs📈 Higher 1-yr return than 10%📈 Higher 3-yr return than 96%📈 Higher 5-yr return than 94%📊 Behind its category by 20.1% (1-yr) (category average +14.6%)📊 Beat its category by 16.0% (3-yr) (category average +12.3%)📊 Beat its category by 8.7% (5-yr) (category average +5.1%)

Versus the Equity (stocks) · Other · USD ETFs we track.

Advanced risk

1.75
Sortino (3y) ?
1.28
Calmar (3y) ?
20.2%
Downside deviation ?
50%
Up months (hit rate) ?
$296.73
52-week high ?
$218.75
52-week low ?

Concentration depth

~40 ?
Effective number of holdings

Roughly 51 companies are held, but the largest names carry most of the weight — so it behaves like ~40 equal-sized positions.

Tilt vs a world tracker

Industrials+81.6
Technology-29.2
Financials-16.3
Health Care-9.3
Consumer Discretionary-9.0
Communication Services-8.2

Percentage points over / under a broad world-equity tracker (not a licensed benchmark).

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Index trackedS&P Aerospace & Defense Select Industry IndexTechnology Select Sector IndexFTSE Developed ex US IndexFinancial Select Sector IndexHealth Care Select Sector IndexEnergy Select Sector IndexIndustrial Select Sector Index
Yearly fee (TER)0.35%0.08%0.03%0.08%0.08%0.08%0.08%
All-in cost0.00%0.00%0.00%0.00%0.00%0.00%0.00%
Fund size€5B€116.3B€58.5B€44.8B€38.5B€36.5B€28.1B
DomicileUnited StatesUnited StatesUnited StatesUnited StatesUnited StatesUnited StatesUnited States
ReplicationPhysical (full)Physical (full)Physical (full)Physical (full)Physical (full)Physical (full)Physical (full)
3-yr return p.a.+28.2%+32.9%+13.9%+17.8%+8.7%+13.9%+18.5%
5-yr return p.a.+13.7%+21.2%+6.7%+6.8%+5.5%+17.5%+10.7%
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Data as of 2026-10-06 · Source: issuer data, compiled by Finance Hamster

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