Summary
ARK Space & Defense Innovation ETF is an ETF - a fund traded on an exchange like a stock - run by ARK. Positions inside: 33. The ten largest make up 57% of the fund.
- Yearly costs
- 0.75%
- Fund size
- $737.1M
- Positions
- 33
- Dividends
- Reinvested
- Running since
- 2021
What speaks for it
- Easy to buy and sell: about $31.9M changes hands a day.
- Average yearly growth over the last three years: 31%.
What to watch
- The ten largest positions make up 57% of the fund, so its result rests on a few names.
- 59% of the fund is in one sector (Industrials).
- 87% of the fund is in one country (United States).
- Costs of 0.75% a year are above the middle of comparable funds (0.44%).
- In the last five years its price once dropped by 43% from its high.
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
- -7.0%
- 3 months
- -1.4%
- This year
- +3.1%
- 1 year
- 0.0%
- 3 years
- +123%
- Avg. market cap
- $1.12T
- P/E
- 37.2x
- Forward P/E
- 29.8x
- P/S
- 5.3x
- P/B
- 4.1x
- P/FCF
- 40.9x
- EV/EBITDA
- 23.9x
- Dividend yield
- 0.35%
- ROIC
- 18.4%
- ROE
- 18.6%
- Gross margin
- 41.1%
- Operating margin
- -519.3%
- Net margin
- -441.9%
- Payout ratio
- 13.0%
- Net debt/EBITDA
- -0.1x
- Beta
- 1.64
Weighted average of the 28 largest companies, which make up 92% of the fund. Banks and insurers are left out of the gross margin, the ROIC and the EBITDA figures.
What is inside?
Concentrated- 1 SPSpaceX SPCX 11%
- 2 LHL3Harris Technologies, Inc. LHX 6.6%
- 3 DEDeere & Co. DE 5.7%
- 4 KTKratos KTOS 5.5%
- 5 NVNvidia NVDA 5.3%
- 6 RKRocket Lab USA RKLB 5.1%
- 7 AMAmazon AMZN 4.7%
- 8 AVAeroVironment AVAV 4.6%
- 9 AMAMD AMD 4.3%
- 10 GOAlphabet GOOG 4.2%
Positions in the fund: 33. The ten largest make up 57% of it.
Composition as of Oct 18, 2026.
Where is it spread?
One sector dominatesBy sector
- Industrials 59%
- Technology 27%
- Consumer cyclical 9.6%
- Communication services 4.5%
By country
- United States 87%
- Japan 3.4%
- France 2.0%
- Taiwan 1.9%
- Other countries 5.3%
By company size
- Mega cap 43%
- Large cap 37%
- Mid cap 19%
- Micro cap 1.0%
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. Counted from the companies that make up 92% of the fund.
Largest sector: Industrials (59%). Largest country: United States (87%). Largest size group: Mega cap (43%).
What does it cost me?
Expensive- A year from $10,000
- $75.00
- Over 20 years
- $3,544
From every $10,000 invested the fund takes $75.00 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 $3,544.
How has it done?
Growing over the long run- A year on average, 3 years
- +31%
- Deepest drop
- -43%
- Yearly volatility
- 34%
Average yearly growth over the last three years: 31%. Deepest drop in these years: 43% below the earlier high.
Does it pay dividends?
No, it reinvestsThe fund pays nothing out. What its holdings earn stays inside and shows in the price.
Is it easy to buy and sell?
Very easy- Traded a day
- $31.9M
- Shares a day
- 1.1M
On an average day about $31.9M of the fund changes hands.
How expensive are the companies inside?
Rather expensive- P/E of the companies inside
- 37.2
- Average Bulios Score
- 57 out of 100
Weight by Bulios Fair Price
- Undervalued 2.7%
- Fairly valued 3.2%
- Overvalued 94%
On average the companies inside trade for 37.2 times their yearly profit. By Fair Price, 94% of the rated weight comes out as overvalued.
Counted from its largest companies (28), which make up 92% of the fund. Each company counts by its weight. We use the metrics, the Bulios Score and the Fair Price of the companies themselves.
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