Summary
iShares Defense Industrials Act is an ETF - a fund traded on an exchange like a stock - run by IShares. Positions inside: 166. The ten largest make up 32% of the fund.
- Yearly costs
- 0.55%
- Fund size
- $3.66B
- Positions
- 166
- Dividend yield
- 0.18%
- Running since
- 2025
What speaks for it
- A large fund with $3.66B under management.
- Easy to buy and sell: about $30.2M changes hands a day.
What to watch
- 66% of the fund is in one sector (Industrials).
- Costs of 0.55% a year are above the middle of comparable funds (0.44%).
- A young fund: it has been running only since 2025.
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
- -4.6%
- 3 months
- -1.9%
- This year
- -1.5%
- 1 year
- -4.3%
- Avg. market cap
- $439.0B
- P/E
- 32.1x
- Forward P/E
- 25.6x
- P/S
- 2.8x
- P/B
- 5.8x
- P/FCF
- 27.4x
- EV/EBITDA
- 20.3x
- Dividend yield
- 0.79%
- ROIC
- 10.6%
- ROE
- 28.1%
- Gross margin
- 35.7%
- Operating margin
- 15.2%
- Net margin
- 14.3%
- Payout ratio
- 25.3%
- Net debt/EBITDA
- 0.9x
- Beta
- 0.82
Weighted average of the 50 largest companies, which make up 69% of the fund. Banks and insurers are left out of the gross margin, the ROIC and the EBITDA figures.
What is inside?
Moderately concentrated- 1 RTRTX RTX 5.2%
- 2 PLPalantir PLTR 4.5%
- 3 LMLockheed Martin LMT 3.5%
- 4 GDGeneral Dynamics GD 3.0%
- 5 ROLLS-ROYCE HOLDINGS PLC 3.0%
- 6 SPSpaceX SPCX 2.9%
- 7 BABoeing BA 2.9%
- 8 NONorthrop Grumman Corp NOC 2.8%
- 9 AIAirbus AIR.PA 2.1%
- 10 MSMicrosoft MSFT 2.1%
Positions in the fund: 166. The ten largest make up 32% of it.
Composition as of Oct 18, 2026.
Where is it spread?
One sector dominatesBy sector
- Industrials 66%
- Energy 0.3%
- Utilities 0.04%
- Other 34%
By country
- United States 64%
- Japan 5.1%
- United Kingdom 4.9%
- France 3.8%
- Other countries 22%
By company size
- Mega cap 26%
- Large cap 53%
- Mid cap 16%
- Small cap 5.4%
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 94% of the fund.
Largest sector: Industrials (66%). Largest country: United States (64%). Largest size group: Large cap (53%).
What does it cost me?
Expensive- A year from $10,000
- $55.00
- Over 20 years
- $2,646
From every $10,000 invested the fund takes $55.00 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 $2,646.
How has it done?
Losing value- Over the last year
- -4.3%
- Deepest drop
- -18%
- Yearly volatility
- 23%
Decline over the last year: 4.3%. Deepest drop in these years: 18% below the earlier high.
Does it pay dividends?
Yes, it pays out- Yield
- 0.18%
- Last payment
- $0.05
Over the last 12 months it paid $0.05 per share, which is 0.18% of today's price. The last payment was $0.05 on Jun 15, 2026.
Is it easy to buy and sell?
Very easy- Traded a day
- $30.2M
- Shares a day
- 995K
On an average day about $30.2M of the fund changes hands.
How expensive are the companies inside?
Rather expensive- P/E of the companies inside
- 32.1
- Average Bulios Score
- 60 out of 100
Weight by Bulios Fair Price
- Undervalued 16%
- Fairly valued 6.8%
- Overvalued 78%
On average the companies inside trade for 32.1 times their yearly profit. By Fair Price, 78% of the rated weight comes out as overvalued.
Counted from its largest companies (50), which make up 69% 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.
| Fund | Domicile | Size | 1-year change | Dividends | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
WD WDGF WisdomTree Global Defense Fund | United States | 0.45% | $2.18M | -4.3% | Pays out | 48% |
NA NATO.MI HanETF Future of Defence UCITS ETF | Ireland | 0.49% | $3.15B | +11% | Reinvests | 43% |
AR ARMR.AX BetaShares - Global Defence ETF | Australia | 0.55% | $151.8M | -10% | Pays out | 41% |
NA NATO Themes ETF Trust - Themes Transatlantic Defense ETF | United States | 0.35% | $91.1M | -4.2% | Reinvests | 38% |
PP PPA Invesco Aerospace & Defense ETF | United States | 0.58% | $7.42B | +0.6% | Pays out | 38% |
MI MISL First Trust Indxx Aerospace & Defense ETF | United States | 0.60% | $193.7M | -3.8% | Pays out | 37% |