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WisdomTree Global Defense Fund WDGF · NASDAQ

$29.92 -0.43% (-$0.13)

Summary

WisdomTree Global Defense Fund is an ETF - a fund traded on an exchange like a stock - run by WisdomTree. Positions inside: 138. The ten largest make up 47% of the fund.

Yearly costs
0.45%
Fund size
$5.10M
Positions
138
Dividend yield
0.05%
Running since
2025

What speaks for it

Nothing stands out in its favour.

What to watch

  • A young fund: it has been running only since 2025.
  • A small fund with $5.10M under management; small funds get closed more often.
  • It trades little: only about $37.8K changes hands a day.

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
-2.9%
3 months
+0.1%
This year
-2.2%
1 year
-4.3%
Avg. market cap
$93.5B
P/E
30.3x
Forward P/E
24.7x
P/S
2.5x
P/B
5.1x
P/FCF
22.9x
EV/EBITDA
19.0x
Dividend yield
1.00%
ROIC
11.1%
ROE
23.6%
Gross margin
28.9%
Operating margin
14.0%
Net margin
11.7%
Payout ratio
30.4%
Net debt/EBITDA
1.3x
Beta
0.43

Weighted average of the 50 largest companies, which make up 81% 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. 1
    PL
    Palantir PLTR 6.2%
  2. 2
    LM
    Lockheed Martin LMT 5.1%
  3. 3
    HO
    Thales HO.PA 5.0%
  4. 4 BAE Systems PLC 5.0%
  5. 5
    RH
    Rheinmetall AG RHM.DE 5.0%
  6. 6
    NO
    Northrop Grumman Corp NOC 5.0%
  7. 7
    GD
    General Dynamics GD 4.9%
  8. 8
    RT
    RTX RTX 4.8%
  9. 9
    LH
    L3Harris Technologies, Inc. LHX 3.5%
  10. 10 Saab Ab-B 2.8%

Positions in the fund: 138. The ten largest make up 47% of it.

Composition as of Oct 16, 2026.

Where is it spread?

Spread out

By country

By company size

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 86% of the fund.

Largest country: United States (56%). Largest size group: Large cap (72%).

What does it cost me?

Usual costs
A year from $10,000
$45.00
Over 20 years
$2,184

From every $10,000 invested the fund takes $45.00 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 $2,184.

How has it done?

Losing value
Over the last year
-4.3%
Deepest drop
-20%
Yearly volatility
22%

Decline over the last year: 4.3%. Deepest drop in these years: 20% below the earlier high.

Does it pay dividends?

Yes, it pays out
Yield
0.05%
Payments a year
1
Last payment
$0.02

Over the last 12 months it paid $0.02 per share, which is 0.05% of today's price. The last payment was $0.02 on Dec 26, 2025.

Is it easy to buy and sell?

It trades little
Traded a day
$37.8K
Shares a day
1.3K

On an average day about $37.8K of the fund changes hands.

How expensive are the companies inside?

Rather expensive
P/E of the companies inside
30.3
Average Bulios Score
60 out of 100

Weight by Bulios Fair Price

On average the companies inside trade for 30.3 times their yearly profit. By Fair Price, 57% of the rated weight comes out as overvalued.

Counted from its largest companies (50), which make up 81% 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
AR
ARMR.AX BetaShares - Global Defence ETF
Australia 0.55% $151.8M -10% Pays out 63%
NA
NATO.MI HanETF Future of Defence UCITS ETF
Ireland 0.49% $3.15B +11% Reinvests 58%
SH
SHLD Global X - Defense Tech ETF
United States 0.50% $4.25B -8.7% Pays out 57%
PP
PPA Invesco Aerospace & Defense ETF
United States 0.58% $7.42B +0.6% Pays out 50%
MI
MISL First Trust Indxx Aerospace & Defense ETF
United States 0.60% $193.7M -3.8% Pays out 49%
ID
IDEF iShares Defense Industrials Act
United States 0.55% $3.66B -4.3% Pays out 48%

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