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State Street SPDR S&P Aerospace & Defense ETF XAR · AMEX

$223.14 -0.62% (-$1.39)

Summary

State Street SPDR S&P Aerospace & Defense ETF is an ETF - a fund traded on an exchange like a stock - run by SPDR. Positions inside: 52. The ten largest make up 31% of the fund.

Yearly costs
0.35%
Fund size
$5.36B
Positions
52
Dividend yield
0.19%
Running since
2011

What speaks for it

  • Costs of 0.35% a year are below the middle of comparable funds (0.44%).
  • A large fund with $5.36B under management.
  • Easy to buy and sell: about $59.8M changes hands a day.
  • Average yearly growth over the last ten years: 15%.
  • It has been running since 2011.

What to watch

  • 100% of the fund is in one country (United States).
  • In the last five years its price once dropped by 33% 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
-6.9%
3 months
-14%
This year
-7.4%
1 year
-7.5%
3 years
+95%
5 years
+81%
10 years
+293%
Avg. market cap
$47.1B
P/E
31.3x
Forward P/E
25.2x
P/S
2.6x
P/B
3.7x
P/FCF
29.5x
EV/EBITDA
20.3x
Dividend yield
0.55%
ROIC
5.4%
ROE
18.2%
Gross margin
2.8%
Operating margin
-286.1%
Net margin
-261.6%
Payout ratio
17.1%
Net debt/EBITDA
2.8x
Beta
1.26

Weighted average of the 50 largest companies, which make up 100% 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
    HO
    Honeywell Aerospace Inc HONA 3.3%
  2. 2
    LM
    Lockheed Martin LMT 3.1%
  3. 3
    TD
    TransDigm TDG 3.1%
  4. 4
    MO
    Moog Inc. MOG-A 3.1%
  5. 5
    HE
    HEICO HEI 3.1%
  6. 6
    WW
    Woodward WWD 3.1%
  7. 7
    NO
    Northrop Grumman Corp NOC 3.0%
  8. 8
    LH
    L3Harris Technologies, Inc. LHX 3.0%
  9. 9
    GE
    General Electric Company GE 3.0%
  10. 10
    GD
    General Dynamics GD 3.0%

Positions in the fund: 52. The ten largest make up 31% of it.

Composition as of Oct 18, 2026.

Where is it spread?

One country

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.

Largest country: United States (100%). Largest size group: Large cap (58%).

What does it cost me?

Cheap
A year from $10,000
$35.00
Over 20 years
$1,714

From every $10,000 invested the fund takes $35.00 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 $1,714.

How has it done?

Growing over the long run
A year on average, 10 years
+15%
Deepest drop
-33%
Yearly volatility
29%

Average yearly growth over the last ten years: 15%. Deepest drop in these years: 33% below the earlier high.

Does it pay dividends?

Yes, it pays out
Yield
0.19%
Payments a year
4
Last payment
$0.13

Over the last 12 months it paid $0.42 per share, which is 0.19% of today's price. The last payment was $0.13 on Sep 21, 2026.

Is it easy to buy and sell?

Very easy
Traded a day
$59.8M
Shares a day
268K

On an average day about $59.8M of the fund changes hands.

How expensive are the companies inside?

Rather expensive
P/E of the companies inside
31.3
Average Bulios Score
55 out of 100

Weight by Bulios Fair Price

On average the companies inside trade for 31.3 times their yearly profit. By Fair Price, 75% of the rated weight comes out as overvalued.

Counted from its largest companies (50), which make up 100% 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
FL
FLDZ TrueShares Patriot Defense ETF
United States 0.40% $3.44M -12% Pays out 64%
IT
ITA iShares U.S. Aerospace & Defense ETF
United States 0.37% $12.1B -0.9% Pays out 53%
MI
MISL First Trust Indxx Aerospace & Defense ETF
United States 0.60% $193.7M -3.8% Pays out 53%
GC
GCAD Gabelli Commercial Aerospace and Defense ETF
United States 0.90% $13.2M +7.4% Pays out 52%
PP
PPA Invesco Aerospace & Defense ETF
United States 0.58% $7.42B +0.6% Pays out 48%
DF
DFEN Direxion Daily Aerospace & Defense Bull 3X Shares
United States 0.96% $385.6M -31% Pays out 45%

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