iShares US Aerospace & Defense ETF

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Market cap $13.7B

iShares U.S. Aerospace & Defense ETF offers a lower expense ratio and significantly higher assets under management than First Trust Indxx Aerospace & Defense ETF. First Trust Indxx Aerospace & Defense ETF includes technology exposure like Palantir Technologies Inc. while iShares U.S. Aerospace & Defense ETF is concentrated in industrials.

Q2 earnings are off to a strong start. Tech, Energy, Materials, Finance and Aerospace ETFs could shine as profit growth broadens across sectors.

Expectations for defense earnings are low. That isn't the case for commercial aerospace earnings, though.

NATO allies unveiled over $57B in new defense deals, fueling demand for aerospace and defense ETFs positioned to benefit from rising military spending.

A number of major defense companies, including Rheinmetall and Lockheed Martin have announced billions of dollars worth of backlogs

The iShares U.S. Aerospace & Defense ETF offers a significantly lower expense ratio of 0.38% compared to the 0.75% fee for the Tema Space Innovators ETF. The Tema Space Innovators ETF targets the specialized space economy while the iShares U.S. Aerospace & Defense ETF focuses on broad defense and aviation.

An old-economy sector fund is quietly beating the market darlings this year, and it holds zero shares of the electric-vehicle giant everyone loves to argue about.

Celebrate America's 250th birthday with ETFs tied to U.S. manufacturing, AI leadership and defense strength as domestic themes shine.

Space stopped being a government-only game years ago. It's now a real, investable industry – satellites beaming broadband to ships and planes, earth-imaging companies selling data to farms and defense contractors, and launch providers racing to put more payloads into orbit than ever before.

KNDS said it plans to list shares in Paris and Frankfurt. KNDS is one of Europe's largest military equipment producers.