ITA Industry — Aerospace ETF (ITA)

ITA Industry — Aerospace ETF — analysis

Top-line read on ITA: $203.5B of investor capital sitting inside the industry — aerospace ITA Industry — Aerospace ETF fund, with the issuer charging 34 bps on top of total expenses each year. Inception 1998-08-15, benchmark Index Benchmark.

On the underlying-fundamentals lens, ITA prints VMCI-Composite 65/100. The composite is a weighted mean of the top-10 holdings' VMCI scores, so a higher number indicates the fund's largest positions screen well on the five-pillar framework against Index Benchmark alternatives.

Against Index Benchmark, ITA compounded 10.1% per year over five years (benchmark: 11.0%). Tracking quality on the industry — aerospace sleeve reads fair on that single statistic.

ITA income summary: 0.60% trailing yield, distributions up 9.1% per year over five years. The yield sits in the low-yield band for the industry — aerospace cohort.

Concentration: top-10 holdings represent 31% of ITA, with AAPL as the largest position at 3.83% of the fund. The sector tilt leans to Technology (31%), which is the dominant exposure investors should size around.

Direct peer set for ITA: SPY, VOO, VTI. The comparison is most useful on three lines — expense ratio, tracking error to Index Benchmark, and distribution behaviour over five years.