VIS vs ITA.
Vanguard Industrials ETF (MSCI US IMI Industrials 25/50) against iShares U.S. Aerospace & Defense ETF (Dow Jones U.S. Select Aerospace & Defense) — fees, long-horizon total returns, holdings overlap, and sector tilt, side by side.
Daily bar history for this pair isn’t loaded yet — returns will appear once the nightly ingest covers both funds.
| VIS | ITA | |
|---|---|---|
| Name | Vanguard Industrials Index Fund ETF Shares | iShares U.S. Aerospace & Defense ETF |
| Category | Industrials | Industrials |
| Style | Passive | Passive |
| Expense ratio | 0.09% | 0.4% |
| Assets (AUM) | $9.0B | $14.4B |
| Dividend yield | 0.86% | 0.44% |
| Avg volume (3-mo) | 86K | 847K |
| Inception | September 23, 2004 | May 1, 2006 |
| Benchmark proxy | S&P 500 | S&P 500 |
VIS costs 0.31 pp less per year — about $31.00 per $10,000 invested.
Expense ratios verified against issuer fact sheets. Dividend yield is trailing 12-month distributions divided by price, as reported by the fund data provider.
| Shared holding | VIS | ITA | MIN |
|---|---|---|---|
| GEGE Aerospace | 5.21% | 22.62% | 5.21% |
| RTXRTX Corp | 3.40% | 14.82% | 3.40% |
| BABoeing Co | 2.15% | 8.90% | 2.15% |
Sum of min(weight in each fund) across shared tickers — the standard fund-overlap measure. Computed on the top 25 holdings each fund reports, so it is a lower bound; the coverage figures show how much of each fund those top holdings represent.