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Industrial sector ETFs

Funds holding aerospace and defense, machinery, construction, transport and business services companies. 16 funds in this group, ordered by trading volume (lowest expense ratio among those that report one: XLI at 0.08%). Data as of 23 Oct 2026. Educational, not advice.

Industrial sector ETFs: price, cost, yield and returns

#ETFCategoryPriceExpense ratioYield (12m)1Y return5Y a yearVolatilityX-Ray
1 XLI Industrial Select Sector SPDR Industrials $164.62 0.08% 1.14% +7.6% +11.1% 17%48.9
2 DIA SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average... Industrials $521.37 – 1.38% +13.2% +9.8% 13%–
3 GRID First Trust NASDAQ Clean Edge Smar... Industrials $162.68 0.56% 0.95% +5.9% +11.9% 25%42.0
4 AIRR First Trust RBA American Industria... Industrials $95.62 0.69% 0.10% −1.4% +17.4% 28%51.5
5 IYT iShares Transportation Average Industrials $80.18 0.38% 0.94% +15.0% +5.0% 20%47.5
6 PAVE Global X U.S. Infrastructure Devel... Industrials $51.60 0.47% 0.84% +8.6% +14.4% 20%46.1
7 VIS Vanguard Industrials Industrials $314.80 0.09% 0.97% +6.2% +10.8% 18%49.1
8 AIPO Defiance AI & Power Infrastructure AI and robotics $24.03 0.69% 0.01% +0.8% – 39%47.8
9 IGF iShares Global Infrastructure Industrials $64.65 0.39% 2.99% +7.8% +9.3% 11%46.4
10 RSPN Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Indus... Industrials $59.25 0.40% 0.91% +6.7% +9.9% 16%50.5
11 DTCR Global X Data Center & Digital Inf... Industrials $25.43 0.50% 0.97% +17.0% +9.5% 26%47.6
12 IDEF iShares Defense Industrials Active Defense and aerospace $29.79 – 0.36% −7.1% – 23%–
13 BOAT SonicShares Global Shipping Industrials $51.51 0.69% 5.90% +79.0% +26.7% 22%–
14 IYJ iShares U.S. Industrials Industrials $155.20 0.38% 0.68% +5.9% +7.5% 16%49.6
15 FIDU Fidelity MSCI Industrials Index Industrials $87.10 0.08% 0.95% +6.2% +10.9% 18%48.8
16 IFRA iShares U.S. Infrastructure Industrials $56.58 0.30% 1.80% +7.5% +11.5% 15%47.3

Membership is assigned by StocksXray rules from the fund name, so a fund can appear in several groups and a fund with an unusual name can be missing. Yield is distributions paid in the last 12 months over the latest price; returns are total returns including distributions. Click a column title to sort.

How the industrials funds differ

The reference fund for this sector is XLI, the Select Sector SPDR for industrials. It holds the S&P 500 companies in the sector (aerospace and defense, machinery, construction, transport and business services), and the eleven Select Sector SPDRs together make up the S&P 500. Funds from other families follow different indexes and hold a somewhat different mix. Funds whose main focus is another sector (biotech funds under technology, for example) are kept off this page.

Among the 16 funds above, the lowest expense ratio is XLI at 0.08% a year and the highest BOAT at 0.69% (as reported in SEC prospectus data); three quarters of them charge 0.56% or less. Over the last twelve months total returns ranged from −7.1% to +79.0%, and over five years from +5.0% to +26.7% a year. A wide range usually means the funds hold different slices of the sector (regional banks against broad financials, for example), so look at what a fund holds before comparing its numbers with another's.

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