How is First Trust Indxx Aerospace & Defense ETF (MISL) doing?

First Trust Indxx Aerospace & Defense ETF is an exchange-traded fund. Here is how it has done against the market, and where it shows up on our dashboards.

Updated Oct 9, 2026

market beat

Middling

First Trust Indxx Aerospace & Defense ETF shares are down 4% over the past year, 17 points behind the S&P 500. Among large US stocks and funds it ranks in the 36th percentile on market beat and the 9th on staying power. It appears on 1 of our dashboards.

$42.24−4% in a yearWorth $198.9M

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Past year

The past year

Price against the S&P 500, each set to $100 a year ago. Score is its weekly rank against the market. Select a tile for that score month by month.

MISL against the S&P 500, past year

$100 a year ago. First Trust Indxx Aerospace & Defense ETF −4%, the S&P 500 +16%.

MISLS&P 500

How much does it move?

Its typical daily move, against its own past year, the market and other large stocks. Swings describe risk, not direction.

Calmer than usual First Trust Indxx Aerospace & Defense ETF typically moves 1.6% in a day, calmer than usual for it, and it swings more than 75% of large US funds.

Typical day1.6%about $0.66 a share

Its usual2.1%calmer than usual, 0.7× its year’s average

Against the S&P 5001.9×the index’s typical day is 1.1%

Unusual day±3.1%twice its typical day

Deepest fall, past year−18%now 17% below its high

In the S&P’s down weeks73%of the index’s fall, three years; beta 0.9

Typical daily move (ATR)Its year’s average 2.11%

MISL on our dashboards

Every question where First Trust Indxx Aerospace & Defense ETF appears, in the order of the home page, with its reading and place in that table. Select a question to open it with MISL highlighted. Select a column to sort.

Question	Reading	Place	Details
Which sectors and countries are leading? What’s leading	37Middle	61 of 86	Group Sector · vs S&P, 1M −2.7 pts · 3M −8.3 pts

Go deeper on Stox

MISL’s full profile: financial statements, earnings and analysts’ estimates, valuation against its sector, recent news with a summary, and its scores in detail.

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How to read this page

How it’s measured. Scores from Stox rank the stock against about 1,200 S&P 500, Nasdaq-100 and Russell 1000 stocks and popular funds, where 100 is best; market beat and staying power use prices, business growth uses revenue, margins and cash flow. Readings on other dashboards come from this site’s pages.

Sources. Daily prices from Financial Modeling Prep.

Scores are percentiles: 80 means the stock ranks above 80% of the others on that measure. They describe the recent past and are not advice or a forecast.

Its type follows Stox Atlas: each of the four scores is split at 50. “Steady” means its rank has held, high or low, so it says nothing on its own about direction.

Its group is the cluster of large US stocks whose prices have moved together over five years, with the market’s own moves taken out. The typical daily move is the average true range over 14 days, a measure of how far the price travels in a day including overnight gaps.

For financial statements, earnings and news, see MISL’s full profile on Stox.

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