How is SPDR S&P Aerospace & Defense ETF (XAR) doing?

SPDR S&P 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

Weak

SPDR S&P Aerospace & Defense ETF shares are down 9% over the past year, 21 points behind the S&P 500. Among large US stocks and funds it ranks in the 28th percentile on market beat and the 2nd on staying power.

$228.36−9% in a yearWorth $3.8B

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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.

XAR against the S&P 500, past year

$100 a year ago. SPDR S&P Aerospace & Defense ETF −9%, the S&P 500 +16%.

XARS&P 500

How is it doing against its group?

Its group is Aerospace-defense, 44 large US stocks and funds whose prices tend to move together. Defense primes and steady-demand contractors.

XAR, past year−9%28 of 44 in the group

Rest of the group0%equal-weighted

S&P 500+16%past year

SPDR S&P Aerospace & Defense ETF is −9% over the past year, against flat for the rest of the group and +16% for the S&P 500. It ranks 28th of 44 in Aerospace-defense.

XARRest of the group

Best in the groupCNC Centene+70%COKE Coca-Cola Consolidated+64%CAH Cardinal Health+51%

Worst in the groupPSN Parsons−50%ROL Rollins−45%AXON Axon Enterprise−42%

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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.

About usual SPDR S&P Aerospace & Defense ETF typically moves 2.2% in a day, about usual for it, and it swings more than 87% of large US funds.

Typical day2.2%about $4.95 a share

Its usual2.6%about usual, 0.8× its year’s average

Against the S&P 5002.3×the index’s typical day is 1.1%

Unusual day±4.3%twice its typical day

Deepest fall, past year−24%now 23% below its high

In the S&P’s down weeks100%of the index’s fall, three years; beta 1.2

Typical daily move (ATR)Its year’s average 2.59%

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XAR’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 XAR’s full profile on Stox.

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