XAR Command

Since Jan 2012

+678%

$31 → $241 · ~7.8×

Since inception

18.1%/yr

annualized · Sep 2011 launch

Trailing 3 years

28.8%/yr

the rearmament regime

Trailing 1 year

+18.3%

to Aug 31, 2026

Trajectory · 2012 → now

Fourteen years of climb-out

Monthly closes since January 2012. Flip to LOG scale and the curve straightens into a line — the signature of compounding at a near-constant rate. Every gridline on LOG is a doubling.

XAR MONTHLY CLOSE EVENT MARKER

Series calibrated to State Street published figures — $241.32 close (17 Sep 2026); 18.33% 1-yr, 28.79% 3-yr, 16.51% 5-yr, 16.76% 10-yr annualized (31 Aug 2026). Intermediate months indicative. Price only, dividends not reinvested.

Personnel file

The Squadron

Three stations, one index. Air wing, exo-armor escort, and the operations room that watches all five domains at once.

Anime pilot girl with a red bob cut in a crimson flight jumpsuit, saluting in a command deck

CLEARED

CPT. HANEDA “VECTOR”

Air Wing · Strike Lead

Flies the commercial-aero sleeve: airframes, engines, avionics. Reports every gap-up at dawn, salutes anyway.

Anime girl with a long dark ponytail in a tactical suit, saluting with a comms headset

CLEARED

LT. KURENAI “AEGIS”

Tactical Wing · Escort & Systems

Rides shotgun on the defense-prime sleeve — missiles, radar, electronic warfare. Has never lost a convoy or a quarter.

Anime girl with short dark hair and a headset, seated at a glowing holographic map table in an ops room

EYES ONLY

ENS. MIYAKO “ORACLE”

Ops Room · Signals & Rebalance

Runs the map table. Equal-weights the book every quarter so no single prime ever owns the mission — or the drawdown.

Theater coverage

Five domains, one ticker

✈

AIR

▲

LAND

⚓

SEA

✦

SPACE

⌁

CYBER

Fund intel

Know your instrument

XAR Aerospace & Defense Index emblem — red chrome letters over a wireframe globe

Full name

SPDR® S&P® Aerospace & Defense ETF

Exchange

NYSE Arca · ticker XAR

Tracks

S&P Aerospace & Defense Select Industry Index

Weighting

Modified equal weight — small caps matter

Inception

28 September 2011

Expense ratio

0.35%

Representative holdings — the hangar roster

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Roster rotates at rebalance; equal weighting means the drone startup and the century-old prime fly the same formation.