Tax-loss harvesting alternatives for VSEC

Among the 25 Aerospace & Defense peers screened, AIR (AAR Corp.) has tracked VSEC most closely over the past year, with a return correlation of 0.68. The strongest fund stand-in is ITA (iShares Aerospace & Defense ETF) at 0.71 over the past year. Correlations are computed from daily closing-price returns aligned by trading day.

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STOCKS

Single-name peers

Ticker	Name	Sub-industry	1Y	3Y	5Y	10Y
AIR	AAR Corp.	Aerospace & Defense	0.68	0.55	0.51	0.50
SARO	StandardAero	Aerospace & Defense	0.60	0.52	—	—
ATI	ATI Inc.	Aerospace & Defense	0.60	0.43	0.41	0.40
CW	Curtiss-Wright	Aerospace & Defense	0.54	0.49	0.46	0.47
TDG	TransDigm Group	Aerospace & Defense	0.54	0.42	0.42	0.45
HWM	Howmet Aerospace	Aerospace & Defense	0.53	0.46	0.46	0.43
MOG-A	Moog Inc.	Aerospace & Defense	0.50	0.48	0.45	0.50
BWXT	BWX Technologies	Aerospace & Defense	0.50	0.43	0.37	0.36
HXL	Hexcel	Aerospace & Defense	0.47	0.41	0.42	0.44
RTX	RTX Corp.	Aerospace & Defense	0.45	0.34	0.32	0.39
KTOS	Kratos Defense & Security Solutions	Aerospace & Defense	0.45	0.44	0.38	0.35
TXT	Textron	Aerospace & Defense	0.41	0.39	0.43	0.45
KRMN	Karman Holdings	Aerospace & Defense	0.40	—	—	—
BA	Boeing Co.	Aerospace & Defense	0.39	0.30	0.32	0.39
PSN	Parsons Corporation	Aerospace & Defense	0.30	0.26	0.25	0.32
AVAV	AeroVironment	Aerospace & Defense	0.29	0.25	0.24	0.25
HII	Huntington Ingalls Industries	Aerospace & Defense	0.28	0.27	0.25	0.28
LHX	L3Harris Technologies	Aerospace & Defense	0.28	0.28	0.23	0.27
NOC	Northrop Grumman	Aerospace & Defense	0.28	0.17	0.13	0.19
GD	General Dynamics	Aerospace & Defense	0.28	0.29	0.29	0.36
NPK	National Presto Industries, Inc.	Aerospace & Defense	0.27	0.29	0.29	0.28
VVX	V2X, Inc.	Aerospace & Defense	0.27	0.31	0.30	0.31
AXON	Axon Enterprise	Aerospace & Defense	0.25	0.24	0.26	0.27
LMT	Lockheed Martin	Aerospace & Defense	0.22	0.18	0.15	0.20
HONA	Honeywell Aerospace	Aerospace & Defense	—	—	—	—

ETFS

Fund stand-ins

An ETF is generally not 'substantially identical' to a single stock, which is why funds are the standard wash-sale-aware replacement.

Ticker	Name	Focus	Match	1Y	3Y	5Y	10Y
ITA	iShares Aerospace & Defense ETF	Aerospace & Defense	INDUSTRY	0.71	0.60	0.53	0.53
XAR	SPDR S&P Aerospace & Defense	Aerospace & Defense (Equal Wt)	INDUSTRY	0.71	0.62	0.57	0.55
FIDU	Fidelity MSCI Industrials ETF	Industrials Sector	SECTOR	0.69	0.61	0.57	0.55
VIS	Vanguard Industrials ETF	Industrials Sector	SECTOR	0.68	0.61	0.58	0.56
XLI	Industrial Select Sector SPDR	Industrials Sector	SECTOR	0.68	0.60	0.56	0.53
PPA	Invesco Aerospace & Defense ETF	Aerospace & Defense	INDUSTRY	0.68	0.60	0.54	0.52
IYJ	iShares US Industrials ETF	Industrials Sector	SECTOR	0.66	0.58	0.54	0.53
PAVE	Global X US Infrastructure	Infrastructure	SECTOR	0.62	0.57	0.56	0.55
JETS	US Global Jets ETF	Airlines	SUB-IND	0.54	0.47	0.45	0.45
BOTZ	Global X Robotics & AI	Robotics & AI	SECTOR	0.53	0.48	0.45	0.44
IYT	iShares Transportation Average	Transportation	INDUSTRY	0.44	0.44	0.46	0.48
XTN	SPDR S&P Transportation ETF	Transportation	INDUSTRY	0.42	0.45	0.47	0.49

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Method: Pearson correlation of daily closing-price returns, Yahoo Finance data, series aligned by trading day, refreshed weekly. A cell is blank when overlapping history covers less than 60% of its window. Correlation is descriptive, not predictive. Wash-sale treatment depends on facts and circumstances — confirm with a tax professional. Not investment advice.