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iShares Defense Industrials Act (IDEF)

Industrials | Exchange Traded Fund | NasdaqGM
34.86 USD +34.86 (-0.372%) ⇧ (April 20, 2026, 4 p.m. EDT)

Short-term: ★★★☆☆ | Long-term: ★★★★☆ | Dividends: ★☆☆☆☆
Hot Take | April 18, 2026, 10:27 p.m. EDT

IDEF shows flannel-valour resilience with strong institutional inflows recently (SHJ Advisors $10M), suggesting a solid 4-star long-term hold based on the defense sector theme, but it offers effectively no short-term momentum edge (rating 3) due to the expiration of the previous bull run and lacks any meaningful dividend yield for passive income (rating 1).

Model Selection — Backtest MAE (log-scale, lower is better)
ModelMAE
AutoTheta ✓0.050386
MSTL0.063866
AutoARIMA0.089556
AutoETS0.090956

Forecast horizon: 45 days | Selected: AutoTheta

Forecast Reliability
Score 45%
H-stat 5.81
Ljung-Box p 0.000
Jarque-Bera p 0.048
Excess Kurtosis 0.74
Attribute Value
Trailing P/E 35.74

Dividend Data

Dividend History
Date Dividend Yield %
2025-12-16 0.052 0.172277
Additional Data
trailingAnnualDividendRate 0.0
trailingAnnualDividendYield NaN

Info Dump

Attribute Value
All Time High 36.88
All Time Low 24.97
Ask 35.1
Ask Size 2
Average Daily Volume10 Day 582,650
Average Daily Volume3 Month 1,946,559
Average Volume 1,946,559
Average Volume10Days 582,650
Beta3 Year 0.0
Bid 34.8
Bid Size 8
Category Industrials
Crypto Tradeable 0
Currency USD
Custom Price Alert Confidence HIGH
Day High 35.02
Day Low 34.645
Eps Trailing Twelve Months 0.97538316
Esg Populated 0
Exchange NGM
Exchange Data Delayed By 0
Exchange Timezone Name America/New_York
Exchange Timezone Short Name EDT
Fifty Day Average 34.80906
Fifty Day Average Change 0.050941467
Fifty Day Average Change Percent 0.0014634543
Fifty Two Week Change Percent 38.98413
Fifty Two Week High 36.88
Fifty Two Week High Change -2.0200005
Fifty Two Week High Change Percent -0.054772247
Fifty Two Week Low 24.97
Fifty Two Week Low Change 9.890001
Fifty Two Week Low Change Percent 0.39607537
Fifty Two Week Range 24.97 - 36.88
First Trade Date Milliseconds 1,747,834,200,000
Full Exchange Name NasdaqGM
Fund Family BlackRock
Fund Inception Date 1,747,612,800
Gmt Off Set Milliseconds -14,400,000
Has Pre Post Market Data 1
Language en-US
Legal Type Exchange Traded Fund
Long Business Summary The fund seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing, under normal market conditions, at least 80% of its net assets plus any borrowings for investment purposes in equity securities issued by U.S. and non-U.S. defense and related industrials companies. The fund is non-diversified.
Market us_market
Market State PRE
Max Age 86,400
Message Board Id finmb_1935637303
Nav Price 34.78474
Net Assets 3,268,136,700.0
Net Expense Ratio 0.55
Open 34.89
Previous Close 0.0
Price Hint 2
Quote Source Name Nasdaq Real Time Price
Quote Type ETF
Region US
Regular Market Change 34.86
Regular Market Change Percent -0.371538
Regular Market Day High 35.02
Regular Market Day Low 34.645
Regular Market Day Range 34.645 - 35.02
Regular Market Open 34.89
Regular Market Previous Close 0.0
Regular Market Price 34.86
Regular Market Time 1,776,715,200
Regular Market Volume 396,236
Short Name iShares Defense Industrials Act
Source Interval 15
Symbol IDEF
Total Assets 3,268,136,704
Tradeable 0
Trailing Annual Dividend Rate 0.0
Trailing Annual Dividend Yield NaN
Trailing P E 35.739803
Trailing Peg Ratio None
Trailing Three Month Nav Returns 5.75464
Trailing Three Month Returns 5.75464
Triggerable 1
Two Hundred Day Average 31.862246
Two Hundred Day Average Change 2.997755
Two Hundred Day Average Change Percent 0.09408487
Type Disp ETF
Volume 396,236
Ytd Return 5.75464