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BetaShares Global Defence ETF (ARMR)

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Share price activity

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Last (Price)
22.34
Change
▲ 0.74 (3.43)
Bid / Ask
22.34 - 22.40
Volume
55,479
Turnover
1,240,266
Open
22.25
Day Range
22.25 - 22.49
VWAP
22.36
Prev Close
21.60
Last Trade
10/11 4:10pm

Fund profile

Displays who issues the fund, how it is structured and invests, its Morningstar category and benchmark, size, headline costs and dates, sourced from Morningstar. Fund size counts every class of the fund; ETF net assets is this listing alone.

Fund size

$153.4M

NOV 2026

Total cost ratio

0.55%

per year

Distributions

Annually

Since inception

2.1 yrs

OCT 2024

Legal name
Betashares Global Defence ETF
Issuer
BetaShares Capital Ltd
Type
Exchange-Traded Fund
Structure
Open Ended Investment Company
Management style
Index fund
Morningstar category
Equity World Other
Category index
MSCI World Ex Australia NR AUD
Benchmark
VettaFi Global Defence Leaders TR AUD
ETF net assets
$153.4M
Units on issue
9.9M
Management fee
0.55% p.a.
Domicile
Australia
Base currency
AUD
ISIN
AU0000353534
Inception
2 OCT 2024
Listed
4 OCT 2024

Objective and strategy

The investment objective of the Fund is to provide an investment return that aims to track the performance of the VettaFi Global Defence Leaders Index (the “Index”), before taking into account fees and expenses.

Asset allocation · 30 SEP 2026

Displays how the fund is split between shares, bonds, cash and other assets, sourced from Morningstar.

US equity 61.97%Non-US equity 38.03%

Asset class Net % Long % Short %
Equity 100.00 100.00 —
Bond 0.00 0.00 —
Cash 0.00 0.00 —
Other 0.00 0.00 —

Sector exposure

Displays the share of the fund held in each sector, sourced from Morningstar.

Cyclical 0.00%Sensitive 100.00%Defensive 0.00%

Industrials
86.11%
Technology
13.89%
Basic Materials
0.00%
Consumer Cyclical
0.00%
Financial Services
0.00%
Real Estate
0.00%
Communication Services
0.00%
Energy
0.00%
Consumer Defensive
0.00%
Healthcare
0.00%
Utilities
0.00%

Region exposure

Displays the share of the fund held in each region, sourced from Morningstar.

Developed markets 100.00%Emerging markets 0.00%

North America
62.14%
Europe Developed
22.88%
United Kingdom
8.17%
Asia Developed
4.30%
Africa / Middle East
2.27%
Australasia
0.24%
Latin America
0.00%
Europe Emerging
0.00%
Japan
0.00%
Asia Emerging
0.00%

Country exposure

Displays the twelve countries the fund holds most of, sourced from Morningstar.
United States
61.97%
France
11.23%
United Kingdom
8.17%
Germany
5.85%
South Korea
4.30%
Israel
2.27%
Sweden
2.18%
Italy
2.11%
Norway
1.29%
Australia
0.24%
Finland
0.21%
Canada
0.17%

Style box

Displays where the fund's shareholdings sit on Morningstar's style box: size (large, mid, small) down and investment style (value, blend, growth) across, sourced from Morningstar.
Style
Large Growth
Average moat
Wide

Size score

209

Small Mid Large

Value-growth score

242

Value Blend Growth

Economic moat

Wide 79%Narrow 21%None 0%

Market capitalisation

Displays the share of the fund's shareholdings in giant, large, mid, small and micro cap companies, sourced from Morningstar.
Giant
10.40%
Large
48.56%
Mid
26.74%
Small
12.47%
Micro
1.84%

Giant 10%Large 49%Mid 27%Small 12%Micro 2%

Average market cap
$81.62B
Number of holdings
60
Shares held
60

Portfolio statistics · 30 SEP 2026

Displays the valuation, yield, size, concentration and quality of the fund's shareholdings taken together (trailing twelve months), sourced from Morningstar.
Price / earnings
26.50
Price / book
4.98
Price / sales
2.30
Price / cash flow
15.81
Dividend yield
1.22%
Assets in top 10
66.82%
Return on equity
23.50%
Net margin
10.74%
Earnings growth (3 yr)
15.23%

Top holdings · top 10 = 66.82% of assets

Displays the fund's ten largest holdings and their weight in the portfolio, sourced from Morningstar.
Holding % Weight First bought Market value Currency Units held Sector Country
Palantir Technologies Inc Ordinary Shares - Class A PLTR 8.90 OCT 2024 19.6M USD 72,862 Technology United States
Safran SA SAF 8.12 OCT 2024 17.9M EUR 32,788 Industrials France
Lockheed Martin Corp LMT 8.04 OCT 2024 17.7M USD 24,181 Industrials United States
RTX Corp RTX 7.67 OCT 2024 16.9M USD 63,260 Industrials United States
General Dynamics Corp GD 7.66 OCT 2024 16.9M USD 35,343 Industrials United States
BAE Systems PLC BA. 7.12 OCT 2024 15.7M GBP 419,568 Industrials United Kingdom
Northrop Grumman Corp NOC 6.48 OCT 2024 14.3M USD 20,531 Industrials United States
Rheinmetall AG RHM 4.79 OCT 2024 10.5M EUR 6,759 Industrials Germany
L3Harris Technologies Inc LHX 4.15 OCT 2024 9.2M USD 26,866 Industrials United States
Rocket Lab Corp RKLB 3.90 OCT 2024 8.6M USD 85,638 Industrials United States

Trailing returns · 31 OCT 2026

Displays total returns after fees at net asset value, the return at the ASX market price, the return before fees, and where the fund ranks among funds in its Morningstar category, sourced from Morningstar.

Fund (NAV) Market price

1M

3.5

3M

-1.4

6M

-3.8

YTD

0.3

1Y

-3.2

Period Fund (NAV) % Market price % Before fees % Rank in category
1 month 3.48 5.13 3.53 —
3 months -1.35 0.29 -1.22 —
6 months -3.76 -2.09 -3.49 —
Year to date 0.31 1.06 0.77 —
1 year -3.16 -2.00 -2.63 —

Returns to 31 OCT 2026, periods of 3 years and longer annualised. Rank is the percentile in the Morningstar category at 30 SEP 2026 (1 = best) over the funds ranked.

Calendar year returns

Displays the total return after fees and the capital (price) return for each calendar year, with the fund's rank in its Morningstar category, sourced from Morningstar.

Total Capital

2025

49.3

Year Total % Capital % Rank in category
2025 49.25 44.76 —

Financial year returns

Displays the total return after fees for each financial year to 30 June, sourced from Morningstar.

FY26

0.5

Financial year Total %
Financial year to date 1.07
Year to 30 JUN 2026 0.50

Risk statistics · 31 OCT 2026

Displays how the fund has moved relative to its category index: alpha (return beyond the index), beta (sensitivity to it), R-squared (how much the index explains), volatility and risk-adjusted returns, sourced from Morningstar.
1 year 3 years 5 years 10 years
Alpha -12.02 — — —
Beta -0.92 — — —
R-squared 20.04 — — —
Standard deviation 24.65 — — —
Sharpe ratio -0.67 — — —
Sortino ratio -0.92 — — —
Tracking error 23.90 — — —
Information ratio -0.64 — — —
Upside capture % -150.89 — — —
Downside capture % -119.80 — — —
Maximum drawdown % -14.10 — — —

Measured against MSCI World Ex Australia NR AUD with RBA Bank accepted Bills 90 Days as the risk-free rate, to 31 OCT 2026. Maximum drawdown is on gross returns at the latest quarter end.

Portfolio risk score

Displays Morningstar's Portfolio Risk Score for the fund's holdings, how closely the ETF tracks its index day to day, the estimated cost of holding it against the index, the cost of trading it at market size, and its best and worst quarters since inception, sourced from Morningstar.

Risk score

101.7

Cash 0
Global shares 100

Morningstar Portfolio Risk Score at 30 SEP 2026.

Best quarter
25.34% · MAY 2025
Worst quarter
-10.82% · APR 2026

Fees and costs

Displays the fund's ongoing costs as a percentage of assets per year: the PDS management fees and costs, performance fee and transaction costs that make up the total cost ratio (the RG 97 forward estimate, and what was charged last financial year), and the buy / sell spread, sourced from Morningstar.
Management fees and costs
0.55% p.a.
Transaction costs
0.00% p.a.
Total cost ratio
0.55% p.a.
Total cost ratio (last FY)
0.55% p.a.
PDS dated
24 SEP 2024

Distributions

Displays the most recent distribution paid per unit and its key dates, sourced from Morningstar.
Latest distribution
0.4674
Ex Date
1 JUL 2026
NAV at ex date
23.22
Paid this year
0.4998

Distributions by year

Displays the total distributions paid per unit in each calendar year, sourced from Morningstar.

2024

0.5

Year Per unit ($)
2024 0.5355

Distribution history

Displays the most recent distributions by ex date, sourced from Morningstar.
Ex Date Per unit ($)
1 JUL 2026 0.4674
2 JAN 2026 0.0323
1 JUL 2025 0.5355

Sustainability rating · 31 AUG 2026

Displays the Morningstar Sustainability Rating (1 to 5 globes, more is better) and the portfolio ESG risk score behind it (lower is less risk), against the average of the fund's global category, sourced from Morningstar and Sustainalytics.

Low

ESG risk score

28.24

Negligible Low Medium High Severe
Rank in category
94th percentile
Environmental risk
9.28
Social risk
12.88
Governance risk
4.34
Portfolio covered
98.2%

ESG risk of holdings

Displays the share of the covered portfolio held in companies with negligible, low, medium, high and severe ESG risk, sourced from Morningstar and Sustainalytics.
Negligible
0.00%
Low
14.58%
Medium
58.42%
High
22.92%
Severe
4.08%

0.00% of assets are in companies with high or severe controversies.

Carbon · 31 AUG 2026

Displays the portfolio carbon risk score (lower is less exposure to the transition to a low-carbon economy), the share of the portfolio in companies with fossil fuel revenue, and whether the fund earns Morningstar's Low Carbon Designation, sourced from Morningstar and Sustainalytics.

Carbon risk score

20.47

Low Medium High Severe

Category average 9.07

Carbon risk
Medium Risk
Rank in category
97th percentile of 55 funds
Fossil fuel involvement
0.00%
Category average
5.26%
Low Carbon Designation
No
Portfolio covered
94.7%

Tenure

Displays how long the managers have run the fund: the average and longest tenure, who has served longest, the latest appointment and how many other funds the team manages, sourced from Morningstar.
Number of managers
0
Other funds managed
0
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