Tax-loss harvesting alternatives for AVAV

Among the 25 Aerospace & Defense peers screened, KTOS (Kratos Defense & Security Solutions) has tracked AVAV most closely over the past year, with a return correlation of 0.72. The strongest fund stand-in is XAR (SPDR S&P Aerospace & Defense) at 0.62 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
KTOS	Kratos Defense & Security Solutions	Aerospace & Defense	0.72	0.56	0.53	0.48
KRMN	Karman Holdings	Aerospace & Defense	0.52	—	—	—
HII	Huntington Ingalls Industries	Aerospace & Defense	0.41	0.27	0.27	0.31
BWXT	BWX Technologies	Aerospace & Defense	0.39	0.34	0.35	0.33
VVX	V2X, Inc.	Aerospace & Defense	0.38	0.33	0.27	0.26
AXON	Axon Enterprise	Aerospace & Defense	0.37	0.27	0.28	0.28
GD	General Dynamics	Aerospace & Defense	0.36	0.31	0.31	0.34
PSN	Parsons Corporation	Aerospace & Defense	0.36	0.32	0.32	0.33
LMT	Lockheed Martin	Aerospace & Defense	0.36	0.27	0.26	0.29
LHX	L3Harris Technologies	Aerospace & Defense	0.36	0.30	0.30	0.30
CW	Curtiss-Wright	Aerospace & Defense	0.32	0.34	0.33	0.37
SARO	StandardAero	Aerospace & Defense	0.31	0.30	—	—
NOC	Northrop Grumman	Aerospace & Defense	0.30	0.20	0.22	0.27
VSEC	VSE Corporation	Aerospace & Defense	0.29	0.25	0.24	0.25
BA	Boeing Co.	Aerospace & Defense	0.28	0.24	0.26	0.28
AIR	AAR Corp.	Aerospace & Defense	0.26	0.25	0.27	0.31
RTX	RTX Corp.	Aerospace & Defense	0.25	0.23	0.26	0.29
MOG-A	Moog Inc.	Aerospace & Defense	0.20	0.25	0.28	0.34
TXT	Textron	Aerospace & Defense	0.20	0.23	0.26	0.33
TDG	TransDigm Group	Aerospace & Defense	0.19	0.21	0.26	0.28
HXL	Hexcel	Aerospace & Defense	0.17	0.22	0.26	0.29
HWM	Howmet Aerospace	Aerospace & Defense	0.16	0.21	0.25	0.27
ATI	ATI Inc.	Aerospace & Defense	0.15	0.22	0.22	0.26
NPK	National Presto Industries, Inc.	Aerospace & Defense	0.13	0.15	0.19	0.23
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
XAR	SPDR S&P Aerospace & Defense	Aerospace & Defense (Equal Wt)	INDUSTRY	0.62	0.56	0.55	0.53
PPA	Invesco Aerospace & Defense ETF	Aerospace & Defense	INDUSTRY	0.56	0.49	0.48	0.46
ITA	iShares Aerospace & Defense ETF	Aerospace & Defense	INDUSTRY	0.47	0.43	0.43	0.44
BOTZ	Global X Robotics & AI	Robotics & AI	SECTOR	0.41	0.39	0.37	0.39
FIDU	Fidelity MSCI Industrials ETF	Industrials Sector	SECTOR	0.34	0.33	0.35	0.39
VIS	Vanguard Industrials ETF	Industrials Sector	SECTOR	0.33	0.33	0.35	0.39
IYJ	iShares US Industrials ETF	Industrials Sector	SECTOR	0.32	0.30	0.33	0.38
XLI	Industrial Select Sector SPDR	Industrials Sector	SECTOR	0.30	0.31	0.33	0.37
XTN	SPDR S&P Transportation ETF	Transportation	INDUSTRY	0.24	0.25	0.28	0.34
PAVE	Global X US Infrastructure	Infrastructure	SECTOR	0.24	0.27	0.30	0.37
JETS	US Global Jets ETF	Airlines	SUB-IND	0.21	0.21	0.23	0.26
IYT	iShares Transportation Average	Transportation	INDUSTRY	0.20	0.23	0.26	0.33

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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.