Tax-loss harvesting alternatives for NPK

Among the 25 Aerospace & Defense peers screened, CW (Curtiss-Wright) has tracked NPK most closely over the past year, with a return correlation of 0.32. The strongest fund stand-in is VIS (Vanguard Industrials ETF) at 0.34 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
CW	Curtiss-Wright	Aerospace & Defense	0.32	0.30	0.35	0.41
VSEC	VSE Corporation	Aerospace & Defense	0.31	0.30	0.30	0.29
AIR	AAR Corp.	Aerospace & Defense	0.31	0.34	0.37	0.34
MOG-A	Moog Inc.	Aerospace & Defense	0.30	0.35	0.39	0.38
KRMN	Karman Holdings	Aerospace & Defense	0.27	—	—	—
BA	Boeing Co.	Aerospace & Defense	0.27	0.27	0.30	0.31
SARO	StandardAero	Aerospace & Defense	0.27	0.29	—	—
TXT	Textron	Aerospace & Defense	0.26	0.35	0.37	0.40
HXL	Hexcel	Aerospace & Defense	0.26	0.31	0.34	0.32
BWXT	BWX Technologies	Aerospace & Defense	0.25	0.25	0.27	0.28
ATI	ATI Inc.	Aerospace & Defense	0.24	0.25	0.30	0.30
KTOS	Kratos Defense & Security Solutions	Aerospace & Defense	0.23	0.23	0.26	0.27
RTX	RTX Corp.	Aerospace & Defense	0.21	0.21	0.30	0.33
HWM	Howmet Aerospace	Aerospace & Defense	0.20	0.23	0.30	0.31
TDG	TransDigm Group	Aerospace & Defense	0.19	0.23	0.29	0.28
VVX	V2X, Inc.	Aerospace & Defense	0.18	0.26	0.24	0.25
LHX	L3Harris Technologies	Aerospace & Defense	0.18	0.21	0.27	0.30
NOC	Northrop Grumman	Aerospace & Defense	0.16	0.12	0.20	0.26
GD	General Dynamics	Aerospace & Defense	0.16	0.24	0.32	0.35
AXON	Axon Enterprise	Aerospace & Defense	0.16	0.17	0.17	0.16
AVAV	AeroVironment	Aerospace & Defense	0.15	0.15	0.19	0.24
LMT	Lockheed Martin	Aerospace & Defense	0.11	0.13	0.20	0.27
PSN	Parsons Corporation	Aerospace & Defense	0.09	0.14	0.19	0.24
HII	Huntington Ingalls Industries	Aerospace & Defense	0.07	0.16	0.23	0.30
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
VIS	Vanguard Industrials ETF	Industrials Sector	SECTOR	0.34	0.41	0.45	0.44
FIDU	Fidelity MSCI Industrials ETF	Industrials Sector	SECTOR	0.34	0.41	0.45	0.44
XAR	SPDR S&P Aerospace & Defense	Aerospace & Defense (Equal Wt)	INDUSTRY	0.34	0.38	0.43	0.44
IYJ	iShares US Industrials ETF	Industrials Sector	SECTOR	0.34	0.41	0.44	0.43
PPA	Invesco Aerospace & Defense ETF	Aerospace & Defense	INDUSTRY	0.33	0.37	0.43	0.43
ITA	iShares Aerospace & Defense ETF	Aerospace & Defense	INDUSTRY	0.33	0.36	0.42	0.42
XLI	Industrial Select Sector SPDR	Industrials Sector	SECTOR	0.33	0.39	0.44	0.43
PAVE	Global X US Infrastructure	Infrastructure	SECTOR	0.32	0.39	0.44	0.45
JETS	US Global Jets ETF	Airlines	SUB-IND	0.29	0.34	0.33	0.33
XTN	SPDR S&P Transportation ETF	Transportation	INDUSTRY	0.29	0.39	0.40	0.41
IYT	iShares Transportation Average	Transportation	INDUSTRY	0.29	0.37	0.38	0.40
BOTZ	Global X Robotics & AI	Robotics & AI	SECTOR	0.26	0.28	0.32	0.32

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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.