Tax-loss harvesting alternatives for TDG

Among the 25 Aerospace & Defense peers screened, VSEC (VSE Corporation) has tracked TDG most closely over the past year, with a return correlation of 0.54. The strongest fund stand-in is ITA (iShares Aerospace & Defense ETF) at 0.58 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
VSEC	VSE Corporation	Aerospace & Defense	0.54	0.42	0.42	0.45
SARO	StandardAero	Aerospace & Defense	0.48	0.47	—	—
AIR	AAR Corp.	Aerospace & Defense	0.46	0.42	0.50	0.63
RTX	RTX Corp.	Aerospace & Defense	0.44	0.39	0.46	0.60
HXL	Hexcel	Aerospace & Defense	0.40	0.36	0.53	0.61
HWM	Howmet Aerospace	Aerospace & Defense	0.40	0.48	0.60	0.57
BA	Boeing Co.	Aerospace & Defense	0.36	0.31	0.46	0.55
MOG-A	Moog Inc.	Aerospace & Defense	0.35	0.43	0.48	0.61
CW	Curtiss-Wright	Aerospace & Defense	0.31	0.39	0.45	0.56
TXT	Textron	Aerospace & Defense	0.30	0.36	0.50	0.57
ATI	ATI Inc.	Aerospace & Defense	0.29	0.33	0.39	0.45
BWXT	BWX Technologies	Aerospace & Defense	0.29	0.25	0.30	0.37
LHX	L3Harris Technologies	Aerospace & Defense	0.28	0.31	0.31	0.39
NOC	Northrop Grumman	Aerospace & Defense	0.27	0.23	0.25	0.32
LMT	Lockheed Martin	Aerospace & Defense	0.27	0.25	0.26	0.35
GD	General Dynamics	Aerospace & Defense	0.27	0.35	0.40	0.50
AXON	Axon Enterprise	Aerospace & Defense	0.26	0.17	0.27	0.32
KTOS	Kratos Defense & Security Solutions	Aerospace & Defense	0.25	0.30	0.36	0.36
VVX	V2X, Inc.	Aerospace & Defense	0.25	0.21	0.27	0.33
PSN	Parsons Corporation	Aerospace & Defense	0.24	0.23	0.29	0.36
KRMN	Karman Holdings	Aerospace & Defense	0.24	—	—	—
HII	Huntington Ingalls Industries	Aerospace & Defense	0.21	0.25	0.28	0.37
AVAV	AeroVironment	Aerospace & Defense	0.19	0.21	0.26	0.28
NPK	National Presto Industries, Inc.	Aerospace & Defense	0.19	0.22	0.28	0.28
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	0.58	0.59	0.66	0.72
PPA	Invesco Aerospace & Defense ETF	Aerospace & Defense	INDUSTRY	0.52	0.58	0.66	0.70
IYJ	iShares US Industrials ETF	Industrials Sector	SECTOR	0.52	0.55	0.66	0.67
XAR	SPDR S&P Aerospace & Defense	Aerospace & Defense (Equal Wt)	INDUSTRY	0.49	0.52	0.63	0.69
XLI	Industrial Select Sector SPDR	Industrials Sector	SECTOR	0.49	0.55	0.65	0.66
FIDU	Fidelity MSCI Industrials ETF	Industrials Sector	SECTOR	0.47	0.54	0.64	0.67
VIS	Vanguard Industrials ETF	Industrials Sector	SECTOR	0.47	0.53	0.64	0.67
JETS	US Global Jets ETF	Airlines	SUB-IND	0.45	0.39	0.52	0.58
PAVE	Global X US Infrastructure	Infrastructure	SECTOR	0.36	0.46	0.58	0.64
IYT	iShares Transportation Average	Transportation	INDUSTRY	0.32	0.38	0.51	0.57
XTN	SPDR S&P Transportation ETF	Transportation	INDUSTRY	0.31	0.35	0.50	0.57
BOTZ	Global X Robotics & AI	Robotics & AI	SECTOR	0.28	0.38	0.51	0.51

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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.