🟢 Defense ETF (PPA) is trading 6.36% up in after-hours trading on reports of third U.S. carrier deployment

PPA is trading at $165.35, up 6.36%, with the reported deployment of a third U.S. carrier group to the Middle East amid Iran tensions a plausible catalyst for defense-sector demand.

• Reports say the USS Theodore Roosevelt departed for the region, joining two carriers already there.
• The move followed a quiet regular session: PPA closed at $155.46, down 0.15%. No specific major-holding earnings catalyst was identified in the available information.