Data as of Oct 28, 2026.
ACSP vs SPY: Differences, Returns & Fees
ACSP and SPY are measured over different days, and SPY charges 0.09% to ACSP's 0.72%.
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Net assets: $59m on Oct 28, 2026 for ProShares S&P 500 Autocallable Income ETF, and $814.8bn on Oct 27, 2026 for SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust.
Pair scorecard
SPY costs 0.63 points a year less; SPY is far larger, $814.8bn against $9.2m.
| Measure | ACSP | SPY |
|---|---|---|
| Return | ||
| Total return, 1 year | not published | +13.6% |
| Cash paid, share of starting value, since Aug 14, 2026 | 9.2% | |
| Price change, since Aug 14, 2026 | fell 13.1% | |
| Latest payout, annualized | 126.6% | |
| Return of capital, issuer estimate | 95% of the Oct 7, 2026 payment | |
| Against its benchmark | ||
| What it tracks | Benchmark: S&P 500, measured through SPY | S&P 500 Index |
| Against its benchmark, same days | behind by 3.6 pts | |
| Cost and size | ||
| Expense ratio | 0.72% | 0.09% |
| Net assets, as of Oct 27, 2026 | $9.2m | $814.8bn |
| Holdings | ||
| Holdings in common | 0% | |
| In the S&P 500, by weight | 100% | |
| Top ten holdings, share of the fund | 38.1% | |
Holdings in common uses holdings dated Oct 27, 2026. Method
What they share
By the books each fund has filed, ACSP and SPY hold 0% of their money in the same securities at the same weight. Holdings dated Oct 27, 2026.
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0% in common
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Side by side
ACSP and SPY on the fields both publish, as of Oct 28, 2026. Source: ETFIQ.
No client brief for this pair: ETFIQ prints no one-year total return for ACSP.
ACSP
Over the period from its first trade on Aug 14, 2026 to Oct 28, 2026, ACSP paid 9.2% of its starting value in cash distributions while its price fell 13.1%. With every distribution reinvested, the fund returned −3.9%. S&P 500 (SPY) returned −0.3% over the same days, so a holder was behind by 3.6 pts. At its price on Oct 28, 2026 the latest distribution annualizes to 126.6%, paid periodically. ProShares estimates that 95% of the distribution paid Oct 7, 2026 was a return of capital (its 19a-1 notice). That is a tax label, not a measure of erosion.
SPY
SPY tracks the S&P 500. Over the year to Oct 28, 2026 it returned +13.6% with distributions reinvested, against +13.7% for its benchmark, the S&P 500 Index. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.09% a year. By its holdings published by its issuer for Oct 27, 2026, 100% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 504 positions, with the top ten at 38.1%.
Questions people ask
- Are ACSP and SPY in the same category?
- ACSP is an option-income ETF and SPY is a stock ETF, so they do different jobs. The table compares what both publish: return, cost and holdings.
- Which is cheaper, ACSP or SPY?
- SPY is cheaper, by 0.63 percentage points a year. That is about $63 on $10,000 held for a year. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.
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How this is computed
Overlap adds up the smaller of the two weights for each security both funds hold.
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