Data as of Oct 28, 2026.
BITA vs IBIT: Differences, Returns & Fees
BITA and IBIT are measured over different days, and IBIT charges 0.25% to BITA's 0.57%.
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Net assets: $102m on Oct 28, 2026 for iShares Bitcoin Premium Income ETF, and $65.4bn on Oct 27, 2026 for iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF.
Pair scorecard
IBIT costs 0.32 points a year less; IBIT is far larger, $64.7bn against $100m.
| Measure | BITA | IBIT |
|---|---|---|
| Return | ||
| Total return, 1 year | not published | −28.5% |
| Cash paid, share of starting value, since Jun 16, 2026 | 5.1% | |
| Price change, since Jun 16, 2026 | rose 16.4% | |
| Latest payout, annualized | 14.2% | |
| Against its benchmark | ||
| What it tracks | Benchmark: Bitcoin, measured through IBIT | Bitcoin |
| Against its benchmark, same days | behind by 1.9 pts | |
| Against Bitcoin, same days | 0.2% behind | |
| Cost and size | ||
| Expense ratio | 0.57% | 0.25% |
| Net assets, as of Oct 26, 2026 | $100m | $64.7bn |
| Reports to the SEC on | 10-K, not N-PORT | |
| Holdings | ||
| Holdings in common | 66% | |
Holdings in common uses holdings dated Oct 27, 2026. Method
Risk and return
Jun 26, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026 · 17 weekly returnsIBIT returned more: +35.8% to +31.7%. BITA fell less at its worst: −2.8% to −3.7%.
Full scorecard
3 measures, with how each is measured Open ↓
| Measure | BITA | IBIT | Edge | How it is measured |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Return | ||||
| Total return | +31.7% | +35.8% | IBIT | Price change plus distributions, reinvested. |
| Price return | +25.5% | +35.8% | IBIT | Price change alone, distributions left out. |
| Risk | ||||
| Max drawdown | −2.8% | −3.7% | BITA | Deepest fall from a high to the low after it. |
Computed by ETFIQ from Tiingo daily prices and ETFIQ's distribution records, 17 weekly returns. Cash rate: the 13-week Treasury bill.
What they share
By the books each fund has filed, BITA and IBIT hold 66% of their money in the same securities at the same weight. Holdings dated Oct 27, 2026.
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66% in common
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Side by side
BITA and IBIT 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 BITA.
BITA
Over the period from its first trade on Jun 16, 2026 to Oct 28, 2026, BITA paid 5.1% of its starting value in cash distributions while its price rose 16.4%. With every distribution reinvested, the fund returned +22.2%. Bitcoin (IBIT) returned +24.1% over the same days, so a holder was behind by 1.9 pts. At its price on Oct 28, 2026 the latest distribution annualizes to 14.2%, paid monthly.
Over the year to Oct 28, 2026, Bitcoin moved −28.3% and IBIT returned −28.5%. That leaves it 0.16 of a percentage point behind.
IBIT holds Bitcoin through a custodian and trades on an exchange, so a holder gets the coin’s return inside a brokerage account rather than a wallet. That difference is the fee, the custody cost, the friction of creating and redeeming shares in blocks, and whatever the market paid for the shares rather than for the coin, all of it together. It is the only number on this page the sponsor does not publish itself. IBIT charges 0.25% a year and finished 0.2% behind Bitcoin, so the fee is almost the whole of the difference. A spot trust is not a registered investment company. It files a 10-K rather than an N-PORT, and its holding is one line: the Bitcoin it custodies.
Questions people ask
- Are BITA and IBIT in the same category?
- BITA is an option-income ETF and IBIT is a spot crypto ETF, so they do different jobs. The table compares what both publish: return, cost and holdings.
- Which is cheaper, BITA or IBIT?
- IBIT is cheaper, by 0.32 percentage points a year. That is about $32 on $10,000 held for a year. Fees come from each fund's own filings.
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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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