Data as of Oct 28, 2026.
BITO vs EMB: Differences, Returns & Fees
Over the year to Oct 28, 2026, BITO returned −30.5% to EMB's −0.4%, and EMB charges 0.39% to BITO's 0.95%.
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Net assets on Oct 28, 2026: $1.6bn for ProShares Bitcoin ETF and $13.2bn for iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF.
Pair scorecard
EMB costs 0.56 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 30.1 points; EMB is 8.3 times larger.
| Measure | BITO | EMB |
|---|---|---|
| Return | ||
| Total return, 1 year | −30.5% | −0.4% |
| Drawdown | ||
| Below its high | 3.5%, high on Jun 29, 2026 | |
| Benchmark | ||
| What it tracks | Bitcoin futures and swaps on Bitcoin | J.P. Morgan EMBI Global Core Index |
| Cost and size | ||
| Expense ratio | 0.95% | 0.39% |
| Net assets | $1.6bn | $13.2bn |
| Holdings | ||
| Holdings in common | 0% | |
Holdings in common uses holdings dated Oct 27, 2026. Method
What they share
By the books each fund has filed, BITO and EMB 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
BITO and EMB on the fields both publish, as of Oct 28, 2026. Source: ETFIQ.
BITO is a registered fund that reaches Bitcoin through what its N-PORT for Aug 31, 2026 lists: Bitcoin futures and swaps on Bitcoin. Over the year to Oct 28, 2026, Bitcoin moved −28.3% and BITO returned −30.5%. That leaves it 2.2 percentage points behind. BITO is a registered investment company: it files a monthly N-PORT rather than a 10-K. Its N-PORT for Aug 31, 2026 puts 67.9% of its net assets in ProShares GENIUS Money Market ETF.
A holder gets exposure to Bitcoin without the fund holding the coin itself. That difference is the fee, the cost of rolling the futures from one month to the next, what the futures traded at against Bitcoin, and what the market paid for the shares, all of it together. It is the only number on this page the sponsor does not publish itself.
EMB
EMB tracks the J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond. Over the year to Oct 28, 2026 it returned −0.4% with distributions reinvested. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.39% a year. It sat 3.5% below its high of Jun 29, 2026 on Oct 28, 2026.
Questions people ask
- Are BITO and EMB in the same category?
- BITO is a crypto futures ETF and EMB is a bond ETF, so they do different jobs. The table compares what both publish: return, cost and holdings.
- Which returned more over the last year, BITO or EMB?
- In the year to Oct 28, 2026, with distributions reinvested, BITO returned −30.5% and EMB −0.4%.
- Which is cheaper, BITO or EMB?
- EMB is cheaper, by 0.56 percentage points a year. That is about $56 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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