Which returned more over the last year, BWET or DGRO?

In the year to Oct 28, 2026, with distributions reinvested, BWET returned +5,121.7% and DGRO +18.8%.

Which is cheaper, BWET or DGRO?

DGRO is cheaper, by 4.60 percentage points a year. That is about $460 on $10,000 held for a year. Fees come from each fund's own filings.

Data as of Oct 28, 2026.

Across categories

BWET vs DGRO: Differences, Returns & Fees

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BWET is a commodity futures fund and DGRO an equity index fund, and over the year to Oct 28, 2026, BWET returned +5,121.7% against +18.8%.

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Net assets: $178m on Oct 28, 2026 for Breakwave Tanker Shipping ETF, and $44.6bn on Oct 27, 2026 for iShares Core Dividend Growth ETF.

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At a glance

+5,121.7%

BWET total return, 1 year

+18.8%

DGRO total return, 1 year

4.68%

BWET expense ratio

0.08%

DGRO expense ratio

Pair scorecard

DGRO costs 4.60 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 5102.9 points; DGRO is far larger, $44.7bn against $186m.

BWET vs DGRO: Differences, Returns & Fees
Measure	BWET	DGRO
Return
Measure	BWET	DGRO
Total return, 1 year	+5,121.7%	+18.8%
Drawdown
Measure	BWET	DGRO
Below its high	11.2%, high on Oct 8, 2026
Benchmark
Measure	BWET	DGRO
What it tracks	Tanker freight futures	Morningstar US Dividend Growth Index
Cost and size
Measure	BWET	DGRO
Expense ratio	4.68%	0.08%
Net assets, as of Oct 26, 2026	$186m	$44.7bn
Holdings
Measure	BWET	DGRO
Holdings in common	not published
In the S&P 500, by weight		92%
Top ten holdings, share of the fund		27.2%

Method

Side by side

BWET Breakwave Tanker Shipping ETF DGRO iShares Core Dividend Growth ETF

Where it sits Commodity ETF Stock ETF

Issuer Breakwave iShares

What it is Holds tanker freight futures Tracks an index of Dividend Growth

Total return, 1 year +5,121.7% +18.8%

Expense ratio 4.68% 0.08%

Holdings not counted 393

Net assets, BWET as of Oct 28, 2026 and DGRO as of Oct 27, 2026 $178m $44.6bn

BWET and DGRO on the fields both publish, as of Oct 28, 2026. Source: ETFIQ.

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About each fund

BWET

Its expense ratio is 4.68%, for the year to Jun 30, 2026, as its 10-K states.

BWET holds tanker freight futures. Over the year to Oct 28, 2026 it returned +5,121.7% with distributions reinvested. It sat 11.2% below its high of Oct 8, 2026 on Oct 28, 2026.

DGRO

DGRO tracks an index of Dividend Growth. Over the year to Oct 28, 2026 it returned +18.8% with distributions reinvested. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.08% a year. By its holdings published by its issuer for Oct 27, 2026, 92% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 393 positions, with the top ten at 27.2%.

Questions people ask

Which returned more over the last year, BWET or DGRO?: In the year to Oct 28, 2026, with distributions reinvested, BWET returned +5,121.7% and DGRO +18.8%.
Which is cheaper, BWET or DGRO?: DGRO is cheaper, by 4.60 percentage points a year. That is about $460 on $10,000 held for a year. Fees come from each fund's own filings.

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Sources and dates

Breakwave page for BWET ↗

DGRO filings on SEC EDGAR ↗

DGRO prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗

iShares page for DGRO ↗

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