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

In the year to Oct 28, 2026, with distributions reinvested, BWET returned +5,121.7% and URTH +13.1%.

Which is cheaper, BWET or URTH?

URTH is cheaper, by 4.44 percentage points a year. That is about $444 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 URTH: Differences, Returns & Fees

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BWET is a commodity futures fund and URTH an equity index fund, and over the year to Oct 28, 2026, BWET returned +5,121.7% against +13.1%.

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Net assets on Oct 28, 2026: $178m for Breakwave Tanker Shipping ETF and $8.9bn for iShares MSCI World ETF.

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At a glance

+5,121.7%

BWET total return, 1 year

+13.1%

URTH total return, 1 year

4.68%

BWET expense ratio

0.24%

URTH expense ratio

Pair scorecard

URTH costs 4.44 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 5108.6 points; URTH is far larger, $8.9bn against $178m.

BWET vs URTH: Differences, Returns & Fees
Measure	BWET	URTH
Return
Measure	BWET	URTH
Total return, 1 year	+5,121.7%	+13.1%
Drawdown
Measure	BWET	URTH
Below its high	11.2%, high on Oct 8, 2026
Benchmark
Measure	BWET	URTH
What it tracks	Tanker freight futures	MSCI World Index
Cost and size
Measure	BWET	URTH
Expense ratio	4.68%	0.24%
Net assets	$178m	$8.9bn
Holdings
Measure	BWET	URTH
Holdings in common	not published
In the S&P 500, by weight		69%
Holdings dated		Oct 27, 2026
Top ten holdings, share of the fund		27.2%

Method

Side by side

BWET Breakwave Tanker Shipping ETF URTH iShares MSCI World ETF

Where it sits Commodity ETF Stock ETF

Issuer Breakwave iShares

What it is Holds tanker freight futures Tracks the MSCI World

Total return, 1 year +5,121.7% +13.1%

Its benchmark over the same days not measured +13.4% (ACWI)

Gap to its benchmark not measured −0.3 pts vs ACWI

Expense ratio 4.68% 0.24%

Holdings not counted 1254

Net assets $178m $8.9bn

BWET and URTH 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.

URTH

URTH tracks the MSCI World. Over the year to Oct 28, 2026 it returned +13.1% with distributions reinvested, against +13.4% for its benchmark, the MSCI All Country World Index. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.24% a year. By its holdings published by its issuer for Oct 27, 2026, 69% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 1,254 positions, with the top ten at 27.2%.

Questions people ask

Which returned more over the last year, BWET or URTH?: In the year to Oct 28, 2026, with distributions reinvested, BWET returned +5,121.7% and URTH +13.1%.
Which is cheaper, BWET or URTH?: URTH is cheaper, by 4.44 percentage points a year. That is about $444 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 ↗

URTH filings on SEC EDGAR ↗

URTH prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗

iShares page for URTH ↗

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