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

In the year to Oct 28, 2026, with distributions reinvested, BWET returned +5,121.7% and VCIT −1.8%.

Which is cheaper, BWET or VCIT?

VCIT is cheaper, by 4.65 percentage points a year. That is about $465 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 VCIT: Differences, Returns & Fees

Share on X Download as PDF

BWET is a commodity futures fund and VCIT a bond index fund, and over the year to Oct 28, 2026, BWET returned +5,121.7% against −1.8%.

askIQ about this page

askIQ about BWET and VCIT

Net assets: $178m on Oct 28, 2026 for Breakwave Tanker Shipping ETF, and $66.6bn on Sep 30, 2026 for Vanguard Intermediate-Term Corporate Bond ETF.

BWET on its own →VCIT on its own →

At a glance

+5,121.7%

BWET total return, 1 year

−1.8%

VCIT total return, 1 year

4.68%

BWET expense ratio

0.03%

VCIT expense ratio

Pair scorecard

VCIT costs 4.65 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 5123.5 points.

BWET vs VCIT: Differences, Returns & Fees
Measure	BWET	VCIT
Return
Measure	BWET	VCIT
Total return, 1 year	+5,121.7%	−1.8%
Drawdown
Measure	BWET	VCIT
Below its high	11.2%, high on Oct 8, 2026	3.2%, high on Feb 27, 2026
Benchmark
Measure	BWET	VCIT
What it tracks	Tanker freight futures	Bloomberg U.S. 5-10 Year Corporate Bond Index
Cost and size
Measure	BWET	VCIT
Expense ratio	4.68%	0.03%
Net assets, BWET as of Oct 28, 2026 and VCIT as of Sep 30, 2026	$178m	$66.6bn
Holdings
Measure	BWET	VCIT
Holdings in common	not published

Method

Side by side

BWET Breakwave Tanker Shipping ETF VCIT Vanguard Intermediate-Term Corporate Bond ETF

Where it sits Commodity ETF Bond ETF

Issuer Breakwave Vanguard

What it is Holds tanker freight futures Tracks an index of Intermediate-Term Corporate Bond

Total return, 1 year +5,121.7% −1.8%

Its benchmark over the same days not measured −1.8% (SCHI)

Gap to its benchmark not measured 0.0 pts vs SCHI

Expense ratio 4.68% 0.03%

Holdings not counted 2340

Net assets, BWET as of Oct 28, 2026 and VCIT as of Sep 30, 2026 $178m $66.6bn

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

Alert

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.

VCIT

VCIT tracks an index of Intermediate-Term Corporate Bond. Over the year to Oct 28, 2026 it returned −1.8% with distributions reinvested, against −1.8% for its benchmark, the Bloomberg U.S. 5-10 Year Corporate Bond Index. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.03% a year. It sat 3.2% below its high of Feb 27, 2026 on Oct 28, 2026.

Questions people ask

Which returned more over the last year, BWET or VCIT?: In the year to Oct 28, 2026, with distributions reinvested, BWET returned +5,121.7% and VCIT −1.8%.
Which is cheaper, BWET or VCIT?: VCIT is cheaper, by 4.65 percentage points a year. That is about $465 on $10,000 held for a year. Fees come from each fund's own filings.

Other comparisons

BWET vs IGIB BWET vs LQD BWET vs TLT BWET vs GOVT USO vs VCIT SIVR vs VCIT SLV vs VCIT GLDM vs VCIT

Where to next

BWET on its own →VCIT on its own →Hold both: look the portfolio through →Rankings →VCIT dividend history →VCIT holdings →Standards and sources →

Sources and dates

Breakwave page for BWET ↗

VCIT filings on SEC EDGAR ↗

VCIT prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗

Vanguard page for VCIT ↗

Links are sources, not endorsements. A comparison is not a recommendation.

Cite this pageCitation, APA and Markdown

ETFIQ, BWET against VCIT, data as of Oct 28, 2026. https://etfiq.com/compare/any/bwet-vs-vcit

Open data →

Free to use with attribution for data ETFIQ computes; issuer data stays under its owner's terms.