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

In the year to Oct 28, 2026, with distributions reinvested, BWET returned +5,121.7% and VCLT −5.9%.

Which is cheaper, BWET or VCLT?

VCLT 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 VCLT: Differences, Returns & Fees

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BWET is a commodity futures fund and VCLT a bond index fund, and over the year to Oct 28, 2026, BWET returned +5,121.7% against −5.9%.

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Net assets: $178m on Oct 28, 2026 for Breakwave Tanker Shipping ETF, and $7.5bn on Sep 30, 2026 for Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF.

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At a glance

+5,121.7%

BWET total return, 1 year

−5.9%

VCLT total return, 1 year

4.68%

BWET expense ratio

0.03%

VCLT expense ratio

Pair scorecard

VCLT costs 4.65 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 5127.6 points.

BWET vs VCLT: Differences, Returns & Fees
Measure	BWET	VCLT
Return
Measure	BWET	VCLT
Total return, 1 year	+5,121.7%	−5.9%
Drawdown
Measure	BWET	VCLT
Below its high	11.2%, high on Oct 8, 2026	17.8%, high on Sep 22, 2021
Benchmark
Measure	BWET	VCLT
What it tracks	Tanker freight futures	Bloomberg U.S. 10+ Year Corporate Bond Index
Cost and size
Measure	BWET	VCLT
Expense ratio	4.68%	0.03%
Net assets, BWET as of Oct 28, 2026 and VCLT as of Sep 30, 2026	$178m	$7.5bn
Holdings
Measure	BWET	VCLT
Holdings in common	not published

Method

Side by side

BWET Breakwave Tanker Shipping ETF VCLT Vanguard Long-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 Long-Term Corporate Bond

Total return, 1 year +5,121.7% −5.9%

Expense ratio 4.68% 0.03%

Holdings not counted 2562

Net assets, BWET as of Oct 28, 2026 and VCLT as of Sep 30, 2026 $178m $7.5bn

BWET and VCLT 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.

VCLT

VCLT tracks an index of Long-Term Corporate Bond. Over the year to Oct 28, 2026 it returned −5.9% with distributions reinvested. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.03% a year. It sat 17.8% below its high of Sep 22, 2021 on Oct 28, 2026.

Questions people ask

Which returned more over the last year, BWET or VCLT?: In the year to Oct 28, 2026, with distributions reinvested, BWET returned +5,121.7% and VCLT −5.9%.
Which is cheaper, BWET or VCLT?: VCLT 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.

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Sources and dates

Breakwave page for BWET ↗

VCLT filings on SEC EDGAR ↗

VCLT prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗

Vanguard page for VCLT ↗

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