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

In the year to Oct 28, 2026, with distributions reinvested, BWET returned +5,121.7% and VDC +12.7%.

Which is cheaper, BWET or VDC?

VDC is cheaper, by 4.59 percentage points a year. That is about $459 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 VDC: Differences, Returns & Fees

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BWET is a commodity futures fund and VDC an equity index fund, and over the year to Oct 28, 2026, BWET returned +5,121.7% against +12.7%.

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Net assets: $178m on Oct 28, 2026 for Breakwave Tanker Shipping ETF, and $7.4bn on Sep 30, 2026 for Vanguard Consumer Staples ETF.

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At a glance

+5,121.7%

BWET total return, 1 year

+12.7%

VDC total return, 1 year

4.68%

BWET expense ratio

0.09%

VDC expense ratio

Pair scorecard

VDC costs 4.59 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 5109.0 points.

BWET vs VDC: Differences, Returns & Fees
Measure	BWET	VDC
Return
Measure	BWET	VDC
Total return, 1 year	+5,121.7%	+12.7%
Drawdown
Measure	BWET	VDC
Below its high	11.2%, high on Oct 8, 2026	3.1%, high on Oct 22, 2026
Benchmark
Measure	BWET	VDC
What it tracks	Tanker freight futures	MSCI US Investable Market Index (IMI)/Consumer Staples 25/50
Cost and size
Measure	BWET	VDC
Expense ratio	4.68%	0.09%
Net assets, BWET as of Oct 28, 2026 and VDC as of Sep 30, 2026	$178m	$7.4bn
Holdings
Measure	BWET	VDC
Holdings in common	not published
In the S&P 500, by weight		86%
Top ten holdings, share of the fund		66.0%

Method

Risk and return

May 12, 2023 to Oct 23, 2026 · 180 weekly returns

BWET VDC

Return

Total return edge BWET +5,753.7% +30.3%

Annualized edge BWET +224.0% +8.0%

Price return edge BWET +5,753.7% +19.8%

Risk

Volatility edge VDC 87.4% 11.5%

Max drawdown edge VDC −55.9% −11.2%

Risk-adjusted

Sharpe edge BWET 1.71 0.33

Sortino edge BWET 3.72 0.47

Calmar edge BWET 4.01 0.71

Reading

BWET returned more: +5,753.7% to +30.3%. VDC swung less: 11.5% to 87.4%. VDC fell less at its worst: −11.2% to −55.9%.

Full scorecard

9 measures, with how each is measured Open ↓

Risk and return: BWET vs VDC: Differences, Returns & Fees
Measure	BWET	VDC	Edge	How it is measured
Return
Total return	+5,753.7%	+30.3%	BWET	Price change plus distributions, reinvested.
Annualized	+224.0%	+8.0%	BWET	Total return as a yearly rate.
Price return	+5,753.7%	+19.8%	BWET	Price change alone, distributions left out.
Risk
Volatility	87.4%	11.5%	VDC	Spread of weekly returns, annualized. Lower is steadier.
Downside deviation	40.2%	8.0%	VDC	Like volatility, counting only weeks below the Treasury bill rate.
Max drawdown	−55.9%	−11.2%	VDC	Deepest fall from a high to the low after it.
Risk-adjusted
Sharpe	1.71	0.33	BWET	Return above Treasury bills per unit of volatility.
Sortino	3.72	0.47	BWET	Return above Treasury bills per unit of downside deviation.
Calmar	4.01	0.71	BWET	Annualized return divided by the max drawdown.

Computed by ETFIQ from Tiingo daily prices and ETFIQ's distribution records, 180 weekly returns. Cash rate: the 13-week Treasury bill.

Side by side

BWET Breakwave Tanker Shipping ETF VDC Vanguard Consumer Staples ETF

Where it sits Commodity ETF Stock ETF

Issuer Breakwave Vanguard

What it is Holds tanker freight futures Tracks an index of Consumer Staples

Total return, 1 year +5,121.7% +12.7%

Its benchmark over the same days not measured +12.7% (FSTA)

Gap to its benchmark not measured 0.0 pts vs FSTA

Expense ratio 4.68% 0.09%

Holdings not counted 105

Net assets, BWET as of Oct 28, 2026 and VDC as of Sep 30, 2026 $178m $7.4bn

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

Client brief

No client brief for this pair: ETFIQ prints no one-year total return for BWET.

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.

VDC

VDC tracks an index of Consumer Staples. Over the year to Oct 28, 2026 it returned +12.7% with distributions reinvested, against +12.7% for its benchmark, the MSCI US Investable Market Index (IMI)/Consumer Staples 25/50. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.09% a year. By its holdings published by its issuer as of Sep 30, 2026, 86% of the fund by weight is stocks the S&P 500 also holds, across 105 positions, with the top ten at 66.0%. It sat 3.1% below its high of Oct 22, 2026 on Oct 28, 2026.

Questions people ask

Which returned more over the last year, BWET or VDC?: In the year to Oct 28, 2026, with distributions reinvested, BWET returned +5,121.7% and VDC +12.7%.
Which is cheaper, BWET or VDC?: VDC is cheaper, by 4.59 percentage points a year. That is about $459 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 ↗

VDC filings on SEC EDGAR ↗

VDC prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗

Vanguard page for VDC ↗

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