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

In the year to Oct 28, 2026, with distributions reinvested, BWET returned +5,121.7% and VGIT −1.5%.

Which is cheaper, BWET or VGIT?

VGIT 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.

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BWET vs VGIT: Differences, Returns & Fees

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BWET is a commodity futures fund and VGIT a bond index fund, and over the year to Oct 28, 2026, BWET returned +5,121.7% against −1.5%.

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Net assets: $178m on Oct 28, 2026 for Breakwave Tanker Shipping ETF, and $39.7bn on Sep 30, 2026 for Vanguard Intermediate-Term Treasury ETF.

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At a glance

+5,121.7%

BWET total return, 1 year

−1.5%

VGIT total return, 1 year

4.68%

BWET expense ratio

0.03%

VGIT expense ratio

Pair scorecard

VGIT costs 4.65 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 5123.2 points.

BWET vs VGIT: Differences, Returns & Fees
Measure	BWET	VGIT
Return
Measure	BWET	VGIT
Total return, 1 year	+5,121.7%	−1.5%
Drawdown
Measure	BWET	VGIT
Below its high	11.2%, high on Oct 8, 2026	3.5%, high on Aug 4, 2020
Benchmark
Measure	BWET	VGIT
What it tracks	Tanker freight futures	Bloomberg U.S. Treasury 3-10 Year Index
Cost and size
Measure	BWET	VGIT
Expense ratio	4.68%	0.03%
Net assets, BWET as of Oct 28, 2026 and VGIT as of Sep 30, 2026	$178m	$39.7bn
Holdings
Measure	BWET	VGIT
Holdings in common	not published

Method

Side by side

BWET Breakwave Tanker Shipping ETF VGIT Vanguard Intermediate-Term Treasury ETF

Where it sits Commodity ETF Bond ETF

Issuer Breakwave Vanguard

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

Total return, 1 year +5,121.7% −1.5%

Its benchmark over the same days not measured −1.5% (SCHR)

Gap to its benchmark not measured 0.0 pts vs SCHR

Expense ratio 4.68% 0.03%

Holdings not counted 103

Net assets, BWET as of Oct 28, 2026 and VGIT as of Sep 30, 2026 $178m $39.7bn

BWET and VGIT 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.

VGIT

VGIT tracks an index of Intermediate-Term Treasury. Over the year to Oct 28, 2026 it returned −1.5% with distributions reinvested, against −1.5% for its benchmark, the Bloomberg U.S. Treasury 3-10 Year Index. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.03% a year. It sat 3.5% below its high of Aug 4, 2020 on Oct 28, 2026.

Questions people ask

Which returned more over the last year, BWET or VGIT?: In the year to Oct 28, 2026, with distributions reinvested, BWET returned +5,121.7% and VGIT −1.5%.
Which is cheaper, BWET or VGIT?: VGIT 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 ↗

VGIT filings on SEC EDGAR ↗

VGIT prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗

Vanguard page for VGIT ↗

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