CMDT vs COMT: how they differ

CMDT and COMT hold 0% of their weight in the same names, and COMT returned +50.7% over the year. PIMCO Commodity Strategy Active Exchange-Traded Fund and iShares GSCI Commodity Dynamic Roll Strategy ETF.

COMT costs 0.17 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 19.1 points; COMT is 1.9 times larger.

CMDTCOMT
Expense ratio0.65%0.48%
Net assets, CMDT as of Jun 30, 2026 and COMT as of Oct 8, 2026$751m$1.4bn
Total return, 1 year+31.6%+50.7%
Holdings in common0%

Holdings in common uses holdings dated Jun 30, 2026 and Oct 8, 2026.

+31.6%
CMDT total return, 1 year
+50.7%
COMT total return, 1 year
0.65%
CMDT expense ratio
0.48%
COMT expense ratio

What they hold in common

By the books each fund has filed, CMDT and COMT hold 0% of their money in the same securities at the same weight. Above 50%, holding both is close to holding one of them twice. Holdings dated Jun 30, 2026 and Oct 8, 2026.

half

0% in common

Positions both hold, largest shared weight first
Holding CMDT COMT
Only in CMDT
PIMCO Enhanced Short Maturity Active Exchange-Traded Fund 5.91%
ROGERS COMMUNICATIONS IN 1.45%
LETRA TESOURO NACIONAL 1.43%
BANK OF MONTREAL 1.37%
TRANSCANADA PIPELINES 1.15%
ROYAL BANK OF CANADA 1.03%
Fannie Mae 0.94%
WELLS FARGO & COMPANY 0.94%
Only in COMT
FIDELITY NATL INFO SERV 144A 1.74%
CRH AMERICA FINANCE INC 144A 1.53%
EATON CAPITAL UNLIMITED 144A 1.06%
NTT FINANCE AMERICAS INC 144A 1.05%
HELVETICA FUNDING CO LLC 144A 0.98%
GLENCOVE FUNDING LLC 144A 0.97%
NEXTERA ENERGY CAPITAL HOLDINGS IN 144A 0.97%
ENBRIDGE INC 144A 0.94%

On the same fields

CMDT
PIMCO Commodity Strategy Active Exchange-Traded Fund
COMT
iShares GSCI Commodity Dynamic Roll Strategy ETF
Where it sits Commodity ETF Commodity ETF
Issuer PIMCO iShares
What it is Actively managed Tracks an index
Total return, 1 year +31.6% +50.7%
S&P 500 over the same days +17.3% +17.3%
Gap to the S&P 500 +14.4 pts +33.5 pts
Expense ratio 0.65% 0.48%
Holdings 259 176
Net assets, CMDT as of Jun 30, 2026 and COMT as of Oct 8, 2026 $751m $1.4bn

CMDT and COMT on the fields both publish, as of Oct 9, 2026. Source: ETFIQ.

CMDT in plain words

CMDT is actively managed and tracks no index. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.65% a year.

Over the year to Oct 9, 2026 it returned +31.6% with distributions reinvested, against +40.2% for its benchmark, the Bloomberg Commodity Index Total Return.

COMT in plain words

COMT tracks an index. Over the year to Oct 9, 2026 it returned +50.7% with distributions reinvested. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.48% a year.

Questions people ask

Which returned more over the last year, CMDT or COMT?
In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, CMDT returned +31.6% and COMT +50.7%.
Which is cheaper, CMDT or COMT?
COMT is cheaper, by 0.17 percentage points a year. On $10,000 held for a year that difference is about $17. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.
Other comparisons
Where these figures came from

ETFIQ links to the documents behind every figure; a link is not an endorsement. A comparison is not a recommendation.

How this is computed

Weight overlap is an ETFIQ calculation: for every security both funds hold, the smaller of the two weights, summed.

Cite this page

ETFIQ, CMDT against COMT, data as of Oct 9, 2026. https://etfiq.com/compare/any/cmdt-vs-comt

Open data

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