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CMDT vs FTGC: how they differ

CMDT and FTGC hold 0% of their weight in the same names, and FTGC returned +42.1% over the year. PIMCO Commodity Strategy Active Exchange-Traded Fund and First Trust Global Tactical Commodity Strategy Fund.

CMDT costs 0.33 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 10.5 points; FTGC is 4.5 times larger.

CMDTFTGC
Expense ratio0.65%0.98%
Net assets, CMDT as of Jun 30, 2026 and FTGC as of Oct 8, 2026$751m$3.4bn
Total return, 1 year+31.6%+42.1%
Holdings in common0%

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

+31.6%
CMDT total return, 1 year
+42.1%
FTGC total return, 1 year
0.65%
CMDT expense ratio
0.98%
FTGC expense ratio

What they hold in common

By the books each fund has filed, CMDT and FTGC 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.

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0% in common

Positions both hold, largest shared weight first
Holding CMDT FTGC
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 FTGC
GASOLINE RBOB FUT Dec26 7.38%
BRENT CRUDE FUTR Jan27 6.53%
GOLD 100 OZ FUTR Dec26 6.28%
WTI CRUDE FUTURE Dec26 5.63%
LME ZINC FUTURE Dec26 5.47%
NATURAL GAS FUTR Dec26 5.13%
Low Su Gasoil G Nov26 5.10%
COPPER FUTURE Dec26 5.05%

On the same fields

CMDT
PIMCO Commodity Strategy Active Exchange-Traded Fund
FTGC
First Trust Global Tactical Commodity Strategy Fund
Where it sits Commodity ETF Commodity ETF
Issuer PIMCO First Trust
What it is Actively managed Actively managed
Total return, 1 year +31.6% +42.1%
S&P 500 over the same days +17.3% +17.3%
Gap to the S&P 500 +14.4 pts +24.9 pts
Expense ratio 0.65% 0.98%
Holdings 259 30
Net assets, CMDT as of Jun 30, 2026 and FTGC as of Oct 8, 2026 $751m $3.4bn

CMDT and FTGC 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.

FTGC in plain words

FTGC is actively managed and tracks no index. Over the year to Oct 9, 2026 it returned +42.1% with distributions reinvested. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.98% a year.

Questions people ask

Which returned more over the last year, CMDT or FTGC?
In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, CMDT returned +31.6% and FTGC +42.1%.
Which is cheaper, CMDT or FTGC?
CMDT is cheaper, by 0.33 percentage points a year. On $10,000 held for a year that difference is about $33. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.
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Where these figures came from
CMDT filings on SEC EDGAR ↗CMDT prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗PIMCO website ↗FTGC filings on SEC EDGAR ↗FTGC prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗First Trust page for FTGC ↗

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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 FTGC, data as of Oct 9, 2026. https://etfiq.com/compare/any/cmdt-vs-ftgc

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