Which returned more over the last year, COMB or DBC?

In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, COMB returned +40.1% and DBC +51.0%.

Which is cheaper, COMB or DBC?

COMB is cheaper, by 0.60 percentage points a year. On $10,000 held for a year that difference is about $60. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.

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COMB vs DBC: how they differ

COMB is an actively managed commodity fund and DBC a commodity futures fund, and over the year DBC returned +51.0% against +40.1%. GraniteShares Bloomberg Commodity Broad Strategy No K-1 ETF and Invesco DB Commodity Index Tracking Fund.

COMB costs 0.60 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 10.9 points; DBC is 12.1 times larger.

	COMB	DBC
Expense ratio	0.25%	0.85%
Net assets, as of Oct 8, 2026	$161m	$2.0bn
Total return, 1 year	+40.1%	+51.0%
Holdings in common	not published
Below its high		14.8%, high on Jul 2, 2008

+40.1%

COMB total return, 1 year

+51.0%

DBC total return, 1 year

0.25%

COMB expense ratio

0.85%

DBC expense ratio

On the same fields

COMB

GraniteShares Bloomberg Commodity Broad Strategy No K-1 ETF

DBC

Invesco DB Commodity Index Tracking Fund

Where it sits Commodity ETF Commodity ETF

Issuer GraniteShares Invesco

What it is Actively managed Holds commodity futures

Total return, 1 year +40.1% +51.0%

S&P 500 over the same days +17.3% +17.3%

Gap to the S&P 500 +22.9 pts +33.8 pts

Expense ratio 0.25% 0.85%

Holdings 0 not read by ETFIQ

Net assets, as of Oct 8, 2026 $161m $2.0bn

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

COMB in plain words

COMB is actively managed and tracks no index. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.25% a year.

Over the year to Oct 9, 2026 it returned +40.1% with distributions reinvested, against +40.2% for its benchmark, the Bloomberg Commodity Total Return Index.

DBC in plain words

DBC holds commodity futures. Over the year to Oct 9, 2026 it returned +51.0% with distributions reinvested. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.85% a year. It sat 14.8% below its high of Jul 2, 2008 on Oct 9, 2026.

Questions people ask

Which returned more over the last year, COMB or DBC?: In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, COMB returned +40.1% and DBC +51.0%.
Which is cheaper, COMB or DBC?: COMB is cheaper, by 0.60 percentage points a year. On $10,000 held for a year that difference is about $60. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.

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Where these figures came from

COMB filings on SEC EDGAR ↗COMB prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗GraniteShares page for COMB ↗DBC filings on SEC EDGAR ↗Invesco page for DBC ↗

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ETFIQ, COMB against DBC, data as of Oct 9, 2026. https://etfiq.com/compare/any/comb-vs-dbc

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