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COMB vs FAAR: how they differ

COMB and FAAR hold 0% of their weight in the same names, and COMB returned +40.1% over the year. GraniteShares Bloomberg Commodity Broad Strategy No K-1 ETF and First Trust Alternative Absolute Return Strategy ETF.

COMB costs 0.73 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 20.4 points; FAAR is 1.5 times larger.

COMBFAAR
Expense ratio0.25%0.98%
Net assets, as of Oct 8, 2026$161m$241m
Total return, 1 year+40.1%+19.7%
Holdings in common0%
Below its high3.9%, high on May 18, 2026

Holdings in common uses holdings dated Jun 30, 2026.

+40.1%
COMB total return, 1 year
+19.7%
FAAR total return, 1 year
0.25%
COMB expense ratio
0.98%
FAAR expense ratio

What they hold in common

By the books each fund has filed, COMB and FAAR 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.

half

0% in common

Positions both hold, largest shared weight first
Holding COMB FAAR
Only in COMB
Only in FAAR
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT 11.19%
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT 8.40%
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT 8.38%
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT 8.36%

On the same fields

COMB
GraniteShares Bloomberg Commodity Broad Strategy No K-1 ETF
FAAR
First Trust Alternative Absolute Return Strategy ETF
Where it sits Commodity ETF Commodity ETF
Issuer GraniteShares First Trust
What it is Actively managed Actively managed
Total return, 1 year +40.1% +19.7%
S&P 500 over the same days +17.3% +17.3%
Gap to the S&P 500 +22.9 pts +2.4 pts
Expense ratio 0.25% 0.98%
Holdings 0 4
Net assets, as of Oct 8, 2026 $161m $241m

COMB and FAAR 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.

FAAR in plain words

FAAR is actively managed and tracks no index. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.98% a year. It sat 3.9% below its high of May 18, 2026 on Oct 9, 2026.

Over the year to Oct 9, 2026 it returned +19.7% with distributions reinvested, against +40.2% for its benchmark, the Bloomberg Commodity Index.

Questions people ask

Which returned more over the last year, COMB or FAAR?
In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, COMB returned +40.1% and FAAR +19.7%.
Which is cheaper, COMB or FAAR?
COMB is cheaper, by 0.73 percentage points a year. On $10,000 held for a year that difference is about $73. 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 ↗FAAR filings on SEC EDGAR ↗FAAR prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗First Trust page for FAAR ↗

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

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