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

In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, COMB returned +40.1% and GSG +57.4%.

Which is cheaper, COMB or GSG?

COMB is cheaper, by 0.56 percentage points a year. On $10,000 held for a year that difference is about $56. Fees come from each fund's own filings.

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COMB vs GSG: how they differ

COMB is an actively managed commodity fund and GSG a commodity futures fund, and over the year GSG returned +57.4% against +40.1%. GraniteShares Bloomberg Commodity Broad Strategy No K-1 ETF and iShares GSCI Commodity-Indexed Trust Fund.

COMB costs 0.56 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 17.3 points; GSG is 6.4 times larger.

	COMB	GSG
Expense ratio	0.25%	0.81%
Net assets, as of Oct 8, 2026	$161m	$1.0bn
Total return, 1 year	+40.1%	+57.4%
Holdings in common	not published
Below its high		52.8%, high on Jul 2, 2008

+40.1%

COMB total return, 1 year

+57.4%

GSG total return, 1 year

0.25%

COMB expense ratio

0.81%

GSG expense ratio

On the same fields

COMB

GraniteShares Bloomberg Commodity Broad Strategy No K-1 ETF

GSG

iShares GSCI Commodity-Indexed Trust Fund

Where it sits Commodity ETF Commodity ETF

Issuer GraniteShares iShares

What it is Actively managed Holds commodity futures

Total return, 1 year +40.1% +57.4%

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

Gap to the S&P 500 +22.9 pts +40.1 pts

Expense ratio 0.25% 0.81%

Holdings 0 not read by ETFIQ

Net assets, as of Oct 8, 2026 $161m $1.0bn

COMB and GSG 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.

GSG in plain words

GSG holds commodity futures. Over the year to Oct 9, 2026 it returned +57.4% with distributions reinvested. It sat 52.8% below its high of Jul 2, 2008 on Oct 9, 2026.

Its expense ratio is 0.81% a year, for the three months to Jun 30, 2026, as its 10-Q states.

Questions people ask

Which returned more over the last year, COMB or GSG?: In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, COMB returned +40.1% and GSG +57.4%.
Which is cheaper, COMB or GSG?: COMB is cheaper, by 0.56 percentage points a year. On $10,000 held for a year that difference is about $56. Fees come from each fund's own filings.

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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 ↗GSG filings on SEC EDGAR ↗iShares page for GSG ↗

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

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