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

In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, COMT returned +50.7% and GSG +57.4%.

Which is cheaper, COMT or GSG?

COMT 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 own filings.

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COMT vs GSG: how they differ

COMT is a commodity fund and GSG a commodity futures fund, and over the year GSG returned +57.4% against +50.7%. iShares GSCI Commodity Dynamic Roll Strategy ETF and iShares GSCI Commodity-Indexed Trust Fund.

COMT costs 0.33 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 6.7 points; COMT is 1.3 times larger.

	COMT	GSG
Expense ratio	0.48%	0.81%
Net assets, as of Oct 8, 2026	$1.4bn	$1.0bn
Total return, 1 year	+50.7%	+57.4%
Holdings in common	not published
Below its high		52.8%, high on Jul 2, 2008

+50.7%

COMT total return, 1 year

+57.4%

GSG total return, 1 year

0.48%

COMT expense ratio

0.81%

GSG expense ratio

On the same fields

COMT

iShares GSCI Commodity Dynamic Roll Strategy ETF

GSG

iShares GSCI Commodity-Indexed Trust Fund

Where it sits Commodity ETF Commodity ETF

Issuer iShares iShares

What it is Tracks an index Holds commodity futures

Total return, 1 year +50.7% +57.4%

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

Gap to the S&P 500 +33.5 pts +40.1 pts

Expense ratio 0.48% 0.81%

Holdings 176 not read by ETFIQ

Net assets, as of Oct 8, 2026 $1.4bn $1.0bn

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

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.

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, COMT or GSG?: In the year to Oct 9, 2026, with distributions reinvested, COMT returned +50.7% and GSG +57.4%.
Which is cheaper, COMT or GSG?: COMT 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 own filings.

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Where these figures came from

COMT filings on SEC EDGAR ↗COMT prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗iShares page for COMT ↗GSG filings on SEC EDGAR ↗iShares page for GSG ↗

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

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