COMT vs USCI: Differences, Returns & Fees

COMT is a commodity fund and USCI a commodity futures fund, and over the year COMT returned +55.8% against +43.7%. Net assets on Oct 14, 2026: $1.4bn for iShares GSCI Commodity Dynamic Roll Strategy ETF and $419m for United States Commodity Index Fund ETV.

COMT costs 0.57 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 12.1 points; COMT is 3.3 times larger.

COMT vs USCI: Differences, Returns & Fees
COMTUSCI
Expense ratio0.48%1.05%
Net assets$1.4bn$419m
Total return, 1 year+55.8%+43.7%
What it tracksS&P GSCI Dynamic Roll (USD) Total Return IndexBroad futures
Holdings in commonnot published
+55.8%
COMT total return, 1 year
+43.7%
USCI total return, 1 year
0.48%
COMT expense ratio
1.05%
USCI expense ratio
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COMT and USCI are built for the same job. How do they differ in cost, holdings and results?

  1. What each follows. COMT follows S&P GSCI Dynamic Roll (USD) Total Return Index and USCI follows Broad futures.
  2. One-year total return. Over 1 year to Oct 14, 2026 COMT returned +55.8% and USCI +43.7% with distributions reinvested, a gap of 12.1 points.
  3. Cost. COMT charges 0.48% of assets a year and USCI 1.05%, a gap of 0.57 points.

Data as of Oct 14, 2026. The differences are picked by a fixed rule, in a fixed order; the PDF prints it. Page 2 has the returns, overlap, risks and sources.

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On the same fields

COMT
iShares GSCI Commodity Dynamic Roll Strategy ETF
USCI
United States Commodity Index Fund ETV
Where it sits Commodity ETF Commodity ETF
Issuer iShares USCF
What it is Tracks an index Holds broad futures
Total return, 1 year +55.8% +43.7%
Expense ratio 0.48% 1.05%
Holdings 169 not read by ETFIQ
Net assets $1.4bn $419m

COMT and USCI on the fields both publish, as of Oct 14, 2026. Source: ETFIQ.

About COMT

COMT tracks an index. Over the year to Oct 14, 2026 it returned +55.8% with distributions reinvested. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.48% a year.

About USCI

USCI holds broad futures. Over the year to Oct 14, 2026 it returned +43.7% with distributions reinvested. The prospectus expense ratio is 1.05% a year.

Questions people ask

Which returned more over the last year, COMT or USCI?
In the year to Oct 14, 2026, with distributions reinvested, COMT returned +55.8% and USCI +43.7%.
Which is cheaper, COMT or USCI?
COMT is cheaper, by 0.57 percentage points a year. That is about $57 on $10,000 held for a year. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.
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