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GLD vs ORR: how they differ

Over the year ORR returned more, +20.4% to GLD's +19.5%.

SPDR Gold Shares and Militia Long/Short Equity ETF.

GLD and ORR on the fields both publish, as of Sep 19, 2026. Source: ETFIQ.
GLD
SPDR Gold Shares
ORR
Militia Long/Short Equity ETF
Where it sitsCore fundAlternatives ETF
IssuerState StreetMilitia
What it isHolds goldLong-short equity
Total return, 1 year+19.5%+20.4%
S&P 500 over the same days+16.6%+16.6%
Gap to the S&P 500+3.0 pts+3.8 pts
Expense ratio0.40%not published
Net assets$147.8bn$367m

GLD in plain words

GLD holds gold. Over the year to Sep 18, 2026 it returned +19.5% with distributions reinvested, against +16.6% for the S&P 500 and +21.8% for the Nasdaq-100. The prospectus expense ratio is 0.40% a year. It sat 19.1% below its high of Jan 29, 2026 on Sep 18, 2026.

ORR in plain words

ORR is a long-short equity fund. ETFIQ measures what every alternatives fund is sold on: whether it moves differently from the stock market. Over the year to Sep 18, 2026, its weekly returns had a correlation of +0.35 with the S&P 500’s and a beta of +0.42, so for each 1% the index moved it moved about 0.42% the same way. The S&P 500 fell in 22 of those 52 weeks, by 1.24% on average. In the same weeks ORR fell 0.18% on average, a down-week capture of 14.3%. Over the same 52 weeks ORR returned +21.4% and a Treasury bill fund +3.6%, so it finished 17.7 percentage points ahead of cash.

Questions people ask

Which returned more over the last year, GLD or ORR?
In the year to Sep 19, 2026, with distributions reinvested, GLD returned +19.5% and ORR returned +20.4%, so ORR returned more.
Are GLD and ORR the same kind of fund?
No. GLD is a commodity ETF and ORR is an alternatives ETF, so they are built for different jobs. The table compares what both publish: return, cost and what each actually holds.

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GLD against ORR, ETFIQ, data as of Sep 19, 2026. Every figure is calculated from a named public source; the method is at etfiq.com/methodology. A comparison is not a recommendation.

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