BILT vs PAVE: which is really different?
BILT and PAVE hold 8% of their weight in the same names, and PAVE returned +13.2% over the year. iShares Infrastructure Active ETF and Global X U.S. Infrastructure Development ETF.
PAVE costs 0.13 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 4.7 points; PAVE is far larger, $13.6bn against $112m.
| BILT | PAVE | |
|---|---|---|
| Expense ratio | 0.60% | 0.47% |
| Net assets, as of Oct 8, 2026 | $112m | $13.6bn |
| Total return, 1 year | +8.5% | +13.2% |
| What it tracks | Infrastructure | Infrastructure |
| Holdings in common | 8% | |
| S&P 500, total return, 1 year | +17.3% | |
| Against the S&P 500, 1 year | behind by 8.7 pts | behind by 4.1 pts |
| Below its all-time high | 7.6%, high on Jul 24, 2026 | 10.8%, high on Jun 25, 2026 |
Holdings in common uses holdings dated Oct 8, 2026.
47% of BILT's weight is in S&P 500 companies and 53% is outside the index. Holdings as of Oct 8, 2026.
64% of PAVE's weight is in S&P 500 companies and 36% is outside the index. Holdings as of Oct 8, 2026.
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What they hold in common
By the books each fund has filed, BILT and PAVE hold 8% 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 Oct 8, 2026.
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8% in common
8% of the two portfolios are the same securities at the same weight.
Performance, window by window
| Total return | vs the S&P 500 | vs the Nasdaq-100 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Window | BILT | PAVE | BILT | PAVE | BILT | PAVE |
| 3 months | −6.4% | −5.7% | −9.8 pts | −9.1 pts | −10.1 pts | −9.4 pts |
| 6 months | −5.7% | −2.0% | −20.9 pts | −17.2 pts | −28.9 pts | −25.2 pts |
| 1 year | +8.5% | +13.2% | −8.7 pts | −4.1 pts | −15.1 pts | −10.4 pts |
| 3 years | not published | +78.0% | not published | −7.8 pts | not published | −29.3 pts |
| Since launch BILT Jul 2025 · PAVE Mar 2017 | +12.4% | +285.0% | −12.4 pts | +1.6 pts | −21.3 pts | −228.9 pts |
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On the same fields
As of Oct 9, 2026. Source: ETFIQ.
BILT in plain words
By weight, 47% of BILT's portfolio is stocks that are also in the S&P 500; its active share against the S&P 500 is 98%. The top ten holdings are 42% of the fund across 237 positions, as published by its issuer for Oct 8, 2026. Over the year to Oct 9, 2026 the fund returned +8.5% with distributions reinvested against +17.3% for the S&P 500, so a holder was behind by 8.7 pts. It sits 7.6% below its all-time high of Jul 24, 2026.
PAVE in plain words
By weight, 64% of PAVE's portfolio is stocks that are also in the S&P 500; its active share against the S&P 500 is 97%. The top ten holdings are 33% of the fund across 100 positions, as published by its issuer for Oct 8, 2026. Over the year to Oct 9, 2026 the fund returned +13.2% with distributions reinvested against +17.3% for the S&P 500, so a holder was behind by 4.1 pts. It sits 10.8% below its all-time high of Jun 25, 2026.
Questions people ask
- Do BILT and PAVE hold the same stocks?
- By their latest filings, 8% of their books are the same securities at the same weight, which is mostly different names. Overlap is the sum of the smaller weight of every security they share.
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How this is computed
It is a position in a set, not a rating, and neither end of it is a recommendation.
Weight overlap is an ETFIQ calculation: for every security both funds hold, the smaller of the two weights, summed.
Every figure is an ETFIQ calculation with distributions reinvested.
ETFIQ, BILT against PAVE, data as of Oct 9, 2026. https://etfiq.com/compare/themes/bilt-vs-pave
ETFIQ. (Oct 9, 2026). BILT against PAVE. Retrieved from https://etfiq.com/compare/themes/bilt-vs-pave
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