Which is more different from the S&P 500, CSIO or IFRA?

CSIO has 54% of its weight in S&P 500 names and IFRA has 72%, so CSIO differs more from the index.

Which is cheaper, CSIO or IFRA?

CSIO charges 0.65% a year and IFRA charges 0.30%, so IFRA is cheaper. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.

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CSIO vs IFRA: which is really different?

IFRA holds 71.7% of its weight in S&P 500 companies and CSIO 54.2%. Cohen & Steers Infrastructure Opportunities Active ETF and iShares U.S. Infrastructure ETF.

IFRA costs 0.35 points a year less; IFRA is far larger, $4.0bn against $44m.

	CSIO	IFRA
Expense ratio	0.65%	0.30%
Net assets, CSIO as of Jun 30, 2026 and IFRA as of Oct 8, 2026	$44m	$4.0bn
Total return, 1 year	not published	+9.5%
What it tracks	Infrastructure	Infrastructure
Holdings in common	not published
S&P 500, total return, since Dec 10, 2025	+14.4%
S&P 500, total return, 1 year		+17.3%
Against the S&P 500, since Dec 10, 2025	behind by 2.8 pts
Against the S&P 500, 1 year		behind by 7.8 pts
Below its all-time high	5.3%, high on Jul 24, 2026	10.6%, high on Jun 25, 2026

54.2%

CSIO in the S&P 500

71.7%

IFRA in the S&P 500

+11.6%

CSIO total return, since launch

+9.5%

IFRA total return, 1 year

CSIO · 6 months to Oct 9, 202646% of its weight is outside the S&P 500

54% of CSIO's weight is in S&P 500 companies and 46% is outside the index. Holdings as of Jun 30, 2026.

IFRA · 1 year to Oct 9, 202628% of its weight is outside the S&P 500

72% of IFRA's weight is in S&P 500 companies and 28% is outside the index. Holdings as of Oct 8, 2026.

ETFIQ Off-Index Score · CSIO scores higherHow much of it is not the index it is sold as an alternative to?

CSIO 63

IFRA 34.7

0.1, the lowest in this set92.3, the highest

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Performance, window by window

	Total return		vs the S&P 500		vs the Nasdaq-100
Window	CSIO	IFRA	CSIO	IFRA	CSIO	IFRA
3 months	−4.3%	−7.3%	−7.6 pts	−10.6 pts	−7.9 pts	−10.9 pts
6 months	−2.6%	−3.9%	−17.7 pts	−19.1 pts	−25.8 pts	−27.1 pts
1 year	not published	+9.5%	not published	−7.8 pts	not published	−14.1 pts
3 years	not published	+64.5%	not published	−21.3 pts	not published	−42.8 pts
Since launch CSIO Dec 2025 · IFRA Apr 2018	+11.6%	+164.1%	−2.8 pts	−69.5 pts	−8.7 pts	−230.2 pts

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On the same fields

CSIO

Cohen & Steers Infrastructure Opportunities Active ETF · Holds 29 stocks in infrastructure, 54% of its weight in S&P 500 companies

IFRA

iShares U.S. Infrastructure ETF · Holds 164 stocks in infrastructure, 72% of its weight in S&P 500 companies

Issuer Cohen & Steers iShares

Theme Infrastructure Infrastructure

In the S&P 500 54.2% 71.7%

Active share vs the S&P 500 99.0% 95.7%

In the Nasdaq-100 6.8% 10.9%

Holdings 29 164

Top ten, share of the fund 51.9% 33.4%

Expense ratio 0.65% 0.30%

Fee for the differing part 0.66% 0.31%

Total return, 1 year +11.6% (since it first traded on Dec 10, 2025) +9.5%

vs the S&P 500 −2.8 pts −7.8 pts

vs the Nasdaq-100 −8.7 pts −14.1 pts

Below its high −5.3% −10.6%

Net assets, CSIO as of Jun 30, 2026 and IFRA as of Oct 8, 2026 $44m $4.0bn

As of Oct 9, 2026. Source: ETFIQ.

CSIO in plain words

By weight, 54% of CSIO's portfolio is stocks that are also in the S&P 500; its active share against the S&P 500 is 99%. The top ten holdings are 52% of the fund across 29 positions, as filed for Jun 30, 2026. Since it first traded on Dec 10, 2025 the fund returned +11.6% with distributions reinvested against +14.4% for the S&P 500, so a holder was behind by 2.8 pts. It sits 5.3% below its all-time high of Jul 24, 2026.

IFRA in plain words

By weight, 72% of IFRA's portfolio is stocks that are also in the S&P 500; its active share against the S&P 500 is 96%. The top ten holdings are 33% of the fund across 164 positions, as published by its issuer for Oct 8, 2026. Over the year to Oct 9, 2026 the fund returned +9.5% with distributions reinvested against +17.3% for the S&P 500, so a holder was behind by 7.8 pts. It sits 10.6% below its all-time high of Jun 25, 2026.

Questions people ask

Which is more different from the S&P 500, CSIO or IFRA?: CSIO has 54% of its weight in S&P 500 names and IFRA has 72%, so CSIO differs more from the index.
Which is cheaper, CSIO or IFRA?: CSIO charges 0.65% a year and IFRA charges 0.30%, so IFRA is cheaper. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.

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Where these figures came from

CSIO filings on SEC EDGAR ↗CSIO prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗Cohen & Steers website ↗IFRA filings on SEC EDGAR ↗IFRA prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗iShares page for IFRA ↗

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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.

Every figure is an ETFIQ calculation with distributions reinvested.

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