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

CSIO has 54% of its weight in S&P 500 names and PAVE has 64%, so CSIO differs more from the index.

Which is cheaper, CSIO or PAVE?

CSIO charges 0.65% a year and PAVE charges 0.47%, so PAVE is cheaper. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.

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CSIO vs PAVE: which is really different?

PAVE holds 63.9% of its weight in S&P 500 companies and CSIO 54.2%. Cohen & Steers Infrastructure Opportunities Active ETF and Global X U.S. Infrastructure Development ETF.

PAVE costs 0.18 points a year less; PAVE is far larger, $13.6bn against $44m.

	CSIO	PAVE
Expense ratio	0.65%	0.47%
Net assets, CSIO as of Jun 30, 2026 and PAVE as of Oct 8, 2026	$44m	$13.6bn
Total return, 1 year	not published	+13.2%
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 4.1 pts
Below its all-time high	5.3%, high on Jul 24, 2026	10.8%, high on Jun 25, 2026

54.2%

CSIO in the S&P 500

63.9%

PAVE in the S&P 500

+11.6%

CSIO total return, since launch

+13.2%

PAVE 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.

PAVE · 1 year to Oct 9, 202636% of its weight is outside the S&P 500

64% of PAVE's weight is in S&P 500 companies and 36% 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

PAVE 40.2

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

A percentile among the 391 thematic ETFs with a holdings filing. All thematic ETFs ranked by it → How it is computed →

Performance, window by window

	Total return		vs the S&P 500		vs the Nasdaq-100
Window	CSIO	PAVE	CSIO	PAVE	CSIO	PAVE
3 months	−4.3%	−5.7%	−7.6 pts	−9.1 pts	−7.9 pts	−9.4 pts
6 months	−2.6%	−2.0%	−17.7 pts	−17.2 pts	−25.8 pts	−25.2 pts
1 year	not published	+13.2%	not published	−4.1 pts	not published	−10.4 pts
3 years	not published	+78.0%	not published	−7.8 pts	not published	−29.3 pts
Since launch CSIO Dec 2025 · PAVE Mar 2017	+11.6%	+285.0%	−2.8 pts	+1.6 pts	−8.7 pts	−228.9 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

PAVE

Global X U.S. Infrastructure Development ETF · Holds 100 stocks in infrastructure, 64% of its weight in S&P 500 companies

Issuer Cohen & Steers Global X

Theme Infrastructure Infrastructure

In the S&P 500 54.2% 63.9%

Active share vs the S&P 500 99.0% 97.2%

In the Nasdaq-100 6.8% 6.5%

Holdings 29 100

Top ten, share of the fund 51.9% 32.9%

Expense ratio 0.65% 0.47%

Fee for the differing part 0.66% 0.48%

Total return, 1 year +11.6% (since it first traded on Dec 10, 2025) +13.2%

vs the S&P 500 −2.8 pts −4.1 pts

vs the Nasdaq-100 −8.7 pts −10.4 pts

Below its high −5.3% −10.8%

Net assets, CSIO as of Jun 30, 2026 and PAVE as of Oct 8, 2026 $44m $13.6bn

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.

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

Which is more different from the S&P 500, CSIO or PAVE?: CSIO has 54% of its weight in S&P 500 names and PAVE has 64%, so CSIO differs more from the index.
Which is cheaper, CSIO or PAVE?: CSIO charges 0.65% a year and PAVE charges 0.47%, so PAVE is cheaper. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.

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CSIO on its own →PAVE on its own →How every figure is computed →Standards and sources →

Where these figures came from

CSIO filings on SEC EDGAR ↗CSIO prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗Cohen & Steers website ↗PAVE filings on SEC EDGAR ↗PAVE prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗Global X page for PAVE ↗

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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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