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

CSIO has 54% of its weight in S&P 500 names and UPGR has 23%, so CSIO differs more from the index.

Which is cheaper, CSIO or UPGR?

CSIO charges 0.65% a year and UPGR charges 0.35%, so UPGR is cheaper. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.

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CSIO vs UPGR: which is really different?

CSIO holds 54.2% of its weight in S&P 500 companies and UPGR 22.9%. Cohen & Steers Infrastructure Opportunities Active ETF and Xtrackers US Green Infrastructure Select Equity ETF.

UPGR costs 0.30 points a year less; CSIO is far larger, $44m against $539,786.

	CSIO	UPGR
Expense ratio	0.65%	0.35%
Net assets, CSIO as of Jun 30, 2026 and UPGR as of Oct 8, 2026	$44m	$539,786
Total return, 1 year	not published	−11.2%
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 28.5 pts
Below its all-time high	5.3%, high on Jul 24, 2026	26.8%, high on Jun 2, 2026

54.2%

CSIO in the S&P 500

22.9%

UPGR in the S&P 500

+11.6%

CSIO total return, since launch

−11.2%

UPGR 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.

UPGR · 1 year to Oct 9, 202677% of its weight is outside the S&P 500

23% of UPGR's weight is in S&P 500 companies and 77% is outside the index. Holdings as of May 29, 2026.

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

CSIO 63

UPGR 41.6

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	UPGR	CSIO	UPGR	CSIO	UPGR
3 months	−4.3%	−14.2%	−7.6 pts	−17.6 pts	−7.9 pts	−17.9 pts
6 months	−2.6%	−9.7%	−17.7 pts	−24.8 pts	−25.8 pts	−32.9 pts
1 year	not published	−11.2%	not published	−28.5 pts	not published	−34.8 pts
3 years	not published	+13.7%	not published	−72.1 pts	not published	−93.6 pts
Since launch CSIO Dec 2025 · UPGR Jul 2023	+11.6%	−10.4%	−2.8 pts	−90.6 pts	−8.7 pts	−112.2 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

UPGR

Xtrackers US Green Infrastructure Select Equity ETF · Holds 45 stocks in infrastructure, 23% of its weight in S&P 500 companies

Issuer Cohen & Steers Xtrackers

Theme Infrastructure Infrastructure

In the S&P 500 54.2% 22.9%

Active share vs the S&P 500 99.0% 97.4%

In the Nasdaq-100 6.8% 2.4%

Holdings 29 45

Top ten, share of the fund 51.9% 33.8%

Expense ratio 0.65% 0.35%

Fee for the differing part 0.66% 0.36%

Total return, 1 year +11.6% (since it first traded on Dec 10, 2025) −11.2%

vs the S&P 500 −2.8 pts −28.5 pts

vs the Nasdaq-100 −8.7 pts −34.8 pts

Below its high −5.3% −26.8%

Net assets, CSIO as of Jun 30, 2026 and UPGR as of Oct 8, 2026 $44m $539,786

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.

UPGR in plain words

By weight, 23% of UPGR'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 34% of the fund across 45 positions, as filed for May 29, 2026. Over the year to Oct 9, 2026 the fund returned −11.2% with distributions reinvested against +17.3% for the S&P 500, so a holder was behind by 28.5 pts. It sits 26.8% below its all-time high of Jun 2, 2026.

Questions people ask

Which is more different from the S&P 500, CSIO or UPGR?: CSIO has 54% of its weight in S&P 500 names and UPGR has 23%, so CSIO differs more from the index.
Which is cheaper, CSIO or UPGR?: CSIO charges 0.65% a year and UPGR charges 0.35%, so UPGR 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 ↗UPGR filings on SEC EDGAR ↗UPGR prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗Xtrackers website ↗

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How this is computed

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Every figure is an ETFIQ calculation with distributions reinvested.

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