Which is more different from the S&P 500, EFRA or GLIX?

EFRA has 26% of its weight in S&P 500 names and GLIX has 49%, so EFRA differs more from the index.

Which is cheaper, EFRA or GLIX?

EFRA charges 0.47% a year and GLIX charges 0.96%, so EFRA is cheaper. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.

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EFRA vs GLIX: which is really different?

GLIX holds 49.3% of its weight in S&P 500 companies and EFRA 25.8%. iShares Environmental Infrastructure and Industrials ETF and Lazard Listed Infrastructure ETF.

EFRA costs 0.49 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 0.8 points; GLIX is 5.4 times larger.

	EFRA	GLIX
Expense ratio	0.47%	0.96%
Net assets, EFRA as of Oct 8, 2026 and GLIX as of Jun 30, 2026	$5m	$30m
Total return, 1 year	+5.6%	+6.4%
What it tracks	Infrastructure	Infrastructure
Holdings in common	not published
S&P 500, total return, 1 year	+17.3%
Against the S&P 500, 1 year	behind by 11.6 pts	behind by 10.8 pts
Active share vs the S&P 500		98%
Below its all-time high	6.6%, high on Feb 27, 2026	7.1%, high on Jun 26, 2026

25.8%

EFRA in the S&P 500

49.3%

GLIX in the S&P 500

+5.6%

EFRA total return, 1 year

+6.4%

GLIX total return, 1 year

EFRA · 1 year to Oct 9, 202674% of its weight is outside the S&P 500

26% of EFRA's weight is in S&P 500 companies and 74% is outside the index. Holdings as of Oct 8, 2026.

GLIX · 1 year to Oct 9, 202651% of its weight is outside the S&P 500

49% of GLIX's weight is in S&P 500 companies and 51% is outside the index. Holdings as of Jun 30, 2026.

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

EFRA 79.2

GLIX 56.3

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	EFRA	GLIX	EFRA	GLIX	EFRA	GLIX
3 months	−3.1%	−5.9%	−6.5 pts	−9.3 pts	−6.8 pts	−9.6 pts
6 months	−3.5%	−5.3%	−18.6 pts	−20.4 pts	−26.6 pts	−28.5 pts
1 year	+5.6%	+6.4%	−11.6 pts	−10.8 pts	−18.0 pts	−17.2 pts
3 years	+46.4%	not published	−39.4 pts	not published	−60.9 pts	not published
Since launch EFRA Nov 2022 · GLIX Oct 2025	+59.5%	+6.4%	−61.6 pts	−10.8 pts	−135.8 pts	−17.8 pts

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On the same fields

EFRA

iShares Environmental Infrastructure and Industrials ETF · Holds 79 stocks in infrastructure, 26% of its weight in S&P 500 companies

GLIX

Lazard Listed Infrastructure ETF · Holds 27 stocks in infrastructure, 49% of its weight in S&P 500 companies

Issuer iShares Lazard

Theme Infrastructure Infrastructure

In the S&P 500 25.8% 49.3%

Active share vs the S&P 500 99.8% 98.5%

In the Nasdaq-100 0.0% 13.3%

Holdings 79 27

Top ten, share of the fund 51.3% 55.4%

Expense ratio 0.47% 0.96%

Fee for the differing part 0.47% 0.97%

Total return, 1 year +5.6% +6.4%

vs the S&P 500 −11.6 pts −10.8 pts

vs the Nasdaq-100 −18.0 pts −17.2 pts

Below its high −6.6% −7.1%

Net assets, EFRA as of Oct 8, 2026 and GLIX as of Jun 30, 2026 $5m $30m

As of Oct 9, 2026. Source: ETFIQ.

EFRA in plain words

By weight, 26% of EFRA's portfolio is stocks that are also in the S&P 500; its active share against the S&P 500 is 100%. The top ten holdings are 51% of the fund across 79 positions, as published by its issuer for Oct 8, 2026. Over the year to Oct 9, 2026 the fund returned +5.6% with distributions reinvested against +17.3% for the S&P 500, so a holder was behind by 11.6 pts. It sits 6.6% below its all-time high of Feb 27, 2026.

GLIX in plain words

By weight, 49% of GLIX'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 55% of the fund across 27 positions, as filed for Jun 30, 2026. Over the year to Oct 9, 2026 the fund returned +6.4% with distributions reinvested against +17.3% for the S&P 500, so a holder was behind by 10.8 pts. It sits 7.1% below its all-time high of Jun 26, 2026.

Questions people ask

Which is more different from the S&P 500, EFRA or GLIX?: EFRA has 26% of its weight in S&P 500 names and GLIX has 49%, so EFRA differs more from the index.
Which is cheaper, EFRA or GLIX?: EFRA charges 0.47% a year and GLIX charges 0.96%, so EFRA is cheaper. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.

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Where these figures came from

EFRA filings on SEC EDGAR ↗EFRA prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗iShares page for EFRA ↗GLIX filings on SEC EDGAR ↗GLIX prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗Lazard website ↗

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Every figure is an ETFIQ calculation with distributions reinvested.

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