Do GII and IFRA hold the same stocks?

By their latest filings, 34% of their books are the same securities at the same weight, which is a meaningful overlap. Overlap is the sum of the smaller weight of every security they share.

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

GII has 35% of its weight in S&P 500 names and IFRA has 72%, so GII differs more from the index.

Which is cheaper, GII or IFRA?

GII charges 0.40% a year and IFRA charges 0.30%, so IFRA is cheaper. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.

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GII vs IFRA: which is really different?

GII and IFRA hold 34% of their weight in the same names, and IFRA returned +9.5% over the year. State Street(R) SPDR(R) S&P(R) Global Infrastructure ETF and iShares U.S. Infrastructure ETF.

IFRA costs 0.10 points a year less; their one-year returns differ by 4.4 points; IFRA is 4.4 times larger.

	GII	IFRA
Expense ratio	0.40%	0.30%
Net assets, as of Oct 8, 2026	$911m	$4.0bn
Total return, 1 year	+5.1%	+9.5%
What it tracks	Infrastructure	Infrastructure
Holdings in common	34%
S&P 500, total return, 1 year	+17.3%
Against the S&P 500, 1 year	behind by 12.2 pts	behind by 7.8 pts
Below its all-time high	8.5%, high on Feb 27, 2026	10.6%, high on Jun 25, 2026

Holdings in common uses holdings dated Oct 8, 2026.

35.0%

GII in the S&P 500

71.7%

IFRA in the S&P 500

+5.1%

GII total return, 1 year

+9.5%

IFRA total return, 1 year

GII · 1 year to Oct 9, 202665% of its weight is outside the S&P 500

35% of GII's weight is in S&P 500 companies and 65% is outside the index. Holdings as of Oct 8, 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 · GII scores higherHow much of it is not the index it is sold as an alternative to?

GII 50.6

IFRA 34.7

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 →

What they hold in common

By the books each fund has filed, GII and IFRA hold 34% 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.

50%

half

34% in common

Positions both hold, largest shared weight first

Holding GII IFRA

NEXTERA ENERGY INC 4.70% 3.86%

SOUTHERN CO/THE 2.88% 2.92%

CONSTELLATION ENERGY 2.73% 2.85%

DUKE ENERGY CORP 2.65% 2.69%

WILLIAMS COS INC 3.08% 2.60%

AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER 1.94% 1.96%

KINDER MORGAN INC 2.20% 1.85%

TC ENERGY CORP 2.17% 1.77%

ONEOK INC 1.98% 1.68%

DOMINION ENERGY INC 1.58% 1.60%

SEMPRA 1.52% 1.54%

VISTRA CORP 1.43% 1.53%

Only in GII

TRANSURBAN GROUP 4.83%

AENA SME SA 4.72%

IBERDROLA SA 4.13%

GRUPO AEROPORTUARIO PAC ADR 3.63%

ENBRIDGE INC 3.60%

AUCKLAND INTL AIRPORT LTD 3.58%

GETLINK SE 2.88%

NATIONAL GRID PLC 2.23%

Only in IFRA

QUANTA SERVICES INC 4.08%

CATERPILLAR INC 4.07%

UNION PACIFIC 4.00%

CSX 3.51%

NORFOLK SOUTHERN CORP 2.85%

UNITED RENTALS 2.60%

COMFORT SYSTEMS USA 2.38%

NUCOR 2.22%

34% 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	GII	IFRA	GII	IFRA	GII	IFRA
3 months	−6.2%	−7.3%	−9.6 pts	−10.6 pts	−9.9 pts	−10.9 pts
6 months	−7.6%	−3.9%	−22.8 pts	−19.1 pts	−30.8 pts	−27.1 pts
1 year	+5.1%	+9.5%	−12.2 pts	−7.8 pts	−18.5 pts	−14.1 pts
3 years	+61.5%	+64.5%	−24.3 pts	−21.3 pts	−45.8 pts	−42.8 pts
Since launch GII Jan 2007 · IFRA Apr 2018	+168.3%	+164.1%	−508.6 pts	−69.5 pts	−1,721.3 pts	−230.2 pts

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On the same fields

GII

State Street(R) SPDR(R) S&P(R) Global Infrastructure ETF · Holds 77 stocks in infrastructure, 35% 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 State Street iShares

Theme Infrastructure Infrastructure

In the S&P 500 35.0% 71.7%

Active share vs the S&P 500 98.1% 95.7%

In the Nasdaq-100 7.3% 10.9%

Holdings 77 164

Top ten, share of the fund 38.0% 33.4%

Expense ratio 0.40% 0.30%

Fee for the differing part 0.41% 0.31%

Total return, 1 year +5.1% +9.5%

vs the S&P 500 −12.2 pts −7.8 pts

vs the Nasdaq-100 −18.5 pts −14.1 pts

Below its high −8.5% −10.6%

Net assets, as of Oct 8, 2026 $911m $4.0bn

As of Oct 9, 2026. Source: ETFIQ.

GII in plain words

By weight, 35% of GII'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 38% of the fund across 77 positions, as published by its issuer for Oct 8, 2026. Over the year to Oct 9, 2026 the fund returned +5.1% with distributions reinvested against +17.3% for the S&P 500, so a holder was behind by 12.2 pts. It sits 8.5% below its all-time high of Feb 27, 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

Do GII and IFRA hold the same stocks?: By their latest filings, 34% of their books are the same securities at the same weight, which is a meaningful overlap. Overlap is the sum of the smaller weight of every security they share.
Which is more different from the S&P 500, GII or IFRA?: GII has 35% of its weight in S&P 500 names and IFRA has 72%, so GII differs more from the index.
Which is cheaper, GII or IFRA?: GII charges 0.40% 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

GII filings on SEC EDGAR ↗State Street 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.

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.

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ETFIQ, GII against IFRA, data as of Oct 9, 2026. https://etfiq.com/compare/themes/gii-vs-ifra

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