GSG · iShares GSCI Commodity-Indexed Trust Fund
GSG holds commodity futures and returned +57.4% over the past year.
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| Window | Total return | S&P 500 (SPY) | Gap to SPY | Gap to QQQ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3M Jul 10 – Oct 9, 2026 | +22.5% | +3.4% | +19.1 pts | +18.8 pts |
| 6M Apr 10 – Oct 9, 2026 | +16.5% | +15.2% | +1.4 pts | −6.7 pts |
| 1Y Oct 9, 2025 – Oct 9, 2026 | +57.4% | +17.3% | +40.1 pts | +33.8 pts |
| 3Y Oct 10, 2023 – Oct 9, 2026 | +65.7% | +85.8% | −20.1 pts | −41.6 pts |
| Since launch Jul 21, 2006 – Oct 9, 2026 | −26.7% | +809.9% | −836.7 pts | −2,387.2 pts |
Every column is a total return, dividends reinvested. Source: ETFIQ.
Money in and out
Daily figures · as of Oct 8, 2026GSG: in the year to Oct 8, 2026, net $465m went out; in the month to Oct 8, 2026, $25.6m went out.
Oct 5, 2026 to Oct 8, 2026
Sep 10, 2026 to Oct 8, 2026
Jul 10, 2026 to Oct 8, 2026
Jan 2, 2026 to Oct 8, 2026
Oct 10, 2025 to Oct 8, 2026
GSG, net flow each trading day over the 63 sessions from Jul 14, 2026 to Oct 9, 2026: money came in on 7 days and went out on 6 days, of the 62 days with a daily figure; the other 1 have none.
Money in on 7 and out on 6 of the 62 days with daily figures; no daily figure for the other 1 of the 63 trading days.
GSG, net flow each trading day over the 252 sessions from Oct 9, 2025 to Oct 9, 2026: money came in on 49 days and went out on 50 days, of the 251 days with a daily figure; the other 1 have none.
Money in on 49 and out on 50 of the 251 days with daily figures; no daily figure for the other 1 of the 252 trading days.
GSG, net flow each trading day over the 400 sessions from Mar 10, 2025 to Oct 9, 2026: money came in on 76 days and went out on 79 days, of the 399 days with a daily figure; the other 1 have none.
Money in on 76 and out on 79 of the 399 days with daily figures; no daily figure for the other 1 of the 400 trading days.
Computed by ETFIQ from iShares’s daily figures: each day’s change in shares outstanding times the previous day’s net asset value, dated to the day of the count. Every day and month ETFIQ holds for GSG, back to Oct 2019, is in its flows file. Flows across every fund · How these flows are computed · Compare GSG with other funds in the flows tool
How this is computed
Percentages are of net assets at the start of each window. Each figure is net, money in less money out.
Every trading day, last 3 months64 days
Most recent first.
Week by week, last year53 weeks
Net flow into GSG each week, Oct 10, 2025 to Oct 8, 2026, most recent first, each week named by its last trading day with a figure. Computed by ETFIQ.
Month by month, money in and money outNov 2023 to Oct 2026
GSG, money in and money out each month from Nov 2023 to Sep 2026: two bars a month, money in above the line and money out below. Every bar is ETFIQ’s sum of its days. Oct 2026 is still in progress, so it is in the list and not drawn. Of the 36 months listed, money came in on net in 17 and went out in 19.
Every bar is ETFIQ’s sum of its days. Of the 36 months listed, money came in on net in 17 and went out in 19.
Most recent first.
How this is computed
On a month that is the sum of its days, money in sums the days money came in and money out the days it went out.
A month from SEC Form N-PORT is sales and reinvestments less redemptions as filed; a later month is the sum of its days, and says so where a day is missing.
GSG’s 1 futures contract, a notional value of 99.9% of its net assets, then its collateral, from iShares’s daily holdings for Oct 8, 2026. A contract’s notional is what it is worth at that day’s price, as a share of the fund’s net assets that day, each as iShares states it. Source: iShares, the fund’s issuer.
In plain words
Questions people ask about GSG
- How has GSG performed?
- Over the year to Oct 9, 2026, GSG returned +57.4% with distributions reinvested. Over three years the figure is +65.7%.
- What does GSG cost?
- Its expense ratio is 0.81% a year, for the three months to Jun 30, 2026, as its 10-Q states.
- How far is GSG below its high?
- 52.8% below its high of Jul 2, 2008, measured on the reinvested series to Oct 9, 2026.
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ETFIQ, GSG, commodity fund, data as of Oct 9, 2026. https://etfiq.com/funds/gsg
ETFIQ. (Oct 9, 2026). GSG, commodity fund. Retrieved from https://etfiq.com/funds/gsg
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