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The AI ETFs that returned most

See 15 funds ranked by total return with distributions reinvested, one year. Updated Oct 20, 2026. Funds on one theme can hold different companies, so the gap from top to bottom of this list reflects what they own, not the theme.

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The AI ETFs that returned most
#	Ticker	Fund	Total return, 1Y ↓	vs its benchmark 1Y	Weight in S&P 500 companies	Fee
1	AIS	VistaShares Artificial Intelligence Supe	+65.0%	not measured	42.2%	0.75%
2	IGPT	Invesco AI and Next Gen Software ETF	+57.4%	not measured	76.2%	0.57%
3	ARTY	iShares Future AI & Tech ETF	+46.1%	not measured	52.0%	0.47%
4	AIFD	TCW Artificial Intelligence ETF	+36.4%	not measured	74.1%	0.75%
5	THNQ	ROBO Global Artificial Intelligence ETF	+36.0%	not measured	44.3%	0.68%
6	XAIX	Xtrackers Artificial Intelligence and Bi	+32.7%	+17.6 pts vs ACWI	70.1%	0.35%
7	FAI	First Trust Bloomberg Artificial Intelli	+31.1%	+15.2 pts vs VOO	77.0%	0.65%
8	WTAI	WisdomTree Artificial Intelligence and I	+28.9%	not measured	65.0%	0.45%
9	CHAT	Roundhill Generative AI & Technology ETF	+28.7%	+12.8 pts vs VOO	55.5%	0.75%
10	PBOT	Pictet AI & Automation ETF	+28.0%	+12.9 pts vs ACWI	60.7%	0.70%
11	AIQ	Global X Artificial Intelligence & Techn	+23.3%	not measured	64.7%	0.68%
12	BAI	iShares A.I. Innovation and Tech Active	+22.2%	−23.9 pts vs ARTY	54.4%	0.55%
13	JHAI	Janus Henderson Global Artificial Intell	+20.5%	+4.6 pts vs VOO	68.3%	0.59%
14	ALAI	Alger AI Enablers & Adopters ETF	+19.2%	+3.4 pts vs VOO	60.0%	0.58%
15	AGIX	KraneShares Public-Private AI & Technolo	+18.0%	+2.2 pts vs VOO	54.3%	1.00%

As of Oct 20, 2026. Source: ETFIQ.

Method

The 25 of 36 ETFs in the artificial intelligence theme with a full year of trading, highest first, each over the same year to Oct 20, 2026 with distributions reinvested. Across the funds listed here the one year total return runs from 18.0% to 65.0%.

The rest of the method

A year says what happened, not what happens next. The list sorts one published figure, with no scoring or weighting. Every fund ETFIQ covers in this category is eligible, closed funds included.

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Fund holdings from SEC Form N-PORT and from the issuers own daily files ↗SEC EDGAR, full-text search of fund filings ↗SEC Form N-PORT, what a fund filed it holds ↗Rule 19a-1, what a distribution notice must say ↗

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