{"url":"https://etfiq.com/rankings/themes-best-year-lithium","section":"rankings","title":"The lithium ETFs that returned most | ETFIQ","description":"The lithium ETFs that returned most, ranked by total return with distributions reinvested, one year, as of Oct 9, 2026. 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A ranking is not a recommendation.","url":"https://etfiq.com/rankings/themes-best-year-lithium","dateModified":"2026-10-09","isPartOf":{"@type":"WebSite","name":"ETFIQ","url":"https://etfiq.com"},"speakable":{"@type":"SpeakableSpecification","cssSelector":[".lede"]},"publisher":{"@id":"https://etfiq.com/#org"}}],"characters":2900,"truncated":false,"content":"ETFIQ / Rankings / The lithium ETFs that returned most \n \n As of Oct 9, 2026 . Rebuilt every trading night.\n The lithium ETFs that returned most\n Funds sold on one theme can hold different companies, so a year apart at the top and the bottom of this list is a difference in what they own rather than in the theme.\n The lithium ETFs that returned most, ranked by total return with distributions reinvested, as of Oct 9, 2026. Source: ETFIQ. # Ticker Fund Total return, 1Y vs the S&P 500 Weight in S&P 500 companies Fee \n 1 LIT Global X Lithium & Battery Tech ETF +18.8% +1.5 pts 8.5% 0.75% \n 2 BATT Amplify Lithium & Battery Technology ETF +11.8% \u22125.4 pts 16.0% 0.59% \n 3 ION ProShares S&P Global Core Battery Metals +9.5% \u22127.8 pts 2.6% 0.58% \n 4 ILIT iShares Lithium Miners and Producers ETF \u22126.5% \u221223.8 pts 7.8% 0.47% \n 5 LITP Sprott Lithium Miners ETF \u221211.2% \u221228.5 pts 10.2% 0.65% \n \n Method\n The 5 of 5 ETFs in the lithium and battery metals theme with a full year of trading, highest first, each over the same year to Oct 9, 2026 with distributions reinvested. Across the funds listed here the one year total return runs from -11.2% to 18.8%. A year is a year. It says what happened and nothing about what happens next. The ranking is the published field sorted, nothing else: no scoring, no weighting and no view on any fund. Every fund ETFIQ covers in this category is eligible, including funds that have closed, because leaving them out would flatter the category.\n Where to next\n Every lithium ETF and what it holds The largest lithium ETFs Where these figures came from\n 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 ETFIQ links to the documents behind every figure; a link is not an endorsement.\n A ranking is not a recommendation and no order on this site is an opinion. ETFIQ is an independent publisher, not an adviser. Standards and sources \n Cite this page. ETFIQ, The lithium ETFs that returned most, ranked by total return with distributions reinvested, data as of Oct 9, 2026. https://etfiq.com/rankings/themes-best-year-lithium Free to use with attribution for figures ETFIQ computes; issuer data stays under its owner's terms. 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