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QQQJ leads at 0.15% a year. ABOT is second at 0.39% a year. Rebuilt every trading night.","url":"https://etfiq.com/rankings/themes-cheapest-innovation","dateModified":"2026-11-04","isPartOf":{"@type":"WebSite","name":"ETFIQ","url":"https://etfiq.com"},"speakable":{"@type":"SpeakableSpecification","cssSelector":[".lede"]},"publisher":{"@id":"https://etfiq.com/#org"}}],"characters":3297,"truncated":false,"content":"ETFIQ / Rankings / The cheapest innovation ETFs \n \n As of Nov 4, 2026 . Rebuilt every trading night.\n The cheapest innovation ETFs\n See 15 funds ranked by the annual fee the fund charges. Updated Nov 4, 2026. A fee is one fact, not a verdict. Funds on one theme can hold different companies, and the holdings are on the theme page.\n The cheapest innovation ETFs, ranked by the annual fee the fund charges, as of Nov 4, 2026. Source: ETFIQ. # Ticker Fund Fee Net assets Weight in S&P 500 companies Total return, 1Y \n 1 QQQJ Invesco NASDAQ Next Gen 100 ETF 0.15% $1.2bn 46.7% +25.2% \n 2 ABOT Abacus FCF Innovation Leaders ETF 0.39% $4.0m 64.4% +13.5% \n 3 FITE State Street SPDR S&P Kensho Future Secu 0.45% $153m 26.9% +24.3% \n 4 XT iShares Future Exponential Technologies 0.46% $4.0bn 65.0% +23.4% \n 5 BULD Pacer BlueStar Engineering the Future ET 0.49% $8.6m 36.4% +23.8% \n 6 TNXT T. Rowe Price Innovation Leaders ETF 0.49% $19m 64.2% too new \n 7 BUYZ Franklin Disruptive Commerce ETF 0.50% $5.3m 61.5% \u221210.3% \n 8 DTEC ALPS Disruptive Technologies ETF 0.50% $78m 41.3% +3.5% \n 9 FDCF Fidelity Disruptive Communications ETF 0.50% $103m 51.4% +1.2% \n 10 FDFF Fidelity Disruptive Finance ETF 0.50% $43m 43.4% +9.3% \n 11 FDTX Fidelity Disruptive Technology ETF 0.50% $311m 70.6% +18.2% \n 12 FMED Fidelity Disruptive Medicine ETF 0.50% $52m 21.8% +27.4% \n 13 GXDW Global X Dorsey Wright Thematic ETF 0.50% $6.0m 0.0% \u221213.8% \n 14 TEKY Lazard Next Gen Technologies ETF 0.50% $61m 50.9% +0.2% \n 15 THMZ Lazard Equity Megatrends ETF 0.50% $54m 53.9% +6.1% \n \n Method\n The 30 of 30 ETFs in the broad innovation and megatrends theme that publish an expense ratio, cheapest first. Across the funds listed here the annual fee runs from 0.1% to 0.5%. A fee is the one number a fund controls and the one a holder always pays. The list sorts one published number, with no scoring or weighting. Every fund ETFIQ covers in this category is eligible, closed funds included.\n Where to next\n Every innovation ETF and what it holds The largest innovation ETFs Sources\n Fund holdings from SEC Form N-PORT and from the issuers\u2019 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 Links are sources, not endorsements.\n A ranking is not a recommendation or an opinion. ETFIQ is an independent publisher, not an adviser. Standards and sources \n Cite this page. ETFIQ, The cheapest innovation ETFs, ranked by the annual fee the fund charges, data as of Nov 4, 2026. https://etfiq.com/rankings/themes-cheapest-innovation Free to use with attribution for data ETFIQ computes; issuer data stays under its owner's terms. The underlying files are at Open data .\n Other forms Plain ETFIQ, The cheapest innovation ETFs, ranked by the annual fee the fund charges, data as of Nov 4, 2026. https://etfiq.com/rankings/themes-cheapest-innovation APA ETFIQ. (Nov 4, 2026). The cheapest innovation ETFs, ranked by the annual fee the fund charges. Retrieved from https://etfiq.com/rankings/themes-cheapest-innovation Markdown [The cheapest innovation ETFs, ranked by the annual fee the fund charges (ETFIQ, Nov 4, 2026)](https://etfiq.com/rankings/themes-cheapest-innovation)","source":"ETFIQ, independent ETF data. Recomputed nightly from public filings and prices.","publisher":{"@id":"https://etfiq.com/#org","name":"ETFIQ","url":"https://etfiq.com"},"license":"https://etfiq.com/license/","license_text":"Data ETFIQ computes is free to use with attribution: ETFIQ (etfiq.com). 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