Commodity ETF Check-In: Shipping Leads as Energy Lags

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Weekly Channel Summary

The Commodity ETF channel, which currently tracks 71 products across 28 issuers, represents a total of $369.34 billion in Assets Under Management. For the week ending April 10, 2026, the category gathered $827 million in net inflows. This recent capital injection has pushed the Year-to-Date total flows for the channel into positive territory, accumulating $1.12 billion.

This Week’s Performance Leaders and Laggards

Shipping Freight was the standout category this week, surging 13.34%, followed by Precious Metals at 4.08%. Conversely, Energy lagged the broader commodity market, declining by 4.22% for the week despite its strong longer-term momentum.

Category Performance Snapshot

Category WTD 1 Month 3 Month 6 Month YTD 1 Year
Shipping Freight 13.34% 76.10% 267.87% 461.27% 384.47% 765.95%
Precious Metals 4.08% -9.31% 0.98% 24.08% 7.69% 74.97%
Industrial Metals 3.40% -1.59% 1.06% 22.92% 6.24% 43.98%
Carbon Credits 2.01% 0.49% -14.23% -10.83% -14.11% 11.94%
Multi-Sector -1.95% 2.77% 18.49% 26.64% 21.36% 39.36%
Agriculture -2.93% -1.42% 3.70% 4.43% 4.52% -1.43%
Energy -4.22% 7.99% 38.77% 38.19% 40.14% 44.66%

Top & Bottom 5 ETFs by Weekly Performance

The BWET ETF led all individual commodity products with an exceptional 23.32% weekly return. On the other end of the spectrum, oil-focused funds saw sharp pullbacks, with BNO and USO falling 12.63% and 9.52%, respectively.

Ticker Fund Name WTD Performance
Top Performers
BWET Breakwave Tanker Shipping ETF 23.32%
PLTM GraniteShares Platinum Trust 7.95%
PPLT abrdn Physical Platinum Shares ETF 7.94%
SIVR abrdn Physical Silver Shares ETF 6.41%
SLV iShares Silver Trust 6.39%
Bottom Performers
BNO United States Brent Oil Fund LP -12.63%
USO United States Oil Fund LP -9.52%
CANE Teucrium Sugar Fund -8.28%
HARD Simplify Commodities Strategy No K-1 ETF -8.09%
UGA United States Gasoline Fund LP -7.57%

Analyzing the Weekly Flows

Driven by renewed interest in the space, Precious Metals saw the most significant capital intake, adding $914 million over the trailing five days. The broader Multi-Sector category, however, experienced the heaviest outflows, shedding $286 million.

Category Flows Summary

Category Fund Count AUM 5 Day 30 Day 90 Day YTD 1 Year
Precious Metals 16 $337.64B $914M -$7,061M -$3,150M -$4,123M $35,530M
Energy 11 $4.35B $284M $24M $864M $955M $1,197M
Carbon Credits 3 $0.24B $0M -$6M -$18M -$21M -$36M
Shipping Freight 2 $0.09B -$17M -$8M $9M $8M -$44M
Industrial Metals 4 $1.02B -$22M -$142M $269M $344M $640M
Agriculture 8 $2.13B -$46M $921M $1,080M $1,080M $1,055M
Multi-Sector 27 $23.88B -$286M $933M $2,623M $2,882M $4,332M

Top & Bottom 5 ETFs by 5-Day Flow

GLDM captured the top spot for individual fund inflows, reeling in $581 million for the week. The largest outflows hit PDBC and GLD, which lost $292 million and $270 million, respectively.

Ticker Fund Name 5-Day Flow
Inflows
GLDM SPDR Gold Minishares Trust of beneficial interest $581M
IAU iShares Gold Trust $452M
USO United States Oil Fund LP $259M
FTGC First Trust Global Tactical Commodity Strategy Fund $58M
SLV iShares Silver Trust $57M
Outflows
PDBC Invesco Optimum Yield Diversified Commodity Strategy No K-1 ETF -$292M
GLD SPDR Gold Shares -$270M
BCI abrdn Bloomberg All Commodity Strategy K-1 Free ETF -$146M
DBO Invesco DB Oil Fund -$52M
CPER United States Copper Index Fund -$26M

Issuer League Table Update

State Street (SPDR) and BlackRock (iShares) maintain a dominant duopoly in the commodity ETF market, controlling 52.20% and 32.58% of total AUM. Meanwhile, iShares led the pack in recent asset gathering, securing $561 million in 5-day flows.

Top 5 Issuers by AUM

Brand Fund Count AUM AUM Market Share
SPDR 3 $192.81B 52.20%
iShares 7 $120.32B 32.58%
aberdeen 7 $22.41B 6.07%
Invesco 9 $10.27B 2.78%
US Commodity Funds 8 $4.74B 1.28%

Top & Bottom 3 Issuers by 5-Day Flow

Brand 5-Day Flow
Inflows
iShares $561M
SPDR $341M
US Commodity Funds $304M
Outflows
Invesco -$314M
aberdeen -$88M
Teucrium -$48M

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Disclosures

This material is for informational purposes only and should not be considered investment advice…

This analysis was developed by the team at ETF Action…