Gold Rush Reverses? Commodity ETFs Post $1.54B Weekly Outflow

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Weekly Channel Summary

The Commodity ETF channel, as of October 31, 2025, holds $289.23 billion in total AUM across 71 ETFs from 28 issuers. The channel experienced net outflows of $1.54 billion over the past week, though it remains strongly positive with $45.24 billion in year-to-date inflows.

This Week’s Performance Leaders and Laggards

Performance was mixed, with Shipping Freight (4.09%) and Energy (0.93%) leading weekly gains. Precious Metals (-1.23%) and Carbon Credits (-0.45%) were the primary laggards for the week.

Category Performance Snapshot

Category WTD 1 Month 3 Month 6 Month YTD 1 Year
Shipping Freight 4.09% 16.10% 35.78% 50.80% 60.16% 26.50%
Energy 0.93% -1.04% -3.45% 7.89% -5.22% 2.45%
Agriculture 0.91% -0.37% -0.45% -4.40% -5.17% -5.30%
Industrial Metals -0.11% 5.76% 15.42% 17.96% 22.59% 16.54%
Multi-Sector -0.32% 1.87% 6.01% 10.86% 12.68% 14.12%
Carbon Credits -0.45% 2.89% 11.10% 20.79% 8.70% 6.96%
Precious Metals -1.23% 5.56% 23.10% 32.33% 55.81% 44.49%

Top & Bottom 5 ETFs by Weekly Performance

The week’s top-performing ETF was the Roundhill Uranium ETF (UX), which gained 8.22%. The worst-performing ETFs were the USCF Energy Commodity Strategy Absolute Return Fund (USE) at -3.21% and the Invesco DB Precious Metals Fund (DBP) at -2.87%.

Ticker Fund Name WTD Performance
Top Performers
UX Roundhill Uranium ETF 8.22%
BWET Breakwave Tanker Shipping ETF 5.65%
SOYB Teucrium Soybean Fund 4.05%
WEAT Teucrium Wheat Fund 3.41%
UNG United States Natural Gas Fund LP 3.29%
Bottom Performers
USE USCF Energy Commodity Strategy Absolute Return Fund -3.21%
DBP Invesco DB Precious Metals Fund -2.87%
OUNZ VanEck Merk Gold ETF -2.55%
CANE Teucrium Sugar Fund -2.41%
IAU iShares Gold Trust -2.28%

Analyzing the Weekly Flows

The channel saw total net outflows of $1.544 billion. Multi-Sector funds led inflows, gathering $69 million. Significant outflows were seen in Precious Metals, which lost $1.643 billion.

Category Flows Summary

Category Fund Count AUM 5 Day 30 Day 90 Day YTD 1 Year
Multi-Sector 25 $16.66B $69M $290M $499M $2,191M $1,865M
Agriculture 8 $1.07B $16M ($12M) $32M $47M $58M
Industrial Metals 4 $0.49B $8M $61M $119M $154M $128M
Energy 11 $2.07B $7M ($13M) $207M ($325M) ($1,125M)
Carbon Credits 4 $0.31B $0M ($15M) ($6M) ($34M) ($168M)
Shipping Freight 2 $0.04B $0M ($5M) ($15M) ($17M) $0M
Precious Metals 17 $268.58B ($1,643M) $5,444M $20,862M $43,223M $42,227M

Top & Bottom 5 ETFs by 5-Day Flow

The abrdn Physical Platinum Shares ETF (PPLT) brought in the most new assets, with $37 million in 5-day inflows. The largest outflows came from SPDR Gold Shares (GLD), which saw $1.015 billion exit, followed by the iShares Silver Trust (SLV) with $352 million in outflows.

Ticker Fund Name 5-Day Flow
Inflows
PPLT abrdn Physical Platinum Shares ETF $37M
SIVR abrdn Physical Silver Shares ETF $35M
USO United States Oil Fund LP $30M
HGER Harbor All-Weather Inflation Focus ETF $22M
PDBC Invesco Optimum Yield Diversified Commodity Strategy No K-1 ETF $16M
Outflows
GLD SPDR Gold Shares ($1,015M)
SLV iShares Silver Trust ($352M)
IAU iShares Gold Trust ($161M)
GLDM SPDR Gold Minishares Trust of beneficial interest ($157M)
IAUM iShares Gold Trust Micro ETF of Benef Interest ($32M)

Issuer League Table Update

The Commodity channel remains highly concentrated, with SPDR (54.21%) and iShares (32.11%) controlling the vast majority of market share. Despite this, aberdeen gathered the most assets this past week, with $85 million in net inflows.

Top 5 Issuers by AUM

Brand Fund Count AUM AUM Market Share
SPDR 3 $156.79B 54.21%
iShares 7 $92.87B 32.11%
aberdeen 8 $17.02B 5.89%
Invesco 9 $7.23B 2.50%
US Commodity Funds 8 $2.35B 0.81%

Top & Bottom 3 Issuers by 5-Day Flow

Brand 5-Day Flow
Inflows
aberdeen $85M
Harbor $22M
Teucrium $16M
Outflows
SPDR ($1,170M)
iShares ($563M)
Direxion ($1M)

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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…