
iShares Bloomberg Roll Select Commodity Strategy ETF
$64.78+0.10 (+0.16%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.29%
- Fund size
- $711M
- 1Y return
- +41.3%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 9.72%
- Holdings
- 56
- Volume · 30D
- 0.1M sh
- NAV per share
- $64.59
- 52W range
The ETF.net CMDY Grade
Score 70 of 100 sits in the A band. Bands: A ≥ 70, B ≥ 55, C ≥ 40, D ≥ 25, F < 25; the scale skips E.
Cost
What you pay to own it — the expense ratio plus trading frictions, ranked within its category.AScore 93Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.Not scoredRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.CScore 53Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.CScore 40Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 76Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 65Category rank
Our read on CMDY
ACommodities without the worst of the futures math. CMDY tracks the Roll Select version of the Bloomberg commodity index, where contract choice is written into the rules to ease rolling costs, and charges 0.29% to do it.
The fund seeks to track an index representing a broad range of commodity exposures, using enhanced roll selection on a total-return basis.
Why people hold it
- The name is the strategy. Enhanced roll selection is baked into the index it tracks, so which futures contract to hold is a rule, not an afterthought.
- 0.29% a year sits in the low-fee tier of broad commodity funds, next to BCI, CERY and BCD, and well under what the category typically charges.
- One ticker, a broad basket of roughly 60 futures positions, run on a total-return basis that counts collateral income alongside commodity price moves.
- Live since 2018 under the iShares roof, and one of the stronger implementations in its broad-basket commodity peer group.
Worth knowing
- Moderately traded rather than a volume monster. Spreads can run wider than the mega-cap index funds, which shows up most on large or hurried orders.
- It is structured as a commodity pool, not a plain stock fund, so the tax paperwork and reporting work differently. Check the details before filing season.
- Distributions land annually or semiannually, not monthly, and the roll rule addresses futures mechanics only. Commodity prices still swing hard on their own.
CMDY Holdings
- Other
- 56
- 38%
- TREASURY BILL
Sectors
- Communication100.0%
Geography
- United States91.38%
- Canada4.09%
- Australia1.89%
- Singapore1.71%
- Ireland0.93%
CMDY Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
Returns run to the Sep 22, 2026 close, with cash distributions reinvested. Each period starts on the same date that many months or years earlier. Periods over one year show the average yearly return.
| Period | CMDY |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +32.7% |
| 1 month | +2.9% |
| 3 months | +14.5% |
| 1 year | +41.3% |
| 3 years | +15.3% |
| 5 years | +11.4% |
| 10 years | — |
Calendar-year total return with cash distributions hypothetically reinvested at the ex-dividend date’s closing price. The current year shows year to date.
| Year | Return bar | CMDY |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +32.7% | |
| 2025 | +15.9% | |
| 2024 | +5.5% | |
| 2023 | −9.3% | |
| 2022 | +14.5% | |
| 2021 | +26.5% | |
| 2020 | +1.1% |
CMDY in the news
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CMDY Dividends
- 9.72%
- $6.29
- $6.29 per share
- Annual
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 16, 2025 | Dec 19, 2025 | $6.29 |
| Dec 17, 2024 | Dec 20, 2024 | $2.01 |
| Dec 20, 2023 | Dec 27, 2023 | $2.40 |
| Dec 13, 2022 | Dec 19, 2022 | $2.17 |
| Dec 13, 2021 | Dec 17, 2021 | $7.96 |
| Dec 14, 2020 | Dec 18, 2020 | $0.07 |
| Dec 16, 2019 | Dec 20, 2019 | $1.00 |
| Dec 18, 2018 | Dec 24, 2018 | $0.76 |
CMDY Risk
- 13.1%
How it’s calculated: standard deviation
The sample standard deviation of monthly total returns, multiplied by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Total returns include reinvested distributions.
- 0.77
How it’s calculated: Sharpe ratio
Subtract each month’s Treasury-bill return from the fund’s monthly total return.
Divide the average of those excess returns by their sample standard deviation, then multiply by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Each month uses the Treasury yield quoted at the end of the previous month.
- −26.6%
How it’s calculated: maximum drawdown
The largest percentage decline from an earlier peak, using total returns with reinvested distributions.
Uses up to five years through the last close, with at least 12 months required.
- 0.90
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
CMDY Cost
- The middle half of Broad Commodity Futures funds
- Median 0.72%
1 of the 21 Broad Commodity Futures funds charge less.