ETF comparison
DBA vs DBC
Both Commodities.
Invesco DB Agriculture Fund · Invesco DB Commodity Index Tracking Fund
Holdings overlap
14 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of DBA and DBC would leave roughly 36.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.
Cost difference
Expense ratios are effectively identical (0.85% vs 0.85%).
Fee figure is the annual expense charged on $100,000. To see how the gap compounds over a multi-decade holding period, open the cost calculator pre-filled with DBA vs DBC.
Top shared holdings
14 shared in total| # | Holding | In DBA | In DBC | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Invesco Short Term Treasury ETF | 9.93% | 13.04% | 9.93% |
| 2 | CME Live Cattle Future | 13.72% | 3.53% | 3.53% |
| 3 | CBOT Soybean Future | 13.52% | 3.48% | 3.48% |
| 4 | CBOT Corn Future | 13.37% | 3.43% | 3.43% |
| 5 | CME Lean Hogs Future | 6.59% | 2.60% | 2.60% |
| 6 | CBOT Soybean Oil Future | 7.07% | 1.81% | 1.81% |
| 7 | CBOT Wheat Future | 6.93% | 1.79% | 1.79% |
| 8 | CME Feeder Cattle Future | 6.56% | 1.68% | 1.68% |
| 9 | NYBOT CTN Number 2 Cotton Future | 5.72% | 1.47% | 1.47% |
| 10 | KCBT Hard Red Winter Wheat Future | 5.60% | 1.44% | 1.44% |
| 11 | NYBOT CSC Number 11 World Sugar Future | 5.25% | 1.35% | 1.35% |
| 12 | NYBOT CSC Cocoa Future | 4.72% | 1.21% | 1.21% |
Only in DBA
1 total- CME Lean Hogs Future 3.51%
Only in DBC
15 total- ICE Brent Crude Oil Future 16.65%
- NYMEX Light Sweet Crude Oil Future 14.43%
- COMEX Gold 100 Troy Ounces Future 9.59%
- ICE Gas Oil Future 7.30%
- NYMEX NY Harbor ULSD Futures 4.97%
- NYMEX Reformulated Gasoline Blendstock for Oxygen Blending RBOB Futures 3.54%
- LME Primary Aluminum Future 3.44%
- LME Copper Future 3.01%
- COMEX Copper Future 2.89%
- NYMEX Henry Hub Natural Gas Futures 2.57%
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Holdings overlap is the sum of min(weight_a, weight_b) over positions
matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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