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DBA vs IAU

Commodities vs Gold.

Invesco DB Agriculture Fund · iShares Gold Trust

Holdings overlap

Holdings overlap isn't available for DBA or IAU.

Some fund types (grantor trusts, unit trusts) don't publish holdings in the standard monthly form we use. The side-by-side stats, sub-score comparison, and cost-difference panel below are still directly comparable.

Side by side

DBA

Invesco DB Agriculture Fund

Invesco · Commodities

34 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.85%
Net assets
$1.15B
TTM yield
3.26%
Top-10 conc.
89.0%
IAU

iShares Gold Trust

iShares · Gold

80 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.25%
Net assets
$60.14B
TTM yield
0.00%
Top-10 conc.
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Sub-score comparison

15
Cost
75
66
Tax efficiency
66
59
Liquidity
100
0
Concentration
N/A
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Tracking quality
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DBA sub-score IAU

Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.

Cost difference

IAU is 60 bps cheaper than DBA. On a $100,000 position that's about $600/yr more in fees for DBA.

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 IAU.

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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/.

Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.