Financial Pros' Choice: The Best Agricultural ETF Revealed

[View in browser]( [The Spill Logo] BROUGHT TO YOU BY: [Logo]( Proprietary Data Insights Financial Pros’ Top Agricultural ETF Searches in the Last Month Rank Name Searches #1 'Invesco DB Agriculture Fund 6 #2 'Teucrium Corn Fund 6 #3 'Teucrium Soybean 2 #4 'Teucrium Wheat 2 #5 'Teucrium Sugar 1 #ad [We make understanding investing a lot easier]( Brought to you by [Masterworks]( [Which platform delivered millions to investors in 2022?]( [Masterworks - Which platform delivered millions to investors in 2022?]( In the same year that everyday investors lost a whopping $350 billion, Masterworks had its best year ever. Their 9 art sales returned $25.8 million to investors – a record amount. Talk about a Happy New Year… So, what did investors do with their cash? Charter a yacht in Ibiza? Finally close on that Alpaca farm? Maybe save a little? Naaah. Either way, Masterworks wants to do the same thing for you. 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Key Facts About DBA - Net assets: $872 million - 12-month trailing yield: N/A - Inception: January 5, 2007 - Expense ratio: 0.91% - Number of holdings: N/A Right off the bat, you’ll notice that DBA doesn’t show any holdings. This isn’t technically true. DBA, like the other ETFs on our list, holds futures contracts - leveraged instruments tied to the spot price of the commodity with an expiration date. The fund owns a combination of commodity futures from sugar to cotton, with treasury bonds to back up their futures holdings. [Holdings] [Source: Invesco]( Funds must roll futures positions as their holdings expire, like option contracts. Typically, that means selling their current month’s expiration at once price and buying the next expiration at a higher price. Over time, this erodes the net asset value of the fund. But for the short term, it’s a way to gain exposure to the price fluctuations of the commodity. Performance The DBA is one of the worst performing funds in our list, garnering an average return of just 3.21% over the last five years. And over a decade, you’d have lost money. [Performance] [Source: Invesco]( That said, because of Covid and the commodity boom cycle, the last three years have been rather lucrative. Competition DBA is the only major broad-based agricultural fund. The others on our list were commodity-specific, all from Teucrium. - Teucrium Corn Fund (CORN): Tracks the spot price of corn using futures. - Teucrium Soybean (SOYB): Tracks the spot price of soybeans using futures. - Teucrium Wheat (WEAT): Tracks the spot price of wheat using futures. - Teucrium Sugar (CANE): Tracks the spot price of sugarcane using futures. While all the funds use futures to track the price of the underlying commodity, some, like SOYB, are more expensive than others. Generally speaking, liquidity on most of these ETFs is pretty low. 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