Crude-oil commodity funds
USO vs UCO.
United States Oil Fund (Front-month WTI crude futures) against ProShares Ultra Bloomberg Crude Oil (2x daily Bloomberg WTI crude subindex) — fees, long-horizon total returns, holdings overlap, and sector tilt, side by side.
Performance · total returndaily bars · as of 2026-07-16
| USO | UCO | SPREAD | |
|---|---|---|---|
| YTD (cumulative) | +72.5% | — | — |
| 1Y CAGR | +58.7% | — | — |
| 3Y CAGR | +20.9% | — | — |
| 5Y CAGR | +19.4% | — | — |
| 10Y CAGR | +3.10% | — | — |
| Since inception CAGR | -7.22% | — | — |
Total return: dividend- and split-adjusted daily closes (distributions reinvested). Spread is USO minus UCO. USO since-inception measured from first available bar April 10, 2006. Since-inception spans differ — compare that row with care.
Fund facts
| USO | UCO | |
|---|---|---|
| Name | United States Oil Fund, LP | ProShares Ultra Bloomberg Crude Oil |
| Category | Commodities Focused | Trading--Leveraged Commodities |
| Style | Passive | Passive |
| Expense ratio | 0.6% | — |
| Assets (AUM) | $1.9B | $312.0M |
| Dividend yield | 0.00% | 0.00% |
| Avg volume (3-mo) | 8.3M | 4.0M |
| Inception | April 10, 2006 | November 24, 2008 |
| Benchmark proxy | Gold (LBMA proxy) | S&P 500 |
Expense ratios verified against issuer fact sheets. Dividend yield is trailing 12-month distributions divided by price, as reported by the fund data provider.
Holdings overlap
The provider doesn't break out holdings for USO — overlap can't be computed.
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