Investors Pour $2.4 Billion into Silver ETFs Despite Performance Headwinds

Share

Weekly Channel Summary

As of February 6, 2026, the Commodity ETF channel manages a total of $378.19 billion in assets across 71 ETFs and 28 distinct brands. The past week saw significant activity with total net inflows of $2.21 billion, contributing to a substantial Year-to-Date (YTD) flow of $6.38 billion. This growth is heavily concentrated in the Precious Metals space, which accounts for the vast majority of the channel’s total AUM.

This Week’s Performance Leaders and Laggards

Performance was largely negative across the commodity landscape this week. Agriculture was the sole major composite to post a positive return, gaining 0.42%. Conversely, Energy and Precious Metals faced significant headwinds, declining 5.34% and 5.93% respectively, driven largely by sharp drops in Natural Gas and Silver prices.

Category Performance Snapshot

Category WTD 1 Month 3 Month 6 Month YTD 1 Year
Agriculture 0.42% 0.08% -0.39% -0.30% 0.25% -10.46%
Shipping Freight -0.05% 58.06% 62.69% 128.19% 59.75% 150.34%
Multi-Sector -1.30% 3.80% 8.86% 15.89% 6.35% 16.28%
Industrial Metals -1.67% -3.04% 17.72% 31.79% 3.88% 34.63%
Carbon Credits -2.38% -10.58% -3.42% 7.80% -9.05% 3.82%
Energy -5.34% 10.16% 3.50% 2.82% 8.20% -1.86%
Precious Metals -5.93% 3.79% 29.34% 55.89% 10.93% 86.67%

Top & Bottom 5 ETFs by Weekly Performance

The BWET led the channel this week with a 6.66% gain, continuing its extremely strong YTD run. On the laggard side, SLV and SIVR both plummeted over 27% during the five-day period.

Ticker Fund Name WTD Performance
Top Performers
BWET Breakwave Tanker Shipping ETF 6.66%
SOYB Teucrium Soybean Fund 3.47%
DBP Invesco DB Precious Metals Fund 3.37%
OUNZ VanEck Merk Gold ETF 2.34%
HGER Harbor Commodity All-Weather Strategy ETF 1.36%
Bottom Performers
SLV iShares Silver Trust -27.40%
SIVR abrdn Physical Silver Shares ETF -27.38%
UNG United States Natural Gas Fund LP -21.38%
UNL United States 12 Month Natural Gas Fund LP -14.42%
GLTR abrdn Physical Precious Metals Basket Shares ETF -11.96%

Analyzing the Weekly Flows

The channel attracted $2.21 billion in total net flow this week. Precious Metals dominated investor attention with $2.01 billion in weekly inflows. On the other hand, the Multi-Sector Broad Market category experienced the most significant outflows, losing $124 million over the 5-day period.

Category Flows Summary

Category Fund Count AUM 5 Day 30 Day YTD
Precious Metals 16 $355.01B $2,009M $6,612M $5,225M
Energy 11 $2.23B $158M ($89M) ($92M)
Industrial Metals 4 $1.22B $153M $512M $535M
Agriculture 8 $1.03B $16M $5M $8M
Shipping Freight 2 $0.05B $2M $1M $1M
Carbon Credits 4 $0.27B ($1M) ($13M) ($13M)
Multi-Sector 25 $18.39B ($124M) $585M $715M

Top & Bottom 5 ETFs by 5-Day Flow

Investors aggressively bought into silver this week, with SLV gathering a staggering $2.44 billion. In contrast, GLD saw the largest liquidation in the channel, losing $1.70 billion, while GSG also experienced significant outflows of $314 million.

Ticker Fund Name 5-Day Flow
Inflows
SLV iShares Silver Trust $2,437M
IAU iShares Gold Trust $425M
GLDM SPDR Gold Minishares Trust $354M
SIVR abrdn Physical Silver Shares ETF $273M
IAUM iShares Gold Trust Micro ETF $208M
Outflows
GLD SPDR Gold Shares ($1,698M)
GSG iShares S&P GSCI Commodity Indexed Trust ($314M)
PPLT abrdn Physical Platinum Shares ETF ($80M)
PALL abrdn Physical Palladium Shares ETF ($41M)
EDGH 3EDGE Dynamic Hard Assets ETF ($25M)

Issuer League Table Update

SPDR and iShares continue to dominate the Commodity channel, collectively controlling over 86% of the market share by AUM. This week, iShares led all issuers with $2.80 billion in net inflows, while SPDR experienced a net outflow of $1.33 billion despite its market-leading position.

Top 5 Issuers by AUM

Brand Fund Count AUM AUM Market Share
SPDR 3 $198.95B 52.59%
iShares 7 $128.37B 33.93%
aberdeen 7 $23.96B 6.33%
Invesco 9 $7.96B 2.10%
US Commodity Funds 8 $3.08B 0.81%

Top & Bottom 3 Issuers by 5-Day Flow

Brand 5-Day Flow
Inflows
iShares $2,801M
aberdeen $296M
US Commodity Funds $291M
Outflows
SPDR ($1,330M)
3Edge ($25M)
Harbor ($2M)

For a deeper dive into these trends, access our FREE, in-depth Commodity ETF reports in the right side panel of this page.

Disclosures

This material is for informational purposes only and should not be considered investment advice. The data presented here is sourced from ETF Action, LLC and reflects market conditions as of the specified date. Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

This analysis was developed by the team at ETF Action, a data analytics, technology, and research platform built for financial professionals.