The 20 ETFs with the biggest inflows of April 2024

After soaring in March, ETFs came back to earth in April.

U.S. exchange-traded funds saw a net inflow of $37.98 billion last month. That's 63% less than in March, when the funds took in a whopping $102.53 billion. In terms of investor cash, it was the assets' smallest haul since August 2023.

Equity-based funds were hit particularly hard. U.S. equity ETFs took in $13.54 billion, a steep drop from the $54 billion they garnered in March. And sector equity plunged from a net inflow of $7.89 billion in March to a net outflow of $3.19 billion in April.

Given the month the stock market had, this is not surprising. In April, the S&P 500 fell by 4.2% and the Dow fell by 5%, ending a five-month stretch of gains for both indexes.

But not all ETFs did poorly last month. The commodities category jumped from $127.81 million to more than seven times that amount in April, with a net inflow of $930.89 million. And taxable bond ETFs stayed about level, from $15.75 billion in March to $15.13 billion in April.

In terms of individual funds, which ETFs made the best of this lackluster month? Scroll through the cardshow below to see the 20 funds that took in the most investor cash. All data is from Morningstar Direct and is current as of April 30, 2024.

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