Materials

Mining, chemicals, packaging, paper. Commodity-input-sensitive and globally exposed; small share of total US market cap.

11 funds in the catalog. Scored using methodology v0.5.1.

Top score

XLB82 / 100

State Street Materials Select Sector SPDR ETF

Cheapest

XLB0.080%

State Street Materials Select Sector SPDR ETF

Largest by AUM

GDX$30.54B

VanEck Gold Miners ETF

All Materials funds

Score	Ticker	Name	Expense	AUM	Yield
82	XLB	State Street Materials Select Sector SPDR ETF	0.080%	$8.75B	1.67%
79	VAW	Vanguard Materials Index Fund ETF Shares	0.090%	$4.54B	1.39%
71	XME	State Street SPDR S&P Metals & Mining ETF	0.35%	$4.89B	0.32%
71	GUNR	Northern Trust Morningstar Global Upstream Natural Resources ETF	0.46%	$7.30B	2.15%
70	FMAT	Fidelity MSCI Materials Index ETF	0.084%	$619.5M	1.43%
68	GDXJ	VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF	0.52%	$9.63B	2.13%
66	PICK	iShares MSCI Global Metals & Mining Producers ETF	0.39%	$2.58B	2.08%
66	GDX	VanEck Gold Miners ETF	0.51%	$30.54B	0.66%
60	COPX	Global X Copper Miners ETF	0.65%	$8.44B	2.18%
53	URA	Global X Uranium ETF	0.69%	$6.42B	4.63%
45	URNM	Sprott Uranium Miners ETF	0.75%	$2.20B	3.19%

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Methodology v0.5.1. See /methodology/for every threshold and weight used to score these funds.