Materials

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

10 funds in the catalog. Scored using methodology v0.3.0.

Top score

XLB 90 / 100

State Street Materials Select Sector SPDR ETF

Cheapest

XLB 0.080%

State Street Materials Select Sector SPDR ETF

Largest by AUM

GDX $27.26B

VanEck Gold Miners ETF

All Materials funds

Score	Ticker	Name	Expense	AUM	Yield
90	XLB	State Street Materials Select Sector SPDR ETF	0.080%	$7.31B	1.70%
87	VAW	Vanguard Materials Index Fund ETF Shares	0.090%	$4.54B	1.37%
76	XME	State Street SPDR S&P Metals & Mining ETF	0.35%	$5.30B	0.32%
76	FMAT	Fidelity MSCI Materials Index ETF	0.084%	$603.2M	1.43%
72	GDX	VanEck Gold Miners ETF	0.51%	$27.26B	0.72%
71	GUNR	FlexShares Morningstar Global Upstream Natural Resources Index Fund	0.46%	$7.49B	2.22%
69	GDXJ	VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF	0.52%	$8.72B	2.27%
67	PICK	iShares MSCI Global Metals & Mining Producers ETF	0.39%	$1.91B	2.40%
62	COPX	Global X Copper Miners ETF	0.65%	$7.41B	2.43%
59	URA	Global X Uranium ETF	0.69%	$7.81B	3.75%

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Methodology v0.3.0. See /methodology/ for every threshold and weight used to score these funds.