ETF comparison
COPX vs VAW
Both Materials.
Global X Copper Miners ETF · Vanguard Materials Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
2 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of COPX and VAW would leave roughly 5.1% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
VAW is 56 bps cheaper than COPX. On a $100,000 position that's about $560/yr more in fees for COPX.
Fee figure is the annual expense charged on $100,000. To see how the gap compounds over a multi-decade holding period, open the cost calculator pre-filled with COPX vs VAW.
Top shared holdings
2 shared in total| # | Holding | In COPX | In VAW | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FREEPORT-MCMORAN INC. | 5.04% | 5.96% | 5.04% |
| 2 | Ivanhoe Electric Inc | 0.70% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
Only in COPX
37 total- Lundin Mining Corporation 6.06%
- GLENCORE PLC 5.99%
- Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd. 5.97%
- KGHM POLSKA MIEDZ SPOLKA AKCYJNA 5.81%
- Hudbay Minerals Inc. 4.94%
- BHP GROUP LIMITED 4.91%
- ANTOFAGASTA PLC 4.86%
- Teck Resources Limited 4.85%
- SOUTHERN COPPER CORPORATION 4.84%
- Boliden AB 4.33%
Only in VAW
110 total- Linde PLC 14.53%
- Newmont Corp 8.71%
- Sherwin-Williams Co/The 5.24%
- CRH PLC 4.92%
- Ecolab Inc 4.80%
- Air Products and Chemicals Inc 3.58%
- Corteva Inc 3.32%
- Vulcan Materials Co 2.50%
- Martin Marietta Materials Inc 2.49%
- Nucor Corp 2.48%
Open COPX or VAW at a brokerage
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Holdings overlap is the sum of min(weight_a, weight_b) over positions
matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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