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COPX vs VAW

Both Materials.

Global X Copper Miners ETF · Vanguard Materials Index Fund ETF Shares

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
4.8 %

2 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of COPX and VAW would leave roughly 4.8% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

COPX unmatched 95.0% Shared 4.8% VAW unmatched 95.0%

Unmatched is the part of a fund's weight the other fund doesn't match: names only it holds, plus any extra weight it puts in names both funds hold.

In COPX only
38 positions
Shared
2 positions
In VAW only
108 positions

Side by side

COPX

Global X Copper Miners ETF

Global X · Materials

60 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.65%
Net assets
$7.25B
TTM yield
2.64%
Top-10 conc.
50.3%
VAW

Vanguard Materials Index Fund ETF Shares

Vanguard · Materials

79 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.090%
Net assets
$4.49B
whole fund, 2 share classes
TTM yield
1.42%
Top-10 conc.
55.4%

Sub-score comparison

35
Cost
91
80
Tax efficiency
83
94
Liquidity
85
42
Concentration
35
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Tracking quality
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COPX sub-score VAW

Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.

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. 4.76% 6.06% 4.76%
2 Ivanhoe Electric Inc 0.64% 0.08% 0.08%

Only in COPX

38 total
  • BHP GROUP LIMITED 5.48%
  • Teck Resources Limited 5.39%
  • Hudbay Minerals Inc. 5.26%
  • SOUTHERN COPPER CORPORATION 5.08%
  • FIRST QUANTUM MINERALS LTD. 5.05%
  • GLENCORE PLC 5.02%
  • ANTOFAGASTA PLC 5.00%
  • KGHM POLSKA MIEDZ SPOLKA AKCYJNA 4.76%
  • Zijin Mining Group Company Limited 4.54%
  • Boliden AB 4.35%

Only in VAW

108 total
  • Linde PLC 14.92%
  • Newmont Corp 7.69%
  • CRH PLC 4.68%
  • Sherwin-Williams Co/The 4.59%
  • Ecolab Inc 4.19%
  • Air Products and Chemicals Inc 3.81%
  • Nucor Corp 3.67%
  • Corteva Inc 3.40%
  • Vulcan Materials Co 2.40%
  • Steel Dynamics Inc 2.32%

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Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.

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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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