ETF comparison
GDX vs GDXJ
Both Materials.
Holdings overlap
47 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of GDX and GDXJ would leave roughly 36.8% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
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.
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Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
GDX is 1 bps cheaper than GDXJ. On a $100,000 position that's about $10/yr more in fees for GDXJ.
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 GDX vs GDXJ.
Top shared holdings
47 shared in total| # | Holding | In GDX | In GDXJ | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Coeur Mining Inc | 2.38% | 5.14% | 2.38% |
| 2 | Alamos Gold Inc | 1.89% | 6.23% | 1.89% |
| 3 | Evolution Mining Ltd | 1.65% | 6.37% | 1.65% |
| 4 | Industrias Penoles SAB de CV | 1.52% | 2.88% | 1.52% |
| 5 | First Majestic Silver Corp | 1.43% | 2.72% | 1.43% |
| 6 | Endeavour Mining PLC | 1.39% | 5.33% | 1.39% |
| 7 | Hecla Mining Co | 1.38% | 2.63% | 1.38% |
| 8 | IAMGOLD Corp | 1.37% | 2.62% | 1.37% |
| 9 | Eldorado Gold Corp | 1.31% | 2.49% | 1.31% |
| 10 | Equinox Gold Corp | 1.27% | 6.28% | 1.27% |
| 11 | Harmony Gold Mining Co Ltd | 1.08% | 2.05% | 1.08% |
| 12 | Lundin Gold Inc | 1.02% | 1.93% | 1.02% |
Only in GDX
14 total- Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd 10.67%
- Newmont Corp 10.41%
- Barrick Mining Corp 7.95%
- Wheaton Precious Metals Corp 5.60%
- Anglogold Ashanti Plc 5.04%
- Franco-Nevada Corp 4.89%
- Kinross Gold Corp 4.39%
- Gold Fields Ltd 4.07%
- Pan American Silver Corp 2.97%
- Northern Star Resources Ltd 2.63%
Only in GDXJ
68 total- Triple Flag Precious Metals Corp 0.77%
- Allied Gold Corp 0.62%
- Perpetua Resources Corp 0.62%
- Emerald Resources NL 0.62%
- Merdeka Gold Resources Tbk PT 0.61%
- Novagold Resources Inc 0.55%
- Southern Cross Gold Consolidated Ltd 0.52%
- Pan African Resources PLC 0.51%
- Wanguo Gold Group Ltd 0.50%
- Predictive Discovery Ltd 0.48%
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- GDX vs FMAT · Fidelity MSCI Materials Index ETF 9.6%
- GDX vs GUNR · Northern Trust Morningstar Global Upstream Natural Resources ETF 9.5%
- GDX vs XLB · State Street Materials Select Sector SPDR ETF 5.8%
- GDX vs PICK · iShares MSCI Global Metals & Mining Producers ETF 0.5%
More comparisons with GDXJ
- GDXJ vs XME · State Street SPDR S&P Metals & Mining ETF 8.4%
- GDXJ vs VAW · Vanguard Materials Index Fund ETF Shares 2.3%
- GDXJ vs FMAT · Fidelity MSCI Materials Index ETF 1.9%
- GDXJ vs PICK · iShares MSCI Global Metals & Mining Producers ETF 0.8%
- GDXJ vs COPX · Global X Copper Miners ETF 0.7%
- GDXJ vs GUNR · Northern Trust Morningstar Global Upstream Natural Resources ETF 0.6%
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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