ETF comparison
GDX vs PICK
Both Materials.
VanEck Gold Miners ETF · iShares MSCI Global Metals & Mining Producers ETF
Holdings overlap
3 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of GDX and PICK would leave roughly 0.5% 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.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
PICK is 12 bps cheaper than GDX. On a $100,000 position that's about $120/yr more in fees for GDX.
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 PICK.
Top shared holdings
3 shared in total| # | Holding | In GDX | In PICK | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cia de Minas Buenaventura SAA | 0.79% | 0.35% | 0.35% |
| 2 | Bumi Resources Minerals Tbk PT | 0.36% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
| 3 | Amman Mineral Internasional PT | 0.50% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
Only in GDX
58 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 PICK
246 total- BHP GROUP LIMITED 13.03%
- RIO TINTO PLC 6.91%
- FREEPORT-MCMORAN INC. 5.44%
- GLENCORE PLC 4.37%
- ANGLO AMERICAN PLC 3.45%
- VALE S.A. 3.43%
- NUCOR CORPORATION 3.30%
- RIO TINTO LIMITED 2.86%
- Grupo Mexico, S.A.B. de C.V. 2.23%
- STEEL DYNAMICS, INC. 2.08%
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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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