ETF comparison
GDX vs URNM
Both Materials.
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of GDX and URNM would leave roughly 0.0% 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
GDX is 24 bps cheaper than URNM. On a $100,000 position that's about $240/yr more in fees for URNM.
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 URNM.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
Only in GDX
61 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 URNM
26 total- Cameco Corp 17.17%
- Sprott Physical Uranium Trust 13.23%
- Nexgen Energy Ltd 11.35%
- Energy Fuels Inc/canada 4.88%
- Denison Mines Corp 4.85%
- Nac Kazatomprom Jsc 4.85%
- Deep Yellow Ltd 4.38%
- Uranium Energy Corp 4.26%
- Paladin Energy Ltd 4.16%
- Cgn Mining Co Ltd 4.04%
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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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