ETF comparison
GDX vs XLK
Materials vs Technology.
VanEck Gold Miners ETF · State Street Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of GDX and XLK 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
Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.
Cost difference
XLK is 43 bps cheaper than GDX. On a $100,000 position that's about $430/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 XLK.
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 XLK
74 total- NVIDIA Corp 14.65%
- Apple Inc 12.85%
- Microsoft Corp 8.38%
- Micron Technology Inc 5.42%
- Broadcom Inc 5.41%
- Advanced Micro Devices Inc 5.28%
- Intel Corp 3.68%
- Applied Materials Inc 3.20%
- Lam Research Corp 3.02%
- Cisco Systems Inc 2.58%
Related comparisons
More comparisons with GDX
- GDX vs GDXJ · VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF 36.8%
- GDX vs VAW · Vanguard Materials Index Fund ETF Shares 11.0%
- GDX vs XME · State Street SPDR S&P Metals & Mining ETF 9.9%
- 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%
More comparisons with XLK
- XLK vs GDXJ · VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF 0.0%
- XLK vs GUNR · Northern Trust Morningstar Global Upstream Natural Resources ETF 0.0%
- XLK vs IAT · iShares U.S. Regional Banks ETF 0.0%
- XLK vs IBB · iShares Biotechnology ETF 0.0%
- XLK vs IDU · iShares U.S. Utilities ETF 0.0%
- XLK vs IFRA · iShares U.S. Infrastructure ETF 0.0%
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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