ETF comparison
GDXJ vs PICK
Both Materials.
VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF · iShares MSCI Global Metals & Mining Producers ETF
Holdings overlap
7 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of GDXJ and PICK would leave roughly 0.8% 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.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
PICK is 13 bps cheaper than GDXJ. On a $100,000 position that's about $130/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 GDXJ vs PICK.
Top shared holdings
7 shared in total| # | Holding | In GDXJ | In PICK | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cia de Minas Buenaventura SAA | 1.50% | 0.35% | 0.35% |
| 2 | Bumi Resources Minerals Tbk PT | 0.68% | 0.11% | 0.11% |
| 3 | AbraSilver Resource Corp | 0.47% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 4 | Americas Gold & Silver Corp | 0.43% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 5 | Vizsla Silver Corp | 0.38% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 6 | Collective Mining Ltd | 0.18% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 7 | TR Anadolu Metal Madencilik Isletmeleri AS | 0.16% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
Only in GDXJ
108 total- Evolution Mining Ltd 6.37%
- Equinox Gold Corp 6.28%
- Alamos Gold Inc 6.23%
- Endeavour Mining PLC 5.33%
- Coeur Mining Inc 5.14%
- Industrias Penoles SAB de CV 2.88%
- First Majestic Silver Corp 2.72%
- Hecla Mining Co 2.63%
- IAMGOLD Corp 2.62%
- Eldorado Gold Corp 2.49%
Only in PICK
242 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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