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ETF comparison

GDXJ vs URA

Both Materials.

VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF · Global X Uranium ETF

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.0 %

0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of GDXJ and URA would leave roughly 0.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.

GDXJ unmatched 99.9% Shared 0.0% URA unmatched 99.4%

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.

In GDXJ only
115 positions
Shared
0 positions
In URA only
58 positions

Side by side

GDXJ

VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF

VanEck · Materials

67 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.52%
Net assets
$8.37B
TTM yield
2.67%
Top-10 conc.
42.7%
URA

Global X Uranium ETF

Global X · Materials

53 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.69%
Net assets
$5.59B
TTM yield
6.11%
Top-10 conc.
63.0%

Sub-score comparison

48
Cost
31
80
Tax efficiency
73
97
Liquidity
89
53
Concentration
24
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Tracking quality
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GDXJ sub-score URA

Tracking quality isn't part of the composite — see what we don't score for why.

Cost difference

GDXJ is 17 bps cheaper than URA. On a $100,000 position that's about $170/yr more in fees for URA.

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 URA.

Top shared holdings

0 shared in total

No shared holdings between these funds.

Only in GDXJ

115 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 URA

58 total
  • CAMECO CORPORATION 22.18%
  • Sprott Physical Uranium Trust 6.74%
  • Oklo Inc 6.09%
  • NEXGEN ENERGY LTD. 6.07%
  • URANIUM ENERGY CORP. 4.81%
  • Joint stock company National atomic company Kazatomprom 4.40%
  • CENTRUS ENERGY CORP. 3.46%
  • PALADIN ENERGY LTD 3.14%
  • Nuscale Power Corp 3.04%
  • X-Energy Inc 3.03%

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/.

Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.