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ETF comparison

GDXJ vs URNM

Both Materials.

VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF · Sprott Uranium Miners ETF

Holdings overlap

Weighted by ISIN/CUSIP
0.0 %

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

GDXJ unmatched 99.9% Shared 0.0% URNM unmatched 94.6%

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 URNM only
26 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%
URNM

Sprott Uranium Miners ETF

Sprott · Materials

44 composite / 100
Expense ratio
0.75%
Net assets
$1.84B
TTM yield
4.17%
Top-10 conc.
73.2%

Sub-score comparison

48
Cost
25
80
Tax efficiency
77
97
Liquidity
68
53
Concentration
10
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Tracking quality
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GDXJ sub-score URNM

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

Cost difference

GDXJ is 23 bps cheaper than URNM. On a $100,000 position that's about $230/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 GDXJ vs URNM.

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 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%

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.