ETF comparison
GDXJ vs XLB
Both Materials.
VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF · State Street Materials Select Sector SPDR ETF
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of GDXJ and XLB 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
XLB is 44 bps cheaper than GDXJ. On a $100,000 position that's about $440/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 XLB.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo 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 XLB
26 total- Linde PLC 14.06%
- Newmont Corp 5.84%
- Freeport-McMoRan Inc 5.30%
- Corteva Inc 4.96%
- Sherwin-Williams Co/The 4.94%
- Ecolab Inc 4.73%
- Vulcan Materials Co 4.72%
- CRH PLC 4.67%
- Air Products and Chemicals Inc 4.62%
- Martin Marietta Materials Inc 4.55%
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- XLB vs VAW · Vanguard Materials Index Fund ETF Shares 71.5%
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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