ETF comparison
GDXJ vs XME
Both Materials.
VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF · State Street SPDR S&P Metals & Mining ETF
Holdings overlap
7 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of GDXJ and XME would leave roughly 8.4% 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
XME is 17 bps cheaper than GDXJ. On a $100,000 position that's about $170/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 XME.
Top shared holdings
7 shared in total| # | Holding | In GDXJ | In XME | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Coeur Mining Inc | 5.14% | 4.46% | 4.46% |
| 2 | Hecla Mining Co | 2.63% | 4.62% | 2.63% |
| 3 | Hycroft Mining Holding Corp | 0.45% | 2.68% | 0.45% |
| 4 | McEwen Inc | 0.33% | 1.34% | 0.33% |
| 5 | Dakota Gold Corp | 0.19% | 0.51% | 0.19% |
| 6 | Contango Silver & Gold Inc | 0.16% | 0.65% | 0.16% |
| 7 | Idaho Strategic Resources Inc | 0.15% | 0.68% | 0.15% |
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%
- Industrias Penoles SAB de CV 2.88%
- First Majestic Silver Corp 2.72%
- IAMGOLD Corp 2.62%
- Eldorado Gold Corp 2.49%
- Harmony Gold Mining Co Ltd 2.05%
- Lundin Gold Inc 1.93%
Only in XME
32 total- Uranium Energy Corp 4.76%
- Centrus Energy Corp 4.60%
- USA Rare Earth Inc 4.47%
- MP Materials Corp 4.41%
- Freeport-McMoRan Inc 4.26%
- Royal Gold Inc 4.26%
- Newmont Corp 4.24%
- Materion Corp 4.22%
- Reliance Inc 3.99%
- Nucor Corp 3.74%
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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/.
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.