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 7.3% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
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 | 6.68% | 3.83% | 3.83% |
| 2 | Hecla Mining Co | 2.27% | 4.02% | 2.27% |
| 3 | Hycroft Mining Holding Corp | 0.55% | 3.42% | 0.55% |
| 4 | McEwen Inc | 0.30% | 1.40% | 0.30% |
| 5 | Dakota Gold Corp | 0.18% | 0.52% | 0.18% |
| 6 | Idaho Strategic Resources Inc | 0.12% | 0.62% | 0.12% |
| 7 | State Street Global Advisors | 1.40% | 0.09% | 0.09% |
Only in GDXJ
107 total- Alamos Gold Inc 7.13%
- Equinox Gold Corp 6.64%
- Endeavour Mining PLC 6.05%
- Evolution Mining Ltd 6.01%
- First Majestic Silver Corp 2.82%
- Industrias Penoles SAB de CV 2.41%
- IAMGOLD Corp 2.37%
- Lundin Gold Inc 2.26%
- Zhaojin Mining Industry Co Ltd 2.00%
- OceanaGold Corp 1.90%
Only in XME
31 total- Warrior Met Coal Inc 5.02%
- Core Natural Resources Inc 4.99%
- Alcoa Corp 4.57%
- Reliance Inc 4.51%
- Nucor Corp 4.50%
- Steel Dynamics Inc 4.46%
- Freeport-McMoRan Inc 4.36%
- Peabody Energy Corp 4.36%
- Uranium Energy Corp 4.36%
- Newmont Corp 4.26%
Open GDXJ or XME at a brokerage
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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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