ETF comparison
URA vs VAW
Both Materials.
Global X Uranium ETF · Vanguard Materials Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
0 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of URA and VAW 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
VAW is 60 bps cheaper than URA. On a $100,000 position that's about $600/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 URA vs VAW.
Top shared holdings
0 shared in totalNo shared holdings between these funds.
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%
Only in VAW
110 total- Linde PLC 14.92%
- Newmont Corp 7.69%
- Freeport-McMoRan Inc 6.06%
- CRH PLC 4.68%
- Sherwin-Williams Co/The 4.59%
- Ecolab Inc 4.19%
- Air Products and Chemicals Inc 3.81%
- Nucor Corp 3.67%
- Corteva Inc 3.40%
- Vulcan Materials Co 2.40%
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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/.
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