ETF comparison
URA vs XME
Both Materials.
Global X Uranium ETF · State Street SPDR S&P Metals & Mining ETF
Holdings overlap
4 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of URA and XME would leave roughly 9.0% 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
XME is 34 bps cheaper than URA. On a $100,000 position that's about $340/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 XME.
Top shared holdings
4 shared in total| # | Holding | In URA | In XME | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | URANIUM ENERGY CORP. | 4.81% | 4.76% | 4.76% |
| 2 | CENTRUS ENERGY CORP. | 3.46% | 4.60% | 3.46% |
| 3 | Ur-Energy Inc. | 0.48% | 0.63% | 0.48% |
| 4 | Lightbridge Corp | 0.31% | 0.44% | 0.31% |
Only in URA
54 total- CAMECO CORPORATION 22.18%
- Sprott Physical Uranium Trust 6.74%
- Oklo Inc 6.09%
- NEXGEN ENERGY LTD. 6.07%
- Joint stock company National atomic company Kazatomprom 4.40%
- PALADIN ENERGY LTD 3.14%
- Nuscale Power Corp 3.04%
- X-Energy Inc 3.03%
- ENERGY FUELS INCORPORATED 3.03%
- DENISON MINES CORP. 2.73%
Only in XME
35 total- Hecla Mining Co 4.62%
- USA Rare Earth Inc 4.47%
- Coeur Mining Inc 4.46%
- 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.
Open URA 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/.
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.