ETF comparison
URNM vs XME
Both Materials.
Sprott Uranium Miners ETF · State Street SPDR S&P Metals & Mining ETF
Holdings overlap
2 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of URNM and XME would leave roughly 4.9% 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 40 bps cheaper than URNM. On a $100,000 position that's about $400/yr more in fees for URNM.
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 URNM vs XME.
Top shared holdings
2 shared in total| # | Holding | In URNM | In XME | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Uranium Energy Corp | 4.26% | 4.76% | 4.26% |
| 2 | Ur-energy Inc | 2.88% | 0.63% | 0.63% |
Only in URNM
24 total- Cameco Corp 17.17%
- Sprott Physical Uranium Trust 13.23%
- Nexgen Energy Ltd 11.35%
- Energy Fuels Inc/canada 4.88%
- Denison Mines Corp 4.85%
- Nac Kazatomprom Jsc 4.85%
- Deep Yellow Ltd 4.38%
- Paladin Energy Ltd 4.16%
- Cgn Mining Co Ltd 4.04%
- Yellow Cake Plc 3.78%
Only in XME
37 total- Hecla Mining Co 4.62%
- Centrus Energy Corp 4.60%
- 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%
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Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
Open URNM 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.