GDX
MaterialsVanEck Gold Miners ETF
VanEck · Tracks NYSE Arca Gold Miners Index · Inception May 16, 2006
Composite score
Based on a 0.51% expense ratio.
Based on $22.75B in net assets.
Top-10 holdings represent 60.6% of net assets.
Materials base · ETF wrapper · 0.86% TTM yield.
The composite is a weighted average of the four core sub-scores above (cost, tax efficiency, liquidity, concentration). Missing sub-scores fall back to the per-category median when the category has at least 50% data coverage, so funds without (e.g.) parsed N-PORT holdings aren't accidentally boosted by renormalization. Tracking quality is shown where computable but isn't currently part of the composite weighting. See methodology for formulas, the tracking-quality partial-coverage rationale, and the dimensions we deliberately don't score (methodology v0.5.1).
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Top holdings
| # | Holding | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd | 12.08% |
| 2 | Newmont Corp | 10.77% |
| 3 | Barrick Mining Corp | 7.63% |
| 4 | Franco-Nevada Corp | 5.16% |
| 5 | Anglogold Ashanti Plc | 5.09% |
| 6 | Wheaton Precious Metals Corp | 4.89% |
| 7 | Kinross Gold Corp | 4.68% |
| 8 | Gold Fields Ltd | 4.48% |
| 9 | Pan American Silver Corp | 3.19% |
| 10 | Northern Star Resources Ltd | 2.59% |
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- GDXJ VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF 35.6% overlap
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- FMAT Fidelity MSCI Materials Index ETF 11.0% overlap
- XME State Street SPDR S&P Metals & Mining ETF 10.3% overlap
- GUNR FlexShares Morningstar Global Upstream Natural Resources Index Fund 10.2% overlap
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