GDX
MaterialsVanEck Gold Miners ETF
VanEck · Tracks NYSE Arca Gold Miners Index · Inception May 16, 2006
Trailing returns
through Oct 23, 2026- 1 year
- +14.2%
- 3 year
- +44.6%
- annualized
- 5 year
- +22.5%
- annualized
Price return from month-end closes, distributions reinvested at month end. Excludes trading costs, bid-ask spreads and taxes. Past performance says nothing about future returns and is not part of the composite score — see the methodology for what the score does measure.
Composite score
Based on a 0.51% expense ratio.
Based on $26.25B in net assets.
Top-10 holdings represent 58.6% of net assets.
Materials base · ETF wrapper · 0.79% 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 v0.5.2).
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Top holdings
| # | Holding | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd | 10.67% |
| 2 | Newmont Corp | 10.41% |
| 3 | Barrick Mining Corp | 7.95% |
| 4 | Wheaton Precious Metals Corp | 5.60% |
| 5 | Anglogold Ashanti Plc | 5.04% |
| 6 | Franco-Nevada Corp | 4.89% |
| 7 | Kinross Gold Corp | 4.39% |
| 8 | Gold Fields Ltd | 4.07% |
| 9 | Pan American Silver Corp | 2.97% |
| 10 | Northern Star Resources Ltd | 2.63% |
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Similar ETFs by holdings overlap
- GDXJ VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF 36.8% overlap
- VAW Vanguard Materials Index Fund ETF Shares 11.0% overlap
- XME State Street SPDR S&P Metals & Mining ETF 9.9% overlap
- FMAT Fidelity MSCI Materials Index ETF 9.6% overlap
- GUNR Northern Trust Morningstar Global Upstream Natural Resources ETF 9.5% overlap
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