Do RCTR and URA hold the same stocks?

By their latest filings, 20% of their books are the same securities at the same weight, which is a meaningful overlap. Overlap is the sum of the smaller weight of every security they share.

Which is more different from the S&P 500, RCTR or URA?

RCTR has 28% of its weight in S&P 500 names and URA has 0%, so URA differs more from the index.

Which is cheaper, RCTR or URA?

RCTR charges 0.70% a year and URA charges 0.69%, so URA is cheaper. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.

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RCTR vs URA: which is really different?

RCTR and URA hold 20% of their weight in the same names, and RCTR returned −2.0% over the year. First Trust Bloomberg Nuclear Power ETF and Global X Uranium ETF.

27.5%

RCTR in the S&P 500

0.0%

URA in the S&P 500

−2.0%

RCTR total return, 1 year

−12.3%

URA total return, 1 year

RCTR · 1 year to Sep 30, 202673% of its weight is outside the S&P 500

28% of RCTR's weight is in S&P 500 companies and 73% is outside the index

URA · 1 year to Sep 30, 2026100% of its weight is outside the S&P 500

0% of URA's weight is in S&P 500 companies and 100% is outside the index

ETFIQ Off-Index Score · URA scores higherHow much of it is not the index it is sold as an alternative to?

RCTR 60.1

URA 92

0.1, the lowest in this set92.0, the highest

A percentile among the 375 thematic ETFs with a holdings filing. It is a position in a set, not a rating, and neither end of it is a recommendation. All thematic ETFs ranked by it → How it is computed →

What they hold in common

By the books each fund has filed, RCTR and URA hold 20% of their money in the same securities at the same weight. Above 50%, holding both is close to holding one of them twice. Holdings dated Sep 30, 2026.

50%

half

20% in common

Positions both hold, largest shared weight first

Holding RCTR URA

Cameco Corp. 4.18% 22.04%

Doosan Enerbility Co., Ltd. 5.08% 2.47%

NexGen Energy Ltd. 2.03% 5.98%

Oklo Inc. (Class A) 1.92% 5.72%

Uranium Energy Corp. 1.61% 4.67%

Paladin Energy Ltd 1.03% 3.09%

Energy Fuels Inc. 0.95% 2.89%

Centrus Energy Corp. (Class A) 0.90% 2.69%

NuScale Power Corporation (Class A) 0.88% 2.81%

Denison Mines Corp 0.83% 2.48%

Yellow Cake Plc 0.63% 1.92%

Aecon Group Inc. 0.46% 1.91%

Only in RCTR

Hitachi, Ltd. 5.75%

Constellation Energy Corporation 5.03%

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. 4.91%

BHP Group Limited 4.77%

Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc 4.57%

Vistra Corp. 4.34%

Duke Energy Corporation 4.17%

Entergy Corporation 4.08%

Only in URA

SPROTT PHYSICAL URANIUM TR 6.83%

NAC KAZATOMPROM JSC-GDR REGS 4.37%

X-ENERGY INC 2.60%

SIBANYE STILLWATER LTD 2.52%

HYUNDAI ENGINEERING & CONST 2.50%

DAEWOO ENGINEERING & CONSTR 2.47%

ITOCHU CORP 2.31%

MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES 2.08%

Weight overlap is an ETFIQ calculation: for every security both funds hold, the smaller of the two weights, summed.

20% of the two portfolios are the same securities at the same weight.

Performance, window by window

	Total return		vs the S&P 500		vs the Nasdaq-100
Window	RCTR	URA	RCTR	URA	RCTR	URA
3 months	−3.6%	−7.7%	−6.1 pts	−10.2 pts	−5.7 pts	−9.8 pts
6 months	−10.6%	−19.1%	−27.6 pts	−36.1 pts	−37.5 pts	−46.0 pts
1 year	−2.0%	−12.3%	−17.7 pts	−28.0 pts	−25.8 pts	−36.1 pts
3 years	not published	+68.7%	not published	−16.3 pts	not published	−41.3 pts
Since launch RCTR Jul 2025 · URA Nov 2010	+6.0%	−40.1%	−16.3 pts	−763.8 pts	−25.7 pts	−1521.0 pts

RCTR and URA over each window. Every figure is an ETFIQ calculation with distributions reinvested. Source: ETFIQ. Open the live comparison on ETFIQ →

On the same fields

RCTR

First Trust Bloomberg Nuclear Power ETF · Holds 50 stocks in nuclear and uranium, 28% of its weight in S&P 500 companies

URA

Global X Uranium ETF · Holds 63 stocks in nuclear and uranium, 0% of its weight in S&P 500 companies

Issuer First Trust Global X

Theme Nuclear and uranium Nuclear and uranium

In the S&P 500 27.5% 0.0%

Active share vs the S&P 500 98.9% 100.0%

In the Nasdaq-100 5.0% 0.0%

Holdings 50 63

Top ten, share of the fund 46.9% 61.1%

Expense ratio 0.70% 0.69%

Fee for the differing part 0.71% 0.69%

Total return, 1 year −2.0% −12.3%

vs the S&P 500 −17.7 pts −28.0 pts

vs the Nasdaq-100 −25.8 pts −36.1 pts

Below its high −17.8% −54.6%

Net assets $29m $5.6bn

RCTR and URA on the same fields, as of Sep 30, 2026. Source: ETFIQ.

RCTR in plain words

By weight, 28% of RCTR's portfolio is stocks that are also in the S&P 500; its active share against the S&P 500 is 99%. The top ten holdings are 47% of the fund across 50 positions, as published by its issuer for Sep 30, 2026. Over the year to Sep 30, 2026 the fund returned −2.0% with distributions reinvested against +15.7% for the S&P 500, so a holder was behind by 17.7 pts. It sits 17.8% below its all-time high of May 6, 2026.

URA in plain words

By weight, 0% of URA's portfolio is stocks that are also in the S&P 500; its active share against the S&P 500 is 100%. The top ten holdings are 61% of the fund across 63 positions, as published by its issuer for Sep 30, 2026. Over the year to Sep 30, 2026 the fund returned −12.3% with distributions reinvested against +15.7% for the S&P 500, so a holder was behind by 28.0 pts. It sits 54.6% below its all-time high of Feb 2, 2011.

Questions people ask

Do RCTR and URA hold the same stocks?: By their latest filings, 20% of their books are the same securities at the same weight, which is a meaningful overlap. Overlap is the sum of the smaller weight of every security they share.
Which is more different from the S&P 500, RCTR or URA?: RCTR has 28% of its weight in S&P 500 names and URA has 0%, so URA differs more from the index.
Which is cheaper, RCTR or URA?: RCTR charges 0.70% a year and URA charges 0.69%, so URA is cheaper. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.

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Where these figures came from

RCTR filings on SEC EDGAR ↗RCTR prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗First Trust page for RCTR ↗URA filings on SEC EDGAR ↗URA prospectus with the expense ratio (SEC) ↗Global X page for URA ↗

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ETFIQ, RCTR against URA, data as of Sep 30, 2026. https://etfiq.com/compare/themes/rctr-vs-ura

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