SMRF vs URAN: which is really different?

SMRF and URAN hold 45% of their weight in the same names. ALPS Nautilus SMR, Nuclear & Technology ETF and Themes Uranium & Nuclear ETF.

27.8%
SMRF in the S&P 500
24.7%
URAN in the S&P 500
−11.7%
SMRF total return, since launch
−22.3%
URAN total return, 1 year
SMRF · 6 months to Sep 30, 202672% of its weight is outside the S&P 500
72% of its weight is outside the S&P 50028% of SMRF's weight is in S&P 500 companies and 72% is outside the index28%72%in the S&P 500of its weight outside the S&P 500active share 93% · top ten 40% of the fund · 72 holdings filed May 31, 2026 · Nasdaq-100: 14% in72% of its weight is outside the S&P 50028% of SMRF's weight is in S&P 500 companies and 72% is outside the index28%72%inoutside the S&P 500active share 93% · top ten 40% of the fund

28% of SMRF's weight is in S&P 500 companies and 72% is outside the index

URAN · 1 year to Sep 30, 202675% of its weight is outside the S&P 500
75% of its weight is outside the S&P 50025% of URAN's weight is in S&P 500 companies and 75% is outside the index25%75%in the S&P 500of its weight outside the S&P 500active share 100% · top ten 41% of the fund · 42 holdings filed Jun 30, 2026 · Nasdaq-100: 14% in75% of its weight is outside the S&P 50025% of URAN's weight is in S&P 500 companies and 75% is outside the index25%75%inoutside the S&P 500active share 100% · top ten 41% of the fund

25% of URAN's weight is in S&P 500 companies and 75% is outside the index

ETFIQ Off-Index Score · URAN scores higherHow much of it is not the index it is sold as an alternative to?
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, SMRF and URAN hold 45% 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 Jun 30, 2026 and May 31, 2026.

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45% in common

Positions both hold, largest shared weight first
Holding SMRF URAN
Oklo Inc 4.22% 3.45%
Nexgen Energy Ltd 4.23% 3.23%
Cameco Corp 4.30% 3.19%
Nuscale Power Corp 3.77% 3.07%
Denison Mines Corp 2.96% 3.17%
Uranium Energy Corp 4.00% 2.95%
Cgn Power Co Ltd 4.28% 2.78%
Paladin Energy Ltd 3.41% 2.65%
Energy Fuels Inc/canada 3.54% 2.40%
Centrus Energy Corp 3.17% 2.20%
Bwx Technologies Inc 4.23% 1.99%
Yellow Cake Plc 1.84% 2.88%
Only in SMRF
Ge Vernova Inc 3.82%
Astera Labs Inc 2.83%
Micron Technology Inc 2.43%
Rolls-royce Holdings Plc 2.16%
Sandisk Corp/de 2.04%
Nebius Group Nv 2.02%
Seagate Technology Holdings Plc 1.85%
Western Digital Corp 1.85%
Only in URAN
American Electric Power Co Inc 4.20%
Public Service Enterprise Grou 3.81%
CNNP 3.20%
Kyushu Electric Power Co Inc 1.07%
TXNM Energy Inc 1.03%
RFNE 0.90%
Chengdu Guoguang Electric Co L 0.84%
Atha Energy Corp 0.69%

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

45% of the two portfolios are the same securities at the same weight.

Performance, window by window

Total returnvs the S&P 500vs the Nasdaq-100
WindowSMRFURANSMRFURANSMRFURAN
3 months−11.2%−8.6%−13.7 pts−11.1 pts−13.3 pts−10.7 pts
6 months−2.9%−21.3%−19.9 pts−38.3 pts−29.8 pts−48.2 pts
1 yearnot published−22.3%not published−38.0 ptsnot published−46.0 pts
Since launch
SMRF Feb 2026 · URAN Sep 2024
−11.7%+30.1%−24.0 pts−6.4 pts−34.7 pts−23.8 pts

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

On the same fields

SMRF
ALPS Nautilus SMR, Nuclear & Technology ETF · Holds 72 stocks in nuclear and uranium, 28% of its weight in S&P 500 companies
URAN
Themes Uranium & Nuclear ETF · Holds 42 stocks in nuclear and uranium, 25% of its weight in S&P 500 companies
Issuer ALPS Themes
Theme Nuclear and uranium Nuclear and uranium
In the S&P 500 27.8% 24.7%
Active share vs the S&P 500 92.5% 99.5%
In the Nasdaq-100 14.4% 14.1%
Holdings 72 42
Top ten, share of the fund 40.2% 41.2%
Expense ratio 0.65% 0.35%
Fee for the differing part 0.70% 0.35%
Total return, 1 year −11.7% (since launch on Feb 19, 2026) −22.3%
vs the S&P 500 −24.0 pts −38.0 pts
vs the Nasdaq-100 −34.7 pts −46.0 pts
Below its high −22.1% −36.3%
Net assets $11m $25m

SMRF and URAN on the same fields, as of Sep 30, 2026. Source: ETFIQ.

SMRF in plain words

By weight, 28% of SMRF's portfolio is stocks that are also in the S&P 500; its active share against the S&P 500 is 92%. The top ten holdings are 40% of the fund across 72 positions, as filed for May 31, 2026. Since it launched on Feb 19, 2026 the fund returned −11.7% with distributions reinvested against +12.3% for the S&P 500, so a holder was behind by 24.0 pts. It sits 22.1% below its all-time high of Jun 2, 2026.

URAN in plain words

By weight, 25% of URAN'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 41% of the fund across 42 positions, as filed for Jun 30, 2026. Over the year to Sep 30, 2026 the fund returned −22.3% with distributions reinvested against +15.7% for the S&P 500, so a holder was behind by 38.0 pts. It sits 36.3% below its all-time high of Jan 28, 2026.

Questions people ask

Do SMRF and URAN hold the same stocks?
By their latest filings, 45% 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, SMRF or URAN?
SMRF has 28% of its weight in S&P 500 names and URAN has 25%, so URAN differs more from the index.
Which is cheaper, SMRF or URAN?
SMRF charges 0.65% a year and URAN charges 0.35%, so URAN is cheaper. Fees come from each fund's prospectus.
Cite this page

ETFIQ, SMRF against URAN, data as of Sep 30, 2026. https://etfiq.com/compare/themes/smrf-vs-uran

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