{"url":"https://etfiq.com/rankings/themes-best-year-gold","section":"rankings","title":"The gold miners ETFs that returned most | ETFIQ","description":"The gold miners ETFs that returned most, ranked by total return with distributions reinvested, one year, as of Oct 9, 2026. 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Source: ETFIQ. # Ticker Fund Total return, 1Y vs the S&P 500 Weight in S&P 500 companies Fee \n 1 SGDJ Sprott Junior Gold Miners ETF +29.1% +11.8 pts 0.0% 0.50% \n 2 GBUG Sprott Active Gold & Silver Miners ETF +24.2% +6.9 pts 3.3% 0.90% \n 3 SGDM Sprott Gold Miners ETF +23.9% +6.6 pts 7.6% 0.46% \n 4 GOEX Global X Gold Explorers ETF +23.0% +5.8 pts 0.0% 0.65% \n 5 RING iShares MSCI Global Gold Miners ETF +22.8% +5.6 pts 17.0% 0.39% \n 6 GDX VanEck Gold Miners ETF +18.9% +1.7 pts 11.2% 0.51% \n 7 GDXJ VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF +17.1% \u22120.2 pts 0.0% 0.52% \n 8 AUMI Themes Gold Miners ETF +17.0% \u22120.2 pts 0.0% 0.35% \n 9 GDMN WisdomTree Efficient Gold Plus Gold Mine +8.8% \u22128.4 pts 12.4% 0.45% \n \n Method\n The 9 of 10 ETFs in the gold miners theme with a full year of trading, highest first, each over the same year to Oct 9, 2026 with distributions reinvested. Across the funds listed here the one year total return runs from 8.8% to 29.1%. A year is a year. It says what happened and nothing about what happens next. The ranking is the published field sorted, nothing else: no scoring, no weighting and no view on any fund. Every fund ETFIQ covers in this category is eligible, including funds that have closed, because leaving them out would flatter the category.\n Where to next\n Every gold miners ETF and what it holds The largest gold miners ETFs Where these figures came from\n Fund holdings from SEC Form N-PORT and from the issuers own daily files SEC EDGAR, full-text search of fund filings SEC Form N-PORT, what a fund filed it holds Rule 19a-1, what a distribution notice must say ETFIQ links to the documents behind every figure; a link is not an endorsement.\n A ranking is not a recommendation and no order on this site is an opinion. ETFIQ is an independent publisher, not an adviser. Standards and sources \n Cite this page. 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