The largest miners and metals ETFs

See 6 funds ranked by net assets. Updated Oct 27, 2026. Every fund here is sold on miners and metals. The column beside the size shows how much of each the S&P 500 already holds.

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$3.6bn

first, XME

$41m

last, NIKL

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The largest miners and metals ETFs
#	Ticker	Fund	Net assets ↓	Weight in S&P 500 companies	Total return, 1Y	Fee	Source
1	XME	State Street SPDR S&P Metals & Mining ET	$3.6bn	21.7%	+3.1%	0.35%	Issuer daily, Oct 26, 2026
2	PICK	iShares MSCI Global Metals & Mining Prod	$2.3bn	12.6%	+26.0%	0.39%	Issuer daily, Oct 27, 2026
3	GOAU	US Global GO Gold and Precious Metal Min	$165m	2.8%	+13.3%	0.60%	SEC filing, Jun 30, 2026
4	SLX	VanEck Steel ETF	$151m	12.8%	+30.7%	0.55%	ETFIQ, shares × NAV, Oct 23, 2026
5	METL	Sprott Active Metals & Miners ETF	$70m	14.2%	+8.3%	0.99%	Issuer page, Oct 27, 2026
6	NIKL	Sprott Nickel Miners ETF	$41m	0.0%	−22.8%	0.75%	Issuer page, Oct 27, 2026

As of Oct 27, 2026. Source: ETFIQ.CSV Method

Method

The 6 ETFs in the miners and metals theme, of which 6 publish net assets, ranked on the most recent number for each.

The rest of the method

Across the funds listed here the weight held in S&P 500 companies runs from 0.0% to 21.7%. Size shows where the money is, not what a fund did. The list sorts one published number, with no scoring or weighting. Every fund ETFIQ covers in this category is eligible, closed funds included.

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Every miners and metals ETF and what it holds→The thematic ETFs least like the S&P 50015 →

Sources and dates

Fund holdings from SEC Form N-PORT and from the issuers’ own daily filessec.gov ↗

SEC EDGAR, full-text search of fund filingsefts.sec.gov ↗

SEC Form N-PORT, what a fund filed it holdssec.gov ↗

Rule 19a-1, what a distribution notice must sayecfr.gov ↗

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