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The miners and metals ETFs least like the S&P 500

See 6 funds ranked by the share of the fund by weight that is held in S&P 500 companies. Updated Oct 20, 2026. Every fund here is sold on miners and metals, and they differ in how much of the index they hand you back. The one at the top is the one adding the most that is new.

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The miners and metals ETFs least like the S&P 500
#	Ticker	Fund	Weight in S&P 500 companies ↑	Active share	Net assets	Fee
1	NIKL	Sprott Nickel Miners ETF	0.0%	100.0%	$42m	0.75%
2	GOAU	US Global GO Gold and Precious Metal Min	2.8%	99.8%	$165m	0.60%
3	PICK	iShares MSCI Global Metals & Mining Prod	12.4%	99.7%	$2.4bn	0.39%
4	SLX	VanEck Steel ETF	12.6%	99.9%	$156m	0.55%
5	METL	Sprott Active Metals & Miners ETF	14.2%	99.7%	$73m	0.99%
6	XME	State Street SPDR S&P Metals & Mining ET	21.5%	99.6%	$3.8bn	0.35%

As of Oct 20, 2026. Source: ETFIQ.

Method

The 6 of 6 ETFs in the miners and metals theme with a filed book, least overlap first, each measured against the S&P 500 holdings ETFIQ reads for the same date.

The rest of the method

Across the funds listed here the weight held in S&P 500 companies runs from 0.0% to 21.5%. A thematic fund is worth its fee only for the part of it you do not already own. The list sorts one published figure, 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 largest miners and metals ETFs6 →

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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 ↗

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