Copper ETFs: what each one holds
Funds that hold copper miners, the metal every wire, motor and data centre needs. 6 funds, largest first, measured by holdings rather than by name. The typical fund carries 10% of its weight in S&P 500 names, which is the 46th most of the 53 themes here with filed books.
The short answers
What these funds actually own
Between them the 6 funds' ten largest holdings name 43 companies, of which 9 appear in more than one. FREEPORT-MCMORAN INC is among the ten largest of 5 of them, at an average of 11.1% of the fund.
Copper ETFs, the companies their ten largest holdings name. Source: each fund's latest SEC filing or its issuer’s own daily holdings file, read by ETFIQ.
How this is counted
The 15 most widely held of 43. Each fund files its whole book and this counts the ten largest out of it, so a fund missing from a row may still hold that company below its own tenth position. Weights are of the funds that name it, never of the theme.
Share of each fund's weight in companies that are also in the S&P 500. Above half, a theme fund is mostly the S&P 500 under a different name.
The 6 largest copper ETFs
ETFIQ covers 6 copper ETFs. The largest are COPX ($7.1bn), ICOP ($464m) and COPP ($275m); fees run 0.35% to 0.75%, as of .
Every copper ETF, largest first
Click a column to sort| Ticker | Fund | Issuer | Net assets ↓ | In the S&P 500 | Active share | Total return 1Y | vs S&P 500 | Fee |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| COPX | Global X Copper Miners ETF → | Global X | $7.1bn | 5.2% | 99.9% | +37.6% | +20.3 pts | 0.65% |
| ICOP | iShares Copper and Metals Mining ETF → | iShares | $464m | 13.4% | 99.7% | +43.2% | +25.9 pts | 0.47% |
| COPP | Sprott Copper Miners ETF → | Sprott | $275m | 24.7% | 99.9% | +43.0% | +25.8 pts | 0.66% |
| COPJ | Sprott Junior Copper Miners ETF → | Sprott | $157m | 0.0% | 100.0% | +35.9% | +18.7 pts | 0.75% |
| EMET | VanEck Copper and Electrification Metals ETF → | VanEck | $34m | 10.8% | 99.8% | +27.4% | +10.1 pts | 0.62% |
| COPA | Themes Copper Miners ETF → | Themes | $13m | 8.5% | 99.9% | +41.2% | +23.9 pts | 0.35% |
How much of each pair is the same fund
The closest pair is COPA and COPX, which hold 50% of their weight in the same companies. The furthest apart is COPJ and EMET at 1%. The middle pair of the 15 is 40%.
Copper ETFs, the share of each pair’s weight held in the same companies. Read across or down; the figure is the same either way. Cells are shaded against the closest pair here, 50%. Source: each fund’s own filed or daily holdings, read by ETFIQ.
How to read the grid
Weight overlap is the sum, over every company both funds hold, of the smaller of the two weights. Funds whose published book is cut short are left out rather than compared short, which would read as two funds being more different than they are.
What each fund holds alone
The largest holding no other fund in the grid holds, and how much of the fund is in names none of the others own.
Copper ETFs, the largest holding no other fund in the grid holds. Source: ETFIQ.
Questions people ask
- How many copper ETFs are there?
- ETFIQ covers 6 US listed copper ETFs as of Oct 9, 2026. That is every one it can measure from the fund’s own published holdings.
- What is the largest copper ETF?
- COPX, Global X Copper Miners ETF, at $7.1bn in net assets, the largest of the 6 copper ETFs with a published size as of Oct 9, 2026.
- What is the cheapest copper ETF?
- COPA, Themes Copper Miners ETF, at 0.35% a year, the lowest fee of the 6 copper ETFs that publish one.
- Which copper ETF has performed best over the past year?
- ICOP, iShares Copper and Metals Mining ETF, at +43.2% total return over the year to Oct 9, 2026, the highest of the 6 copper ETFs with a full year of trading behind them. Past returns do not predict future ones.
- What do copper ETFs hold?
- Funds that hold copper miners, the metal every wire, motor and data centre needs. Between them the 6 copper ETFs ETFIQ can read name 43 companies in their ten largest holdings, most widely FREEPORT-MCMORAN INC, which is among the ten largest of 5 of them.
What the issuers say about this theme
About these links
The houses behind these copper funds publish their own work on the subject. These are their pages and their words, not ETFIQ’s, and a fund company writing about a theme it sells a fund on is making a case. Read them that way.
Issuer material on this theme. Links leave ETFIQ. Source: each issuer’s own site.
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ETFIQ, Copper ETFs: what each one holds, data as of Oct 9, 2026. https://etfiq.com/themes/copper
ETFIQ. (Oct 9, 2026). Copper ETFs: what each one holds. Retrieved from https://etfiq.com/themes/copper
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