{"url":"https://etfiq.com/themes/copper","section":"themes","title":"Copper ETFs: 6 funds, largest first | ETFIQ","description":"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 Oct 8, 2026.","as_of":"Oct 9, 2026","structured_data":[{"@type":"FAQPage","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"How many copper ETFs are there?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"ETFIQ covers 6 US listed copper ETFs as of Oct 9, 2026. 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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.\n 6 US listed copper ETFs \n $7.1bn The largest, COPX \n 0.35% The cheapest, COPA \n +43.2% Best one year, ICOP \n\n The short answers\n Least like the S&P 500 COPJ , Sprott Junior Copper Miners ETF, 0.0% of its weight in S&P 500 companies. Closest pair COPA and COPX , 50% of their weight in the same companies. What these funds actually own\n 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.\n Copper ETFs, the companies their ten largest holdings name. Source: each fund's latest SEC filing or its issuer\u2019s own daily holdings file, read by ETFIQ. Company Among the ten largest of Average weight where it is Largest, and in which fund \n FREEPORT-MCMORAN INC FCX 5 of 6 11.1% 24.7% in COPP \n SOUTHERN COPPER CORP SCCO 4 of 6 5.0% 5.4% in COPX \n ANTOFAGASTA PLC ANTO 3 of 6 5.2% 8.1% in COPP \n LUNDIN MINING LUN 3 of 6 4.1% 4.6% in COPP \n FIRST QUANTUM MINERALS FM 3 of 6 3.9% 4.2% in COPP \n Teck Resources Ltd. TECK 2 of 6 8.6% 10.4% in COPP \n BHP GROUP LTD BHP 2 of 6 6.0% 8.0% in ICOP \n ANGLO AMERICAN PLC AAL 2 of 6 6.0% 8.4% in ICOP \n Hudbay Minerals Inc. HBM 2 of 6 4.7% 5.1% in COPP \n Anglo American Plc 1 of 6 8.6% 8.6% in EMET \n GRUPO MEXICO B 1 of 6 8.4% 8.4% in ICOP \n Grupo Mexico Sab De Cv 1 of 6 7.6% 7.6% in EMET \n TECK RESOURCES SUBORDINATE VOTING TECK.B 1 of 6 5.8% 5.8% in ICOP \n HUDBAY MINERALS INC 1 of 6 5.6% 5.6% in COPX \n TECK RESOURCES LTD-CLS B 1 of 6 5.5% 5.5% in COPX \n \n 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.\n The 6 largest copper ETFs\n 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 Oct 8, 2026 .\n COPX Global X Copper Miners ETF $7.1bn 0.65% \n ICOP iShares Copper and Metals Mining ETF $464m 0.47% \n COPP Sprott Copper Miners ETF $275m 0.66% \n COPJ Sprott Junior Copper Miners ETF $157m 0.75% \n EMET VanEck Copper and Electrification Metals ETF $34m 0.62% \n COPA Themes Copper Miners ETF $13m 0.35% \n \n Copper ETFs: what each one holds, as of Oct 9, 2026. Source: ETFIQ. Ticker Fund Issuer Net assets In the S&P 500 Active share Total return 1Y vs S&P 500 Fee \n COPX Global X Copper Miners ETF Global X $7.1bn 5.2% 99.9% +37.6% +20.3 pts 0.65% \n ICOP iShares Copper and Metals Mining ETF iShares $464m 13.4% 99.7% +43.2% +25.9 pts 0.47% \n COPP Sprott Copper Miners ETF Sprott $275m 24.7% 99.9% +43.0% +25.8 pts 0.66% \n COPJ Sprott Junior Copper Miners ETF Sprott $157m 0.0% 100.0% +35.9% +18.7 pts 0.75% \n EMET VanEck Copper and Electrification Metals ETF VanEck $34m 10.8% 99.8% +27.4% +10.1 pts 0.62% \n COPA Themes Copper Miners ETF Themes $13m 8.5% 99.9% +41.2% +23.9 pts 0.35% \n \n How much of each pair is the same fund\n 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%.\n Copper ETFs, the share of each pair\u2019s 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\u2019s own filed or daily holdings, read by ETFIQ. COPX ICOP COPP COPJ EMET COPA \n COPX \u00b7 31% 48% 7% 40% 50% \n ICOP 31% \u00b7 44% 4% 35% 46% \n COPP 48% 44% \u00b7 13% 44% 45% \n COPJ 7% 4% 13% \u00b7 1% 17% \n EMET 40% 35% 44% 1% \u00b7 42% \n COPA 50% 46% 45% 17% 42% \u00b7 \n \n 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.\n What each fund holds alone\n Copper ETFs, the largest holding no other fund in the grid holds. Source: ETFIQ. Fund Largest holding it alone has Weight All of its own names \n COPX TECK RESOURCES LTD-CLS B 5.5% 23.3% \n ICOP GRUPO MEXICO B 8.4% 34.6% \n COPP Sprott Physical Copper Trust 5.2% 6.7% \n COPJ Cascadia Minerals Ltd. CAM 0.4% 1.9% \n EMET Grupo Mexico Sab De Cv 7.6% 37.5% \n COPA Jiujiang Defu Technology Co Lt 301511 3.8% 17.9% \n \n Questions people ask\n 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\u2019s 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. Do copper ETFs hold the same companies? It depends which two. Across the 15 pairs of the 6 copper ETFs with a full published book, COPA and COPX hold 50% of their weight in the same companies, COPJ and EMET hold 1%, and the middle pair holds 40%. Two funds sold on one theme are not the same fund. What the issuers say about this theme\n The houses behind these copper funds publish their own work on the subject. These are their pages and their words, not ETFIQ\u2019s, and a fund company writing about a theme it sells a fund on is making a case. Read them that way.\n Issuer material on this theme. Links leave ETFIQ. Source: each issuer\u2019s own site. Issuer What they publish Kind \n Global X Global X Insights, including The Next Big Theme Their research index \n iShares iShares Portfolio Insights Their research index \n Sprott Sprott Insights on metals and mining Their research index \n VanEck VanEck Insights Their research index \n Themes Themes ETFs research insights Their research index \n \n Where to next\n The largest copper ETFs The cheapest copper ETFs The copper ETFs least like the S&P 500 The copper ETFs that returned most The most concentrated copper ETFs Every thematic ETF Compare two funds The vocabulary 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 ETFIQ is an independent publisher and makes no recommendations; every figure is calculated from published data. 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