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The typical fund carries 5% of its weight in S&P 500 names, which is the 50th most of the 53 themes here with filed books.\n 10 US listed gold miners ETFs \n $26.1bn The largest, GDX \n 0.35% The cheapest, AUMI \n +29.1% Best one year, SGDJ \n\n The short answers\n Least like the S&P 500 GDXJ , VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF, 0.0% of its weight in S&P 500 companies. Closest pair AUAU and GDX , 82% of their weight in the same companies. What these funds actually own\n Between them the 10 funds' ten largest holdings name 54 companies, of which 19 appear in more than one. Newmont Corp is among the ten largest of 6 of them, at an average of 10.8% of the fund.\n Gold miners 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 Newmont Corp NEM 6 of 10 10.8% 17.0% in RING \n Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd AEM 6 of 10 9.4% 12.6% in RING \n Wheaton Precious Metals Corp WPM 5 of 10 6.2% 7.5% in RING \n Coeur Mining Inc CDE 5 of 10 4.1% 6.5% in GDXJ \n Gold Fields Ltd GFI 5 of 10 4.0% 4.8% in GDMN \n Anglogold Ashanti Plc AU 4 of 10 5.2% 6.2% in GDMN \n Franco-Nevada Corp FNV 4 of 10 5.0% 6.0% in SGDM \n Pan American Silver Corp PAAS 4 of 10 3.4% 3.9% in GDMN \n Barrick Mining Corp B 3 of 10 7.7% 8.2% in GDMN \n Alamos Gold Inc AGI 3 of 10 4.5% 6.6% in GDXJ \n KINROSS GOLD K 3 of 10 4.2% 4.6% in AUMI \n Kinross Gold Corp KGC 3 of 10 4.2% 5.8% in GDMN \n BARRICK MINING ABX 2 of 10 8.0% 8.4% in RING \n DPM Metals Inc. DPM 2 of 10 5.1% 5.2% in AUMI \n Wesdome Gold Mines Ltd. WDO 2 of 10 4.7% 5.6% in SGDJ \n \n The 15 most widely held of 54. 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 10 largest gold miners ETFs\n ETFIQ covers 10 gold miners ETFs. The largest are GDX ( $26.1bn ), GDXJ ( $8.2bn ) and RING ( $2.3bn ); fees run 0.35% to 0.90% , as of Oct 8, 2026 .\n GDX VanEck Gold Miners ETF $26.1bn 0.51% \n GDXJ VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF $8.2bn 0.52% \n RING iShares MSCI Global Gold Miners ETF $2.3bn 0.39% \n SGDM Sprott Gold Miners ETF $638m 0.46% \n SGDJ Sprott Junior Gold Miners ETF $323m 0.50% \n GDMN WisdomTree Efficient Gold Plus Gold Miners Strategy Fund $210m 0.45% \n GBUG Sprott Active Gold & Silver Miners ETF $170m 0.90% \n GOEX Global X Gold Explorers ETF $118m 0.65% \n AUMI Themes Gold Miners ETF $25m 0.35% \n AUAU Global X Gold Miners ETF $6m 0.35% \n \n Gold miners 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 GDX VanEck Gold Miners ETF VanEck $26.1bn 11.2% 99.8% +18.9% +1.7 pts 0.51% \n GDXJ VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF VanEck $8.2bn 0.0% 100.0% +17.1% \u22120.2 pts 0.52% \n RING iShares MSCI Global Gold Miners ETF iShares $2.3bn 17.0% 99.8% +22.8% +5.6 pts 0.39% \n SGDM Sprott Gold Miners ETF Sprott $638m 7.6% 99.8% +23.9% +6.6 pts 0.46% \n SGDJ Sprott Junior Gold Miners ETF Sprott $323m 0.0% 100.0% +29.1% +11.8 pts 0.50% \n GDMN WisdomTree Efficient Gold Plus Gold Miners Strategy Fund WisdomTree $210m 12.4% 99.8% +8.8% \u22128.4 pts 0.45% \n GBUG Sprott Active Gold & Silver Miners ETF Sprott $170m 3.3% 99.8% +24.2% +6.9 pts 0.90% \n GOEX Global X Gold Explorers ETF Global X $118m 0.0% 100.0% +23.0% +5.8 pts 0.65% \n AUMI Themes Gold Miners ETF Themes $25m 0.0% 100.0% +17.0% \u22120.2 pts 0.35% \n AUAU Global X Gold Miners ETF Global X $6m 12.9% 99.8% first traded 303 days ago \u00b7 0.35% \n \n How much of each pair is the same fund\n The closest pair is AUAU and GDX , which hold 82% of their weight in the same companies. The furthest apart is GDX and SGDJ at 1%. The middle pair of the 45 is 34%.\n Gold miners 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, 82%. Source: each fund\u2019s own filed or daily holdings, read by ETFIQ. GDX GDXJ RING SGDM SGDJ GDMN GBUG GOEX AUMI AUAU \n GDX \u00b7 34% 50% 59% 1% 73% 37% 19% 36% 82% \n GDXJ 34% \u00b7 18% 26% 9% 24% 34% 42% 39% 30% \n RING 50% 18% \u00b7 57% 5% 49% 33% 8% 39% 48% \n SGDM 59% 26% 57% \u00b7 8% 55% 37% 27% 37% 58% \n SGDJ 1% 9% 5% 8% \u00b7 1% 13% 14% 5% 4% \n GDMN 73% 24% 49% 55% 1% \u00b7 35% 14% 37% 71% \n GBUG 37% 34% 33% 37% 13% 35% \u00b7 40% 44% 34% \n GOEX 19% 42% 8% 27% 14% 14% 40% \u00b7 42% 22% \n AUMI 36% 39% 39% 37% 5% 37% 44% 42% \u00b7 32% \n AUAU 82% 30% 48% 58% 4% 71% 34% 22% 32% \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 Gold miners 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 GDX Zijin Gold International Co Ltd 1.1% 1.9% \n GDXJ Merdeka Gold Resources Tbk Pt 0.6% 6.2% \n RING HARMONY GOLD MINING COMPANY LIMITE HAR 1.8% 4.7% \n SGDJ TR Anadolu Metal Madencilik Isletmeleri AS TRMET 4.9% 11.0% \n GDMN ZIJIN MINING GROUP CO LTD 601899 1.3% 1.5% \n GBUG Valterra Platinum Ltd. VALT 1.7% 1.7% \n GOEX BUMI RESOURCES MINERALS TBK 1.6% 4.4% \n AUMI Orla Mining Ltd OLA 2.2% 2.2% \n AUAU ZIJIN MINING GROUP CO LTD-H 2.5% 5.5% \n \n Questions people ask\n How many gold miners ETFs are there? ETFIQ covers 10 US listed gold miners ETFs as of Oct 9, 2026. That is every one it can measure from the fund\u2019s own published holdings. What is the largest gold miners ETF? GDX , VanEck Gold Miners ETF, at $26.1bn in net assets, the largest of the 10 gold miners ETFs with a published size as of Oct 9, 2026. What is the cheapest gold miners ETF? AUMI , Themes Gold Miners ETF, at 0.35% a year, the lowest fee of the 10 gold miners ETFs that publish one. Which gold miners ETF has performed best over the past year? SGDJ , Sprott Junior Gold Miners ETF, at +29.1% total return over the year to Oct 9, 2026, the highest of the 9 gold miners ETFs with a full year of trading behind them. Past returns do not predict future ones. What do gold miners ETFs hold? Funds that hold the companies that mine gold, rather than the metal itself. A miner\u2019s shares and an ounce of gold do not move by the same amount. Between them the 10 gold miners ETFs ETFIQ can read name 54 companies in their ten largest holdings, most widely Newmont Corp, which is among the ten largest of 6 of them. Do gold miners ETFs hold the same companies? It depends which two. Across the 45 pairs of the 10 gold miners ETFs with a full published book, AUAU and GDX hold 82% of their weight in the same companies, GDX and SGDJ hold 1%, and the middle pair holds 34%. Two funds sold on one theme are not the same fund. What the issuers say about this theme\n The houses behind these gold miners 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 VanEck VanEck on gold investing On this theme \n iShares iShares Portfolio Insights Their research index \n Sprott Sprott Precious Metals Watch On this theme \n WisdomTree WisdomTree blog Their research index \n Global X Global X Insights, including The Next Big Theme Their research index \n Themes Themes ETFs research insights Their research index \n \n Where to next\n The largest gold miners ETFs The cheapest gold miners ETFs The gold miners ETFs least like the S&P 500 The gold miners ETFs that returned most The most concentrated gold miners 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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