{"url":"https://etfiq.com/themes/lithium","section":"themes","title":"Lithium ETFs: 5 funds, largest first | ETFIQ","description":"ETFIQ covers 5 lithium ETFs. The largest are LIT ($1.5bn), BATT ($111m) and LITP ($31m); fees run 0.47% to 0.75%, as of Oct 8, 2026.","as_of":"Oct 9, 2026","structured_data":[{"@type":"FAQPage","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"How many lithium ETFs are there?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"ETFIQ covers 5 US listed lithium ETFs as of Oct 9, 2026. 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The typical fund carries 8% of its weight in S&P 500 names, which is the 48th most of the 53 themes here with filed books.\n 5 US listed lithium ETFs \n $1.5bn The largest, LIT \n 0.47% The cheapest, ILIT \n +18.8% Best one year, LIT \n\n The short answers\n Least like the S&P 500 ION , ProShares S&P Global Core Battery Metals ETF, 2.6% of its weight in S&P 500 companies. Closest pair ILIT and LITP , 53% of their weight in the same companies. What these funds actually own\n Between them the 5 funds' ten largest holdings name 37 companies, of which 10 appear in more than one. Sociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile SA is among the ten largest of 3 of them, at an average of 7.4% of the fund.\n Lithium and battery metals 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 Sociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile SA SQM 3 of 5 7.4% 11.0% in LITP \n ALBEMARLE CORP ALB 3 of 5 7.3% 10.2% in LITP \n PLS Group Ltd. PLS 3 of 5 6.2% 8.9% in LITP \n Liontown Ltd. LTR 2 of 5 6.8% 7.3% in LITP \n TESLA INC TSLA 2 of 5 6.3% 8.1% in BATT \n Lithium Americas Corp. LAC 2 of 5 4.7% 5.0% in LITP \n Lithium Argentina AG LAR 2 of 5 4.2% 4.7% in LITP \n IGO Ltd. IGO 2 of 5 4.1% 4.5% in LITP \n Elevra Lithium Ltd. ELV 2 of 5 3.6% 3.8% in LITP \n SIGMA LITHIUM SGML 2 of 5 3.3% 3.3% in ION \n RIO TINTO PLC-SPON ADR RIO 1 of 5 22.2% 22.2% in LIT \n Ganfeng Lithium Group Co. Ltd. 1 of 5 9.6% 9.6% in LITP \n PANASONIC HOLDINGS CORPORATION 1 of 5 7.2% 7.2% in LIT \n BHP Group Ltd 1 of 5 6.9% 6.9% in BATT \n Freeport-McMoRan Inc FCX 1 of 5 6.4% 6.4% in BATT \n \n The 15 most widely held of 37. 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 5 largest lithium ETFs\n ETFIQ covers 5 lithium ETFs. The largest are LIT ( $1.5bn ), BATT ( $111m ) and LITP ( $31m ); fees run 0.47% to 0.75% , as of Oct 8, 2026 .\n LIT Global X Lithium & Battery Tech ETF $1.5bn 0.75% \n BATT Amplify Lithium & Battery Technology ETF $111m 0.59% \n LITP Sprott Lithium Miners ETF $31m 0.65% \n ILIT iShares Lithium Miners and Producers ETF $12m 0.47% \n ION ProShares S&P Global Core Battery Metals ETF $11m 0.58% \n \n Lithium 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 LIT Global X Lithium & Battery Tech ETF Global X $1.5bn 8.5% 98.1% +18.8% +1.5 pts 0.75% \n BATT Amplify Lithium & Battery Technology ETF Amplify $111m 16.0% 98.0% +11.8% \u22125.4 pts 0.59% \n LITP Sprott Lithium Miners ETF Sprott $31m 10.2% 100.0% \u221211.2% \u221228.5 pts 0.65% \n ILIT iShares Lithium Miners and Producers ETF iShares $12m 7.8% 100.0% \u22126.5% \u221223.8 pts 0.47% \n ION ProShares S&P Global Core Battery Metals ETF ProShares $11m 2.6% 100.0% +9.5% \u22127.8 pts 0.58% \n \n How much of each pair is the same fund\n The closest pair is ILIT and LITP , which hold 53% of their weight in the same companies. The furthest apart is BATT and ILIT at 4%. The middle pair of the 10 is 14%.\n Lithium 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, 53%. Source: each fund\u2019s own filed or daily holdings, read by ETFIQ. LIT BATT LITP ILIT ION \n LIT \u00b7 20% 12% 11% 17% \n BATT 20% \u00b7 7% 4% 10% \n LITP 12% 7% \u00b7 53% 20% \n ILIT 11% 4% 53% \u00b7 16% \n ION 17% 10% 20% 16% \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 Lithium 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 LIT PANASONIC HOLDINGS CORPORATION 7.2% 35.9% \n BATT Freeport-McMoRan Inc FCX 6.4% 62.5% \n LITP Q2 Metals Corp. QTWO 1.9% 10.2% \n ILIT COSMOAM&T LTD 4.5% 46.9% \n ION PACIFIC METALS CO LTD 4.6% 62.2% \n \n Questions people ask\n How many lithium ETFs are there? ETFIQ covers 5 US listed lithium ETFs as of Oct 9, 2026. That is every one it can measure from the fund\u2019s own published holdings. What is the largest lithium ETF? LIT , Global X Lithium & Battery Tech ETF, at $1.5bn in net assets, the largest of the 5 lithium ETFs with a published size as of Oct 9, 2026. What is the cheapest lithium ETF? ILIT , iShares Lithium Miners and Producers ETF, at 0.47% a year, the lowest fee of the 5 lithium ETFs that publish one. Which lithium ETF has performed best over the past year? LIT , Global X Lithium & Battery Tech ETF, at +18.8% total return over the year to Oct 9, 2026, the highest of the 5 lithium ETFs with a full year of trading behind them. Past returns do not predict future ones. What do lithium ETFs hold? Funds that hold lithium miners and processors and the other battery metals, rather than the carmakers that buy them. Between them the 5 lithium ETFs ETFIQ can read name 37 companies in their ten largest holdings, most widely Sociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile SA, which is among the ten largest of 3 of them. Do lithium ETFs hold the same companies? It depends which two. Across the 10 pairs of the 5 lithium ETFs with a full published book, ILIT and LITP hold 53% of their weight in the same companies, BATT and ILIT hold 4%, and the middle pair holds 14%. Two funds sold on one theme are not the same fund. What the issuers say about this theme\n The houses behind these lithium 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 Amplify Amplify Insights Their research index \n Sprott Sprott Insights on metals and mining Their research index \n iShares iShares Portfolio Insights Their research index \n ProShares ProShares insights Their research index \n \n Where to next\n The largest lithium ETFs The cheapest lithium ETFs The lithium ETFs least like the S&P 500 The lithium ETFs that returned most The most concentrated lithium 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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