Materials

Mining, chemicals, packaging, paper. Commodity-input-sensitive and globally exposed; small share of total US market cap.

11 funds in the catalog. Scored using methodology v0.5.1.

Top score

XLB 82 / 100

State Street Materials Select Sector SPDR ETF

Cheapest

XLB 0.080%

State Street Materials Select Sector SPDR ETF

Largest by AUM

GDX $22.75B

VanEck Gold Miners ETF

All Materials funds

Score	Ticker	Name	Expense	AUM	Yield
82	XLB	State Street Materials Select Sector SPDR ETF	0.080%	$8.17B	1.68%
79	VAW	Vanguard Materials Index Fund ETF Shares	0.090%	$4.49B	1.41%
71	XME	State Street SPDR S&P Metals & Mining ETF	0.35%	$4.38B	0.36%
70	FMAT	Fidelity MSCI Materials Index ETF	0.084%	$623.5M	1.45%
70	GUNR	FlexShares Morningstar Global Upstream Natural Resources Index Fund	0.46%	$6.72B	2.39%
66	GDXJ	VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF	0.52%	$7.08B	2.74%
66	PICK	iShares MSCI Global Metals & Mining Producers ETF	0.39%	$2.20B	2.26%
66	GDX	VanEck Gold Miners ETF	0.51%	$22.75B	0.86%
59	COPX	Global X Copper Miners ETF	0.65%	$7.15B	2.50%
53	URA	Global X Uranium ETF	0.69%	$6.00B	5.10%
43	URNM	Sprott Uranium Miners ETF	0.75%	$1.90B	3.43%

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Methodology v0.5.1. See /methodology/ for every threshold and weight used to score these funds.