ETF comparison
GDXJ vs VAW
Both Materials.
VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF · Vanguard Materials Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
5 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of GDXJ and VAW would leave roughly 2.5% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Unmatched is the part of a fund's weight the other fund doesn't match: names only it holds, plus any extra weight it puts in names both funds hold.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
VAW is 43 bps cheaper than GDXJ. On a $100,000 position that's about $430/yr more in fees for GDXJ.
Fee figure is the annual expense charged on $100,000. To see how the gap compounds over a multi-decade holding period, open the cost calculator pre-filled with GDXJ vs VAW.
Top shared holdings
5 shared in total| # | Holding | In GDXJ | In VAW | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Coeur Mining Inc | 5.14% | 1.39% | 1.39% |
| 2 | Hecla Mining Co | 2.63% | 0.86% | 0.86% |
| 3 | Perpetua Resources Corp | 0.62% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 4 | Hycroft Mining Holding Corp | 0.45% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 5 | McEwen Inc | 0.33% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
Only in GDXJ
110 total- Evolution Mining Ltd 6.37%
- Equinox Gold Corp 6.28%
- Alamos Gold Inc 6.23%
- Endeavour Mining PLC 5.33%
- Industrias Penoles SAB de CV 2.88%
- First Majestic Silver Corp 2.72%
- IAMGOLD Corp 2.62%
- Eldorado Gold Corp 2.49%
- Harmony Gold Mining Co Ltd 2.05%
- Lundin Gold Inc 1.93%
Only in VAW
105 total- Linde PLC 14.62%
- Newmont Corp 8.77%
- Freeport-McMoRan Inc 7.01%
- Sherwin-Williams Co/The 5.13%
- Ecolab Inc 4.64%
- CRH PLC 4.07%
- Air Products and Chemicals Inc 4.03%
- Corteva Inc 3.66%
- Nucor Corp 3.57%
- Vulcan Materials Co 2.27%
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Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
Open GDXJ or VAW at a brokerage
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Holdings overlap is the sum of min(weight_a, weight_b) over positions
matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.