ETF comparison
PICK vs VAW
Both Materials.
iShares MSCI Global Metals & Mining Producers ETF · Vanguard Materials Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
24 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of PICK and VAW would leave roughly 16.4% 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 30 bps cheaper than PICK. On a $100,000 position that's about $300/yr more in fees for PICK.
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 PICK vs VAW.
Top shared holdings
24 shared in total| # | Holding | In PICK | In VAW | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FREEPORT-MCMORAN INC. | 6.30% | 7.01% | 6.30% |
| 2 | NUCOR CORPORATION | 3.21% | 3.57% | 3.21% |
| 3 | STEEL DYNAMICS, INC. | 1.85% | 2.06% | 1.85% |
| 4 | RELIANCE, INC. | 1.14% | 1.26% | 1.14% |
| 5 | ALCOA CORPORATION | 0.76% | 0.85% | 0.76% |
| 6 | MP MATERIALS CORP | 0.45% | 0.50% | 0.45% |
| 7 | COMMERCIAL METALS COMPANY | 0.43% | 0.48% | 0.43% |
| 8 | CLEVELAND-CLIFFS INC. | 0.38% | 0.42% | 0.38% |
| 9 | WARRIOR MET COAL, INC. | 0.33% | 0.37% | 0.33% |
| 10 | MATERION CORPORATION | 0.28% | 0.31% | 0.28% |
| 11 | CONSTELLIUM SE | 0.19% | 0.21% | 0.19% |
| 12 | USA Rare Earth, Inc. | 0.18% | 0.20% | 0.18% |
Only in PICK
231 total- BHP GROUP LIMITED 13.81%
- RIO TINTO PLC 6.33%
- GLENCORE PLC 4.34%
- ANGLO AMERICAN PLC 3.48%
- VALE S.A. 3.09%
- RIO TINTO LIMITED 2.69%
- Grupo Mexico, S.A.B. de C.V. 2.33%
- ArcelorMittal SA 1.84%
- Teck Resources Limited 1.80%
- Zijin Mining Group Company Limited 1.60%
Only in VAW
86 total- Linde PLC 14.62%
- Newmont Corp 8.77%
- 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%
- Vulcan Materials Co 2.27%
- Martin Marietta Materials Inc 2.01%
- PPG Industries Inc 1.62%
Related comparisons
More comparisons with PICK
- PICK vs FMAT · Fidelity MSCI Materials Index ETF 16.1%
- PICK vs XME · State Street SPDR S&P Metals & Mining ETF 14.2%
- PICK vs XLB · State Street Materials Select Sector SPDR ETF 10.4%
- PICK vs URA · Global X Uranium ETF 2.5%
- PICK vs GDXJ · VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF 0.8%
- PICK vs GDX · VanEck Gold Miners ETF 0.5%
More comparisons with VAW
- VAW vs GDX · VanEck Gold Miners ETF 12.4%
- VAW vs GUNR · Northern Trust Morningstar Global Upstream Natural Resources ETF 9.6%
- VAW vs COPX · Global X Copper Miners ETF 4.8%
- VAW vs GDXJ · VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF 2.5%
- VAW vs URA · Global X Uranium ETF 0.0%
- VAW vs URNM · Sprott Uranium Miners ETF 0.0%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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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/.
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