ETF comparison
URNM vs XME
Both Materials.
Sprott Uranium Miners ETF · State Street SPDR S&P Metals & Mining ETF
Holdings overlap
2 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of URNM and XME would leave roughly 5.0% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
XME is 40 bps cheaper than URNM. On a $100,000 position that's about $400/yr more in fees for URNM.
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 URNM vs XME.
Top shared holdings
2 shared in total| # | Holding | In URNM | In XME | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Uranium Energy Corp | 4.91% | 4.36% | 4.36% |
| 2 | Ur-energy Inc | 2.49% | 0.66% | 0.66% |
Only in URNM
25 total- Cameco Corp 20.60%
- Sprott Physical Uranium Trust 13.55%
- Nexgen Energy Ltd 12.60%
- Nac Kazatomprom Jsc 4.70%
- Denison Mines Corp 4.69%
- Energy Fuels Inc/canada 4.67%
- Paladin Energy Ltd 4.39%
- Cgn Mining Co Ltd 4.17%
- Yellow Cake Plc 4.01%
- Deep Yellow Ltd 3.89%
Only in XME
36 total- Warrior Met Coal Inc 5.02%
- Core Natural Resources Inc 4.99%
- Alcoa Corp 4.57%
- Reliance Inc 4.51%
- Nucor Corp 4.50%
- Steel Dynamics Inc 4.46%
- Freeport-McMoRan Inc 4.36%
- Peabody Energy Corp 4.36%
- Newmont Corp 4.26%
- Commercial Metals Co 4.22%
Open URNM or XME 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/.
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