GDX vs SIL.
VanEck Gold Miners ETF (NYSE Arca Gold Miners) against Global X Silver Miners ETF (Solactive Global Silver Miners) — fees, long-horizon total returns, holdings overlap, and sector tilt, side by side.
Daily bar history for this pair isn’t loaded yet — returns will appear once the nightly ingest covers both funds.
| GDX | SIL | |
|---|---|---|
| Name | VanEck Gold Miners ETF | Global X Silver Miners ETF |
| Category | Equity Precious Metals | Equity Precious Metals |
| Style | Passive | Passive |
| Expense ratio | 0.51% | 0.65% |
| Assets (AUM) | $22.8B | $4.2B |
| Dividend yield | 0.84% | 1.31% |
| Avg volume (3-mo) | 22.4M | 1.6M |
| Inception | May 16, 2006 | April 19, 2010 |
| Benchmark proxy | Gold (LBMA proxy) | Gold (LBMA proxy) |
GDX costs 0.14 pp less per year — about $14.00 per $10,000 invested.
Expense ratios verified against issuer fact sheets. Dividend yield is trailing 12-month distributions divided by price, as reported by the fund data provider.
| Shared holding | GDX | SIL | MIN |
|---|---|---|---|
| WPM.TOWheaton Precious Metals Corp | 5.51% | 21.93% | 5.51% |
| PAAS.TOPan American Silver Corp | 2.95% | 12.40% | 2.95% |
Sum of min(weight in each fund) across shared tickers — the standard fund-overlap measure. Computed on the top 25 holdings each fund reports, so it is a lower bound; the coverage figures show how much of each fund those top holdings represent.