GDXJ vs SIL.
VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF (MVIS Global Junior 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.
| GDXJ | SIL | |
|---|---|---|
| Name | VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF | Global X Silver Miners ETF |
| Category | Equity Precious Metals | Equity Precious Metals |
| Style | Passive | Passive |
| Expense ratio | 0.52% | 0.65% |
| Assets (AUM) | $7.1B | $4.2B |
| Dividend yield | 2.70% | 1.31% |
| Avg volume (3-mo) | 5.7M | 1.6M |
| Inception | November 10, 2009 | April 19, 2010 |
| Benchmark proxy | Gold (LBMA proxy) | Gold (LBMA proxy) |
GDXJ costs 0.13 pp less per year — about $13.00 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 | GDXJ | SIL | MIN |
|---|---|---|---|
| CDECoeur Mining Inc | 5.10% | 11.03% | 5.10% |
| PE&OLES.MXIndustrias Penoles SAB de CV | 2.91% | 4.72% | 2.91% |
| HLHecla Mining Co | 2.60% | 4.83% | 2.60% |
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.