GDXvsIEMG

VanEck Gold Miners ETF or iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF, side by side from their own SEC filings. They hold no stocks in common. IEMG costs 0.09% a year against 0.51% for GDX, $42 a year less on $10,000. Over the last twelve months GDX returned +45.7% and IEMG +51.6%.

0.3%of the two portfolios is the same stocks at the same weight
GDX5.5% in stocks the other holds too
IEMG0.3% in stocks the other holds too
stocks in bothstocks only in that fundbonds, cash and unmatched shares

The two funds

From each fund's latest N-PORT filing and its prospectus.

GDXIEMGYearly cost0.51%0.09%Net assets$22.8B$162.0BPositions622,700Last 12 months+45.7%+51.6%3 years, a year+37.4%+24.2%5 years, a year+18.9%+7.8%Largest holdingAEM 10.7%Taiwan 12.5%Main sectorBasic Materials 69%n/aHoldings as ofJun 30, 2026May 31, 2026

Returns are total returns with dividends reinvested, from the funds’ own monthly figures; “(price)” marks a fund whose filing record is younger than a year, whose twelve months are its price change. The stronger figure in each row is set in bold. Past returns say what happened, not what will.

Growth of $100

Both funds from September 2019, the first month both report, dividends reinvested.

GDX$323IEMG$208
September 2019May 2026

What they both hold

2 stocks are in both funds: 5.5% of GDX and 0.3% of IEMG. The biggest shared positions:

Stockin GDXin IEMG
AU5.0%0.3%AUGO0.4%0.0%

Only in GDX

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

  1. AEMAgnico Eagle Mines Limited10.7%
  2. NEMNewmont10.4%
  3. BBarrick Mining Corporation7.9%
  4. WPMWheaton Precious Metals Corp.5.6%
  5. KGCKinross Gold Corporation4.4%
  6. GFIGold Fields Limited4.1%

Only in IEMG

Its biggest stocks the other fund does not hold.

  1. NUNu Holdings Ltd.0.3%
  2. BAPCredicorp Ltd.0.2%
  3. SCCOSouthern Copper Corporation0.1%
  4. YUMCYum China Holdings, Inc.0.1%
  5. XPXP Inc.0.0%
  6. JBSJBS0.0%

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From each fund’s Form N-PORT (GDX: June 2026, IEMG: May 2026) and prospectus, via the SEC’s public data sets. Overlap counts only the stocks we can match to a listing: stock by stock, the smaller of the two weights, added up.