Fund · VanEck Gold Miners ETF · measured from SEC filings
GDX holdings
GDX reports 61 holdings and behaves like 21.6 equally weighted ones, computed from its SEC Form N-PORT filing for 2026-06-30. The fact sheet publishes the first number; this page computes the second, and traces it across 28 quarters of filings.
Measured concentration
as of 2026-06-30Computed by this site from the fund's SEC Form N-PORT filing; what the measure does not tell you · every fund in one table · hold it with other funds? X-ray the mix. Pricing: 86.38% at a quoted market price (level 1), 11 issuer countries.
What stands out
as of 2026-06-30GDX's largest investment is Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd at 10.67% of net assets. Newmont Corp and Barrick Mining Corp follow; the three together are 29.03%. Ten companies are 58.67% of the fund; the other 51 share the rest. Among the 721 equity funds measured here, GDX behaves like 21.6 holdings against a median of 42.4 — 2.0 times more concentrated than the median. Across 28 quarterly filings GDX has held roughly steady since 2019-09-30 (19.8 then, 21.6 now). Between the 2026-03-31 and 2026-06-30 filings 11 positions were added and 1 dropped; 7.4% of the weight moved. Canada is the largest country at 57.01% of the portfolio, across 11 countries in the filing.
Each sentence is read from the fund's own SEC filing; the class median is computed across the comparable equity funds on this site. Nothing here is a view on the fund.
Every filing since 2019
28Between 2019-09-30 and 2026-06-30, GDX went from behaving like 19.8 equally weighted positions to 21.6 — 9% more, while its top ten went from 61.32% to 58.67% of net assets. Read across the funds on the concentration-over-time table.
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 61 | 21.6 | 58.67% | 10.67% |
| 2026-03-31 | 51 | 19.7 | 60.74% | 12.11% |
| 2025-12-31 | 48 | 24.2 | 56.43% | 8.91% |
| 2025-09-30 | 46 | 27.2 | 52.8% | 8% |
| 2025-06-30 | 63 | 17.6 | 64.64% | 12.78% |
| 2025-03-31 | 57 | 18.3 | 63.96% | 11.66% |
| 2024-12-31 | 57 | 18.1 | 64.02% | 12.24% |
| 2024-09-30 | 58 | 18.1 | 62.76% | 14.41% |
Earlier filings (20 more, back to 2019-09-30)
| Period | Holdings | Effective | Top 10 | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-06-30 | 54 | 17.9 | 64.3% | 13.83% |
| 2024-03-31 | 53 | 20.7 | 60.95% | 11.42% |
| 2023-12-31 | 51 | 17.6 | 63.88% | 14.23% |
| 2023-09-30 | 52 | 20.9 | 61% | 9.7% |
| 2023-06-30 | 51 | 20 | 62.46% | 10.34% |
| 2023-03-31 | 49 | 21.1 | 60.85% | 10.41% |
| 2022-12-31 | 49 | 17.8 | 64.42% | 12.59% |
| 2022-09-30 | 49 | 17.6 | 63.58% | 12.91% |
| 2022-06-30 | 54 | 16.6 | 64.36% | 15.46% |
| 2022-03-31 | 57 | 16.7 | 63.65% | 15.45% |
| 2021-12-31 | 57 | 15.2 | 65.5% | 16.68% |
| 2021-09-30 | 55 | 17.2 | 62.44% | 14.66% |
| 2021-06-30 | 55 | 16.5 | 62.52% | 15.52% |
| 2021-03-31 | 52 | 16.2 | 63.22% | 15.84% |
| 2020-12-31 | 53 | 20.7 | 57.4% | 12.38% |
| 2020-09-30 | 54 | 19.7 | 60.5% | 11.87% |
| 2020-06-30 | 54 | 17 | 63.12% | 13.67% |
| 2020-03-31 | 48 | 15.2 | 66.48% | 15.42% |
| 2019-12-31 | 48 | 20.1 | 59.97% | 11.79% |
| 2019-09-30 | 46 | 19.8 | 61.32% | 11.23% |
One row per filed reporting period, newest first, read from EDGAR. Quarterly because that is the public filing cadence. Rows marked * are published but held out of the comparison above; the methodology page says when and why.
Largest positions, as filed
as of 2026-06-30The 15 largest of 61 positions in GDX's Form N-PORT, weight as a share of net assets, securities-lending collateral excluded. Every position, every quarter: GDX.csv.gz.
| # | Position | Weight | Cumulative |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd | 10.67% | 10.7% |
| 2 | Newmont Corp | 10.42% | 21.1% |
| 3 | Barrick Mining Corp | 7.95% | 29.0% |
| 4 | Wheaton Precious Metals Corp | 5.61% | 34.7% |
| 5 | Anglogold Ashanti Plc | 5.05% | 39.7% |
| 6 | Franco-Nevada Corp | 4.89% | 44.6% |
| 7 | Kinross Gold Corp | 4.40% | 49.0% |
| 8 | Gold Fields Ltd | 4.07% | 53.1% |
| 9 | Pan American Silver Corp | 2.98% | 56.0% |
| 10 | Northern Star Resources Ltd | 2.64% | 58.7% |
| 11 | Coeur Mining Inc | 2.38% | 61.1% |
| 12 | Royal Gold Inc | 1.95% | 63.0% |
| 13 | Alamos Gold Inc | 1.89% | 64.9% |
| 14 | Evolution Mining Ltd | 1.65% | 66.5% |
| 15 | Industrias Penoles SAB de CV | 1.52% | 68.1% |
By country of issuer
as of 2026-06-30Share of GDX's own investments by the issuer country the filer reported (incorporation, not revenue). Each country links to every fund that holds it.
| Country | Share |
|---|---|
| Canada | 57.25% |
| United States | 16.13% |
| Australia | 8.42% |
| United Kingdom | 8.01% |
| South Africa | 5.15% |
| Mexico | 1.52% |
| Indonesia | 0.85% |
| Hong Kong SAR China | 0.79% |
Returns the fund reported
2019-07 – 2026-06Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of GDX's own filings, 84 months on record. Not computed here and not from a price feed.
Cross-checked against a series computed separately from prices: median difference 0.26 percentage points over 84 months, which is roughly the distributions. Every month with the filing it came from: GDX.json · all funds.
Who borrows GDX's shares
2026-06-30The fund lends its holdings, and Item B.4.a of the filing names every firm holding them. At 2026-06-30, $543m was out to 24 borrowers, 2.39% of net assets. The largest, UBS AG, held 23.6% of it.
| Borrower | On loan | Share of the loan |
|---|---|---|
| UBS AG | $128m | 23.6% |
| NOMURA SECURITIES INTERNATIONAL INC. | $69m | 12.7% |
| BARCLAYS BANK PLC | $57m | 10.4% |
| BNP PARIBAS PRIME BROKERAGE INTERNATIONAL LIMITED | $44m | 8.1% |
| The Bank of Nova Scotia | $42m | 7.7% |
Cash collateral reported against the loan: 0.42% of net assets, 17.6% of the amount lent. That is a floor on the collateral, not the whole of it — collateral the fund does not hold as a position is not in this filing, so a figure under 100% is not evidence of under-collateralisation. How that figure behaves across all funds. Every quarter GDX has filed, with each borrower: GDX.json · all funds.
Since the previous filing
2026-03-31 → 2026-06-3051 positions became 61: 11 added (4.8% of the fund at the later date), 1 dropped (0.4% at the earlier date). Half the sum of all weight changes, a turnover proxy: 7.4%. Positions are matched on identifiers, so a security whose identifier changed shows as one drop and one add. Every filing of GDX compared this way, as a feed: changes.xml · all funds: filings received.
| Largest increases | 2026-03-31 | 2026-06-30 | Largest decreases | 2026-03-31 | 2026-06-30 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wheaton Precious Metals Corp | 4.91% | 5.61% | Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd | 12.11% | 10.67% |
| Eldorado Gold Corp | 0.88% | 1.31% | Alamos Gold Inc | 2.56% | 1.89% |
| Barrick Mining Corp | 7.65% | 7.95% | Zhaojin Mining Industry Co Ltd | 1.12% | 0.64% |
| Industrias Penoles SAB de CV | 1.35% | 1.52% | Gold Fields Ltd | 4.50% | 4.07% |
| Hecla Mining Co | 1.27% | 1.38% | Newmont Corp | 10.80% | 10.42% |
| Capricorn Metals Ltd | 0.40% | 0.52% | Equinox Gold Corp | 1.64% | 1.27% |
New: Zijin Gold International Co Ltd (0.79%), Montage Gold Corp (0.60%), Skeena Resources Ltd (0.47%), Aya Gold & Silver Inc (0.45%), Aura Minerals Inc (0.45%), Regis Resources Ltd (0.44%). Gone: Seabridge Gold Inc (0.36%).
Asset categories and pricing
as of 2026-06-3099.58% equity, 0.42% short-term investment as filed; 86.4% carried at a quoted market price (fair-value level 1). Categories and levels are the filer's; what a low level-1 share does and does not mean is in the measure's page.
Neighbours by effective holdings, equity funds
10Every measured equity fund lined up by how many holdings it behaves like; these sit either side of GDX (21.6). Same filings, same arithmetic. Position in this list says nothing about which fund is better.
| Fund | Reports | Behaves like | Top ten | As of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IGPT Invesco AI and Next Gen Software ETF | 101 | 21.3 | 59.58% | 2026-07-31 |
| MOO VanEck Agribusiness ETF | 46 | 21.3 | 60.2% | 2026-06-30 |
| FLBR Franklin FTSE Brazil ETF | 68 | 21.4 | 56.04% | 2026-06-30 |
| ICF iShares Select U.S. REIT ETF | 32 | 21.5 | 59.05% | 2026-07-31 |
| VNQ Vanguard Real Estate Index Fund | 144 | 21.6 | 54.95% | 2026-07-31 |
| FXI iShares China Large-Cap ETF | 54 | 21.7 | 58.83% | 2026-07-31 |
| PHO Invesco Water Resources ETF | 41 | 21.8 | 57.42% | 2026-07-31 |
| QCLN First Trust NASDAQ Clean Edge Green Energy Index Fund | 53 | 21.8 | 58.64% | 2026-06-30 |
| EWD iShares MSCI Sweden ETF | 51 | 21.8 | 58.28% | 2026-05-31 |
| TPYP Tortoise North American Pipeline ETF | 45 | 21.9 | 59.15% | 2026-05-31 |
Essays that examine GDX
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