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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 2026-06-30
61 Positions reported
21.6 Effective holdings
2.8× Concentration multiple
58.67% Top ten weight

Computed 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 2026-06-30

GDX'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

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Between 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.

PeriodHoldingsEffective Top 10Largest
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)
PeriodHoldingsEffectiveTop 10Largest
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 2026-06-30

The 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.

#PositionWeightCumulative
1Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd10.67%10.7%
2Newmont Corp10.42%21.1%
3Barrick Mining Corp7.95%29.0%
4Wheaton Precious Metals Corp5.61%34.7%
5Anglogold Ashanti Plc5.05%39.7%
6Franco-Nevada Corp4.89%44.6%
7Kinross Gold Corp4.40%49.0%
8Gold Fields Ltd4.07%53.1%
9Pan American Silver Corp2.98%56.0%
10Northern Star Resources Ltd2.64%58.7%
11Coeur Mining Inc2.38%61.1%
12Royal Gold Inc1.95%63.0%
13Alamos Gold Inc1.89%64.9%
14Evolution Mining Ltd1.65%66.5%
15Industrias Penoles SAB de CV1.52%68.1%

By country of issuer

as of 2026-06-30

Share of GDX's own investments by the issuer country the filer reported (incorporation, not revenue). Each country links to every fund that holds it.

CountryShare
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 – 2026-06

Monthly total returns from Item B.5 of GDX's own filings, 84 months on record. Not computed here and not from a price feed.

45.8%Last twelve months filed
218%Whole series, compounded
38.5%Best month
-21.0%Worst month

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

2026-06-30

The 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.

BorrowerOn loanShare 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 → 2026-06-30

51 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 increases2026-03-312026-06-30Largest decreases2026-03-312026-06-30
Wheaton Precious Metals Corp4.91%5.61% Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd12.11%10.67%
Eldorado Gold Corp0.88%1.31% Alamos Gold Inc2.56%1.89%
Barrick Mining Corp7.65%7.95% Zhaojin Mining Industry Co Ltd1.12%0.64%
Industrias Penoles SAB de CV1.35%1.52% Gold Fields Ltd4.50%4.07%
Hecla Mining Co1.27%1.38% Newmont Corp10.80%10.42%
Capricorn Metals Ltd0.40%0.52% Equinox Gold Corp1.64%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 2026-06-30

99.58% 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

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Every 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.

FundReportsBehaves likeTop tenAs 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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