Summary
VanEck Rare Earth/Strategic Metals ETF is an ETF - a fund traded on an exchange like a stock - run by VanEck. Positions inside: 37. The ten largest make up 61% of the fund.
- Yearly costs
- 0.53%
- Fund size
- $1.48B
- Positions
- 37
- Dividend yield
- 2.60%
- Running since
- 2010
What speaks for it
- A large fund with $1.48B under management.
- Easy to buy and sell: about $36.0M changes hands a day.
- It has been running since 2010.
What to watch
- The ten largest positions make up 61% of the fund, so its result rests on a few names.
- 100% of the fund is in one sector (Basic materials).
- Costs of 0.53% a year are above the middle of comparable funds (0.43%).
- In the last five years its price once dropped by 74% from its high.
A fund has no Bulios Score and no Fair Price of its own - both are computed from the results of a single company. This page shows what is inside the fund and what it costs instead.
Price
Performance
- 1 month
- -22%
- 3 months
- -24%
- This year
- -32%
- 1 year
- -29%
- 3 years
- -13%
- 5 years
- -58%
- 10 years
- +3.8%
- Avg. market cap
- $6.99B
- P/E
- 25.1x
- Forward P/E
- 16.0x
- P/S
- 2.2x
- P/B
- 1.9x
- P/FCF
- 16.9x
- EV/EBITDA
- 13.4x
- Dividend yield
- 1.13%
- ROIC
- 5.5%
- ROE
- 8.1%
- Gross margin
- 21.9%
- Operating margin
- 9.8%
- Net margin
- 6.7%
- Payout ratio
- 28.5%
- Net debt/EBITDA
- 1.9x
- Beta
- 1.54
Weighted average of the 31 largest companies, which make up 100% of the fund. Banks and insurers are left out of the gross margin, the ROIC and the EBITDA figures.
What is inside?
Concentrated- 1 SQSociedad Química y Minera de Chile S.A. SQM 8.7%
- 2 ALAlbemarle ALB 8.6%
- 3 60China Northern Rare Earth (Group) High-Tech Co.,Ltd. 600111.SS 7.4%
- 4 MPMP Materials MP 6.8%
- 5 LYLynas Rare Earths Limited LYC.AX 6.1%
- 6 PLPLS Group Limited PLS.AX 5.6%
- 7 60Jinduicheng Molybdenum Co., Ltd. 601958.SS 5.3%
- 8 60Xiamen Tungsten Co., Ltd. 600549.SS 4.6%
- 9 76Lianyou Metals Co. Ltd. 7610.TW 4.0%
- 10 ILIluka Resources Limited ILU.AX 3.9%
Positions in the fund: 37. The ten largest make up 61% of it.
Composition as of Oct 24, 2026.
Where is it spread?
One sector dominatesBy sector
- Basic materials 100%
By country
- China 31%
- Australia 24%
- United States 22%
- Chile 8.7%
- Other countries 14%
By company size
- Large cap 25%
- Mid cap 49%
- Small cap 26%
By the company's market value: Mega cap from $200B, Large cap from $10B, Mid cap from $2B, Small cap from $300M, Micro cap below $300M.
Largest sector: Basic materials (100%). Largest country: China (31%). Largest size group: Mid cap (49%).
What does it cost me?
Expensive- A year from $10,000
- $53.00
- Over 20 years
- $2,554
From every $10,000 invested the fund takes $53.00 a year. You do not pay it separately - it is taken out of the fund's value. Over 20 years at 5% yearly growth that adds up to about $2,554.
How has it done?
Growing slowly- A year on average, 10 years
- +0.4%
- Deepest drop
- -74%
- Yearly volatility
- 46%
Average yearly growth over the last ten years: 0.4%. Deepest drop in these years: 74% below the earlier high.
Does it pay dividends?
Yes, it pays out- Yield
- 2.60%
- Payments a year
- 1
- Last payment
- $1.30
Over the last 12 months it paid $1.30 per share, which is 2.60% of today's price. The last payment was $1.30 on Dec 22, 2025.
Is it easy to buy and sell?
Very easy- Traded a day
- $36.0M
- Shares a day
- 720K
On an average day about $36.0M of the fund changes hands.
How expensive are the companies inside?
Rather expensive- P/E of the companies inside
- 25.1
- Average Bulios Score
- 52 out of 100
Weight by Bulios Fair Price
- Undervalued 32%
- Fairly valued 0.0%
- Overvalued 68%
On average the companies inside trade for 25.1 times their yearly profit. By Fair Price, 68% of the rated weight comes out as overvalued.
Counted from its largest companies (31), which make up 100% of the fund. Each company counts by its weight. We use the metrics, the Bulios Score and the Fair Price of the companies themselves.
Similar funds
Funds that hold much of the same. The overlap says how much of their weight they share with this fund.
| Fund | Domicile | Size | 1-year change | Dividends | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
RE REMX.MI VanEck Rare Earth and Strategic Metals UCITS ETF | Ireland | 0.59% | $882.3M | -24% | Reinvests | 88% |
LI LITP Sprott Lithium Miners ETF | United States | 0.65% | $20.8M | -32% | Pays out | 37% |
IL ILIT iShares Lithium Miners and Producers ETF | United States | 0.47% | $10.4M | -28% | Pays out | 32% |
SE SETM Sprott Critical Materials ETF | United States | 0.65% | $65.8M | -9.8% | Pays out | 22% |