

Sprott Copper Miners ETF
$42.86−1.65 (−3.71%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.66%
- Fund size
- $284M
- 1Y return
- +70.6%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 1.85%
- Holdings
- 80
- Volume · 30D
- 0.1M sh
- NAV per share
- $42.57
- 52W range
The ETF.net COPP Grade
Score 37 of 100 sits in the D band. Bands: A ≥ 70, B ≥ 55, C ≥ 40, D ≥ 25, F < 25; the scale skips E.
Cost
What you pay to own it — the expense ratio plus trading frictions, ranked within its category.DScore 35Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.Not scoredRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.FScore 24Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 63Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.FScore 21Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.CScore 50Category rank
Our read on COPP
DCopper's electrification story played through the shovels, not the metal. COPP indexes roughly 80 miners worldwide, the broad half of Sprott's two-lane copper shelf.
The fund seeks, before fees and expenses, to generally match the total-return performance of the Nasdaq Sprott Copper MinersTM Index.
Why people hold it
- Rules-based, not stock-picked: it tracks the Nasdaq Sprott Copper Miners Index across roughly 80 miners globally.sprott.com
- At 0.66%, it prices right at the middle of the copper-miner shelf. No surcharge for the specialist wrapper.
- Sprott runs copper in two lanes: COPP for the broad miner index, COPJ for the juniors. You pick the risk end instead of taking a blend.
Worth knowing
- It launched in 2024, so the track record does not yet cover a full copper cycle.
- Cheaper doors into the theme exist: ICOP lists at 0.47% and COPX at 0.65%.
- One metal, one sector: it rises and falls with copper miners, and cash comes back once or twice a year at most, not monthly.
COPP Holdings
- Stocks
- 80
- 74%
- FCX
Sectors
- Materials99.2%
- Financials0.3%
- Consumer Discr.0.1%
- Industrials0.1%
- Energy0.1%
- Technology0.1%
- Health Care0.1%
- Communication0.0%
- Cons. Staples0.0%
- Utilities0.0%
- Real Estate0.0%
Geography
- Canada43.82%
- United States30.13%
- United Kingdom8.21%
- Australia6.74%
- Poland4.68%
- Indonesia2.30%
- Peru1.64%
- Spain0.88%
- 1.61%
Developed 86% · Emerging 14%
COPP Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
Returns run to the Sep 22, 2026 close, with cash distributions reinvested. Each period starts on the same date that many months or years earlier. Periods over one year show the average yearly return.
| Period | COPP |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +27.9% |
| 1 month | −2.5% |
| 3 months | +7.2% |
| 1 year | +70.6% |
| 3 years | — |
| 5 years | — |
| 10 years | — |
Calendar-year total return with cash distributions hypothetically reinvested at the ex-dividend date’s closing price. The current year shows year to date.
| Year | Return bar | COPP |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +27.9% | |
| 2025 | +74.0% | |
| 2024 | +4.2% |
COPP in the news
COPP Dividends
- 1.85%
- $0.82
- $0.82 per share
- Irregular
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 18, 2025 | Dec 22, 2025 | $0.82 |
| Dec 12, 2024 | Dec 19, 2024 | $0.53 |
COPP Risk
- 31.7%
How it’s calculated: standard deviation
The sample standard deviation of monthly total returns, multiplied by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Total returns include reinvested distributions.
- 0.94
How it’s calculated: Sharpe ratio
Subtract each month’s Treasury-bill return from the fund’s monthly total return.
Divide the average of those excess returns by their sample standard deviation, then multiply by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Each month uses the Treasury yield quoted at the end of the previous month.
- −44.3%
How it’s calculated: maximum drawdown
The largest percentage decline from an earlier peak, using total returns with reinvested distributions.
Uses up to five years through the last close, with at least 12 months required.
- 0.95
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
COPP Cost
- The middle half of Global Thematic funds
- Median 0.58%
13 of the 21 Global Thematic funds charge less.