Sprott Junior Gold Miners ETF
$94.02−4.75 (−4.81%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.50%
- Fund size
- $366M
- 1Y return
- +53.2%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 7.13%
- Holdings
- 31
- Volume · 30D
- 0.1M sh
- NAV per share
- $96.85
- 52W range
The ETF.net SGDJ Grade
Score 57 of 100 sits in the B 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.BScore 59Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 77Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.BScore 66Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.DScore 35Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 73Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 55Category rank
Our read on SGDJ
BJunior gold, filtered. Sprott runs roughly 30 explorers, developers and producers through a revenue-growth and price-momentum screen instead of owning the entire junior bench by size alone.
The Fund seeks to track, before fees and expenses, the performance of the Solactive Junior Gold Miners Custom Factor Index. It uses passive indexing and invests primarily in junior gold companies, including exploration-stage companies, developers and producers.
Why people hold it
- The screen is the whole point: the index tilts toward junior miners with better revenue growth and price momentum, not just whatever is small and listed.
- 0.50% a year, a shade under the median for precious-metals miner funds and under GDXJ's 0.52% for the broader junior basket.
- Trading since 2015 from a house built around precious metals, and it sits in the upper half of its miner peer group on our review.
- Rules-based and passive: it follows a published Solactive index rather than a manager's stock picks, so you can see what the portfolio is chasing.
Worth knowing
- Juniors are the jumpy end of an already jumpy sector. Exploration-stage names move on drill results and financing, not only on the gold price.
- About 30 holdings, spread across US, developed, emerging and frontier listings. Concentration means one company's news lands harder than in a broad miner index.
- Moderately traded rather than a top-of-book name, so spreads deserve a look and limit orders earn their keep.
SGDJ Holdings
- Stocks
- 31
- 47%
- MI6.AX
Sectors
- Materials100.0%
Geography
- Australia37.22%
- Canada32.00%
- United States11.27%
- Turkey9.14%
- South Africa3.78%
- Hong Kong3.36%
- Philippines1.65%
- Colombia1.59%
Developed 82% · Emerging 18%
SGDJ 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 | SGDJ |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +17.4% |
| 1 month | −2.5% |
| 3 months | +17.9% |
| 1 year | +53.2% |
| 3 years | +63.4% |
| 5 years | +26.7% |
| 10 years | +11.3% |
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 | SGDJ |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +17.4% | |
| 2025 | +174.7% | |
| 2024 | +19.6% | |
| 2023 | +6.6% | |
| 2022 | −27.5% | |
| 2021 | −15.1% | |
| 2020 | +47.8% |
SGDJ in the news
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SGDJ Dividends
- 7.13%
- $7.04
- $7.04 per share
- Annual
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 18, 2025 | Dec 22, 2025 | $7.04 |
| Dec 12, 2024 | Dec 19, 2024 | $2.18 |
| Dec 14, 2023 | Dec 21, 2023 | $1.34 |
| Dec 15, 2022 | Dec 22, 2022 | $0.71 |
| Dec 15, 2021 | Dec 22, 2021 | $0.90 |
| Dec 16, 2020 | Dec 23, 2020 | $0.97 |
| Dec 19, 2019 | Dec 27, 2019 | $0.22 |
| Dec 21, 2017 | Dec 28, 2017 | $0.05 |
| Dec 21, 2016 | Dec 29, 2016 | $0.56 |
| Dec 23, 2015 | Dec 31, 2015 | $0.16 |
SGDJ Risk
- 42.2%
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.
- 1.23
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.
- −52.7%
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.
- 1.06
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
SGDJ Cost
- The middle half of Precious Metals Miners funds
- Median 0.52%
7 of the 18 Precious Metals Miners funds charge less.