Amplify Junior Silver Miners ETF
$29.48−1.61 (−5.19%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.69%
- Fund size
- $4.0B
- 1Y return
- +43.5%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 1.78%
- Holdings
- 68
- Volume · 30D
- 4.2M sh
- NAV per share
- $31.04
- 52W range
The ETF.net SILJ Grade
Score 40 of 100 sits in the C 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.FScore 12Category 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.DScore 27Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 91Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.CScore 53Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 78Category rank
Our read on SILJ
CThe original junior-silver play. Since 2012 SILJ has done one job: passively track an index of roughly 70 small silver miners, producers and explorers, the high-octane end of a niche most metals funds cover with gold.
The Fund is a passively managed ETF seeking results that generally correspond, before fees and expenses, to an index focused on companies engaged in silver mining.
Why people hold it
- Pure junior-silver mandate: the index holds companies that earn most of their revenue from silver mining, production or exploration, not a gold fund with a silver garnish.amplifyetfs.com
- A multi-billion-dollar fund that trades actively, which matters in a corner of the market built from thin, tiny stocks.
- Rules over hunches: a passive fund that rebalances when its Nasdaq index does, with roughly 70 holdings and a published methodology behind them.amplifyetfs.com
- Launched in 2012, it has run through several silver cycles and kept the same strategy through a change of sponsor to Amplify and an index renaming in 2024.sec.gov
Worth knowing
- The 0.69% expense ratio sits above the typical fee in its precious-metals-miner peer group. Specialist access has a sticker price.
- Non-diversified by design and concentrated in metals and mining, so a handful of names can drive the outcome.amplifyetfs.com
- Junior miners are the geared end of silver. The prospectus flags small-cap, foreign-issuer and commodity-price risks that move the fund in both directions.amplifyetfs.com
SILJ Holdings
- Stocks
- 68
- 60%
- HL
Sectors
- Materials99.9%
- Cons. Staples0.2%
Geography
- Canada54.36%
- United States34.28%
- Sweden4.13%
- Peru3.32%
- Mexico1.51%
- United Kingdom1.32%
- Poland0.87%
- Australia0.21%
SILJ 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 | SILJ |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +12.4% |
| 1 month | −2.6% |
| 3 months | +12.6% |
| 1 year | +43.5% |
| 3 years | +56.8% |
| 5 years | +22.6% |
| 10 years | +8.0% |
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 | SILJ |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +12.4% | |
| 2025 | +184.2% | |
| 2024 | +6.6% | |
| 2023 | −5.2% | |
| 2022 | −15.4% | |
| 2021 | −23.2% | |
| 2020 | +33.0% |
SILJ in the news
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SILJ Dividends
- 1.78%
- $0.55
- $0.55 per share
- Annual
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 29, 2025 | Dec 30, 2025 | $0.55 |
| Dec 30, 2024 | Dec 31, 2024 | $0.72 |
| Dec 27, 2023 | Dec 29, 2023 | $0.0009 |
| Dec 28, 2022 | Dec 30, 2022 | $0.0057 |
| Dec 28, 2021 | Dec 30, 2021 | $0.04 |
| Dec 14, 2020 | Dec 16, 2020 | $0.20 |
| Dec 30, 2019 | Jan 2, 2020 | $0.17 |
| Sep 20, 2019 | Sep 24, 2019 | $0.01 |
| Dec 24, 2018 | Dec 31, 2018 | $0.13 |
| Dec 28, 2016 | Jan 3, 2017 | $0.06 |
| Dec 29, 2015 | Jan 4, 2016 | $0.12 |
| Dec 27, 2013 | Jan 2, 2014 | $0.009 |
SILJ Risk
- 47.2%
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.
- 1.05
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.
- −48.3%
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.
- 1.28
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
SILJ Cost
- The middle half of Precious Metals Miners funds
- Median 0.52%
15 of the 18 Precious Metals Miners funds charge less.