Sprott Junior Uranium Miners ETF
$22.45−0.91 (−3.90%)
History starts Feb 2, 2023.
- Expense ratio
- 0.80%
- Fund size
- $345M
- 1Y return
- −13.6%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 7.10%
- Holdings
- 40
- Volume · 30D
- 0.3M sh
- NAV per share
- $22.39
- 52W range
The ETF.net URNJ Grade
Score 32 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 26Category 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 20Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.DScore 38Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.CScore 44Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 61Category rank
Our read on URNJ
DThe high-octane end of the uranium trade: roughly 40 small, micro and mid-cap miners and explorers, with the household-name producers left out. Sprott, a uranium house, co-built the index with Nasdaq.
The Fund seeks to track, before fees and expenses, the total return of the Nasdaq Sprott Junior Uranium Miners Index.
Why people hold it
- Junior-only by design. The index targets mid-, small- and micro-cap uranium mining companies globally, the exploration and development end rather than the big established producers.sprottetfs.com
- Sprott is a uranium specialist, not a tourist. It co-developed this benchmark with Nasdaq rather than renting a generic thematic index off the shelf.sprottetfs.com
- Roughly 40 names and a few hundred million dollars in assets: the junior theme comes through without the whole fund resting on one or two stocks.
Worth knowing
- Cost is the toll for the small-cap end: 0.80% a year, above the 0.75% typical of uranium funds and well above broader nuclear options like NLR at 0.52%.
- Sprott's own documents call the fund non-diversified and say investors should be willing to accept "a high degree of volatility" and the possibility of significant losses.sprottetfs.com
- It sits toward the back of our uranium and nuclear group, mostly on price and on how much share-price risk the junior end of the mining chain carries.
URNJ Holdings
- Stocks
- 40
- 74%
- NXG.AX
Sectors
- Energy92.7%
- Materials7.3%
Geography
- Canada43.40%
- Australia32.42%
- United States17.76%
- Hong Kong4.74%
- Spain1.30%
- United Kingdom0.37%
Developed 100% · Emerging 0%
URNJ Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
URNJ$8,641
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 | URNJ |
|---|---|
| Year to date | −7.3% |
| 1 month | −10.5% |
| 3 months | −7.1% |
| 1 year | −13.6% |
| 3 years | +5.7% |
| 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 | URNJ |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | −7.3% | |
| 2025 | +45.1% | |
| 2024 | −18.2% | |
| 2023 | +19.7% |
URNJ in the news
URNJ Dividends
- 7.10%
- $1.66
- $1.66 per share
- Annual
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 18, 2025 | Dec 22, 2025 | $1.66 |
| Dec 12, 2024 | Dec 19, 2024 | $0.81 |
| Dec 14, 2023 | Dec 21, 2023 | $0.95 |
URNJ Risk
- 49.6%
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.
- 0.44
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.
- −59.2%
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.
- 1.05
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
URNJ Cost
0.80%
URNJ0.80%
- The middle half of Uranium & Nuclear funds
- Median 0.75%
6 of the 9 Uranium & Nuclear funds charge less.