EART vs LITP

EARTBGlobal X Rare Earth & Critical Materials ETF

LITPDSprott Lithium Miners ETF

In short

EART Rare earths are the headline, but the basket runs wider: ten critical-material categories, from copper and lithium to cobalt and carbon fiber, screened so miners must earn at least half their revenue from the stuff.

LITP Lithium, undiluted. LITP tracks a rules-based Nasdaq Sprott index of roughly 40 lithium miners worldwide, rather than the broad metals grab bag most critical-materials funds hand you.

Stated mandate

EART The fund seeks exposure to companies producing rare-earth components, metals, and other raw or composite materials needed for expanding critical technologies, including electric vehicles, energy storage, robotics, and radar systems.

LITP The Fund seeks to track, before fees and expenses, the total return performance of the Nasdaq Sprott Lithium Miners Index.

Why people hold it

• EART Costs 0.59% a year, below the typical fee in its critical-materials peer group.
• Purity rule with teeth: a company needs 50% of revenue from the ten materials, so conglomerates with a lithium side hustle stay out.globalxetfs.com
• Caps each name at 4% and floors it at 0.3%, reset twice a year, so one giant miner cannot swallow a roughly 50-stock portfolio.globalxetfs.com
• Global mandate covering miners and processors wherever they list, and one of the stronger builds in its critical-materials peer group.

• LITP One idea, cleanly expressed: a passive Nasdaq Sprott index of about 40 lithium miners globally, with no manager discretion over what gets in.
• The 0.65% fee sits right at the median for critical-materials ETFs, so the narrow focus costs no more than the broad funds in the group.
• Sprott runs it beside the wider SETM at the same 0.65% fee: one shop, two dial settings on critical materials.
• Live since 2023, it is a pure miners basket, tracking the companies that dig lithium out of the ground rather than the whole battery supply chain.

Worth knowing

• EART Rare earths share the basket with copper, lithium, nickel and platinum group metals, so broad commodity cycles move it as much as any rare-earth squeeze.globalxetfs.com
• A small fund with light volume next to the category's giants, which can mean wider spreads, especially near the open and close.
• Listed in 2022 as the Global X Disruptive Materials ETF (DMAT) and renamed in 2026, so the track record predates the rare-earth branding.globalxetfs.com

• LITP One commodity, one step in the chain. Roughly 40 miners tied to the lithium price tend to move as a pack, which makes for a bumpy ride.
• ILIT covers the same lithium-miners lane for 0.47%, and PICK spans global metals and mining for 0.39%. Several peers in this group review more strongly overall.
• A small fund with only moderate trading, and payouts come once or twice a year at most. Spreads and order type matter more here than in a mega-fund.

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