SGDJ — Sprott Junior Gold Miners ETF
Data updated: 2026-08-20
SGDJ — Sprott Junior Gold Miners ETF. Commodity · $265.06M AUM · 0.50% expense ratio · 63.6% 1-yr return. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
SGDJ Fund Overview
SGDJ — Sprott Junior Gold Miners ETF is a US ETF managed by Sprott Funds Trust, categorised as Commodity. ABC INVEST provides holdings, performance, costs, cashflows, risk data, prospectus documents and SEC filings, sourced from SEC filings.
- Type: US ETF
- Manager: Sprott Funds Trust
- Category: Commodity
- Assets under management: $265.06M
- 1-year return: 63.6%
- Ticker: SGDJ
- SEC CIK: 0001728683
- SEC series ID: S000063709
- Share class ID: C000206509
SGDJ Investment Objective and Strategy
Sprott Junior Gold Miners ETF describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Sprott Funds Trust.
Investment objective
The Sprott Junior Gold Miners ETF (the Fund or SGDJ) seeks investment results that correspond (before fees and expenses) to the performance of its underlying index, the Solactive Junior Gold Miners Custom Factor Index (ticker symbol SOLJGMFT) (the Underlying Junior Gold Miners Index).
Principal investment strategy
The Fund employs a passive management or indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the Underlying Junior Gold Miners Index. The Underlying Junior Gold Miners Index aims to track the performance of junior gold companies primarily located in the U.S., Indonesia, Canada and Australia whose common stock, American Depositary Receipts (ADRs) or Global Depositary Receipts (GDRs) are traded on a regulated stock exchange in the form of shares tradeable for foreign investors without any restrictions. Junior companies include early-stage mining companies that are in the exploration stage only or that hold properties that might not ultimately produce gold. Most of these companies are in the development and exploration phase and are on the lookout for land with a higher chance for uncovering large mineral deposits.
The Underlying Junior Gold Miners Index is compiled by Solactive AG (the Index Provider). In order to be in the index universe (the Index Universe) for inclusion in the Underlying Junior Gold Miners Index, companies must be a component of the MARKET WATCH for the Solactive Global Gold Explorers & Developers Total Return Index. The Solactive Global Gold Explorers & Developers Total Return Index includes companies defined/identified as a gold explorer or gold producer. MARKET WATCH is an announcement of a list of companies/securities which are intended to contribute to the creation of the Underlying Junior Gold Miners Index. On selection days existing members of the Index Universe must have security-level market capitalization less than or equal to USD $4 billion. New members of the Index Universe need to have a security-level market capitalization of less than or equal to USD $3 billion.
In the Underlying Junior Gold Miners Index, companies that have a security-level market capitalization of greater than USD $4 billion are excluded. The Underlying Junior Gold Miners Index has a target constituent count of 25 to 30 securities on selection day. The Underlying Junior Gold Miners Index employs a modified market capitalization weighted methodology such that each constituent comprises no more than 9% of the weight of the Underlying Junior Gold Miners Index as of each rebalance, provided that, as of each rebalance, no more than 50% of the weight of the Underlying Junior Gold Miners Index may consist of constituents comprising greater than 4.5% of the weight of the Underlying Junior Gold Miners Index. A company in the Underlying Junior Gold Miners Index will be classified as a gold mining company if it earns over 50% of its revenue from the mining of gold.
The Underlying Junior Gold Miners Index has significant exposure to non-U.S. companies in emerging and frontier markets. The Underlying Junior Gold Miners Index is reconstituted and rebalanced semi-annually after the close of the third Friday of March and September. Under normal circumstances, at least 80% of the Funds assets (net assets plus borrowings for investment purposes) will consist of securities issued by gold mining companies, and at least 80% of the Underlying Junior Gold Miners Index will consist of such companies. The Fund will normally invest at least 90% of its net assets in securities that comprise the Underlying Junior Gold Miners Index. The Fund may engage in securities lending.
SGDJ Holdings
Top 10 holdings of Sprott Junior Gold Miners ETF by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| Centerra Gold Inc | 5.21% |
| Turk Altin Isletmeleri As | 4.94% |
| Wesdome Gold Mines Ltd | 4.67% |
| Aris Mining Corp | 4.62% |
| Vault Minerals Ltd | 4.61% |
| Fortuna Mining Corp | 4.50% |
| Allied Gold Corp | 4.48% |
| Kingsgate Consolidated Ltd | 4.48% |
| Seabridge Gold Inc | 4.26% |
| Endeavour Silver Corp | 3.99% |
SGDJ Portfolio Allocation
Asset-class allocation of Sprott Junior Gold Miners ETF by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Asset class | Allocation |
|---|---|
| Equity | 99.9% |
| Cash & Equivalents | 0.1% |
SGDJ Performance
Total returns for SGDJ (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| YTD | -11.5% |
| 1 year | 63.6% |
| 3 years (annualised) | 47.8% |
| 5 years (annualised) | 16.6% |
SGDJ Risk Information
Risk metrics for SGDJ, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 53.4%
SGDJ Costs and Fees
SGDJ costs about $50 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 0.50%
- Gross expense ratio: 0.50%
- Portfolio turnover: 76%
- Brokerage commissions: 6.69 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
SGDJ Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2026-06, Sprott Junior Gold Miners ETF had net outflows of $7.76M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2026-06 | −$7.67M |
| 2026-05 | −$8.64M |
| 2026-04 | −$3.39M |
| 2026-03 | −$9.32M |
| 2026-02 | −$12.18M |
| 2026-01 | −$22.50K |
SGDJ Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in Sprott Junior Gold Miners ETF's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
SGDJ Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official Sprott Junior Gold Miners ETF filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2026-04-30
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2025-04-30
- Prospectus supplement (497) — filed 2025-10-16
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-08-20
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-06-01
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-02-24
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2025-03-17
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2024-03-13
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Data Sources
ABC INVEST compiles this page from public filings made to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) through EDGAR: portfolio holdings and monthly cashflows from Form N-PORT, expenses and returns from fund prospectuses (Form 485BPOS) and the SEC DERA Risk/Return Summary data sets, annual data from Form N-CEN, and shareholder reports from Form N-CSR.