Rare Earth & Strategic Metals ETFs and funds provide exposure to rare earth elements and other strategic or critical metals — such as neodymium, dysprosium, tungsten, titanium, and cobalt — through equities of mining and processing companies or physically-backed and futures-based holdings. These materials are essential to defense, electronics, clean energy, and advanced manufacturing, and the category is shaped by supply-chain security concerns and the concentration of production in a few countries.

Rare Earth & Strategic Metals

The Global X Rare Earth & Critical Materials ETF (EART) seeks to provide investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of the Solactive Rare Earth & Critical Materials Index. The fund invests in companies producing rare earth components, metals, and other raw or composite materials essential to the expansion of critical technologies, such as electric vehicles, energy storage, robotics, and radar systems.

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The iShares Strategic Metals ETF seeks to track a commodities futures index that provides strategic exposure to metals considered essential to structural themes such as AI infrastructure, manufacturing, energy production and distribution, and national security. The fund was formerly the iShares Transition-Enabling Metals ETF before its name, ticker, index, and objective change to ISTM.

Symbol	Name	Sharpe Ratio (1Y)	Sharpe Ratio (5Y)	Sharpe Ratio (10Y)	Risk / Return Rank
EART	Global X Rare Earth & Critical Materials ETF	1.04	—	—	38
ISTM	iShares Strategic Metals ETF	0.82	—	—	32
REMX	VanEck Rare Earth and Strategic Metals ETF	0.70	-0.13	0.17	29

Top Rare Earth & Strategic Metals ETFs by Sharpe Ratio

Top Rare Earth & Strategic Metals ETFs by Sharpe Ratio