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VanEck Rare Earth/Strategic Metals ETF (REMX) — chart, structure and Closelooknet read

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Our record on REMX

Every scored call, pick and trade this diary has made on VanEck Rare Earth/Strategic Metals ETF, with the outcome where it is known.

Company snapshot — VanEck Rare Earth/Strategic Metals ETF

REMX in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelooknet stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
REMX is a fund that buys most of its assets into an index of companies engaged in producing, refining and recycling rare earth and strategic metals and minerals. It is non-diversified, meaning it can hold larger stakes in fewer companies than a broadly spread fund, concentrating its exposure to a handful of miners and processors. It trades in the United States and tracks a theme rather than owning a single business.
Where it sits in the stack
REMX has no seat in Rubin, the diary's chip-and-AI-build-out index, because it is a metals fund rather than a hardware or software name. It sits instead in the diary's materials sleeve, the part of our universe covering miners and processors of rare earths and strategic metals that feed magnets, batteries and electronics well beyond the AI stack.
Who it is priced against
The diary is not given a peer group for this fund. The market sometimes compares it with MP Materials, the rare-earth miner whose shares often track the same theme this fund holds.
Why Closelooknet tracks it
REMX carries no index seat in Rubin or any other Closelooknet index and has not been scored, so no module view exists yet. It appears once in the diary's coverage without an accompanying quote, so it has not featured in an edition beyond that single mention.
What the diary watches
The diary watches whether the fund's price finds support after its recent run of down sessions and its slide below both moving averages, which would suggest renewed buying interest in the underlying rare-earth and strategic-metals names rather than further drift.

VanEck Rare Earth/Strategic Metals ETF (REMX) trades on US exchanges.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelooknet’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Signals for this name

Every Closelooknet reading that exists for REMX, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 1.95%, annual · last 1.30 USD on 2025-12-22

Dividends and capital return

What REMX pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 1.30 USD per share · a 1.95% yield on the 2026-09-25 close 1 distribution, paid once a year 2026-09-25
  • Change on the year +30.5% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 1.00 USD per share
  • Last distribution 1.30 USD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2025-12-22
  • By calendar year 2024: 1.00 USD (partial) · 2025: 1.30 USD first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2024-12-23

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

How it trades on rate days beta 0.72 to TLT · on the worst bond days it fell more than the market

How it trades on rate days

How REMX has moved when long-dated Treasury yields rise — measured against TLT, the 20+ year Treasury fund.

  • Beta to long bonds, 1 year 0.72 — shows only a loose link to bond moves for every 1% move in TLT (20+ year Treasuries), VanEck Rare Earth/Strategic Metals ETF moved 0.72% on average · correlation 0.14 · higher than 72% of US names
  • Beta, last 3 months 0.99 more rate-sensitive lately than over the year
  • On the 10 worst bond days −1.99% on average against −0.74% for the S&P 500 the 10 sessions of the past year in which TLT fell most, i.e. long yields rose most
  • Latest of those days −2.66% TLT −1.29% that day 2026-09-24

Daily total returns from the adjusted price series; a TLT down day is a day long yields rose. Beta = the average move of the name for a 1% move in TLT. Past sensitivity, not a forecast. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Weather around the name 3 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sovereign pressure

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 62/100 · S&P 500 fund at 67, bullish alignedEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-25
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 99th percentile of the window, +8.4% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-25
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.61 · up 0.29 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-25

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-26

Quick answers

What is VanEck Rare Earth/Strategic Metals ETF (REMX)?

VanEck Rare Earth/Strategic Metals ETF is an exchange-traded fund trading as REMX on the US exchange and is one of the benchmark ETFs Closelooknet tracks as a market reference, as of the registry build of 2026-09-26.

How does Closelooknet use REMX?

As a benchmark: the daily editions, the sector dispersion board and the index dashboards quote VanEck Rare Earth/Strategic Metals ETF as a market reference, and this page matches the fund's largest holdings against the names Closelooknet covers so a reader can move from the fund to the companies inside it.

Where does REMX trade against its moving averages?

Mixed moving-average stack: Trades -8.7% vs the 50-day and -22.6% vs the 200-day average, 40.2% below the 52-week high and +8.5% off the 52-week low; a death cross printed 39 sessions ago. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-25 — a technical state from the nightly Closelooknet bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

What does VanEck Rare Earth/Strategic Metals ETF do?

REMX is a fund that buys most of its assets into an index of companies engaged in producing, refining and recycling rare earth and strategic metals and minerals. It is non-diversified, meaning it can hold larger stakes in fewer companies than a broadly spread fund, concentrating its exposure to a handful of miners and processors. It trades in the United States and tracks a theme rather than owning a single business. The diary is not given a peer group for this fund. The market sometimes compares it with MP Materials, the rare-earth miner whose shares often track the same theme this fund holds.

Where does VanEck Rare Earth/Strategic Metals ETF sit in the AI build-out?

REMX has no seat in Rubin, the diary's chip-and-AI-build-out index, because it is a metals fund rather than a hardware or software name. It sits instead in the diary's materials sleeve, the part of our universe covering miners and processors of rare earths and strategic metals that feed magnets, batteries and electronics well beyond the AI stack. REMX carries no index seat in Rubin or any other Closelooknet index and has not been scored, so no module view exists yet. It appears once in the diary's coverage without an accompanying quote, so it has not featured in an edition beyond that single mention.

Does VanEck Rare Earth/Strategic Metals ETF pay a dividend?

VanEck Rare Earth/Strategic Metals ETF has paid 1.30 USD per share over the last twelve months, paid once a year, a trailing yield of 1.95% on the 2026-09-25 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 1.30 USD on 2025-12-22. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

How does VanEck Rare Earth/Strategic Metals ETF trade when bond yields rise?

Over the past year VanEck Rare Earth/Strategic Metals ETF had a beta of 0.72 to TLT, the long-dated Treasury fund — it shows only a loose link to bond moves, higher than 72% of US names. On the 10 sessions in which long bonds fell most it moved −1.99% on average, against −0.74% for the S&P 500. The "How it trades on rate days" block on this page carries the lines.

Where has Closelooknet written about VanEck Rare Earth/Strategic Metals ETF?

VanEck Rare Earth/Strategic Metals ETF appears in 1 Closelooknet piece, most recently Daily Pulse: Three Ladders: Gold, Crypto, Materials (2026-08-24). The "Mentioned on Closelooknet" block on this page lists the long reads, the reference entries and the dailies that name it.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for REMX, fund basics and the top holdings by weight with the Closelooknet names among them marked, the technical state where the data exists, and the research diary mentions — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Mentioned on Closelooknet 1 piece · newest: Daily Pulse, “Three Ladders: Gold, Crypto, Materials” (2026-08-24)

Mentioned on Closelooknet

Where REMX appears in the diary — 1 piece, newest first. Every link is our own writing.

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