Sprott Silver Miners & Physical Silver ETF

SLVR

Market cap $626M

June may have proven to be a difficult month for silver investors, but it's likely far too soon to give up on the precious metal. To better understand this, it's important to contextualize why silver's price is struggling and why the metal's long-term opportunities are still there.

Sprott Silver Miners & Physical Silver ETF offers diversified exposure to both silver bullion and leading mining stocks. SLVR is rated a buy, contingent on silver futures holding above the critical $50.36 technical support, with stops recommended below $48. SLVR underperformed silver futures during the rally but outperformed during the correction, reflecting its blended exposure.

NEW YORK, July 08, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Sprott Asset Management USA, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sprott Inc., today announced that the Nasdaq indexes tracked by several of its ETFs will add rebalances in September and March beginning September 21, 2026. The indexes will be rebalanced on a quarterly basis in March, June, September and December, with the semi-annual index reconstitution coinciding with the June and December rebalances.

Is now the time to consider hopping back into silver investing? Sure, the precious metal may tend to be a bit more volatile than gold, but it is certainly offering a compelling value proposition for the months to come.

If you owned Sprott Silver Miners & Physical Silver ETF (NASDAQ:SLVR) into the close on Friday, you watched a $10,000 position turn into roughly $8,815 in a single session.

The global push, particularly in Western nations, towards advanced technology in the defense sector is amplifying the realization that critical supply chains run through China. For defense strategists, this reliance becomes a roadblock on the path to critical mineral independence.

In September 2020, JP Morgan paid a landmark $920 million settlement to resolve charges of “spoofing” – placing and cancelling fake buy or sell orders – to manipulate the silver market.

While gold has proved to be a hot commodity for the last few months, some naysayers have looked at March's short-term volatility as a reason to stay away from the precious metal for now.

In recent months, there has been a lot of discussion about the importance of amplifying the domestic production and supply chains for rare earths in the United States. Given that China maintains a significant hold over the global market, the U.S. looking to increase its own rare earths presence makes a good deal of sense.

Key Takeaways While energy investments of all kinds have struggled amid conflict in the Middle East, uranium might offer a compelling long-term opportunity. Sprott Asset Management CEO John Ciampaglia noted that uranium's fundamentals remain sound, and that it remains far harder to substitute or replace than other metals investors tend to allocate towards.