Industrial Metals

Zinc Price Proxy PICK

Quoted per share (ETF proxy) (USD)

$57.850

-0.1700 (-0.29%)

As of Oct 21, 2026, 3:12 AM EDT

per share (ETF proxy)

PICK, which this page uses as its zinc proxy, is trading down at $57.850 per share (-0.29%), as of the latest quote. Tracked via the iShares MSCI Global Metals & Mining Producers ETF (PICK) as a directional proxy; the LME zinc futures contract is the underlying physical benchmark and is not listed in the US.

ETF proxy: Tracked via the iShares MSCI Global Metals & Mining Producers ETF (PICK) as a directional proxy; the LME zinc futures contract is the underlying physical benchmark and is not listed in the US.

Zinc proxy: PICK price history

PICK, which this page uses as its zinc proxy, last closed at $57.850 per share on Oct 20, 2026. That is +24.89% over one year. Over the past 52 weeks its closing price ranged from $44.570 (Nov 20, 2025) to $68.930 (Jun 2, 2026).

PICK price change to Oct 20, 2026
Period	Change
1 month	-6.39%
6 months	-6.01%
Year to date	+12.68%
1 year	+24.89%
3 years	+57.33%
5 years	+34.82%

PICK by year, per share
Year	Highest close	Lowest close	Year-end close	Change
2026 (to date)	$68.930	$51.830	$57.850	+12.68%
2025	$52.350	$30.230	$51.340	+46.73%
2024	$46.120	$34.860	$34.990	-18.76%
2023	$47.650	$36.520	$43.070	+5.05%
2022	$52.720	$32.270	$41.000	-3.80%
2021 (from Oct 21)	$43.910	$40.240	$42.620	—

Daily closing prices for PICK (an exchange-traded proxy, see the note above) over the last five years, from Yahoo Finance. Highest and lowest are daily closes, not intraday extremes. The current year runs to the latest close.

About Zinc

Zinc is used primarily to galvanize steel against corrosion, plus die-casting and brass production. The LME zinc futures contract is the global benchmark, priced in US dollars per metric ton, and is not listed in the US, so the figure shown here is the iShares MSCI Global Metals & Mining Producers ETF (PICK) — a share price in mining equities rather than the metal price.

About the Zinc market

Zinc is used mostly to galvanize steel, coating it to stop rust, and also in alloys such as brass, in die-casting and in chemicals. The physical benchmark is LME Zinc on the London Metal Exchange (contract code ZS): a lot is 25 tonnes of special high-grade zinc of at least 99.995% purity, quoted in US dollars per tonne and settled by physical delivery.

This page does not show the LME price. It tracks the iShares MSCI Global Metals & Mining Producers ETF (PICK), a fund of mining and metals companies across many metals, as a rough directional proxy. Its share price reflects those companies and the wider sector, not zinc alone.

For zinc itself, demand depends heavily on steel production and therefore on construction, infrastructure and car manufacturing. Supply depends on mine output and on smelters that refine ore into metal; smelter shutdowns, often linked to energy costs, and the level of exchange stocks can both move the price.

Sources: LME: Zinc contract specifications · iShares: MSCI Global Metals & Mining Producers ETF (PICK)