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State Street® SPDR® S&P® Telecom ETF

SPDR · US78464A5406

State Street® SPDR® S&P® Telecom ETF is an exchange-traded fund (ETF) from SPDR, traded under the ticker XTL (ISIN US78464A5406). One trade buys a whole basket of holdings, so your money is spread out instead of riding on a single company. At its core it is a focused, thematic fund: it concentrates on the technology part of the market, so…

· Tracks the S&P Telecom Select Industry Index index ?
Equity ?Unknown Physical ?United States ?
Mid-range feeOwns the shares directlyOther
Fund size (AUM) ?
€476.4M
1-year return ?
+49.8%
Price Return · to 2026-09-11
Yearly fee (TER) ?
0.35%
All-in cost ≈ 0.00%

About this fund

What you own

The S&P Telecom Select Industry Index index is the benchmark this fund aims to copy. By holding it, this fund gives you a stake in around 42 companies across Other in a single purchase.

How it works

The fund actually buys every share in the index it tracks (full replication).

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Owning every holding keeps things transparent — what is in the index is what the fund actually owns. It can be a touch costlier to run for indexes with thousands of tiny positions, since the fund has to buy and maintain them all. There is no swap bank involved, so there is no extra “what if the partner fails” question to weigh.

Cost

0.35%Yearly fee (TER)
0.00%All-in cost

The yearly running cost of the fund, shown as a % of your money. Lower is cheaper.

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For example, a 0.20% fee works out at €0.20 a year for every €100 invested — that’s a generic illustration of the mechanic, not this fund’s own fee. It is skimmed quietly from inside the fund a little each day, so you never get a bill — but it drags on your return every year you hold. On a broad index ETF it is usually a small fraction of a percent; the gap between a cheap and a pricey fund looks tiny on day one but compounds over decades, which is why it is worth a glance.

Fund facts

Index tracked ?
S&P Telecom Select Industry Index
Replication ?
Physical
Full — buys every share
Launched
Jan 2011
15-year track record

Performance

51.9104156209261202120242026

Growth of $100 invested — the line starts at $100.

State Street® SPDR® S&P® Telecom ETF

End-of-day prices, rebased to a common start so the shapes are comparable. Past performance does not predict future results.

YTD+37.2%
1 year+49.8%
3 years+42.1%
5 years+16.0%

Return, year by year

-19.8
-2.0
+33.8
+43.1
'22'23'24'25
2 of 4 up yearsBest: 2025 +43.1%Worst: 2022 -19.8%Calendar-year total returns, in USD

How bumpy has it been?

31.2%
Volatility (1y) ?
How much the price swings year to year — lower is calmer.
-23.0%
Worst drop (3y) ?
The biggest fall from a peak over the last three years.
1.57
Return for the risk (3y) ?
Reward earned per unit of bumpiness.

The bigger picture

+110.3%
Since inception
Total growth since launch — about +15.6% a year.
+148.8%
Best 12 months
The strongest one-year stretch on record.
-26.6%
Worst 12 months
The weakest one-year stretch on record.
-37.9%
Worst fall on record ?
It clawed back in about 12 months.

What's inside

By sector ?

Technology53.0%
Communication Services33.7%
Cash/Other10.9%
Corporate2.4%

The 10 biggest holdings make up 35.3% of the fund — the rest is spread across roughly 32 more companies.

Top 10 holdings

#CompanyWeight
1VIASAT INC4.2%
2ARISTA NETWORKS INC4.2%
3MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS INC3.5%
4COMCAST CORP CLASS A3.4%
5IRIDIUM COMMUNICATIONS INC3.4%
6F5 INC3.3%
7AT+T INC3.3%
8UBIQUITI INC3.3%
9CALIX INC3.2%
10LUMENTUM HOLDINGS INC3.2%

Where to buy this fund

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Where it trades

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For serious comparison — full data holdings, percentiles, advanced risk, tilt, flows

Full holdings

As of 2026-09-11 · the fund's own published holdings.

#CompanyWeight
1VIASAT INC4.2%
2ARISTA NETWORKS INC4.2%
3MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS INC3.5%
4COMCAST CORP CLASS A3.4%
5IRIDIUM COMMUNICATIONS INC3.4%
6F5 INC3.3%
7AT+T INC3.3%
8UBIQUITI INC3.3%
9CALIX INC3.2%
10LUMENTUM HOLDINGS INC3.2%
11GLOBALSTAR INC3.2%
12VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC3.2%
13CIENA CORP3.2%
14T MOBILE US INC3.1%
15ONDAS INC3.0%
16CISCO SYSTEMS INC3.0%
17DIGI INTERNATIONAL INC3.0%
18VISTANCE NETWORKS INC3.0%
19ANTERIX INC2.9%
20VIAVI SOLUTIONS INC2.9%
21NETSCOUT SYSTEMS INC2.8%
22TELEPHONE AND DATA SYSTEMS2.8%
23UNITI GROUP INC2.6%
24EXTREME NETWORKS INC2.6%
25AST SPACEMOBILE INC2.6%
26LUMEN TECHNOLOGIES INC2.4%
27APPLIED OPTOELECTRONICS INC2.3%
28LIBERTY CAPITAL CORP CL C2.1%
29LIBERTY GLOBAL LTD C1.9%
30HARMONIC INC1.7%
31ADTRAN HOLDINGS INC1.5%
32NETGEAR INC1.5%
33BANDWIDTH INC CLASS A1.4%
34COGENT COMMUNICATIONS HOLDIN1.4%
35IDT CORP CLASS B1.2%
36LIBERTY LATIN AMERIC CL C0.9%
37ARRAY DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE0.8%
38GOGO INC0.7%
39SHENANDOAH TELECOMMUNICATION0.5%
40CLEARFIELD INC0.5%
41SSI US GOV MONEY MARKET CLASS0.1%
42US DOLLAR0.0%

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How it ranks vs peers

🪙 Cheaper than 50% of similar ETFs📈 Higher 1-yr return than 97%📈 Higher 3-yr return than 99%📈 Higher 5-yr return than 96%📊 Beat its category by 33.7% (1-yr) (category average +16.1%)📊 Beat its category by 30.2% (3-yr) (category average +11.9%)📊 Beat its category by 10.9% (5-yr) (category average +5.1%)

Versus the Equity (stocks) · Other · USD ETFs we track.

Advanced risk

2.36
Sortino (3y) ?
1.83
Calmar (3y) ?
21.0%
Downside deviation ?
75%
Up months (hit rate) ?
$247.62
52-week high ?
$132.63
52-week low ?

Concentration depth

~35 ?
Effective number of holdings

Roughly 42 companies are held, but the largest names carry most of the weight — so it behaves like ~35 equal-sized positions.

Tilt vs a world tracker

Communication Services+25.5
Technology+23.9
Financials-16.3
Industrials-11.6
Cash/Other+10.9
Health Care-9.3

Percentage points over / under a broad world-equity tracker (not a licensed benchmark).

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Index trackedS&P Telecom Select Industry IndexTechnology Select Sector IndexFTSE Developed ex US IndexFinancial Select Sector IndexHealth Care Select Sector IndexEnergy Select Sector IndexIndustrial Select Sector Index
Yearly fee (TER)0.35%0.08%0.03%0.08%0.08%0.08%0.08%
All-in cost0.00%0.00%0.00%0.00%0.00%0.00%0.00%
Fund size€476.4M€104.5B€56.6B€47.7B€38.4B€36.7B€27.4B
DomicileUnited StatesUnited StatesUnited StatesUnited StatesUnited StatesUnited StatesUnited States
ReplicationPhysical (full)Physical (full)Physical (full)Physical (full)Physical (full)Physical (full)Physical (full)
3-yr return p.a.+42.1%+28.4%+13.9%+18.7%+8.2%+12.1%+18.2%
5-yr return p.a.+16.0%+18.6%+6.7%+8.6%+4.5%+22.1%+11.2%
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Data as of 2026-09-11 · Source: issuer data, compiled by Finance Hamster

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