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State Street® SPDR® S&P® Pharmaceuticals ETF

SPDR · US78464A7220

State Street® SPDR® S&P® Pharmaceuticals ETF is an exchange-traded fund (ETF) from SPDR, traded under the ticker XPH (ISIN US78464A7220). 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 health care part of the market,…

· Tracks the S&P Pharmaceuticals Select Industry Index index ?
Equity ?Unknown Physical ?United States ?
Mid-range feeOwns the shares directlyOtherBroadly spread
Fund size (AUM) ?
€417.5M
1-year return ?
+64.0%
Price Return · to 2026-07-20
Yearly fee (TER) ?
0.35%
All-in cost ≈ 0.00%

About this fund

What you own

The S&P Pharmaceuticals Select Industry Index index is the benchmark this fund aims to copy. By holding it, this fund gives you a stake in around 67 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 Pharmaceuticals Select Industry Index
Replication ?
Physical
Full — buys every share
Launched
Jun 2006
20-year track record

Performance

63.883.0102121141202120242026

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

State Street® SPDR® S&P® Pharmaceuticals ETF

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

YTD+23.3%
1 year+64.0%
3 years+17.7%
5 years+5.9%

Return, year by year

-11.3
+1.6
+3.3
+30.3
'22'23'24'25
3 of 4 up yearsBest: 2025 +30.3%Worst: 2022 -11.3%Calendar-year total returns, in USD

How bumpy has it been?

22.4%
Volatility (1y) ?
How much the price swings year to year — lower is calmer.
-24.1%
Worst drop (3y) ?
The biggest fall from a peak over the last three years.
0.86
Return for the risk (3y) ?
Reward earned per unit of bumpiness.

The bigger picture

+31.3%
Since inception
Total growth since launch — about +5.5% a year.
+70.1%
Best 12 months
The strongest one-year stretch on record.
-21.0%
Worst 12 months
The weakest one-year stretch on record.
-33.7%
Worst fall on record ?
It clawed back in about 25 months.

What's inside

By sector ?

Health Care79.4%
Cash/Other14.6%
Corporate3.0%
Consumer Staples3.0%

The 10 biggest holdings make up 21.7% of the fund — the rest is spread across roughly 57 more companies.

Top 10 holdings

#CompanyWeight
1DEFINIUM THERAPEUTICS INC2.9%
2MBX BIOSCIENCES INC2.8%
3ALUMIS INC2.0%
4ENLIVEN THERAPEUTICS INC2.0%
5TREVI THERAPEUTICS INC2.0%
6AMYLYX PHARMACEUTICALS INC2.0%
7MAZE THERAPEUTICS INC2.0%
8VERADERMICS INC2.0%
9ATAIBECKLEY INC2.0%
10LIGAND PHARMACEUTICALS1.9%

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 2026-07-20 · the fund's own published holdings.

#CompanyWeight
1DEFINIUM THERAPEUTICS INC2.9%
2MBX BIOSCIENCES INC2.8%
3ALUMIS INC2.0%
4ENLIVEN THERAPEUTICS INC2.0%
5TREVI THERAPEUTICS INC2.0%
6AMYLYX PHARMACEUTICALS INC2.0%
7MAZE THERAPEUTICS INC2.0%
8VERADERMICS INC2.0%
9ATAIBECKLEY INC2.0%
10LIGAND PHARMACEUTICALS1.9%
11NEKTAR THERAPEUTICS1.9%
12HARROW INC1.9%
13CRINETICS PHARMACEUTICALS IN1.8%
14NUVATION BIO INC1.8%
15EDGEWISE THERAPEUTICS INC1.8%
16LIQUIDIA CORP1.8%
17CORCEPT THERAPEUTICS INC1.8%
18EYEPOINT INC1.8%
19WAVE LIFE SCIENCES LTD1.7%
20OCULAR THERAPEUTIX INC1.7%
21AMNEAL PHARMACEUTICALS INC1.7%
22ELANCO ANIMAL HEALTH INC1.7%
23TARSUS PHARMACEUTICALS INC1.6%
24PACIRA BIOSCIENCES INC1.6%
25JOHNSON + JOHNSON1.6%
26COLLEGIUM PHARMACEUTICAL INC1.6%
27VIATRIS INC1.6%
28MERCK + CO. INC.1.6%
29JAZZ PHARMACEUTICALS PLC1.6%
30ELI LILLY + CO1.6%
31INDIVIOR PHARMACEUTICALS INC1.6%
32SUPERNUS PHARMACEUTICALS INC1.6%
33ROYALTY PHARMA PLC CL A1.6%
34HARMONY BIOSCIENCES HOLDINGS1.6%
35ANI PHARMACEUTICALS INC1.6%
36BRISTOL MYERS SQUIBB CO1.5%
37OMEROS CORP1.5%
38ORGANON + CO1.5%
39ESPERION THERAPEUTICS INC1.5%
40BIOAGE LABS INC1.5%
41PRESTIGE CONSUMER HEALTHCARE1.5%
42PERRIGO CO PLC1.5%
43AXSOME THERAPEUTICS INC1.5%
44XERIS BIOPHARMA HOLDINGS INC1.5%
45INNOVIVA INC1.4%
46ZOETIS INC1.4%
47PFIZER INC1.4%
48PHIBRO ANIMAL HEALTH CORP A1.4%
49ETON PHARMACEUTICALS INC1.4%
50RAPPORT THERAPEUTICS INC1.3%
51ARVINAS INC1.3%
52AMPHASTAR PHARMACEUTICALS IN1.2%
53ZEVRA THERAPEUTICS INC1.2%
54ALTO NEUROSCIENCE INC1.2%
55CORMEDIX INC1.1%
56PHATHOM PHARMACEUTICALS INC1.1%
57SEPTERNA INC1.0%
58RELMADA THERAPEUTICS INC1.0%
59THERAVANCE BIOPHARMA INC0.9%
60ACLARIS THERAPEUTICS INC0.9%
61LB PHARMACEUTICALS INC0.8%
62AQUESTIVE THERAPEUTICS INC0.8%
63FULCRUM THERAPEUTICS INC0.7%
64LEXICON PHARMACEUTICALS INC0.6%
65EVOLUS INC0.5%
66SSI US GOV MONEY MARKET CLASS0.1%
67US DOLLAR0.0%

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How it ranks vs peers

🪙 Cheaper than 49% of similar ETFs📈 Higher 1-yr return than 97%📈 Higher 3-yr return than 84%📈 Higher 5-yr return than 51%📊 Beat its category by 45.3% (1-yr) (category average +18.8%)📊 Beat its category by 6.1% (3-yr) (category average +11.6%)📊 Beat its category by 0.3% (5-yr) (category average +5.6%)

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

Advanced risk

1.26
Sortino (3y) ?
0.74
Calmar (3y) ?
13.8%
Downside deviation ?
83%
Up months (hit rate) ?
$70.05
52-week high ?
$41.19
52-week low ?

Concentration depth

~60 ?
Effective number of holdings

Roughly 67 companies are held, but the largest names carry most of the weight — so it behaves like ~60 equal-sized positions.

Tilt vs a world tracker

Health Care+70.0
Technology-29.2
Financials-16.3
Cash/Other+14.6
Industrials-11.6
Consumer Discretionary-9.0

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

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Index trackedS&P Pharmaceuticals Select Industry IndexTechnology Select Sector IndexFTSE Developed ex US IndexS&P 500® Total Return (Net) IndexFinancial Select Sector Index® ® S&p® 500 Mxn Hdg® ® S&p® 500 Hdg
Yearly fee (TER)0.35%0.08%0.03%0.05%0.08%0.05%0.05%
All-in cost0.00%0.00%0.00%0.12%0.00%0.06%0.06%
Fund size€417.5M€100.5B€57.5B€50.3B€48.7B€36.6B€36.6B
DomicileUnited StatesUnited StatesUnited StatesIrelandUnited StatesIrelandIreland
ReplicationPhysical (full)Physical (full)Physical (full)Synthetic (swap)Physical (full)Physical (full)Physical (full)
3-yr return p.a.+17.7%+26.5%+13.9%-73.9%+16.7%
5-yr return p.a.+5.9%+18.6%+6.7%+9.2%
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Data as of 2026-07-20 · Source: issuer data, compiled by Finance Hamster

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