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State Street® Materials Select Sector SPDR® ETF

SPDR · US81369Y1001

State Street® Materials Select Sector SPDR® ETF is an exchange-traded fund (ETF) from SPDR, traded under the ticker XLB (ISIN US81369Y1001). In a single purchase you get a diversified basket of holdings rather than a stake in just one business. At its core it is a focused, thematic fund: it concentrates on the materials part of the market, so it…

· Tracks the Materials Select Sector Index index ?
Equity ?Unknown Physical ?United States ?
Low yearly feeOwns the shares directlyOtherConcentrated in a few names
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Fund size (AUM) ?
€7.4B
1-year return ?
+16.7%
Price Return · to 2026-08-14
Yearly fee (TER) ?
0.08%
All-in cost ≈ 0.00%

About this fund

What you own

The Materials Select Sector Index index is the benchmark this fund aims to copy. By holding it, this fund gives you a stake in around 28 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

0.08%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 ?
Materials Select Sector Index
Replication ?
Physical
Full — buys every share
Launched
Dec 1998
28-year track record

Performance

75.588.6102115128202120242026

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

State Street® Materials Select Sector SPDR® ETF

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

YTD+15.9%
1 year+16.7%
3 years+8.8%
5 years+4.0%

Return, year by year

-14.3
+10.1
-1.6
+7.8
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2 of 4 up yearsBest: 2023 +10.1%Worst: 2022 -14.3%Calendar-year total returns, in USD

How bumpy has it been?

17.6%
Volatility (1y) ?
How much the price swings year to year — lower is calmer.
-23.9%
Worst drop (3y) ?
The biggest fall from a peak over the last three years.
0.51
Return for the risk (3y) ?
Reward earned per unit of bumpiness.

The bigger picture

+27.0%
Since inception
Total growth since launch — about +4.8% a year.
+39.4%
Best 12 months
The strongest one-year stretch on record.
-20.0%
Worst 12 months
The weakest one-year stretch on record.
-25.7%
Worst fall on record ?
It clawed back in about 18 months.

What's inside

By sector ?

Materials68.0%
Cash/Other20.2%
Corporate10.1%
Industrials1.7%

The 10 biggest holdings make up 58.3% of the fund — the rest is spread across roughly 18 more companies.

Top 10 holdings

#CompanyWeight
1LINDE PLC12.9%
2NEWMONT CORP7.1%
3FREEPORT MCMORAN INC5.6%
4SHERWIN WILLIAMS CO/THE5.2%
5AIR PRODUCTS + CHEMICALS INC4.8%
6NUCOR CORP4.7%
7ECOLAB INC4.7%
8CORTEVA INC4.4%
9VULCAN MATERIALS CO4.4%
10MARTIN MARIETTA MATERIALS4.3%

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Where it trades

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Full holdings

As of 2026-08-14 · the fund's own published holdings.

#CompanyWeight
1LINDE PLC12.9%
2NEWMONT CORP7.1%
3FREEPORT MCMORAN INC5.6%
4SHERWIN WILLIAMS CO/THE5.2%
5AIR PRODUCTS + CHEMICALS INC4.8%
6NUCOR CORP4.7%
7ECOLAB INC4.7%
8CORTEVA INC4.4%
9VULCAN MATERIALS CO4.4%
10MARTIN MARIETTA MATERIALS4.3%
11CRH PLC4.2%
12STEEL DYNAMICS INC4.2%
13SMURFIT WESTROCK PLC3.5%
14PPG INDUSTRIES INC3.4%
15PACKAGING CORP OF AMERICA3.0%
16DOW INC2.9%
17INTERNATIONAL PAPER CO2.9%
18INTL FLAVORS + FRAGRANCES2.9%
19AMCOR PLC2.9%
20CF INDUSTRIES HOLDINGS INC2.4%
21BALL CORP2.2%
22LYONDELLBASELL INDU CL A2.2%
23ALBEMARLE CORP2.1%
24AVERY DENNISON CORP1.8%
25MOSAIC CO/THE0.9%
26SSI US GOV MONEY MARKET CLASS0.1%
27US DOLLAR0.0%
28XAB MATERIALS SEP260.0%

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How it ranks vs peers

🪙 Cheaper than 82% of similar ETFs📈 Higher 1-yr return than 50%📈 Higher 3-yr return than 27%📈 Higher 5-yr return than 33%📊 Behind its category by 1.3% (1-yr) (category average +18.0%)📊 Behind its category by 3.6% (3-yr) (category average +12.4%)📊 Behind its category by 1.5% (5-yr) (category average +5.5%)

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

Advanced risk

0.74
Sortino (3y) ?
0.37
Calmar (3y) ?
11.9%
Downside deviation ?
50%
Up months (hit rate) ?
$53.62
52-week high ?
$42.23
52-week low ?

Concentration depth

~19 ?
Effective number of holdings

Roughly 28 companies are held, but the largest names carry most of the weight — so it behaves like ~19 equal-sized positions.

Tilt vs a world tracker

Materials+64.7
Technology-29.2
Cash/Other+20.2
Financials-16.3
Corporate+10.1
Industrials-9.9

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

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All-in cost0.00%0.00%0.00%0.00%0.06%0.06%0.00%
Fund size€7.4B€106.4B€56.1B€49.2B€38.1B€37.9B€37.3B
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ReplicationPhysical (full)Physical (full)Physical (full)Physical (full)Physical (full)Physical (full)Physical (full)
3-yr return p.a.+8.8%+31.3%+13.9%+19.4%+8.3%
5-yr return p.a.+4.0%+19.6%+6.7%+9.1%+4.6%
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Data as of 2026-08-14 · Source: issuer data, compiled by Finance Hamster

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