State Street® Energy Select Sector SPDR® Premium Income ETF

What this fund is

State Street® Energy Select Sector SPDR® Premium Income ETF is an exchange-traded fund (ETF) from SPDR, traded under the ticker XLEI (ISIN US81369Y8295). In a single purchase you get a diversified basket of holdings rather than a stake in just one business. In plain terms it is about owning small slices of companies, so you share in their growth when they do well — and their falls when they don't, spread across its target market. It follows the S&P 500 Index index (passive investing): it tracks the market rather than relying on a manager, keeping running costs down, and its largest holdings include STATE STREET ENERGY SELECT SEC, SSI US GOV MONEY MARKET CLASS and STATE STREET ENERGY SELECT SEC JUL26 60 CALL.

It is commonly used to tilt a portfolio towards one market, usually alongside broader, more global funds rather than on its own. Its ongoing charge (TER) is 0.35% a year — about €35 a year on a €10,000 holding, taken automatically from the fund. It is a distributing share class — dividends are paid to you as cash rather than reinvested, and over the last year it paid out roughly 20.17% (its trailing yield). It holds the underlying investments directly (physical replication); it is domiciled in the United States and trades in USD.

Its price has swung about 13.9% over the past year, which describes how much its price tends to move rather than whether it is good. It launched in 2025. Like any investment, it can lose value as well as gain, and what it did before does not predict what it will do next. (Fund data sourced from SPDR.)