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State Street® Communication Services Select Sector SPDR® ETF
State Street® Communication Services Select Sector SPDR® ETF is an exchange-traded fund (ETF) from SPDR, traded under the ticker XLC (ISIN US81369Y8527). 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 communication services part of…
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About this fund
What you own
The Communication Services Select Sector Index index is the benchmark this fund aims to copy. By holding it, this fund gives you a stake in around 26 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
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
Performance
Growth of $100 invested — the line starts at $100.
End-of-day prices, rebased to a common start so the shapes are comparable. Past performance does not predict future results.
Return, year by year
How bumpy has it been?
The bigger picture
What's inside
By sector ?
The 10 biggest holdings make up 69.9% of the fund — the rest is spread across roughly 16 more companies.
Top 10 holdings
| # | Company | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | META PLATFORMS INC CLASS A | 17.5% |
| 2 | ALPHABET INC CL A | 10.6% |
| 3 | ALPHABET INC CL C | 8.4% |
| 4 | AT+T INC | 5.0% |
| 5 | VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC | 4.9% |
| 6 | COMCAST CORP CLASS A | 4.8% |
| 7 | WALT DISNEY CO/THE | 4.7% |
| 8 | NETFLIX INC | 4.7% |
| 9 | T MOBILE US INC | 4.7% |
| 10 | OMNICOM GROUP | 4.6% |
Where to buy this fund
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Where it trades
| Exchange | Ticker | Currency | |
|---|---|---|---|
| NYSE | XLC | USD | ★ Primary |
| EUR listings | |||
| Frankfurt | SD7D | EUR | |
| USD listings | |||
| B3 | XLCN | USD | |
| B4 | XLCUSD | USD | |
| E1 | XLCEUR | USD | |
| E1 | XLCUSD | USD | |
| EP | XLCUSD | USD | |
| EU | XLCEUR | USD | |
| EU | XLCUSD | USD | |
| EZ | XLCUSD | USD | |
| L1 | XLCN | USD | |
| L3 | XLCN | USD | |
| MF | XLC* | USD | |
| MM | XLC* | USD | |
| MU | XLC* | USD | |
| NYSE Arca | XLC | USD | |
| OC | XLC | USD | |
| OD | XLC | USD | |
| PE | XLC | USD | |
| PO | XLCN | USD | |
| TH | SD7D | USD | |
| UA | XLC | USD | |
| UB | XLC | USD | |
| UC | XLC | USD | |
| UD | XLC | USD | |
| UF | XLC | USD | |
| UM | XLC | USD | |
| US | XLC | USD | |
| UT | XLC | USD | |
| UX | XLC | USD | |
| VF | XLC | USD | |
| VG | XLC | USD | |
| VJ | XLC | USD | |
| VK | XLC | USD | |
| VP | XLC | USD | |
| VT | XLC | USD | |
| VY | XLC | USD | |
| X2 | XLCUSD | USD | |
| X9 | XLCUSD | USD | |
| XA | XLCEUR | USD | |
| XA | XLCUSD | USD | |
| XE | XLCEUR | USD | |
| XE | XLCUSD | USD | |
| XF | XLCUSD | USD | |
| XF | XLCEUR | USD | |
| XG | XLCEUR | USD | |
| XG | XLCUSD | USD | |
| XH | XLCEUR | USD | |
| XH | XLCUSD | USD | |
| XJ | XLCEUR | USD | |
| XJ | XLCUSD | USD | |
| XL | XLCUSD | USD | |
| XL | XLCEUR | USD | |
| XO | XLCEUR | USD | |
| XO | XLCUSD | USD | |
| XQ | XLCEUR | USD | |
| XQ | XLCUSD | USD | |
| XS | XLCEUR | USD | |
| XS | XLCUSD | USD | |
| XU | XLCUSD | USD | |
| XU | XLCEUR | USD | |
| XV | XLCEUR | USD | |
| XV | XLCUSD | USD | |
| XW | XLCEUR | USD | |
| XW | XLCUSD | USD | |
| XX | XLCEUR | USD | |
| XX | XLCUSD | USD | |
| XZ | XLCEUR | USD | |
| XZ | XLCUSD | USD | |
For serious comparison — full data holdings, percentiles, advanced risk, tilt, flows
Full holdings
As of 2026-08-21 · the fund's own published holdings.
| # | Company | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | META PLATFORMS INC CLASS A | 17.5% |
| 2 | ALPHABET INC CL A | 10.6% |
| 3 | ALPHABET INC CL C | 8.4% |
| 4 | AT+T INC | 5.0% |
| 5 | VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC | 4.9% |
| 6 | COMCAST CORP CLASS A | 4.8% |
| 7 | WALT DISNEY CO/THE | 4.7% |
| 8 | NETFLIX INC | 4.7% |
| 9 | T MOBILE US INC | 4.7% |
| 10 | OMNICOM GROUP | 4.6% |
| 11 | WARNER BROS DISCOVERY INC | 4.5% |
| 12 | LIVE NATION ENTERTAINMENT IN | 4.5% |
| 13 | TAKE TWO INTERACTIVE SOFTWRE | 4.3% |
| 14 | CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS INC A | 2.4% |
| 15 | FOX CORP CLASS A | 2.4% |
| 16 | TKO GROUP HOLDINGS INC | 2.3% |
| 17 | ECHOSTAR CORP A | 2.3% |
| 18 | NEWS CORP CLASS A | 1.9% |
| 19 | FOX CORP CLASS B | 1.5% |
| 20 | APPLOVIN CORP CLASS A | 1.3% |
| 21 | TRADE DESK INC/THE CLASS A | 1.1% |
| 22 | NEWS CORP CLASS B | 0.7% |
| 23 | PARAMOUNT SKYDANCE CL B | 0.6% |
| 24 | SSI US GOV MONEY MARKET CLASS | 0.2% |
| 25 | US DOLLAR | 0.0% |
| 26 | S+P EMINI COM SER SEP26 | 0.0% |
How it ranks vs peers
Versus the Equity (stocks) · Other · USD ETFs we track.
Advanced risk
Concentration depth
Roughly 26 companies are held, but the largest names carry most of the weight — so it behaves like ~14 equal-sized positions.
Tilt vs a world tracker
Percentage points over / under a broad world-equity tracker (not a licensed benchmark).
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| Index tracked | Communication Services Select Sector Index | Technology Select Sector Index | FTSE Developed ex US Index | Financial Select Sector Index | ® ® S&p® 500 Hdg | ® ® S&p® 500 Mxn Hdg | Health Care Select Sector Index |
| Yearly fee (TER) | 0.08% | 0.08% | 0.03% | 0.08% | 0.05% | 0.05% | 0.08% |
| All-in cost | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.06% | 0.06% | 0.00% |
| Fund size | €19.1B | €106.4B | €56.1B | €49.2B | €38.1B | €37.9B | €37.3B |
| Domicile | United States | United States | United States | United States | Ireland | Ireland | United States |
| Replication | Physical (full) | Physical (full) | Physical (full) | Physical (full) | Physical (full) | Physical (full) | Physical (full) |
| 3-yr return p.a. | +19.3% | +31.3% | +13.9% | +19.4% | +8.3% | ||
| 5-yr return p.a. | +6.1% | +19.6% | +6.7% | +9.1% | +4.6% | ||
| # holdings | 26 | 76 | 1,494 | 80 | 505 | 505 | 63 |
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