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State Street® Utilities Select Sector SPDR® ETF

SPDR · US81369Y8865

State Street® Utilities Select Sector SPDR® ETF is an exchange-traded fund (ETF) from SPDR, traded under the ticker XLU (ISIN US81369Y8865). It lets you buy a basket of holdings in a single trade, spreading your money across them rather than one company. At its core it is a focused, thematic fund: it concentrates on the utilities part of the market,…

· Tracks the Utilities 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) ?
€19.6B
1-year return ?
-9.4%
Price Return · to 2026-10-02
Yearly fee (TER) ?
0.08%
All-in cost ≈ 0.00%

About this fund

What you own

The Utilities Select Sector Index index is the benchmark this fund aims to copy. By holding it, this fund gives you a stake in around 34 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 ?
Utilities Select Sector Index
Replication ?
Physical
Full — buys every share
Launched
Dec 1998
28-year track record

Performance

82.599.4116133150202120242026

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

State Street® Utilities 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-6.7%
1 year-9.4%
3 years+11.9%
5 years+4.5%

Return, year by year

-1.5
-10.2
+19.5
+12.8
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2 of 4 up yearsBest: 2024 +19.5%Worst: 2023 -10.2%Calendar-year total returns, in USD

How bumpy has it been?

15.2%
Volatility (1y) ?
How much the price swings year to year — lower is calmer.
-17.8%
Worst drop (3y) ?
The biggest fall from a peak over the last three years.
0.74
Return for the risk (3y) ?
Reward earned per unit of bumpiness.

The bigger picture

+21.2%
Since inception
Total growth since launch — about +3.8% a year.
+44.9%
Best 12 months
The strongest one-year stretch on record.
-18.8%
Worst 12 months
The weakest one-year stretch on record.
-28.1%
Worst fall on record ?
It clawed back in about 12 months.

What's inside

By sector ?

Utilities91.3%
Energy5.9%
Cash/Other2.8%

The 10 biggest holdings make up 58.8% of the fund — the rest is spread across roughly 24 more companies.

Top 10 holdings

#CompanyWeight
1NEXTERA ENERGY INC12.8%
2SOUTHERN CO/THE7.7%
3DUKE ENERGY CORP7.1%
4CONSTELLATION ENERGY6.8%
5AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER5.2%
6DOMINION ENERGY INC4.3%
7SEMPRA4.1%
8ENTERGY CORP3.8%
9VISTRA CORP3.5%
10XCEL ENERGY INC3.5%

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 2026-10-02 · the fund's own published holdings.

#CompanyWeight
1NEXTERA ENERGY INC12.8%
2SOUTHERN CO/THE7.7%
3DUKE ENERGY CORP7.1%
4CONSTELLATION ENERGY6.8%
5AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER5.2%
6DOMINION ENERGY INC4.3%
7SEMPRA4.1%
8ENTERGY CORP3.8%
9VISTRA CORP3.5%
10XCEL ENERGY INC3.5%
11EXELON CORP3.3%
12CONSOLIDATED EDISON INC3.1%
13PUBLIC SERVICE ENTERPRISE GP2.7%
14WEC ENERGY GROUP INC2.7%
15AMEREN CORPORATION2.2%
16P G + E CORP2.1%
17ATMOS ENERGY CORP2.1%
18DTE ENERGY COMPANY2.1%
19AMERICAN WATER WORKS CO INC2.0%
20PPL CORP2.0%
21CENTERPOINT ENERGY INC2.0%
22EVERSOURCE ENERGY1.9%
23FIRSTENERGY CORP1.8%
24EDISON INTERNATIONAL1.7%
25NRG ENERGY INC1.6%
26CMS ENERGY CORP1.6%
27NISOURCE INC1.5%
28EVERGY INC1.5%
29ALLIANT ENERGY CORP1.3%
30PINNACLE WEST CAPITAL0.9%
31AES CORP0.9%
32SSI US GOV MONEY MARKET CLASS0.2%
33US DOLLAR0.0%
34XAU UTILITIES DEC260.0%

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How it ranks vs peers

🪙 Cheaper than 81% of similar ETFs📈 Higher 1-yr return than 5%📈 Higher 3-yr return than 50%📈 Higher 5-yr return than 40%📊 Behind its category by 24.2% (1-yr) (category average +14.9%)📊 Behind its category by 0.6% (3-yr) (category average +12.5%)📊 Behind its category by 0.7% (5-yr) (category average +5.2%)

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

Advanced risk

1.06
Sortino (3y) ?
0.67
Calmar (3y) ?
11.4%
Downside deviation ?
50%
Up months (hit rate) ?
$47.73
52-week high ?
$39.25
52-week low ?

Concentration depth

~20 ?
Effective number of holdings

Roughly 34 companies are held, but the largest names carry most of the weight — so it behaves like ~20 equal-sized positions.

Tilt vs a world tracker

Utilities+88.8
Technology-29.2
Financials-16.3
Industrials-11.6
Health Care-9.3
Consumer Discretionary-9.0

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

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Yearly fee (TER)0.08%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%
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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.+11.9%+34.9%+13.9%+17.8%+8.7%+10.8%+18.6%
5-yr return p.a.+4.5%+21.4%+6.7%+6.8%+5.5%+18.8%+11.6%
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Data as of 2026-10-02 · Source: issuer data, compiled by Finance Hamster

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