State Street SPDR S&P 600 Small Cap Growth ETF
$108.67−1.03 (−0.94%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.15%
- Fund size
- $4.8B
- 1Y return
- +16.1%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 0.71%
- Holdings
- 350
- Volume · 30D
- 0.1M sh
- NAV per share
- $109.39
- 52W range
The ETF.net SLYG Grade
Score 61 of 100 sits in the B band. Bands: A ≥ 70, B ≥ 55, C ≥ 40, D ≥ 25, F < 25; the scale skips E.
Cost
What you pay to own it — the expense ratio plus trading frictions, ranked within its category.BScore 58Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 81Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.CScore 40Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 60Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 55Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 66Category rank
Our read on SLYG
BLive since 2000, SLYG splits the S&P SmallCap 600 in two and keeps the growth half: roughly 400 small companies screened on growth and momentum. An old, plain wrapper around a sharp style tilt.
The fund seeks to deliver, before fees and expenses, total returns that generally correspond to the S&P SmallCap 600 Growth Index.
Why people hold it
- Running since 2000 and now a multi-billion-dollar fund: one of the original ways to own the growth half of the S&P SmallCap 600.
- Cheap for a style fund at 0.15%, under the 0.18% median of its S&P 600 peer group, and the portfolio hews closely to its index rather than drifting.
- Roughly 400 stocks, cash paid quarterly, and a matching value sibling (SLYV) for the other half of the same index family.
Worth knowing
- Vanguard's VIOG tracks the same declared index for 0.10%. Same shopping list, lower sticker.
- Growth is half the S&P 600 by construction, so it behaves differently from full-index funds like SPSM and IJR, and sits at the jumpier end of small caps.
- Moderately traded rather than a firehose. The broad S&P 600 funds see heavier volume, which can show up in spreads on big or hurried orders.
SLYG Holdings
- Stocks
- 350
- 10%
- VSAT
Sectors
- Industrials18.1%
- Technology17.0%
- Health Care15.6%
- Financials14.9%
- Consumer Discr.11.6%
- Real Estate7.0%
- Energy5.0%
- Cons. Staples3.5%
- Materials3.0%
- Communication2.7%
- Utilities1.6%
Geography
- United States97.54%
- Ireland0.93%
- Puerto Rico0.61%
- Bermuda0.49%
- Bahamas0.27%
- Israel0.16%
SLYG Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
Returns run to the Sep 22, 2026 close, with cash distributions reinvested. Each period starts on the same date that many months or years earlier. Periods over one year show the average yearly return.
| Period | SLYG |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +17.2% |
| 1 month | −5.2% |
| 3 months | −3.8% |
| 1 year | +16.1% |
| 3 years | +15.8% |
| 5 years | +5.6% |
| 10 years | +10.1% |
Calendar-year total return with cash distributions hypothetically reinvested at the ex-dividend date’s closing price. The current year shows year to date.
| Year | Return bar | SLYG |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +17.2% | |
| 2025 | +5.2% | |
| 2024 | +9.4% | |
| 2023 | +17.3% | |
| 2022 | −21.3% | |
| 2021 | +22.4% | |
| 2020 | +19.5% |
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SLYG Dividends
- 0.71%
- $0.78
- $0.25 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 21, 2026 | Pays Sep 23, 2026 | $0.25 |
| Jun 22, 2026 | Jun 24, 2026 | $0.23 |
| Mar 23, 2026 | Mar 25, 2026 | $0.18 |
| Dec 22, 2025 | Dec 24, 2025 | $0.12 |
| Sep 22, 2025 | Sep 24, 2025 | $0.23 |
| Jun 23, 2025 | Jun 25, 2025 | $0.24 |
| Mar 24, 2025 | Mar 26, 2025 | $0.22 |
| Dec 23, 2024 | Dec 26, 2024 | $0.37 |
| Sep 23, 2024 | Sep 25, 2024 | $0.29 |
| Jun 24, 2024 | Jun 26, 2024 | $0.25 |
| Mar 18, 2024 | Mar 21, 2024 | $0.18 |
| Dec 18, 2023 | Dec 21, 2023 | $0.27 |
SLYG Risk
- 19.4%
How it’s calculated: standard deviation
The sample standard deviation of monthly total returns, multiplied by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Total returns include reinvested distributions.
- 0.56
How it’s calculated: Sharpe ratio
Subtract each month’s Treasury-bill return from the fund’s monthly total return.
Divide the average of those excess returns by their sample standard deviation, then multiply by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Each month uses the Treasury yield quoted at the end of the previous month.
- −29.2%
How it’s calculated: maximum drawdown
The largest percentage decline from an earlier peak, using total returns with reinvested distributions.
Uses up to five years through the last close, with at least 12 months required.
- 1.04
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
SLYG Cost
- The middle half of S&P SmallCap 600 funds
- Median 0.15%
4 of the 13 S&P SmallCap 600 funds charge less.