State Street SPDR Portfolio Europe ETF
$54.48−0.82 (−1.48%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.07%
- Fund size
- $717M
- 1Y return
- +15.7%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 3.51%
- Holdings
- 1713
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $55.15
- 52W range
The ETF.net SPEU Grade
Score 83 of 100 sits in the A 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.AScore 97Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 100Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.AScore 74Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.CScore 47Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 83Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.CScore 52Category rank
Our read on SPEU
AEurope in one line item, priced like a core holding. A 0.07% fee buys the whole STOXX Europe Total Market Index, large caps down to small, in a fund that has been running since 2002.
The fund seeks to deliver returns generally corresponding to the total return of the STOXX Europe Total Market Index.
Why people hold it
- Charges 0.07% a year, versus a 0.28% median for its peer group. That is core-index pricing on a single-region fund.
- Total-market index, not a blue-chip list: over a thousand western European stocks spanning large, mid and small caps.
- Launched in 2002, so it has run through multiple European market cycles under State Street.
- Mandate is plain and literal: match the total return of one published European index, with no sector or country tilts bolted on.
Worth knowing
- Trading is light next to the giant international funds. Limit orders matter more here, and spreads can widen when volume is thin.
- Europe only. Broad international peers like VEU and IXUS cover Asia and emerging markets too, at 0.04% and 0.07%.
- Holdings trade in euros, pounds and francs, so currency swings against the dollar move your return alongside the stocks.
SPEU Holdings
- Stocks
- 1,713
- 18%
- ASML
Sectors
- Financials25.2%
- Health Care16.7%
- Technology14.7%
- Industrials11.3%
- Energy8.7%
- Consumer Discr.6.5%
- Materials6.2%
- Cons. Staples5.5%
- Utilities2.3%
- Communication1.9%
- Real Estate1.1%
Geography
- United Kingdom21.59%
- Switzerland14.17%
- France13.30%
- Germany12.89%
- Netherlands8.82%
- Sweden5.81%
- Spain5.80%
- Italy5.40%
- 12.20%
Developed 99% · Emerging 1%
SPEU Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
SPEU$11,565
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 | SPEU |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +8.8% |
| 1 month | −3.1% |
| 3 months | +1.6% |
| 1 year | +15.7% |
| 3 years | +18.5% |
| 5 years | +9.1% |
| 10 years | +9.5% |
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 | SPEU |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +8.8% | |
| 2025 | +35.8% | |
| 2024 | +1.9% | |
| 2023 | +19.9% | |
| 2022 | −16.0% | |
| 2021 | +16.2% | |
| 2020 | +6.4% |
SPEU in the news
SPEU Dividends
- 3.51%
- $1.94
- $0.23 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 21, 2026 | Pays Sep 23, 2026 | $0.23 |
| Jun 22, 2026 | Jun 24, 2026 | $0.90 |
| Mar 23, 2026 | Mar 25, 2026 | $0.23 |
| Dec 22, 2025 | Dec 24, 2025 | $0.59 |
| Sep 22, 2025 | Sep 24, 2025 | $0.17 |
| Jun 23, 2025 | Jun 25, 2025 | $0.87 |
| Mar 24, 2025 | Mar 26, 2025 | $0.18 |
| Dec 23, 2024 | Dec 26, 2024 | $0.19 |
| Sep 23, 2024 | Sep 25, 2024 | $0.18 |
| Jun 24, 2024 | Jun 26, 2024 | $0.76 |
| Mar 18, 2024 | Mar 21, 2024 | $0.18 |
| Dec 18, 2023 | Dec 21, 2023 | $0.15 |
SPEU Risk
- 13.1%
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.
- 1.00
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.
- −32.7%
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.
- 0.95
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
SPEU Cost
0.07%
SPEU0.07%
- The middle half of Europe Region funds
- Median 0.51%
No Europe Region fund charges less.