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State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF

SPYNYSE ArcaSPDRA

$752.15−3.57 (−0.47%)

At close: Nov 2, 2026, 4:00 PM ET

A70/ 100

Rank 5 of 14 in S&P 500

A70/100Rank 5 of 14inS&P 500
Intraday session: down, 79 prints from 755.72 to 752.15. Range 752.15 to 763.35. Use the arrow keys to read each point.757.50760.00762.5010 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM
Expense ratio
0.09%
Fund size
$814B
1Y total return
+12.0%
Yield · Last 12 months
1.00%
Holdings
505
Avg volume · 30D
44M sh
52W range
low $629.28high $781.62
Launched
Filings
SEC EDGAR

The ETF.net SPY Grade

A

Score 70 out of 100

Category
S&P 500⁠
Rank
5 of 14
Six-pillar profile for SPY. Scores out of 100: Cost 47, Risk 51, Mission 100, Tradability 92, Holdings 56, Durability 83. Strongest: Mission (100). Weakest: Cost (47). Leans toward Mission.

Score 70 of 100 falls in the A band. A is 70 or higher, B 55 to under 70, C 40 to under 55, D 25 to under 40, F under 25.

  • Cost

    The fund’s net expense ratio, ranked against its category.
    C47 out of 100
    Rank 7 of 14

  • Mission

    Whether the fund did what it promised, tested against its stated mandate.
    A100 out of 100
    Rank 1 of 13

  • Risk

    How the fund held up when markets fell: downside volatility, drawdowns and tail loss.
    C51 out of 100
    Rank 5 of 14

  • Tradability

    How easy the fund is to trade: daily volume, and how far its price strays from net asset value.
    A92 out of 100
    Rank 1 of 14

  • Holdings

    How concentrated the fund is, and how complete and current its disclosed holdings are.
    B56 out of 100
    Rank 7 of 14

  • Durability

    Whether the fund is likely to stay open, judged by its age, its assets and its issuer’s assets.
    A83 out of 100
    Rank 3 of 14

Our read on SPY

ETF.net Research

In short

AThe 1993 original, and still the ticker the market trades through. Same roughly 500 S&P 500 names as its cheaper cousins; the edge here is the crowd around it, not the fee.

Stated mandate

The fund seeks to track, before expenses, the price and yield performance of the S&P 500 Index.

Why people hold it

  • One of the most heavily traded funds in the market, and one of the largest. That depth is why desks treat it as the default way to move S&P 500 exposure.
  • Its stated job is to track the S&P 500 before expenses, and it hews to that benchmark about as closely as anything in its peer group.
  • At 0.09% a year it still undercuts the typical S&P 500 wrapper in its cohort, and it lands in the upper half of that group overall.

Worth knowing

  • That liquidity has a price: VOO, IVV and SPYM track the same index for a few basis points, and the fee gap compounds over a long hold.
  • It is a unit investment trust, the older 1993-vintage wrapper: it holds the index as declared and pays dividends out on a quarterly schedule.
  • About 500 stocks, cap-weighted, so the largest companies carry the most weight; equal-weight takes on the same index, like RSP, spread it differently.

SPY Holdings

Holdings pillarB56 out of 100Rank 7 of 14 in S&P 500
Asset class
Stocks
Holdings
505
Top-10 weight
37%
Largest holding
NVDA7.8%

Sectors

  • Technology38.6%
  • Financials11.8%
  • Health Care9.8%
  • Consumer Discretionary9.0%
  • Communication8.9%
  • Industrials8.0%
  • Consumer Staples4.8%
  • Energy3.7%
  • Utilities2.0%
  • Real Estate1.7%
  • Materials1.7%

Geography

  • United States99.53%
  • Switzerland0.26%
  • China0.10%
  • Mexico0.05%
  • Ireland0.03%
  • United Kingdom0.03%
The fund’s holdings, weight-ordered — page 1 of 34.
#TickerCompanyWeight %SharesMarket valueHeld by ETFs
1NVDANVIDIA Corp7.77%295,174,623$63.2B848
2AAPLApple Inc7.66%178,010,005$62.3B723
3MSFTMicrosoft Corp5.92%90,565,510$48.1B819
4AMZNAmazon.com Inc3.60%119,717,349$29.3B738
5GOOGLAlphabet Inc Class A2.50%71,570,895$20.4B707
6AVGOBroadcom Inc2.47%58,028,266$20.1B753
7METAMeta Platforms Inc Class A2.07%26,896,058$16.8B708
8GOOGAlphabet Inc Class C2.02%57,975,370$16.4B480
9TSLATesla Inc1.71%34,376,028$13.9B528
10LLYEli Lilly & Co1.65%9,760,223$13.4B593
11MUMicron Technology Inc1.59%13,775,639$12.9B686
12BRK.BBerkshire Hathaway Inc Class B1.52%22,717,453$12.3B374
13AMDAdvanced Micro Devices1.39%19,912,241$11.3B638
14JPMJPMorgan Chase & Co1.37%32,424,316$11.2B487
15XOMExxonmobil Holdings Corp1.13%50,159,003$9.22B525

Showing 1–15 of 505 holdings

SPY Performance

Launched Jan 22, 1993

Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.

SPY tracks large US stocks. It provides market context, rather than representing this fund’s strategy, asset class or investment benchmark.$11,199
Oct 31, 2025 to Oct 30, 2026. SPY $11,199. Use the arrow keys to read each point.$10,000$11,000Oct 2025May 2026Oct 2026

Oct 31, 2025 – Oct 30, 2026

Returns run to the Oct 30, 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.

Trailing total return for SPY. Periods over one year show the average yearly return.
PeriodSPY
Year to date+11.7%
1 month−0.9%
3 months+1.4%
1 year+12.0%
3 yearsper year+23.3%
5 yearsper year+12.0%
10 yearsper year+15.3%

With distributions reinvested.

Calendar-year total return with cash distributions hypothetically reinvested at the ex-dividend date’s closing price. The current year shows year to date.

Annual total returns for SPY
YearReturn barSPY
2026 YTD+11.7%
2025+17.7%
2024+24.9%
2023+26.2%
2022−18.2%
2021+28.7%
2020+18.4%

SPY in the news

SPY Dividends

Adds up every distribution paid per share over the last 12 months, divided by the last completed close. Distributions are counted by ex-date. Data through Oct 30, 2026.
1.00%Last 12 months
Payout per share
$7.58Last 12 months
Last payment
$1.89 per share
Paid on
Shares bought on or after this date do not qualify for this distribution.
Frequency
Quarterly

Distribution history

2017–2026

One bar per payment. 39 payments from 2017 to 2026 YTD. Mar 17, 2017 $1.03; Jun 16, 2017 $1.18; Sep 15, 2017 $1.23; Dec 15, 2017 $1.35; Mar 16, 2018 $1.10; Jun 15, 2018 $1.25; Sep 21, 2018 $1.32; Dec 21, 2018 $1.44; Mar 15, 2019 $1.23; Jun 21, 2019 $1.43; Sep 20, 2019 $1.38; Dec 20, 2019 $1.57; Mar 20, 2020 $1.41; Jun 19, 2020 $1.37; Sep 18, 2020 $1.34; Dec 18, 2020 $1.58; Mar 19, 2021 $1.28; Jun 18, 2021 $1.38; Sep 17, 2021 $1.43; Dec 17, 2021 $1.63; Mar 18, 2022 $1.37; Jun 17, 2022 $1.58; Sep 16, 2022 $1.60; Dec 16, 2022 $1.78; Mar 17, 2023 $1.51; Jun 16, 2023 $1.64; Sep 15, 2023 $1.58; Dec 15, 2023 $1.91; Mar 15, 2024 $1.59; Jun 21, 2024 $1.76; Sep 20, 2024 $1.75; Dec 20, 2024 $1.97; Mar 21, 2025 $1.70; Jun 20, 2025 $1.76; Sep 19, 2025 $1.83; Dec 19, 2025 $1.99; Mar 20, 2026 $1.80; Jun 18, 2026 $1.90; Sep 18, 2026 $1.89. Use the arrow keys to read each point.2017201820192020202120222023202420252026YTD
Ex-datePay dateAmount per share
Sep 18, 2026Oct 30, 2026$1.89
Jun 18, 2026Jul 31, 2026$1.90
Mar 20, 2026Apr 30, 2026$1.80
Dec 19, 2025Jan 30, 2026$1.99
Sep 19, 2025Oct 31, 2025$1.83
Jun 20, 2025Jul 31, 2025$1.76
Mar 21, 2025Apr 30, 2025$1.70
Dec 20, 2024Jan 31, 2025$1.97
Sep 20, 2024Oct 31, 2024$1.75
Jun 21, 2024Jul 31, 2024$1.76
Mar 15, 2024Apr 30, 2024$1.59
Dec 15, 2023Jan 31, 2024$1.91

See all 136 payments⁠

$10,000 in SPY 10 years ago paid $2,932 in dividends.⁠

SPY Risk

Risk pillarC51 out of 100Rank 5 of 14 in S&P 500
How much the fund’s monthly returns vary, scaled to a year.
12.3%
Annualised · 36 months to Oct 2026
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.

Return above 3-month US Treasury bills per unit of volatility.
1.42
vs 3-month T-bills · to Oct 2026
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.

The largest fall from a peak to the low that followed.
−24.5%
Trough Oct 2022
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.

How strongly the fund’s returns move with its asset-class index.
1.01
vs its asset-class index
How it’s calculated: beta

The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.

FMP measures it over up to five years of monthly returns.

SPY Cost

Compare SPY and SPYM

Overpaying vs SPYM, cheapest in S&P 500

$1,472

On $10,000 over 30 years. 7% growth a year before fees, expense ratio only.

  • SPY 0.09%

    $1,898

  • SPYM 0.02% Cheapest

    $426

$10,000
30 years

Cost over time

  • SPY 0.09%
  • SPYM 0.02%
  • Overpaying
One line per fund, from year 0 to year 30. Use the arrow keys to read each point.$0$500$1K$1.5K$2K051015202530SPY $1,898SPYM $426

Year by year

YearSPYSPYMOverpaying
10$165$37$128
20$646$144$502
30$1,898$426$1,472

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