State Street Materials Select Sector SPDR ETF
$50.47−0.06 (−0.13%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.08%
- Fund size
- $8.0B
- 1Y return
- +13.8%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 1.71%
- Holdings
- 25
- Volume · 30D
- 11.4M sh
- NAV per share
- $49.73
- 52W range
The ETF.net XLB 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 95Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 82Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.BScore 65Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 99Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 56Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 81Category rank
Our read on XLB
AThe original materials play. A 1998-vintage slice of the S&P 500's chemical, mining, packaging and building-materials names, run at eight basis points and traded in size all day long.
The fund seeks to track, before expenses, the price and yield performance of the Materials Select Sector Index.
Why people hold it
- Charges 0.08% a year against a peer-group median of 0.38%, and nothing in the cohort undercuts it (FMAT matches).
- Trading since December 1998 as one of the original Select Sector SPDRs, with a multi-billion-dollar asset base behind it.sec.gov
- Very actively traded for a sector fund, which is the whole point if you use it for tactical tilts rather than buy-and-forget.
- Clean mandate: chemicals, metals and mining, paper and forest products, containers and packaging, construction materials. No thematic drift.ssga.com
Worth knowing
- Around 26 stocks, and index rules let one name reach 25% at a quarter-end measurement. A couple of chemical giants carry outsized weight.sec.gov
- The universe is the S&P 500 only. Smaller miners and specialty producers sit outside the net, which is the water VAW and XME fish in.ssga.com
- One sector, tied to commodity prices and building demand, so it can travel a very different path from the broad market. Distributions come quarterly.ssga.com
XLB Holdings
- Stocks
- 25
- 56%
- LIN
Sectors
- Materials84.6%
- Consumer Discr.15.4%
Geography
- United States78.76%
- United Kingdom15.33%
- Ireland3.19%
- Switzerland2.71%
Developed 100% · Emerging 0%
XLB Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
XLB$11,382
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 | XLB |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +12.8% |
| 1 month | −5.2% |
| 3 months | −1.7% |
| 1 year | +13.8% |
| 3 years | +10.9% |
| 5 years | +6.9% |
| 10 years | +10.0% |
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 | XLB |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +12.8% | |
| 2025 | +9.9% | |
| 2024 | +0.1% | |
| 2023 | +12.5% | |
| 2022 | −12.3% | |
| 2021 | +27.4% | |
| 2020 | +20.5% |
XLB in the news
XLB Dividends
- 1.71%
- $0.86
- $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 | $0.19 |
| Mar 23, 2026 | Mar 25, 2026 | $0.21 |
| Dec 22, 2025 | Dec 24, 2025 | $0.23 |
| Sep 22, 2025 | Sep 24, 2025 | $0.21 |
| Jun 23, 2025 | Jun 25, 2025 | $0.22 |
| Mar 24, 2025 | Mar 26, 2025 | $0.20 |
| Dec 23, 2024 | Dec 26, 2024 | $0.22 |
| Sep 23, 2024 | Sep 25, 2024 | $0.21 |
| Jun 24, 2024 | Jun 26, 2024 | $0.21 |
| Mar 18, 2024 | Mar 21, 2024 | $0.16 |
| Dec 18, 2023 | Dec 21, 2023 | $0.30 |
XLB Risk
- 15.9%
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.
- 0.42
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.
- −24.7%
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.
- 0.82
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
XLB Cost
0.08%
XLB0.08%
- The middle half of Materials (Broad) funds
- Median 0.37%
No Materials (Broad) fund charges less.