State Street Communication Services Select Sector SPDR ETF
$113.11−0.42 (−0.37%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.08%
- Fund size
- $23.3B
- 1Y return
- −3.1%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 1.22%
- Holdings
- 23
- Volume · 30D
- 5.8M sh
- NAV per share
- $114.73
- 52W range
The ETF.net XLC Grade
Score 76 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 90Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 91Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.CScore 54Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 94Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.CScore 41Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 77Category rank
Our read on XLC
ALaunched in 2018, XLC bottles the communication services corner of the S&P 500: search, social, streaming and the phone companies, in one 0.08% wrapper that trades heavily all day.
The fund seeks to track, before expenses, the price and yield performance of the Communication Services Select Sector Index.
Why people hold it
- Costs 0.08% a year, a fraction of the typical fund in this sector group and tied with the cheapest of them (FCOM at 0.08%, VOX at 0.09%).
- A multi-billion-dollar fund and one of the busiest tickers in its category, so getting in and out is rarely the hard part.
- Clean, rules-based job: it shadows the Communication Services Select Sector Index closely, one of the tightest implementations in its peer group.ssga.com
- Large-cap only: constituents come from the S&P 500, spanning telecom, media, entertainment and interactive media, with S&P capping rules limiting how big any one name gets.ssga.comspglobal.com
Worth knowing
- This is the most top-heavy neighborhood in the index. Even with capping at rebalance, a few mega-cap internet names set the tone for the whole fund.spglobal.com
- One sector out of eleven in the S&P 500, so it tracks ad budgets, subscriptions and phone bills rather than the broad market.spglobal.com
- FCOM and VOX sit within a penny of the same fee, so the real choice is index breadth: XLC stops at the S&P 500. Distributions come quarterly.ssga.com
XLC Holdings
- Stocks
- 23
- 72%
- META
Sectors
- Communication94.9%
- Technology5.1%
Geography
- United States100.00%
XLC Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
XLC$9,692
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 | XLC |
|---|---|
| Year to date | −2.7% |
| 1 month | +2.2% |
| 3 months | +6.6% |
| 1 year | −3.1% |
| 3 years | +21.4% |
| 5 years | +8.1% |
| 10 years | — |
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 | XLC |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | −2.7% | |
| 2025 | +23.1% | |
| 2024 | +34.7% | |
| 2023 | +52.8% | |
| 2022 | −37.6% | |
| 2021 | +16.0% | |
| 2020 | +26.9% |
XLC in the news
XLC Dividends
- 1.22%
- $1.38
- $0.36 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 21, 2026 | Pays Sep 23, 2026 | $0.36 |
| Jun 22, 2026 | Jun 24, 2026 | $0.28 |
| Mar 23, 2026 | Mar 25, 2026 | $0.36 |
| Dec 22, 2025 | Dec 24, 2025 | $0.38 |
| Sep 22, 2025 | Sep 24, 2025 | $0.41 |
| Jun 23, 2025 | Jun 25, 2025 | $0.25 |
| Mar 24, 2025 | Mar 26, 2025 | $0.29 |
| Dec 23, 2024 | Dec 26, 2024 | $0.25 |
| Sep 23, 2024 | Sep 25, 2024 | $0.27 |
| Jun 24, 2024 | Jun 26, 2024 | $0.22 |
| Mar 18, 2024 | Mar 21, 2024 | $0.21 |
| Dec 18, 2023 | Dec 21, 2023 | $0.17 |
XLC Risk
- 13.8%
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.
- 1.03
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.
- −44.4%
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.
- 0.85
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
XLC Cost
0.08%
XLC0.08%
- The middle half of Communication Services (Broad) funds
- Median 0.35%
No Communication Services (Broad) fund charges less.