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State Street Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF

XLKNYSE ArcaSPDRA

$174.25−5.26 (−2.93%)

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

A82/ 100

Rank 1 of 25 in Technology (Broad)

A82/100Rank 1 of 25inTechnology (Broad)
Intraday session: down, 79 prints from 179.51 to 174.25. Range 174.02 to 180.53. Use the arrow keys to read each point.175.00176.00177.00178.0010 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM
Expense ratio
0.08%
Fund size
$125B
1Y total return
+20.0%
Yield · Last 12 months
0.47%
Holdings
78
Avg volume · 30D
8.28M sh
52W range
low $126.68high $203.25
Launched
Filings
SEC EDGAR

The ETF.net XLK Grade

A

Score 82 out of 100

Category
Technology (Broad)⁠
Rank
1 of 25
Six-pillar profile for XLK. Scores out of 100: Cost 98, Risk 61, Mission 76, Tradability 98, Holdings 41, Durability 82. Strongest: Cost (98). Weakest: Holdings (41). Leans toward Cost and Tradability.

Score 82 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.
    A98 out of 100
    Rank 1 of 25

  • Mission

    Whether the fund did what it promised, tested against its stated mandate.
    A76 out of 100
    Rank 7 of 12

  • Risk

    How the fund held up when markets fell: downside volatility, drawdowns and tail loss.
    B61 out of 100
    Rank 8 of 25

  • Tradability

    How easy the fund is to trade: daily volume, and how far its price strays from net asset value.
    A98 out of 100
    Rank 1 of 25

  • Holdings

    How concentrated the fund is, and how complete and current its disclosed holdings are.
    C41 out of 100
    Rank 15 of 24

  • Durability

    Whether the fund is likely to stay open, judged by its age, its assets and its issuer’s assets.
    A82 out of 100
    Rank 3 of 25

Our read on XLK

ETF.net Research

In short

AA 1998 original: XLK owns the technology slice of the S&P 500, about 70 names, for eight basis points. Big, heavily traded, and top-heavy by design, with quarterly caps the only brake on the giants at the top.

Stated mandate

The fund seeks to track the price and yield performance of the Technology Select Sector Index before expenses.

Why people hold it

  • Costs 0.08% a year against a roughly 0.40% median for broad tech funds, tying FTEC as the cheapest of the category's top-rated names and undercutting VGT's 0.09%.
  • One of the largest and most actively traded funds in the tech aisle, so entering or exiting rarely means fighting the order book.
  • Running since December 1998 and dead simple: the tech sector of the S&P 500, spanning software, semiconductors, hardware, communications equipment and IT services. Pays quarterly.ssga.com

Worth knowing

  • Top-heavy by construction. About 70 stocks, and the index only trims its biggest weights at quarterly rebalances to stay inside fund diversification limits.spglobal.com
  • The universe is S&P 500 tech only. Smaller tech companies outside the big index are out, and the Select Sector funds split the S&P 500 up, so some familiar names sit in other sector funds.ssga.com
  • It is one sector with no ballast from the rest of the market, so a tech drawdown lands here in full.

XLK Holdings

Holdings pillarC41 out of 100Rank 15 of 24 in Technology (Broad)
Asset class
Stocks
Holdings
78
Top-10 weight
65%
Largest holding
NVDA15.0%

Sectors

  • Technology99.9%
  • Energy0.1%

Geography

  • United States99.42%
  • China0.38%
  • Mexico0.20%
The fund’s holdings, weight-ordered — page 1 of 6.
#TickerCompanyWeight %SharesMarket valueHeld by ETFs
1NVDANVIDIA Corp14.98%87,484,419$18.7B848
2AAPLApple Inc14.76%52,758,827$18.4B723
3MSFTMicrosoft Corp11.41%26,843,774$14.2B819
4AMDAdvanced Micro Devices4.85%10,683,134$6.05B638
5AVGOBroadcom Inc4.76%17,198,903$5.93B753
6MUMicron Technology Inc4.06%5,416,521$5.06B686
7INTCIntel Corp2.68%36,370,767$3.35B514
8PLTRPalantir Technologies Inc A2.65%16,840,324$3.31B531
9CSCOCisco Systems Inc2.51%28,849,801$3.13B585
10AMATApplied Materials Inc1.96%5,811,502$2.45B557
11LRCXLam Research Corp1.87%9,159,215$2.33B603
12PANWPalo Alto Networks Inc1.82%5,965,509$2.27B505
13TXNTexas Instruments Inc1.67%6,684,640$2.08B516
14CRWDCrowdstrike Holdings Inc A1.56%7,453,743$1.95B488
15IBMIntl Business Machines Corp1.43%6,896,064$1.78B437

Showing 1–15 of 78 holdings

XLK Performance

Launched Dec 16, 1998

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

XLK$12,001
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. XLK $12,001. SPY $11,199. Use the arrow keys to read each point.$10,000$12,000Oct 2025Apr 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 XLK. Periods over one year show the average yearly return.
PeriodXLK
Year to date+25.1%
1 month−8.3%
3 months+2.5%
1 year+20.0%
3 yearsper year+30.7%
5 yearsper year+18.2%
10 yearsper year+23.7%

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 XLK
YearReturn barXLK
2026 YTD+25.1%
2025+24.6%
2024+21.6%
2023+56.0%
2022−27.7%
2021+34.8%
2020+43.6%

XLK in the news

XLK 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.
0.47%Last 12 months
Payout per share
$0.83Last 12 months
Last payment
$0.22 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 $0.10; Jun 16, 2017 $0.11; Sep 15, 2017 $0.10; Dec 15, 2017 $0.12; Mar 16, 2018 $0.11; Jun 15, 2018 $0.13; Sep 21, 2018 $0.13; Dec 21, 2018 $0.13; Mar 15, 2019 $0.12; Jun 21, 2019 $0.14; Sep 20, 2019 $0.13; Dec 20, 2019 $0.15; Mar 23, 2020 $0.19; Jun 22, 2020 $0.14; Sep 21, 2020 $0.12; Dec 21, 2020 $0.15; Mar 22, 2021 $0.14; Jun 21, 2021 $0.13; Sep 20, 2021 $0.14; Dec 20, 2021 $0.16; Mar 21, 2022 $0.14; Jun 21, 2022 $0.16; Sep 19, 2022 $0.16; Dec 19, 2022 $0.18; Mar 20, 2023 $0.16; Jun 20, 2023 $0.18; Sep 18, 2023 $0.18; Dec 18, 2023 $0.21; Mar 18, 2024 $0.17; Jun 24, 2024 $0.20; Sep 23, 2024 $0.20; Dec 23, 2024 $0.19; Mar 24, 2025 $0.19; Jun 23, 2025 $0.20; Sep 22, 2025 $0.18; Dec 22, 2025 $0.22; Mar 23, 2026 $0.17; Jun 22, 2026 $0.23; Sep 21, 2026 $0.22. Use the arrow keys to read each point.2017201820192020202120222023202420252026YTD
Ex-datePay dateAmount per share
Sep 21, 2026Sep 23, 2026$0.22
Jun 22, 2026Jun 24, 2026$0.23
Mar 23, 2026Mar 25, 2026$0.17
Dec 22, 2025Dec 24, 2025$0.22
Sep 22, 2025Sep 24, 2025$0.18
Jun 23, 2025Jun 25, 2025$0.20
Mar 24, 2025Mar 26, 2025$0.19
Dec 23, 2024Dec 26, 2024$0.19
Sep 23, 2024Sep 25, 2024$0.20
Jun 24, 2024Jun 26, 2024$0.20
Mar 18, 2024Mar 21, 2024$0.17
Dec 18, 2023Dec 21, 2023$0.21

See all 85 payments⁠

$10,000 in XLK 10 years ago paid $2,714 in dividends.⁠

XLK Risk

Risk pillarB61 out of 100Rank 8 of 25 in Technology (Broad)
How much the fund’s monthly returns vary, scaled to a year.
23.6%
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.
1.07
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.
−33.6%
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.
1.35
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.

XLK Cost

Cheapest in Technology (Broad)

$1,689

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

  • XLK 0.08%

    $1,689

$10,000
30 years

Cost over time

  • XLK 0.08%
One line per fund, from year 0 to year 30. Use the arrow keys to read each point.$0$500$1K$1.5K$2K051015202530XLK $1,689

Year by year

YearXLK
10$147
20$575
30$1,689

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