State Street Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF
$195.16−1.11 (−0.57%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.08%
- Fund size
- $126.5B
- 1Y return
- +39.6%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 0.43%
- Holdings
- 74
- Volume · 30D
- 10.2M sh
- NAV per share
- $194.85
- 52W range
The ETF.net XLK Grade
Score 80 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 98Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 75Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.BScore 61Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 93Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.DScore 39Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 82Category rank
Our read on XLK
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.
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
- Stocks
- 74
- 65%
- NVDA
Sectors
- Technology99.9%
- Energy0.1%
Geography
- United States98.43%
- Ireland1.19%
- Netherlands0.38%
XLK Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
XLK$13,958
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 | XLK |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +36.8% |
| 1 month | +7.2% |
| 3 months | +2.3% |
| 1 year | +39.6% |
| 3 years | +34.5% |
| 5 years | +21.4% |
| 10 years | +24.7% |
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 | XLK |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +36.8% | |
| 2025 | +24.6% | |
| 2024 | +21.6% | |
| 2023 | +56.0% | |
| 2022 | −27.7% | |
| 2021 | +34.8% | |
| 2020 | +43.6% |
XLK in the news
XLK Dividends
- 0.43%
- $0.83
- $0.22 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 21, 2026 | Pays Sep 23, 2026 | $0.22 |
| Jun 22, 2026 | Jun 24, 2026 | $0.23 |
| Mar 23, 2026 | Mar 25, 2026 | $0.17 |
| Dec 22, 2025 | Dec 24, 2025 | $0.22 |
| Sep 22, 2025 | Sep 24, 2025 | $0.18 |
| Jun 23, 2025 | Jun 25, 2025 | $0.20 |
| Mar 24, 2025 | Mar 26, 2025 | $0.19 |
| Dec 23, 2024 | Dec 26, 2024 | $0.19 |
| Sep 23, 2024 | Sep 25, 2024 | $0.20 |
| Jun 24, 2024 | Jun 26, 2024 | $0.20 |
| Mar 18, 2024 | Mar 21, 2024 | $0.17 |
| Dec 18, 2023 | Dec 21, 2023 | $0.21 |
XLK Risk
- 23.3%
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.
- −33.6%
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.
- 1.35
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
XLK Cost
0.08%
XLK0.08%
- The middle half of Technology (Broad) funds
- Median 0.45%
No Technology (Broad) fund charges less.