State Street Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR ETF
$82.34−0.39 (−0.47%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.08%
- Fund size
- $13.6B
- 1Y return
- +9.0%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 2.66%
- Holdings
- 34
- Volume · 30D
- 11M sh
- NAV per share
- $81.89
- 52W range
The ETF.net XLP Grade
Score 84 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 94Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 78Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.BScore 68Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.AScore 98Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.BScore 59Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 80Category rank
Our read on XLP
AOne of the original sector funds, live since December 1998. XLP is the S&P 500's staples aisle: roughly 40 makers of soap, soda, snacks and smokes, cap-weighted, for eight basis points.
The fund seeks to track, before expenses, the price and yield performance of the Consumer Staples Select Sector Index, representing U.S. consumer staples companies.
Why people hold it
- 0.08% a year against a peer-group median of 0.40%. In a slow-and-steady sector, that fee gap is one of the few things you actually control.
- Part of the first suite of sector ETFs launched in 1998, and still a multi-billion-dollar fund that trades very actively. Getting in and out is rarely the hard part.ssga.com
- Ties FSTA on fee and undercuts VDC, while holding strictly to S&P 500 members rather than a wider universe. Clean, literal exposure to the index's staples slice.ssga.com
- Among the strongest implementations in the staples cohort: broad mandate, quarterly distributions, no structural quirks buried in the wrapper.
Worth knowing
- About 40 names, market-cap weighted with index caps applied for diversification. The biggest retailers and household-product giants still carry outsized weight.spglobal.com
- U.S. only. Foreign staples heavyweights sit outside the mandate; KXI casts a global net, and RSPS spreads weight evenly instead of by size.
- This is one slice of the S&P 500, not a diversified core. Staples run on their own cycle and can drift far from the broad market for long stretches.
XLP Holdings
- Stocks
- 34
- 63%
- WMT
Sectors
- Cons. Staples98.2%
- Consumer Discr.1.8%
Geography
- United States100.00%
XLP Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
XLP$10,904
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 | XLP |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +8.6% |
| 1 month | −3.2% |
| 3 months | +1.3% |
| 1 year | +9.0% |
| 3 years | +8.6% |
| 5 years | +6.1% |
| 10 years | +7.3% |
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 | XLP |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +8.6% | |
| 2025 | +1.5% | |
| 2024 | +12.2% | |
| 2023 | −0.8% | |
| 2022 | −0.8% | |
| 2021 | +17.2% | |
| 2020 | +10.1% |
XLP in the news
XLP Dividends
- 2.66%
- $2.20
- $0.54 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 21, 2026 | Pays Sep 23, 2026 | $0.54 |
| Jun 22, 2026 | Jun 24, 2026 | $0.57 |
| Mar 23, 2026 | Mar 25, 2026 | $0.45 |
| Dec 22, 2025 | Dec 24, 2025 | $0.63 |
| Sep 22, 2025 | Sep 24, 2025 | $0.54 |
| Jun 23, 2025 | Jun 25, 2025 | $0.55 |
| Mar 24, 2025 | Mar 26, 2025 | $0.42 |
| Dec 23, 2024 | Dec 26, 2024 | $0.60 |
| Sep 23, 2024 | Sep 25, 2024 | $0.44 |
| Jun 24, 2024 | Jun 26, 2024 | $0.58 |
| Mar 18, 2024 | Mar 21, 2024 | $0.55 |
| Dec 18, 2023 | Dec 21, 2023 | $0.54 |
XLP Risk
- 12.0%
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.
- 0.34
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.
- −16.3%
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.
- 0.48
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
XLP Cost
0.08%
XLP0.08%
- The middle half of Consumer Staples (Broad) funds
- Median 0.38%
No Consumer Staples (Broad) fund charges less.