State Street Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR ETF
$84.19−0.22 (−0.26%)
- 0.08%
- $14.0B
- +11.1%
- 2.60%
- 10.9M sh
- $83.42
- low $75.16high $90.14
The ETF.net XLP Grade
A
Score 82 out of 100
- 1 of 13
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.A94 out of 100Rank 1 of 13Mission
Whether the fund did what it promised, tested against its stated mandate.A78 out of 100Rank 3 of 4Risk
How the fund held up when markets fell: downside volatility, drawdowns and tail loss.B64 out of 100Rank 6 of 13Tradability
How easy the fund is to trade: daily volume, and how far its price strays from net asset value.A98 out of 100Rank 1 of 13Holdings
How concentrated the fund is, and how complete and current its disclosed holdings are.B56 out of 100Rank 7 of 13Durability
Whether the fund is likely to stay open, judged by its age, its assets and its issuer’s assets.A80 out of 100Rank 2 of 13
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
- 37
- 63%
- WMT
Sectors
- Consumer Staples96.9%
- Materials1.6%
- Consumer Discretionary1.5%
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$11,105
Returns run to the Oct 12, 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 | +10.8% |
| 1 month | +1.9% |
| 3 months | +1.0% |
| 1 year | +11.1% |
| 3 years | +11.4% |
| 5 years | +6.6% |
| 10 years | +7.7% |
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 | XLP |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +10.8% | |
| 2025 | +1.5% | |
| 2024 | +12.2% | |
| 2023 | −0.8% | |
| 2022 | −0.8% | |
| 2021 | +17.2% | |
| 2020 | +10.1% |
XLP in the news
XLP Dividends
- 2.60%
- $2.20
- $0.54 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
XLP Risk
- 11.9%
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.
- 0.35
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.
Other funds in Consumer Staples (Broad)
- AFSTAFidelity MSCI Consumer Staples Index ETFExpense ratio 0.08%1 year return +10.0%
- BVDCVanguard Consumer Staples ETFExpense ratio 0.09%1 year return +9.9%
- BIYKiShares U.S. Consumer Staples ETFExpense ratio 0.37%1 year return +11.6%
- BKXIiShares Global Consumer Staples ETFExpense ratio 0.38%1 year return +8.1%
- CPSCCInvesco S&P SmallCap Consumer Staples ETFExpense ratio 0.29%1 year return +8.7%