State Street Utilities Select Sector SPDR Premium Income ETF
$21.90−0.32 (−1.44%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.35%
- Fund size
- $55M
- 1Y return
- +0.5%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 15.39%
- Holdings
- 3
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $22.21
- 52W range
The ETF.net XLUI Grade
Score 65 of 100 sits in the B 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 76Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 88Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.DScore 38Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 55Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.DScore 30Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 71Category rank
Our read on XLUI
BUtilities run on regulated cash flows and steady dividends, the market's slow lane. XLUI parks there and sells calls against it, turning quiet into monthly income. It arrived in 2025 as part of the first suite to bolt a premium-income overlay onto sector SPDRs.
The fund is an actively managed equity strategy seeking current income and long-term capital growth by investing in the State Street Utilities Select Sector SPDR ETF and selling call options on that ETF.
Why people hold it
- Simple plumbing: it owns State Street's utilities sector ETF and writes calls on that same fund. No stock picking, no basket drift, the sector exposure the label implies.ssga.com
- 0.35% a year sits right at the median for its sector call-writing peers, and the cash comes monthly rather than quarterly.
- One of the strongest builds in its sector-overlay group, with health care sibling XLVI, and the strategy it runs matches the one on the tin.
- Eleven sector versions launched together, all on the same wrapper and the same 0.35% fee, so switching the sector tilt does not mean switching strategy.nasdaq.com
Worth knowing
- Written calls trade away part of a rally. When utilities run hard, the premium collected is what you get instead of the full move.ssga.com
- Launched in 2025 and still a small fund that trades thinly, so bid-ask spreads can run wider than on the underlying sector ETF.
- One sector, one underlying holding. Results track utilities, and the monthly payout moves with option premiums and dividends rather than a fixed rate.ssga.com
XLUI Holdings
- Stocks
- 3
- 101%
- XLU
Sectors
Geography
XLUI Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
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 | XLUI |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +1.4% |
| 1 month | −3.5% |
| 3 months | −6.2% |
| 1 year | +0.5% |
| 3 years | — |
| 5 years | — |
| 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 | XLUI |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +1.4% | |
| 2025 | +0.5% |
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XLUI Dividends
- 15.39%
- $3.42
- $0.22 per share
- Monthly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 2026 | Sep 3, 2026 | $0.22 |
| Aug 3, 2026 | Aug 5, 2026 | $0.14 |
| Jul 1, 2026 | Jul 6, 2026 | $0.34 |
| Jun 1, 2026 | Jun 3, 2026 | $0.27 |
| May 1, 2026 | May 5, 2026 | $0.28 |
| Apr 1, 2026 | Apr 6, 2026 | $0.42 |
| Mar 2, 2026 | Mar 4, 2026 | $0.23 |
| Feb 2, 2026 | Feb 4, 2026 | $0.15 |
| Dec 29, 2025 | Dec 31, 2025 | $0.59 |
| Dec 1, 2025 | Dec 3, 2025 | $0.20 |
| Nov 3, 2025 | Nov 5, 2025 | $0.27 |
| Oct 1, 2025 | Oct 3, 2025 | $0.32 |
XLUI Risk
- 10.1%
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.
- 0.07
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.
- −9.7%
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.
- 0.002
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
XLUI Cost
- The middle half of Sector Option Income funds
- Median 0.47%
No Sector Option Income fund charges less.