State Street SPDR S&P Telecom ETF
$207.30−1.45 (−0.69%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.35%
- Fund size
- $553M
- 1Y return
- +48.6%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 0.93%
- Holdings
- 39
- Volume · 30D
- 0.1M sh
- NAV per share
- $208.74
- 52W range
The ETF.net XTL Grade
Score 55 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.CScore 47Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.Not scoredRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.CScore 40Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 63Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 86Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.BScore 60Category rank
Our read on XTL
BTelecom, not "communication services." XTL's index sticks to carriers and the equipment makers behind them, and weights them close to equally, so a small-cap gear supplier can count for as much as a national wireless giant.
The fund seeks to track, before fees and expenses, the total return performance of the S&P Telecom Select Industry Index.
Why people hold it
- Modified equal weighting spreads about 40 names across large, mid and small caps, so no single carrier dominates the basket.ssga.com
- Pure telecom mandate: alternative carriers, communications equipment, integrated telecom and wireless. No social media or streaming riding along under a sector label.ssga.com
- The 0.35% fee sits just under the median for its communication-services peer group, and below iShares' IYZ at 0.37%.
- Live since 2011, with a record spanning multiple telecom build-out cycles and enough regular trading for ordinary retail-size orders.
Worth knowing
- Broad communication-services rivals XLC, FCOM and VOX charge under 0.10%. The narrower, equal-weighted build costs several times that.
- Equal weighting puts real money into small and mid cap equipment makers, so price swings tend to run wider than a mega-cap carrier basket.ssga.com
- About 40 stocks inside one industry means single-company news lands harder here. Distributions arrive quarterly.
XTL Holdings
- Stocks
- 39
- 31%
- UI
Sectors
- Technology54.3%
- Communication42.8%
- Real Estate2.9%
Geography
- United States95.76%
- Bermuda4.24%
XTL 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 | XTL |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +37.4% |
| 1 month | −1.7% |
| 3 months | −5.5% |
| 1 year | +48.6% |
| 3 years | +44.4% |
| 5 years | +18.0% |
| 10 years | +13.5% |
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 | XTL |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +37.4% | |
| 2025 | +44.9% | |
| 2024 | +34.9% | |
| 2023 | −1.2% | |
| 2022 | −19.2% | |
| 2021 | +21.6% | |
| 2020 | +22.5% |
XTL in the news
ETF.net Research hasn’t filed on XTL yet — coverage lands here as it’s written.
XTL Dividends
- 0.93%
- $1.93
- $0.30 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 21, 2026 | Pays Sep 23, 2026 | $0.30 |
| Jun 22, 2026 | Jun 24, 2026 | $0.88 |
| Mar 23, 2026 | Mar 25, 2026 | $0.64 |
| Dec 22, 2025 | Dec 24, 2025 | $0.10 |
| Sep 22, 2025 | Sep 24, 2025 | $1.03 |
| Jun 23, 2025 | Jun 25, 2025 | $0.21 |
| Mar 24, 2025 | Mar 26, 2025 | $0.27 |
| Dec 23, 2024 | Dec 26, 2024 | $0.13 |
| Sep 23, 2024 | Sep 25, 2024 | $0.18 |
| Jun 24, 2024 | Jun 26, 2024 | $0.17 |
| Mar 18, 2024 | Mar 21, 2024 | $0.19 |
| Dec 18, 2023 | Dec 21, 2023 | $0.07 |
XTL Risk
- 26.4%
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.
- 1.26
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.
- −36.8%
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.
- 1.17
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
XTL Cost
- The middle half of Communication Services (Broad) funds
- Median 0.35%
4 of the 9 Communication Services (Broad) funds charge less.