XLBState Street Materials Select Sector SPDR ETF
Tracks the performance of the Materials Select Sector Index.
By State Street Investment Management · Launched 1998
Annual Cost
0.08%
#275 of 5,854 · low cost
Fund Size
$8.2B
#324 of 5,854 · large
Return (1Y)Goal
+15.6%
Track Record
27 years
#54 of 5,854 · established
Performance
Total-return NAV · USDGrowth of $10,000
$11,766+17.7%
Total-return NAV, USD. Net of fund fees, before tax.
What's inside
How Beacon categorizes this fundAsset class
EquityRegion
North americaCap
Large
Strategy
Index tracking
Sector
MaterialsIndex tracked
Materials Select Sector Index
What it actually holds
By weightConcentration
Top 10 holdings = 58.9% of fundmoderately concentrated
Linde PLC
14.4%
Newmont Corp
7.4%
Freeport-McMoRan Inc
5.3%
Corteva Inc
4.8%
Air Products and Chemicals Inc
4.7%
Sherwin-Williams Co/The
4.6%
CRH PLC
4.5%
Vulcan Materials Co
4.5%
Martin Marietta Materials Inc
4.4%
Nucor Corp
4.4%
Asset allocation
Stocks
99.9%
Cash
0.1%
By sector
Basic Materials
84.6%
Consumer Cyclical
15.4%
Risk profile
Last 12 months · Sharpe & Sortino need 3+ yearsVolatility (1Y)
17.7%Moderate
Year-on-year price swings
Max drawdown
-37.3%Severe
Worst peak-to-trough loss
Sharpe (3Y)
0.31Below average
Sortino (3Y)
0.45Moderate downside risk
Listing
- Exchange
- NYSE Arca
Full fund details
- Objective
- Tracks the performance of the Materials Select Sector Index.
- Strategy
- Invests in substantially all publicly traded equity securities of companies in the Materials Select Sector Index using a replication strategy. The Index includes chemicals, metals and mining, paper and forest products, containers and packaging, and construction materials.
- Inception date
- December 16, 1998
- Fund family
- State Street Investment Management
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Data updated on 2026-08-03