XLBState Street Materials Select Sector SPDR ETF
Seeks to provide investment results that correspond to the price and yield performance of publicly traded equity securities of companies in the Materials Select Sector Index.
By State Street Investment Management · Launched 1998
Annual Cost
0.08%
#408 of 5,562 · low cost
Fund Size
$7.3B
#343 of 5,562 · large
Return (1Y)Goal
+20.4%
Track Record
27 years
#56 of 5,562 · established
Performance
Total-return NAV · USDGrowth of $10,000
$12,056+20.6%
Total-return NAV, USD. Net of fund fees, before tax.
Classification
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 = 59.8% of fundmoderately concentrated
Linde PLC
13.8%
Newmont Corp
7.6%
CRH PLC
5.8%
Sherwin-Williams Co/The
5.2%
Freeport-McMoRan Inc
5.1%
Ecolab Inc
4.6%
Air Products and Chemicals Inc
4.6%
Corteva Inc
4.5%
Martin Marietta Materials Inc
4.4%
Nucor Corp
4.3%
Asset allocation
Stocks
99.9%
Cash
0.1%
By sector
Basic Materials
87.3%
Consumer Cyclical
12.7%
Risk profile
Last 12 months · Sharpe & Sortino need 3+ yearsVolatility (1Y)
17.5%Moderate
Year-on-year price swings
Max drawdown
-37.3%Severe
Worst peak-to-trough loss
Sharpe (3Y)
0.52Decent risk-adjusted returns
Sortino (3Y)
0.75Moderate downside risk
Where to buy
Listing
- Exchange
- NYSE Arca
Full fund details
- Objective
- Seeks to provide investment results that correspond to the price and yield performance of publicly traded equity securities of companies in the Materials Select Sector Index.
- Strategy
- Invests in substantially all securities in the Index in approximately the same proportions. Under normal conditions, invests at least 95% of total assets in Index securities, with potential for cash and cash equivalents.
- Inception date
- December 16, 1998
- Fund family
- State Street Investment Management
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Data updated on 2026-06-19