Materials Select Sector SPDR Fund XLB · AMEX
$52.36 -2.86% (-$1.54)
Summary
Materials Select Sector SPDR Fund is an ETF - a fund traded on an exchange like a stock - run by SPDR. Positions inside: 27. The ten largest make up 59% of the fund.
- Yearly costs
- 0.08%
- Fund size
- $8.30B
- Positions
- 27
- Dividend yield
- 1.65%
- Running since
- 1998
What speaks for it
- Costs of 0.08% a year are below the middle of comparable funds (0.44%).
- A large fund with $8.30B under management.
- Easy to buy and sell: about $583.5M changes hands a day.
- Average yearly growth over the last ten years: 8.8%.
- It has been running since 1998.
What to watch
- The ten largest positions make up 59% of the fund, so its result rests on a few names.
- 82% of the fund is in one sector (Basic materials).
- 93% of the fund is in one country (United States).
A fund has no Bulios Score and no Fair Price of its own - both are computed from the results of a single company. This page shows what is inside the fund and what it costs instead.
Price
Performance
- 1 month
- +8.9%
- 3 months
- +2.4%
- This year
- +19%
- 1 year
- +26%
- 3 years
- +37%
- 5 years
- +23%
- 10 years
- +132%
- Avg. market cap
- $72.0B
- P/E
- 22.7x
- Forward P/E
- 18.2x
- P/S
- 1.9x
- P/B
- 2.7x
- P/FCF
- 22.9x
- EV/EBITDA
- 13.5x
- Dividend yield
- 1.85%
- ROIC
- 8.5%
- ROE
- 16.3%
- Gross margin
- 29.6%
- Operating margin
- 16.7%
- Net margin
- 13.0%
- Payout ratio
- 41.9%
- Net debt/EBITDA
- 2.7x
- Beta
- 0.82
Weighted average of the 24 largest companies, which make up 100% of the fund. Banks and insurers are left out of the gross margin, the ROIC and the EBITDA figures.
What is inside?
Concentrated- 1 LILinde plc LIN 13%
- 2 NENewmont NEM 6.4%
- 3 FCFreeport-McMoRan Inc. FCX 5.2%
- 4 VMVulcan Materials Company VMC 5.2%
- 5 ECEcolab Inc. ECL 5.1%
- 6 NUNucor Corporation NUE 4.9%
- 7 APAir Products and Chemicals, Inc. APD 4.8%
- 8 STSteel Dynamics, Inc. STLD 4.8%
- 9 MLMartin Marietta Materials, Inc. MLM 4.8%
- 10 SHSherwin-Williams SHW 4.7%
Positions in the fund: 27. The ten largest make up 59% of it.
Composition as of Oct 31, 2026.
Where is it spread?
One sector dominatesBy sector
- Basic materials 82%
- Consumer cyclical 18%
By country
- United States 93%
- Ireland 3.4%
- United Kingdom 3.3%
By company size
- Mega cap 13%
- Large cap 86%
- Mid cap 0.9%
By the company's market value: Mega cap from $200B, Large cap from $10B, Mid cap from $2B, Small cap from $300M, Micro cap below $300M.
Largest sector: Basic materials (82%). Largest country: United States (93%). Largest size group: Large cap (86%).
What does it cost me?
Cheap- A year from $10,000
- $8.00
- Over 20 years
- $401
From every $10,000 invested the fund takes $8.00 a year. You do not pay it separately - it is taken out of the fund's value. Over 20 years at 5% yearly growth that adds up to about $401.
How has it done?
Growing over the long run- A year on average, 10 years
- +8.8%
- Deepest drop
- -26%
- Yearly volatility
- 18%
Average yearly growth over the last ten years: 8.8%. Deepest drop in these years: 26% below the earlier high.
Does it pay dividends?
Yes, it pays out- Yield
- 1.65%
- Payments a year
- 4
- Last payment
- $0.23
Over the last 12 months it paid $0.86 per share, which is 1.65% of today's price. The last payment was $0.23 on Sep 21, 2026.
Is it easy to buy and sell?
Very easy- Traded a day
- $583.5M
- Shares a day
- 11M
On an average day about $583.5M of the fund changes hands.
How expensive are the companies inside?
Usual valuation- P/E of the companies inside
- 22.7
- Average Bulios Score
- 60 out of 100
Weight by Bulios Fair Price
- Undervalued 7.7%
- Fairly valued 9.8%
- Overvalued 82%
On average the companies inside trade for 22.7 times their yearly profit. By Fair Price, 82% of the rated weight comes out as overvalued.
Counted from its largest companies (24), which make up 100% of the fund. Each company counts by its weight. We use the metrics, the Bulios Score and the Fair Price of the companies themselves.
Similar funds
Funds that hold much of the same. The overlap says how much of their weight they share with this fund.
| Fund | Domicile | Size | 1-year change | Dividends | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
RS RSPM Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Materials ETF | United States | 0.40% | $183.6M | +30% | Pays out | 80% |
2B 2B7B.DE iShares S&P 500 Materials Sector UCITS ETF | Ireland | 0.15% | $200.2M | +30% | Reinvests | 79% |
TR TRUM VanEck Materials TruSector ETF | United States | 0.15% | $257.8K | - | Pays out | 71% |
UY UYM ProShares - Ultra Materials | United States | 1.18% | $33.2M | +50% | Pays out | 69% |
VA VAW Vanguard Materials ETF | United States | 0.09% | $4.49B | +22% | Pays out | 67% |
VM VMIAX Vanguard Materials Index Fund Admiral Shares· mutual fund | United States | 0.09% | $4.48B | +22% | Pays out | 67% |