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State Street Communication Services Select Sector SPDR ETF XLC · AMEX

$104.79 +0.43% (+$0.45)

Summary

State Street Communication Services Select Sector SPDR ETF is an ETF - a fund traded on an exchange like a stock - run by SPDR. Positions inside: 25. The ten largest make up 75% of the fund.

Yearly costs
0.08%
Fund size
$21.8B
Positions
25
Dividend yield
1.32%
Running since
2018

What speaks for it

  • Costs of 0.08% a year are below the middle of comparable funds (0.44%).
  • A large fund with $21.8B under management.
  • Easy to buy and sell: about $625.2M changes hands a day.
  • Average yearly growth over the last five years: 5.2%.

What to watch

  • The ten largest positions make up 75% of the fund, so its result rests on a few names.
  • 100% of the fund is in one sector (Communication services).
  • 100% of the fund is in one country (United States).
  • In the last five years its price once dropped by 47% from its high.

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
-6.5%
3 months
-5.8%
This year
-11%
1 year
-6.5%
3 years
+55%
5 years
+29%
Avg. market cap
$1.06T
P/E
12.8x
Forward P/E
11.4x
P/S
2.1x
P/B
2.9x
P/FCF
16.9x
EV/EBITDA
9.0x
Dividend yield
1.29%
ROIC
15.3%
ROE
35.7%
Gross margin
60.8%
Operating margin
26.5%
Net margin
26.6%
Payout ratio
16.5%
Net debt/EBITDA
1.5x
Beta
0.85

Weighted average of the 22 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. 1
    ME
    Meta META 21%
  2. 2
    GO
    Alphabet GOOGL 11%
  3. 3
    GO
    Alphabet GOOG 8.7%
  4. 4
    AP
    AppLovin APP 5.8%
  5. 5
    DI
    Disney DIS 5.6%
  6. 6
    CM
    Comcast CMCSA 5.1%
  7. 7
    TT
    Take-Two Interactive TTWO 5.1%
  8. 8
    VZ
    Verizon VZ 4.6%
  9. 9
    TM
    T-Mobile US TMUS 4.5%
  10. 10
    T
    AT&T T 4.3%

Positions in the fund: 25. The ten largest make up 75% of it.

Composition as of Nov 6, 2026.

Where is it spread?

One sector dominates

By sector

By country

By company size

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: Communication services (100%). Largest country: United States (100%). Largest size group: Mega cap (50%).

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, 5 years
+5.2%
Deepest drop
-47%
Yearly volatility
17%

Average yearly growth over the last five years: 5.2%. Deepest drop in these years: 47% below the earlier high.

Does it pay dividends?

Yes, it pays out
Yield
1.32%
Payments a year
4
Last payment
$0.36

Over the last 12 months it paid $1.38 per share, which is 1.32% of today's price. The last payment was $0.36 on Sep 21, 2026.

Is it easy to buy and sell?

Very easy
Traded a day
$625.2M
Shares a day
6.0M

On an average day about $625.2M of the fund changes hands.

How expensive are the companies inside?

Rather cheap
P/E of the companies inside
12.8
Average Bulios Score
69 out of 100

Weight by Bulios Fair Price

On average the companies inside trade for 12.8 times their yearly profit. By Fair Price, 72% of the rated weight comes out as overvalued.

Counted from its largest companies (22), 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
FC
FCOM Fidelity MSCI Communication Services Index ETF
United States 0.08% $1.52B -3.0% Pays out 77%
ZP
ZPDK.DE State Street SPDR S&P U.S. Communication Services Select Sector UCITS ETF (Acc)
Ireland 0.15% $312.3M +1.6% Reinvests 74%
IU
IU5C.DE iShares S&P 500 Communication Sector UCITS ETF
Ireland 0.15% $1.16B +1.3% Reinvests 74%
VO
VOX Vanguard Communication Services ETF
United States 0.09% $6.00B -3.0% Pays out 72%
VT
VTCAX Vanguard Communication Services Index Fund Admiral Shares· mutual fund
United States 0.09% $5.61B -2.9% Pays out 72%
XU
XUCM.DE Xtrackers MSCI USA Communication Services UCITS ETF 1D
Ireland 0.12% $1.01B -1.2% Pays out 71%

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