XLB
MaterialsState Street Materials Select Sector SPDR ETF
State Street · Tracks Materials Select Sector Index · Inception Dec 16, 1998
Trailing returns
through Oct 23, 2026- 1 year
- +22.9%
- 3 year
- +12.9%
- annualized
- 5 year
- +6.0%
- annualized
Price return from month-end closes, distributions reinvested at month end. Excludes trading costs, bid-ask spreads and taxes. Past performance says nothing about future returns and is not part of the composite score — see the methodology for what the score does measure.
Composite score
Based on a 0.080% expense ratio.
Based on $7.78B in net assets.
Top-10 holdings represent 58.4% of net assets.
Materials base · ETF wrapper · 1.68% TTM yield.
The composite is a weighted average of the four core sub-scores above (cost, tax efficiency, liquidity, concentration). Missing sub-scores fall back to the per-category median when the category has at least 50% data coverage, so funds without (e.g.) parsed N-PORT holdings aren't accidentally boosted by renormalization. Tracking quality is shown where computable but isn't currently part of the composite weighting. See methodology for formulas, the tracking-quality partial-coverage rationale, and the dimensions we deliberately don't score (methodology v0.5.2).
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Top holdings
| # | Holding | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Linde PLC | 14.06% |
| 2 | Newmont Corp | 5.84% |
| 3 | Freeport-McMoRan Inc | 5.30% |
| 4 | Corteva Inc | 4.96% |
| 5 | Sherwin-Williams Co/The | 4.94% |
| 6 | Ecolab Inc | 4.73% |
| 7 | Vulcan Materials Co | 4.72% |
| 8 | CRH PLC | 4.67% |
| 9 | Air Products and Chemicals Inc | 4.62% |
| 10 | Martin Marietta Materials Inc | 4.55% |
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Similar ETFs by holdings overlap
- FMAT Fidelity MSCI Materials Index ETF 75.0% overlap
- VAW Vanguard Materials Index Fund ETF Shares 71.5% overlap
- XME State Street SPDR S&P Metals & Mining ETF 15.8% overlap
- GUNR Northern Trust Morningstar Global Upstream Natural Resources ETF 10.8% overlap
- PICK iShares MSCI Global Metals & Mining Producers ETF 10.7% overlap
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