SPDR® Consumer Staples Select Sector
XLP NYSE Arca
The Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR® Fund seeks to provide investment results that, before expenses, correspond generally to the price and yield performance of the Consumer Staples Select Sector Index, with exposure to companies from the food and staples retailing, beverage, food product, tobac...
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- Fund size
- 13.2B as of Feb 2020
- Expense ratio
- 0.13% per year
- Dividend yield
- 2.46% Quarterly
- Volatility · 1Y
- 15.1% Below Average
- Beta
- 0.22 vs the market
- 52-week range
- 73.5889.99
How XLP has paid off
Price return over every period, and total return with dividends reinvested, set against price alone.
Return by period
Price · to Oct 30Total return vs price return
Price onlyOver 1 year, XLP returned +24.4% with dividends reinvested — dividends added +3.0 pts to the price move.
How bumpy is the ride?
Return only means something next to the risk taken to earn it. Volatility, drawdowns and market sensitivity over 1 year.
Volatility
Annualized · 1YA typical year sees the price swing about ±15% around its trend.
Drawdown from peak
How far below its previous high the price has been Deepest fall −9.7% on Mar 20, 2026 — 21 days after the previous high
More than 5% below a high 41% of the time.
Market sensitivity
BetaA beta of 0.22 means XLP has moved less than the market.
Trend & momentum
Where the price sits against its moving averages, and how stretched the recent move is.
Price vs moving averages
Uptrend- 12-day average87.40 +2.3%
- 26-day average85.99 +4.0%
- 50-day average85.02 +5.2%
- 200-day average83.02 +7.7%
The price is above 4 of 4 averages. The 50-day average is above the 200-day, a sign of a rising longer-term trend.
Relative strength (RSI)
OverboughtRSI compares recent gains with recent losses on a 0–100 scale. Above 70 a move is often considered stretched, below 30 washed out.
Technical indicators describe past prices. They are not a forecast.
Inside the fund
Consumer Non-Durables · InvestableMkt US Cies — tracking the Consumer Staples Select Sector Index.
- Assets under management13.2BUSD
- Expense ratio0.13%per year
- Holdings34
- Risk score2.7Low
Launched December 1998. Listed options available. Fund data as of Feb 28, 2020.
What it pays you
Cash distributions over the last twelve months, and how they have grown.
About 25 USD a year for every 1,000 USD invested at today's price.
- Per share
- 2.20
- Frequency
- Quarterly
- Last paid
- Sep 21, 2026
Last 12 months
1.62 USD / shareWhere XLP shows up
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About SPDR® Consumer Staples Select Sector
The Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR® Fund seeks to provide investment results that, before expenses, correspond generally to the price and yield performance of the Consumer Staples Select Sector Index, with exposure to companies from the food and staples retailing, beverage, food product, tobacco, household product and personal product industries in the U.S.
- Featured in 1 curated theme
- 34 holdings
- Ticker
- XLP
- Exchange
- NYSE Arca
- ISIN
- US81369Y3080
- CUSIP
- 81369Y308
- Currency
- U.S. Dollar (USD)
- Country
- USA
- Sector
- Consumer Non-Durables
- Industry
- InvestableMkt US Cies
- Benchmark
- Consumer Staples Select Sector Index
All key statistics
Details
Shareas of Oct 30, 2026
Dataas of Feb 28, 2020
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Data for information only, not investment advice. Past performance does not guarantee future results.