How is SPDR Materials Select Sector ETF (XLB) doing?

SPDR Materials Select Sector ETF is an exchange-traded fund. Here is how it has done against the market, and where it shows up on our dashboards.

Updated Oct 9, 2026

market beat

Middling

SPDR Materials Select Sector ETF shares are up 10% over the past year, 5 points behind the S&P 500. Among large US stocks and funds it ranks in the 60th percentile on market beat and the 73rd on staying power. It appears on 2 of our dashboards.

$49.43+10% in a yearWorth $8.0B

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Past year

The past year

Price against the S&P 500, each set to $100 a year ago. Score is its weekly rank against the market. Select a tile for that score month by month.

XLB against the S&P 500, past year

$100 a year ago. SPDR Materials Select Sector ETF +10%, the S&P 500 +16%.

XLBS&P 500

How is it doing against its group?

Its group is Industrials / SMID, 147 large US stocks and funds whose prices tend to move together. Broad industrial and small/mid-cap cyclicals — the economy beta.

XLB, past year+10%71 of 147 in the group

Rest of the group+11%equal-weighted

S&P 500+16%past year

SPDR Materials Select Sector ETF is +10% over the past year, against +11% for the rest of the group and +16% for the S&P 500. It ranks 71st of 147 in Industrials / SMID.

XLBRest of the group

Best in the groupAVT Avnet+92%ARW Arrow Electronics+89%LFUS Littelfuse+65%

Worst in the groupGPK Graphic Packaging−56%APTV Aptiv−48%THO Thor Industries−39%

Industrials / SMID on Stox ›

How much does it move?

Its typical daily move, against its own past year, the market and other large stocks. Swings describe risk, not direction.

About usual SPDR Materials Select Sector ETF typically moves 1.5% in a day, about usual for it, and it swings more than 58% of large US funds.

Typical day1.5%about $0.74 a share

Its usual1.6%about usual, 0.9× its year’s average

Against the S&P 5001.4×the index’s typical day is 1.1%

Unusual day±3.0%twice its typical day

Deepest fall, past year−12%now 8% below its high

In the S&P’s down weeks63%of the index’s fall, three years; beta 0.7

Typical daily move (ATR)Its year’s average 1.60%

XLB on our dashboards

Every question where SPDR Materials Select Sector ETF appears, in the order of the home page, with its reading and place in that table. Select a question to open it with XLB highlighted. Select a column to sort.

Question	Reading	Place	Details
Is the S&P 500 stretched? Market health	21Washed out	15 of 17	vs 200-day −2.6% · RSI 43 · From high −7.9%
Which sectors and countries are leading? What’s leading	51Middle	51 of 86	Group Sector · vs S&P, 1M −4.9 pts · 3M −6.0 pts

Go deeper on Stox

XLB’s full profile: financial statements, earnings and analysts’ estimates, valuation against its sector, recent news with a summary, and its scores in detail.

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How to read this page

How it’s measured. Scores from Stox rank the stock against about 1,200 S&P 500, Nasdaq-100 and Russell 1000 stocks and popular funds, where 100 is best; market beat and staying power use prices, business growth uses revenue, margins and cash flow. Readings on other dashboards come from this site’s pages.

Sources. Daily prices from Financial Modeling Prep.

Scores are percentiles: 80 means the stock ranks above 80% of the others on that measure. They describe the recent past and are not advice or a forecast.

Its type follows Stox Atlas: each of the four scores is split at 50. “Steady” means its rank has held, high or low, so it says nothing on its own about direction.

Its group is the cluster of large US stocks whose prices have moved together over five years, with the market’s own moves taken out. The typical daily move is the average true range over 14 days, a measure of how far the price travels in a day including overnight gaps.

For financial statements, earnings and news, see XLB’s full profile on Stox.

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