XLB · State Street Materials Select Sector SPDR ETF
State Street Materials Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLB)
What's happening
- XLB is up 1.68% today, trading at $52.96. — Live quote
- Volume today (781,136) is well below its 3-month average of 11,289,660. (Finnhub fundamentals)
Deterministic template sentences filled in from the same sourced figures shown elsewhere on this page -- not an AI-written summary, no live model call.
Performance Overview (Trailing returns vs S&P 500 benchmark)
Valuation Measures & Ratios
Glossary — what these abbreviations mean
- 1. TTM
- Trailing twelve months — the sum of the last four reported quarters, not a calendar year or the single latest quarter.
- 2. EPS
- Earnings per share — net income divided by diluted shares outstanding.
- 3. Beta
- A stock's historical volatility relative to the overall market. Above 1 means it has moved more than the market; below 1, less.
- 4. EV (Enterprise Value)
- Market cap plus total debt minus cash — roughly what it would cost to buy the whole company, debt included.
- 5. Forward P/E
- Price divided by analysts' estimated earnings for the next 12 months, instead of trailing actual earnings.
- 6. PEG Ratio
- P/E divided by expected earnings growth rate. A lower number can indicate a stock is cheap relative to how fast it's expected to grow.
- 7. Price / Book
- Share price divided by book value (assets minus liabilities) per share.
- 8. ROE
- Return on equity — net income divided by shareholders' equity, a measure of how efficiently a company turns equity into profit.
- 9. ROA
- Return on assets — net income divided by total assets, a measure of how efficiently a company turns assets into profit.
- 10. MRQ
- Most recent quarter — the single latest reported period, as opposed to TTM. The Financials section's "Quarterly" view below shows MRQ-style figures.
- 11. YoY
- Year over year — percent change versus the same period one year earlier, used for growth figures like those on Compare cards and the Screener.
Short Interest
Source: FINRA Rule 4560 consolidated short interest, settlement date 2026-08-14. Reported bi-monthly with a reporting lag — not real-time.
Quotes and the 1-day extended-hours chart: Yahoo Finance. Longer historical charts: Alpaca (IEX feed) — real-time but IEX-only volume (~2.5% of consolidated market volume). Fundamentals + earnings: Finnhub.
Price history
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Technical signal summary
Calculating from the latest year of daily price history…
Show Technical Analysis Breakdown ▾ 10 Indicators
Signals describe daily price patterns—not the company’s value and not a recommendation to buy or sell. Read several together; no single indicator predicts what happens next. “Overbought” and “oversold” are conditions, not promises of a reversal.
Indicators None active
Free IEX historical data only goes back to ~2021 — 5Y/Full show whatever's actually available, not a promise of that much history. Indicators are computed client-side from these same price bars; earnings markers ("E") come from Finnhub's free tier (~last 4 quarters + next upcoming) — older quarters aren't available. The move-highlight dots are a heuristic (|% change| vs rolling volatility) with a best-effort headline lookup, not a claim of causation.
Peer and sector context
Balanced evidence
A deterministic summary of sourced facts—not an AI verdict.
Potential strengths
- Trailing 52-week price return is +13.7%. Finnhub market metrics ↗
Potential concerns
Not enough cautionary evidence under the current rules.
Rule-based facts only; absence from either side is not evidence, and this is not a recommendation.
More on XLB
No accessible free API for these — links go to the source directly.
Financials
Fund profile
Source: Alpha Vantage ETF profile · inception 1998-12-16
Sector weights
| Sector | Weight |
|---|---|
| Materials | 93.3% |
| Information Technology | 0.0% |
| Communication Services | 0.0% |
| Consumer Discretionary | 0.0% |
| Healthcare | 0.0% |
| Consumer Staples | 0.0% |
| Industrials | 0.0% |
| Utilities | 0.0% |
| Energy | 0.0% |
| Financials | 0.0% |
Top holdings
| Symbol | Name | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| LIN | LINDE PLC | 12.95% |
| NEM | NEWMONT CORP | 7.77% |
| FCX | FREEPORT-MCMORAN INC | 5.78% |
| SHW | SHERWIN-WILLIAMS CO | 5.04% |
| ECL | ECOLAB INC | 4.81% |
| APD | AIR PRODUCTS AND CHEMICALS INC | 4.75% |
| CTVA | CORTEVA INC | 4.57% |
| VMC | VULCAN MATERIALS CO | 4.39% |
| NUE | NUCOR CORP | 4.30% |
| MLM | MARTIN MARIETTA MATERIALS INC | 4.19% |
Fund data only — not a recommendation. Expense ratio and yield are provider-reported and can lag the fund's live prospectus; verify against the issuer before relying on them.
Institutional holders
SEC Form 13F filers holding XLB as of the latest reported quarter. 13F only covers investment managers with $100M+ in assets — this is not a complete ownership picture, and does not include insiders (see Recent SEC filings below) or non-13F-eligible holders.
Insider activity
Directors, officers, and 10%+ owners' reported transactions from SEC Form 4. A filing reports a transaction; it does not by itself explain why it happened.
Recent SEC filings
Official company reports and insider transaction filings. Form 4 reports a transaction; it does not by itself explain why it happened.
Recent news
Headlines about XLB (State Street Materials Select Sector SPDR ETF). Links open the publisher — we don’t host full articles.
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