XLB
MaterialsState Street Materials Select Sector SPDR ETF
State Street · Tracks Materials Select Sector Index · Inception Dec 16, 1998
Composite score
Based on a 0.080% expense ratio.
Based on $8.17B in net assets.
Top-10 holdings represent 58.9% 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 v0.5.1).
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Top holdings
| # | Holding | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Linde PLC | 14.42% |
| 2 | Newmont Corp | 7.36% |
| 3 | Freeport-McMoRan Inc | 5.26% |
| 4 | Corteva Inc | 4.75% |
| 5 | Air Products and Chemicals Inc | 4.67% |
| 6 | Sherwin-Williams Co/The | 4.60% |
| 7 | CRH PLC | 4.51% |
| 8 | Vulcan Materials Co | 4.51% |
| 9 | Martin Marietta Materials Inc | 4.40% |
| 10 | Nucor Corp | 4.39% |
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Similar ETFs by holdings overlap
- FMAT Fidelity MSCI Materials Index ETF 75.1% overlap
- VAW Vanguard Materials Index Fund ETF Shares 73.2% overlap
- XME State Street SPDR S&P Metals & Mining ETF 16.1% overlap
- GUNR FlexShares Morningstar Global Upstream Natural Resources Index Fund 10.6% overlap
- PICK iShares MSCI Global Metals & Mining Producers ETF 9.2% overlap
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