XLB Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Materials Select Sector SPDR | ARCA:XLB)

The Materials Select Sector SPDR Fund before expenses seeks to closely match the returns and characteristics of the Materials Select Sector Index (ticker: IXB).

Materials Select Sector SPDR trades on the ARCA stock market under the symbol XLB.

As of March 5, 2025, XLB stock price climbed to $88.08 with 6,146,090 million shares trading.

XLB has a beta of 0.78, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. XLB has a correlation of 0.41 to the broad based SPY ETF.

XLB has a market cap of $5.70 billion. This is considered a Mid Cap stock.

In the last 3 years, XLB traded as high as $97.87 and as low as $66.85.

XLB has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of +1.2%, while the SPY ETF gained +15.2%. In the last 3 month period, XLB fell short of the market, returning -5.3%, while SPY returned -3.7%. However, in the most recent 2 weeks XLB has outperformed the stock market by returning -3.2%, while SPY returned -4.6%.

XLB support price is $84.89 and resistance is $86.71 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that XLB shares will trade within this expected range on the day.