XLC Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (State Street Communication Services Select Sector SPDR ETF | ARCA:XLC)

State Street Communication Services Select Sector SPDR ETF (the "Fund") seeks to provide investment results that, before expenses, correspond generally to the price and yield performance of publicly traded equity securities of companies in the Communication Services Select Sector Index (the "Index"). In seeking to track the performance of the Index, the Fund employs a replication strategy, which means that the Fund typically invests in substantially all of the securities represented in the Index in approximately the same proportions as the Index. Under normal market conditions, the Fund generally invests substantially all, but at least 95%, of its total assets in the securities comprising the Index. The Index includes companies that have been identified as Communication Services companies by the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS), including securities of companies from the following industries: diversified telecommunication services; wireless telecommunication services; media; entertainment; and interactive media & services.

State Street Communication Services Select Sector SPDR ETF trades on the ARCA stock market under the symbol XLC.

As of October 15, 2026, XLC stock price climbed to $112.67 with 3,810,269 million shares trading.

XLC has a beta of 0.96, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. XLC has a correlation of 0.56 to the broad based SPY ETF.

XLC has a market cap of $23.87 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

In the last 3 years, XLC traded as high as $120.41 and as low as $62.82.

XLC has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of -0.5%, while the SPY ETF gained +17.7%. In the last 3 month period, XLC fell short of the market, returning +1.4%, while SPY returned +2.9%. However, in the most recent 2 weeks XLC has outperformed the stock market by returning +1.5%, while SPY returned +1.2%.

XLC support price is $109.63 and resistance is $112.01 (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 XLC shares will trade within this expected range on the day.