XLF Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (State Street Financial Select Sector SPDR ETF | ARCA:XLF)

State Street Financial Select Sector SPDR ETF seeking to track the performance of the Financial Select Sector 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. In addition, the Fund may invest in cash and cash equivalents or money market instruments, such as repurchase agreements and money market funds. The Index includes companies that have been identified as Financial companies by the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS), including securities of companies from the following industries: financial services; insurance; banks; capital markets; mortgage real estate investment trusts ("REITs"); and consumer finance. The Index is one of eleven Select Sector Indexes developed and maintained in accordance with the following criteria: (1) each of the component securities in the Index is a constituent of the S&P 500 Index; and (2) the Index is calculated by S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC ("S&P DJI") based on a proprietary "modified market capitalization" methodology which means that modifications may be made to the market capitalization weights of single stock concentrations.

State Street Financial Select Sector SPDR ETF trades on the ARCA stock market under the symbol XLF.

As of July 17, 2026, XLF stock price declined to $56.26 with 37,975,070 million shares trading.

XLF has a beta of 0.70, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. XLF has a correlation of 0.37 to the broad based SPY ETF.

XLF has a market cap of $55.54 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

In the last 3 years, XLF traded as high as $56.94 and as low as $31.36.

XLF has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of +8.7%, while SPY returned +19.5%. This shows that you would have done better investing in the overall market (through SPY) over the last year than in XLF shares. However, XLF has outperformed the market in the last 3 month and 2 week periods, returning +7.7% and +1.2%, while SPY returned +4.9% and -0.2%, respectively. This indicates XLF has been having a stronger performance recently.

XLF support price is $56.17 and resistance is $57.34 (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 XLF shares will trade within this expected range on the day.