XLP Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (State Street Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR ETF | ARCA:XLP)

State Street Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR ETF 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 Consumer Staples Select Sector Index. 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 Consumer Staples companies by the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS), including securities of companies from the following industries: consumer staples distribution and retail; household products; food products; beverages; tobacco; and personal care products. 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 Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR ETF trades on the ARCA stock market under the symbol XLP.

As of October 16, 2026, XLP stock price climbed to $87.62 with 21,500,172 million shares trading.

XLP has a beta of -0.04, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. XLP has a correlation of 0.00 to the broad based SPY ETF.

XLP has a market cap of $14.71 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

In the last 3 years, XLP traded as high as $90.14 and as low as $66.38.

XLP has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of +14.2%, while SPY returned +16.7%. This shows that you would have done better investing in the overall market (through SPY) over the last year than in XLP shares. However, XLP has outperformed the market in the last 3 month and 2 week periods, returning +2.7% and +8.8%, while SPY returned +1.9% and -0.8%, respectively. This indicates XLP has been having a stronger performance recently.

XLP support price is $85.78 and resistance is $87.59 (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 XLP shares will trade within this expected range on the day.