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

State Street Utilities 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 Utilities 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. The Index includes companies that have been identified as Utilities companies by the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS ), including securities of companies from the following industries electric utilities water utilities multi-utilities independent power and renewable electricity producers and gas utilities. 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.

State Street Utilities Select Sector SPDR ETF trades on the ARCA stock market under the symbol XLU.

As of January 20, 2026, XLU stock price declined to $42.96 with 24,252,772 million shares trading.

XLU has a beta of 0.34, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. XLU has a correlation of 0.21 to the broad based SPY ETF.

XLU has a market cap of $22.06 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

In the last 3 years, XLU traded as high as $46.89 and as low as $27.39.

XLU has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of +11.9%, while the SPY ETF gained +14.6%. In the last 3 month period, XLU fell short of the market, returning -5.4%, while SPY returned +1.2%. However, in the most recent 2 weeks XLU has outperformed the stock market by returning +0.1%, while SPY returned -2.1%.

XLU support price is $42.98 and resistance is $43.80 (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 XLU shares will trade within this expected range on the day.