26-Dec-2025
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The Health Care Select Sector SPDR Fund before expenses seeks to closely match the returns and characteristics of the Health Care Select Sector Index (ticker: IXV).
State Street Health Care Select Sector SPDR ETF trades on the ARCA stock market under the symbol XLV.
As of December 26, 2025, XLV stock price climbed to $156.05 with 4,306,444 million shares trading.
XLV has a beta of 0.47, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. XLV has a correlation of 0.25 to the broad based SPY ETF.
XLV has a market cap of $40.06 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.
In the last 3 years, XLV traded as high as $159.64 and as low as $122.59.
XLV has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of +13.6%, while SPY returned +16.0%. This shows that you would have done better investing in the overall market (through SPY) over the last year than in XLV shares. However, XLV has outperformed the market in the last 3 month and 2 week periods, returning +15.7% and +1.7%, while SPY returned +4.6% and +1.5%, respectively. This indicates XLV has been having a stronger performance recently.
XLV support price is $154.53 and resistance is $157.07 (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 XLV shares will trade within this expected range on the day.
