XLV Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Health Care Select Sector SPDR | ARCA:XLV)

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).

Health Care Select Sector SPDR trades on the ARCA stock market under the symbol XLV.

As of April 19, 2024, XLV stock price climbed to $138.86 with 7,605,275 million shares trading.

XLV has a beta of 0.63, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. XLV has a correlation of 0.37 to the broad based SPY ETF.

XLV has a market cap of $37.71 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

In the last 3 years, XLV stock traded as high as $148.27 and as low as $118.75.

XLV has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of +5.6%, while the SPY ETF gained +21.0%. In the last 3 month period, XLV fell short of the market, returning 0.0%, while SPY returned +4.2%. However, in the most recent 2 weeks XLV has outperformed the stock market by returning -2.2%, while SPY returned -3.6%.

XLV support price is $137.34 and resistance is $139.52 (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 stock will trade within this expected range on the day.